Evert Djrks Siderius Sijtske Jans Poelstra 1765 1777 Sjoerd Johunnes de Bildt Boukje Everts Siderius Sijtske de Bildt Jurqen Willems e Jong Sijtske de Bildt Peter E. Alderts Sijtske de Bildt — de Jonq — Alderts And their children Families 1819 1970 Cf.. t by m Rebecca Buren Boyden, lowo 1970 To the memory of rrnj mother, Anqeline I Buren, who gave me her love, under— standinq, encouragement, faith, a chrietian influence und example to live by, this book is dedicated. Remember the days of old, consider, the years of many generations,’ ask thy father and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. Deut. 32:7 r- A1dert Schnpers Reb Jan Jand K1 !\n f\lderts Buren ENEALOCICAL CHART I method of’ determininq relationship between self’ and others in the Family. INTRODUCT ION “In America qenealogy was generally neglected until well past th middle. of the 19th century. Only occasionally could a person be found who could trace his ancestors beyond his grandparents. Many can trace descent from the first emiarant but few from an European ancestor” Vol. 12, p 369 Eneyclopedia Americana. This may have been true when this article was written but now it seems to be more common to have 0 family tree”. The idea of trying to assemble one came to me possibly forty years ago but then I did not have the time for deeper searchinq. Now that I am retired and with more leisure time, I have found it a very interesting task, a bit time consuminq, requiring patience but also very rewarding. I am very grateful to those who did furn with dates regarding their families and any other information that they knew about. Some were not a bit interested in searching buck, but I have found “no skeletons in the closet”. My mother had remembered some facts and these I had jotted down. The Gementesecretarie het Oildt (community secretary of Bildt), was very helpful in tracing back to about 1777, so the “tree” no doubt begins possibly 1750 as no birth or death dates of Evert Oirks Siderius or Sijtske Jans Poelstra ware recorded then. Celia Schepers did translute a well worn letter of May 13, 1879 from our grandmother, written in the Holland language and sent to my parents shortly after their marriage. Fritzi Sennett wrote the poem “Our Gram” shortly after her Gram’s passing and is usec here. Kathryn Smith Baker furnished the “diary” of Celia VanderKleed Torrenga and other newspaper clippings. Others of the VandeKleed children have added information by furnishing dates and names. Kinq James version of the Holy Bible gave me the verses used. I have tried to leave a record that could be passed on down to the coming qenerations. Nellie Vander Xleed Smith, is the lust of the DeJong—Vander Kleed family; Celia Schepers, the Margaret Alderts Schepers family and myself, Margaret Buren of the Ang3line Alderts Buren family. I\ny mistakes in dates or the spelling of flumes has been unintentional. GEIflEENTE HET BILDT miss tiurqaroth Ber Box 154 Baijdon Iowa I1 U.S.(t Uw brief van St. 1\nnupnrochio Qndorwerp Goncaloqisch ondorzock Datum 29 april 1968. In nntwoord op uw bovoneanqohuald schrijven delon wij u hot voiqendo mrdo: Do oudors von Sijtsko do Bildt wuren Sjoord Johcnncs do Bildt en 8oukje Evorts Sidorius. Sjoerd Joh do Bildt overicod to St. !lnnaparochio op 30 juni 1826. Hij was op doze datum 61 jeer, hij word eboron t murrum (qernconte Forwerderodeel) en woonde to St. I\nnapurochie. Zijn oudors waron Johunnes Wiltjes on Froukje Sjoerds. Boukjo Everts Sidorius overiced op 51—jurigo lceftijd to St. Annaparochic op 12 november 1828. Zij werd eborcn to Vrouwenpurochic en woonde to St. Annupurochie. Zij was eon dochtor van Evort Dirks Sidorius en Sijtsko Jnns Pocistra. Kinderon uit hot huwolijk van bovonqonoomde personen wuren: 1. Johannos Sjocrds do Bildt, was qohuwd met Trijntje Jollos Kuik. Hij word qeboron t3 St. Annoparochic on overleod oldoar 6 september 1847 op 49—jariqo loeftijd. 2. Evert Sjoords de Bildt huwdo 11 augustus 1631 met Wijtskc Dirks vendor Zee. Hij werd qoboren te St. Annopurochie en huwde op 31— joriqe leeftijd. Hij overlood op 34—jurige loeftijd op 4 oktober 1834 to Vrouwonparochio. Wijtske was ton tijde van hear huwelijk 21 jour. Zij word qeboren to Franekor en was con dochtor van Dirk Atos van der Zee on I Jons do Wnl. 3. Thomas Sjoords do Bildt huwde 9 mci 1833 met (‘tmerens Dirks Lont. Rij word geboron te Vrouwenparochi en huwdo op 29—jariqe loeftijd. Hjj overlood 25 Februurj 1847 to St. Annuparochie. ( wos ten tijdo van hear huwolijk 18 jeer. Zij word goboren to St. Anneparochie en was eon dochtor van Dirk Arjens Lont en Jetskc Hendriks Spekman. Na hot ovorlijden van hear echtqenoot huwde zij met nr. 8. 4. Cornelis Sjoerds do Bildt overleod 23 februari 1832 to Eindhoven op 26—juriqo loeftijd. Hij werd gcboren to St. Annaparochic. Hij was onqohuwd. 5. Sijmen Sjoords do Bildt huwde 17 mei 1838 met Attjo Moindorts Stienstra. Hij word to St. I\nnapurochic geboron en huwde op 29—jarige leeftijd. !\ttje word qeboren to St. Annuparochie on huwdo op 19—jarige lceftijd.. Zij was eon dochter van Moindert Dirks Stienstre en Ijtske Jans Spoelstra. 6. Dirk Sjoerds de Bi].dt huwdo op 29 december 1837 met Pleuntje Jens van Loon. Hij word qeboron to St. t en huwde op 26—jariqe leoftijd. P1euntj werd qeboren to Frunokor en huwde op 22—jariqe leef’tijd. Zij wus en dochter van Jun Sjoerds von Loon en Janniqje Eisos Proost. 7. Froukje Sjoerds do Bildt huwde op 27 december 1833 met Sijds Teunis Crap. Zij word to Schinqen (qemeente Mennidumudeel) geboron ar huwde op 21—jariqe leoftijd. Sijds word to St. Annupurochie geboren en was ton tijdo van zijn huwolijk 24 jacr. Hij was eon won van Tounis Sijds Crap.en Geertje Franzes Kramer. 8. Klaus Sjoords do Bildt huwde op 25 muart 1852 met I%marens Dirks Lont (zie bij no. 3). Hij word beqoron to Schinqen en huwde op 37—juriqe lee? tijd. 9.Sijtze Sjoords de Bunt huwde op 1 mci 1845 met Grietje Jacobs Boersmn. Hij werd qeboron to Schinqen on huwde op 29—juriqe leo?tijd. Grietje word Qeboren te St. Annoparochia en was ten tijde van heer huwelijk 23 jaar. Zij was eon dochter van . Jacob Juns Boersma en Sijtske Pietors do Boor. 10. Sijtske do Bildt huwde op 26 februuri1846 met Jurjen Willems do Jonq. Zij word op 17 .Junuari 1819 to St. Annapurochie qeboron. Jurjon word geborer, to Vrouwenparochie on was ton tijde van zijn huwelijk 25 jzrnr. Hij was een zoon van Willem Jurjons do Jong en Sijke Cosses. Do door u qenoemde /Udertu is waarschijnlijk mat hoar flehuwd in de U.S.A. W1J wijzon u crop, dot wij do qeboorteduto von doze kinderan niet vollediq kunnon qeven, nanqezien in 1812 word boqonnen met hot aan1er van registers van do burgerlijke stand. Wij hopon u hiermodo voldoende to hebbon inqclicht en verzoeken U do kosten dozes ad f. 40,——(onqevcer 11 dollar) aen ons to doon toekomen. Cemeentasecrotaric hot Bildt. afdelinq bevolking on burqerlijke stand. CEIYEEMTE/\RCHIEF CRONINGEN 3 November 1967 271u. 14 November 1967 Uw schrijven van Ons kenmurk Datum. Dear Miss Margaret Buren, With reference to your lettor I inform you that after on inq.i in the records of the city of Groninqen between 1790—1850 concerning the names of Peter E. filderts and Sietske do Bildt, I didn’t find anything about this persons; no births, no marriage and no children. Since also the clerical records are plucod into our record—office, I think Peter E. Aldorts will be born elsewhere. Yours faithfully, (Dr, A, 1, Schuitema hYloijar) Keeper of the archives of Groningen. (This letter was written in the American lunguuqe). “And when they hud taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed th rudder bands, and hoised up the main soil to the wind, and made toward shore.” Acts 27:40 Genealogy searchings n’aris’w c ‘ writings, as to the beqinninq(upper end) we huvo made this answer. The parents of Sijtsko de Bildt were Sjoerd Johunnas do Bildt and Boukjo Everts Siderius. Sjocrd Johannos de Bildt died at St. Annaparochie on June 30, 1826. He was as of this date 61 years old, he was born at murrum(Ferwerderudeel Community) and lived at St. Annupurochie. His parents were Johunnes Wiltjes and Froukje Sjoerds. Boukjc Everts Siderius died in her 51 your on Nov mbor 12, 1828, having lived her life time at St. ftnnaparochie. She was born at Vrouwen— porochie but lived at St. Annuporochie. She was a daughter of Evert Dirks Siderius and Sijtske Jans Poolstru. leeftijd lifetime qemeente community—Court House overleed died ouders parents huwe married life juriqe year geboren born gohuwd married. Johannes Wjltjes married Evert Dirks Siderius married Froukjo Sjoords Sijtske Juns Poelstru Generation 2. Sjoord Johannes do Bildt b 1765 Fflarrum—community d June 30, i876. Lived A ie (It seems he took his mothers maiden name for his first name, his fathers first name for his second name and the de Bildt comes from th community of Do Bildt. Generation 3. Children of the murriuqe of 1. Johunnes Sjocrd do Bildt b. 1798 at St. l\nnupurochio m. Tryntjo Jolics Kuik d. September 6, 1847 at ago of 49. 2. Evort Sjoords de Bildt b. 1800 at St. AnnaPurochie rn. August 11, 1831 at ago of’ 31 to ijtska Dirks vundor Zoo d. October 4, l at Vrouwenpurochie. Generation 1. married Fcrwerdorudeel at St. 7/ Boukje Evorts Siderius b 1777 Vrouwenpurochie. d November 12, 1828 Lived at St. Anna— puro chic. the ubove named persons. Wijtake was a daughter of Dirk Atcs van dcr 3cc and Aukjc Juns de Wul. b 1810 t Fronckor m August 11, 1831 3. Thomas Sjoerds do Bildt. b 1804 Vrouwenparochia rn May 9, 1833 at age of 29 to i\merens Dirks Lont. d February 25, 1847 ut St. Anna— daughter of Dirk Arjens Lont— purochie Jotsko Hendriks Spekmun. b 18l5—_ St. Annaporochie rn In her 18th year. I’iftcr the death of’ Thomas she married No. 8 Klaus Sjoords do Bildt—Murch 25, 1862 4. Carnelie Sjo do Bildt. b 1806 at St. 1\nnupurochio m was never married d February 23, 1832 ut Eindhoven 5. Sijm Sjoords de Bildt. b 1809 at St.Ptnnopurochio m May 17, 1838 at ago of 29 to d no date was qiven Pleuntje Jans van Leon b Franeker 1815 She was a daughter of Jans Sjoerd van Loon and Jannigje Eises Proost. 7. Froukje Sjoerds de Bildt b 1812 Schinqen(Me.naldumadeel community) to Sijds Teunis Crap. b 1809 at St. Annaparochie d 1893 He was a son of Teunis Sijds Crap and Geertje Franzes d 1849 Kramer This is the only ,other brother or sister of Sijtske that has been followed down, but Anna Balkemo had furnished me with their “family tree”. My mother .ialways visited these folks, spoke of Aunt Flora often and I think May Crap and Anna Balkema spent a winter in our home. They were granddaughters of Froukje. 1 Rebecca Crapp married to Jacob Werkhoff. 1 Edward died in infancy 2 Flora married to John Long 1 Clarence Lonq died young 2 Earl Long married to Evelyn —— 3 Edith Lonq married to Ceorge Anderson 1 Floruethyl Anderson married to Dewey 4 Ethyl Lonq married to Luscius Love Satterfield. 1 Ethel Bery Love married to E. A, lYliddleton Jr in his 26th year. Attje Meinderts Stionstru— daughter of Meindort Dirks Stionstre and Ijtske Jun Poc b 1819 St. Anruiperochio— ra. married in her 19th year. 6. Dirk Sjoerds de Bildt b 1811 at St. Annaparochie m December 29, 1837 to m Decaa 27; 1833 at the aqe of 21. I 3 Addie died at the age of 11 or 12 4 Alice married to Seymour Burroughs—no child ren 5 Fannie married to William Kerr Correction 1 Albert Kerr 1st married to Lillian? Albert Kerr’s 2nd marriage was to 2nd—lYlargery Kerr— * Marqaret Donahue—child Mar married Joseph Reid. His third marriage was to Hazel Ileade 1 Hazel Reid 2 Gladys Kerr married—Clyde Allen no children. (she is the one who has copied the Crapp tree) 2 Thomas S. Crepp lived at Tallupoose, Georgia in 1391. married Tulle Johnson—2 children died in infancy Married Gertrude moore brain injury 1 Frank married Annie Tucker caused by run Thomas Crapp away between 2 May (single) — died Aug. 16, 1899 at age of 32 a light waqon 3 Georqe (married?) and a buqqy. 4 Irene (sin I have the S John married Lulu Bacon clipping. 2nd time ? one child 6 died at age of 7 or 8 Married Sara Eden 7 Henrietta married to Alvin Patterson 3 George Crapp (single) died in a battle in the Civil War. (one record calls him Shued) 4 Jennie (Jane) married to Jerry (Garrit) Balkema—pioneer re of b ? Ti County, Indiana. d at age 49? 1 Anna C. Balkema (single) b October 27, 1864 d March 7, 1961. A r school teacher of teach mg 42 years at the old Ford—Jenks Schools, later Principal of Highland. This was another place we visited. About the last visit my mother and brother Frank had was recallinq the time they were at Balkema’s. He would sit on the front porch and watch the trains go by, 2 blocks off of Salem St. Also remembered they had a cow. As we stopped to see her on the way to World’s Fair in 1940, she wrote my rnother”Anqie, Margaret looks just like you used to. The kids(Buren and Virginia) do not look like mabel. Anna’s dauqhter(Jean)has turned into a lovely young lady.” 2 Clara L. Balkema (died young) 3 Thoreau J.. Balkema (Bird—single) b June 23 ? d June 1929 5 Frank married Macne Hutchison and lived in Lafayette 1891 1 Grace died in infancy 2 Walter (single) 3 Ada married to Horatio Liphard Eleanor Lipherd married to James Everett. James, Jack, William, mary Lou, Thomas and Paul Franôes Lipherdmarriodffldrgaret Lizenby. Arthur Liphurd 2nd marriage of Frances ?, 1 child Kenneth Liphard (single) 4 Ray married — Annie ? — no children 6 Anna married to William Johnson, Bakersfield, Calif. 1 Frank died youn 2 George married ? — children 3 Daisy married ——Hogan? — left children 4 Bert Johnson(sinqle) 5 Florence married to — child 6 Goldie married to — Sacknian Berniece Sackman married tO ?. child 7 Ruth married to Alex Bone—3 daughters Froukje(Flora) second marriage was to William Yank. 1 M Yank married to Charles Vunderheide William married to — — ?, children 2 mary Yank (sinnie) 3 Flora Yonk married to Dr. E. E. Perkins, no children William J. Younk was barn 1818 died 1912. Somewhere in my memory that was a Fanny ? who married John Gosma, then a Boonstra. Their children Beckie, Clara Cosma Robinson, IUbertu and Will. From my old notes I can’t see where she (Fanny) belongs but as I recall she was my mother’s cousin. Some dates and spelling differ in this part. S. 1. Crapp, his stone in Creenbush Cemetery, Lafayette has 1813—1849, and another record his birth as 1809. Sp on Wm. J. Yonk stone, is Yank not \‘aunk. I understand there was some family trouble, I do not know what it was all about. The graves of’ Wm. J. Yonk, Flora do Bildt Yonk, S. 1. Crapp and S. S. de Bildt, wife of P. C. Alderts are all located ;on the north edqe of the cemetery, about opposite the dead end street. For some reason my qrandmother carries her maiden name on the stone. 8. Klaus Sjoerds de Bildt b Schingen — 1815 rn march 25, 1852 to Amorens Dirks Lont ; of the family. He was married at the age of 37 9. Sijtze Sjoerds do Bildt b Schingen 1816 m Grietje Jacobs Boersma, flay 1, 1845 She was a daughter of b 1822 at St. I\nnapurochie Jacob Jans Boersmu and Sijtske Pieters do Boer. 10. This is continued after the end of the letter. She was very probably married to Alderts in the U.S.A. We wish to point out that the birth dates of’ these children could not be niven, as in 1812 was just the beginning of registering births and deaths with the Court House. Letter written by S. S. Ob Sildt IUderts Lafayette, lYlay 13, 1879 Dear children— I am writinq to let you know that we are well and wishing you the same. We received your letter We thank you. I also heard from you throuqh Willem 1\ardappel who have had a minister———— You know Willam had——sister. This again .s an ex for us all. The weather here is———wnrm and dry. The boys have 20 acres of oats sowed and have 40 acres of corn. If all goes well they will get it all planted this week. We have sold Old Star for 35.00 and have bouqht two others. These are both fresh so we have plenty of milk and butter. Grietje was at home 3 weeks aqo for two nights. She was happy but longing for a letter from you. Noordewier told me that Willem I\urdnppel has it in his head to go and live out near you. This must still materialize. The daughter of Gent and Geertje is growing weaker and more frail. I have 40 young chicks. The crops do not lookvery good here. W have had hard frosts here t nioht which has done much damage. Prices here are about the same us before: corn 30 cents, flour 6.00 per barrel, potatoes 50 cents, o’gs 3 cents and I do not know the price of butter. my garden is dry. Onions, pens and beans look good and potatoes are cominq up. murstollor is haulino corn for his rent. He outs his dinner here. He has already asked me “Has your daughter gone to Iowa?” “Yes, she has gone” He says it is a good country. Dr. Eliviert is married to mrs. Hatter. Lean and Tiete are living in the country, and I heard that Gap is with Dootje but I am not sure of this. I haven’t done any housecleaning yet. Grietje has promised to come and help me. It makes me happy to know that you have good friends there. I know this from the presents they gave you. Well now I am about sold out for news and I 9 wish you blessings and greetings to all from me, especially to Reinder’s parents and the minister and his wife. The V parts of’ this letter that you cannot read you must guess at. Now I must go to do the milking. \ Greetings from your mother. S. S. Do Bildt. \ Write to me once in a while or (now and then) . I have waited too long to write. Excuse it for this time. 10. Sijtske do Bildt — the only who does not have th middle name b January 17, 1819 at St. Annuparochie Sjoerd here. m February 26, 1846 to J i11 do Jon b Vrouwenparochio 1821. son of William Jurjens de Jonq ond Sijko Gosses / - /C ‘ ‘‘ We hope you have received enlightenment in the searchings and ask you to pay the cost of information 40 qu].don end send it to them. Gemeentesecretarie het Bildt afdelinq bevo1kinq burqerlijks stand. Division of people of di places or station. my mother knew that her mother and’ her sister had been two of a family of ten children who had lived in Frieslend, a province of Holland, a very northern province of that small country. In the year 1847 the two sisters, Froukjo (Flora) Sjoercis de Bildt, husband Sijds Teunis Crap and Sijtske (Sara) de Bildt, husband JurBen Willems rte Jonn and their children left their home in St. Annuparochie, not far from Friesche Wad for America. Sijtske and Jurgen had two small children. We do not know what prompted them to this strange land miles from their home—was it adventure, a better living, or friends who had come before and reported about the bright prospects here? If the family caine seek ing riches they wore never found as my mother often described her parents as very poor but yet honest. I have heard Sijtske broke down andcried when she picked up her baby from the c±ib to start on this long journey for then she realized she was going fur from home and no doubt wouldnever return. The voyane was made by suilboa:t and it took 34 days to come to America, then 3 weeks more by boat thru the canal, evidences which are still seen on the Wea Plains near Lafayette, Indiana. It surely was a fur cry from the travel schedules of today, not only time wise but the accommodations were surely not the best. Their diets were not the choicest either with no fresh fruit or vegetables. The tossinq about on the ocean for so many days and long nights was no peace of mind. After here it no doubt took many months to hear of their loved ones back home. Willie, the youngest of Sijtske and Jurgen passed away on the trip, the horrors had already been frightening enough for them and they couldn’t think of burying the child at sea, so Sijtske wrapped it in its blanket and literally smuggled the dead baby ashore. Willie was then buried on Ellis Isi1 Some folks when they have heard this have remarked “what of the odor?” No doubt they had traveled steeraqe and in nearly 3 months time there were lots of other odors besides death. We do not know whether the child died early or late on the voyage. No record is known of the other child only that it died young. After the death of Juroen de Bildt, Sijtske then married Peter E. Alderts, a bachelor and to this union John, Drewes, Angeline and er were born. We have often thought they must have settled amonqst American neighbors for they did not curry some of the old Holland customs which so many folks did. Also the names of the children were brought up to more modern versions. No doubt the Grictje was come to be margaret. On a Holland mop St. Annupurochie where several lived is quite easy to locate. It lies in the extreme northern part of Holland, almost due south between the islands of Terschelling and /\melund. Or north of a point half way between Horlingen and Leeuwarden. THE FLAG Or TIE NETHERLANDS From 1817 wher by royal decree the present flaq of the Nether lands was adoç ;ed, the flog has con of three equal horizontal stripes of red white and blue. “Flags of All Nations.” The Netherland flag is one of the oldest notional ensigns. In 1354 the flag was red, white and bluc. These colors have flown from the mast of the Netherland ships sin that time. Also from “F1a All Nations” I think. DUTCH FLAG SONG. Is not that Blue in its spot1o dedicated to the loyalty of our orebeors? does not that Red speak of their virility? And courage in so many battles. Or does not that White so pure and mild Point to the piety that await the blossipgs from God? The blessings, which alone can satisfy. “Smith & Taylor” Netherlands 12,883 sq. miles area Population l 970 (Approximately 30 square miles in lrtosiand) Capital, The Hague Largest city, Amsterdnn(greater) monetary Unit Guilder major language Dutch major religion Protestant and Roman Catholic Population of Frieslond 911,248 Capital of Friesland Leauwarden. medallion World Atlas, motto “Friesland on Top” Claim its own weather, language and race. Dike building in 1100’s. (On Flag post in Orange City Park from where the Friesian flag flies at Tulip Festival, given by Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Vogel.) Many of them still believe that their country was called Frisia, after Frisio, the son of Alan, the brother of mesa the nephew of Shorn and proud of this antique origin. The “Frisians” says their old codex”Shall be free as long as the wind shall blow in the clouds, and as lonq as the world shal] endure.”Holland & its — — —— .. We know that many, many people have moved to America from foreign soil and found homes and good way of life here. In reading about the mayo’s the following events interested me and I have enclosed a small part of his life stoLy in our “tree”. As has been said many times that our grandparents were very poor, but it might be they rubbed elbows with folks who became famous later on. William UJorrall Mayo of England came to America in 1845 at the age of 25. After a time in the East he continued west, moving on to newer and more open country. “Following the shores of Lake Erie and en inland canal he found himself on the banks of the Wabash in mid summer, 1848, in the town of Lafayette, Indiane, the small but bustling center of trade for a rich agricultural hinterland. Its commercial life throve on a water—borne traffic in farm produce, by way of the river southward to the Ohio and the Mississippi and through the canal eastward to Lake Erie. One of the most promising sites in central Indiana, it was rapidly outgrowing the cocoon of frontier days, lusty, self—consciously proud of itself, arid sure of its future” He had found work when he first came to New York City as an instruct or in chemistry in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, but he came to Lafayette not as a chemist. Where he learned the art of tailoring is a mystery but he and a partner equipped a room with tables and yards of worsted materials and”solicited the custom of all who wanted fashionable garments made to order am short notice and favorable terms” In 1849 he sold his interest and decided to resume his career in medicine. Late in 1 the news of cholera in New Orleans had reached Lafayette but did not reach there until July 3, 1849. Rumors were 15 persons a day were dying in and around Lafayette. A newspaper man reported young Wm. Mayo, who had a pretense to medical training was pressed into service and “was fortunate” in the number of recoveries amOng his patients. He did leave Lafayette shortly after to further his education, only to return in the early 1850’s. “Malaria was the great scourge. The fertile bottom lands, low—lying, humid, and,,of ten flooded, made the valley one of the worst malarial districts. In 1851 he married Louise Abigail Wright, she helped the family income by keeping lodgers for a time. His income was uncertain, a chicken or two, pail of lard when the butchering was done, or a bushel of potatoes. Then she opened a millinery shop sending for buckrum, frames, braids and plumes from New York. Her “New York Millinery” flourished. They left Lafayette in 1853 and did not return as ho had done previously. So we see a man and Doctor who later became famous who also lived in Lafayette at the time our grandparents came to this country. It could be Dr. Mayo treated some of them. There was plenty of sick ness, chronic aches and pains, and added to this scarlet fever, typhoid, malignant forms of dysentery, malaria, liver complaint, inflamation of the bowels and lung disease as well as the shakes, all this in a new country. The comments have been taken from “The Doctors Mayo” by Clapesattle. Wm. J and Charles Horace , the sons who did so much for surgery, also started the Mayo Clinic known all over the world. The phrase “Our father taught us” was forever on their life. Rebecca de Jorig Vanderkleed 1348 1905 It was rather hard to find much about her early life. We do know that she remained in and around Lafayette her entire lifetime span. She and Klaes raised a fine large family of nine children, and they too after their marriages remained near Lafayette You might say Aunt Becky’s children grew up to manhood and womanhood during the “inventive years’ Jim were farmers as well as Jack Smith and John Torrenga, the husbands of N4.1.ie and Celia. Jim would often write to my parents telling about the wondeful prospects of buying a rather deserted farm in New York state and I was always afraid my father would want to move there. They sounded so good on paper. Jim and Bill had their own threshing machines, a big undertaking for all the farm crops. We called traveling in those days even from eastern Iowa to Indiana, lit :erally just across Illinois—u trip. On a “trip” there Jim remarked to my mother: “Aunt, they tell me in Chicuqo they have horseless carriages, but I know we will hever have them here us they wont be practicable” Little did he realize that not only he and all others would huve an utuc but that his Aunt and Uncle would come to Indiana, in their own Model 1. Yes, as early us 1927, even houqh it took us three days. I can just remember my mother and Iwent to Lafayette for about five weeks during Aunt Becky’s last illness and death. I would play with my tin headed doll, Susio Lucille and try to feed her—my dish was a fruit jar lid. Then at the cemetery, as the casket was beinq lowered into the ground with straps I became frightened and hid behind my mother’s skirts. No mini skirts then. This I can remember as if it were just yesterday. Shadeland, November 14, 1968. As has been previously mentioned in this column, the writer’s (37 year mother, Mrs. Nellie V. Smith, ls living with us. In dividin’ and disposing of the accumulations of years, many interesting relics, clippings, etc., were found, old tin type pictures, Mc Guffy Readers, a clip—type candle holder which held our candles on the Christmas tree, my father’s old celluloid collar, a part of mother’s wedding c had not been used for a dress for me), a dozen or more scrapbooks, and enough clippings tucked here and there to fill many more books, besides boxes and boxes of receipts and can celled checks. A diary, called a Day Book, was written by mother’s oldest sister, Celia Vanderkleed, was begun in November, 1881 and the first item was “Aunt Maggie left for Iowa”. Other interesting events recorded were: Feb. 20, 1882, round house explosion; April 11, 1882, froze all day; May 2 1882, finished planting corn; Feb. 3, 1883, ice over all the earth; 1 2, 1883, went to Granville show; Jan. 21, 1884, I saw two bears in West Point; Jan. 24, 1885, Pa and Mu went to town in sleigh. March 18, 1883, Henry qot thru husking; March 29, 1883, 4 inches snow, Sept. 9, 1883, heavy frost. Jan. 26, 1884, Daisy had a calf; Jun. 31, 1884, Jennie Stover swallowed a pin; May 7, 1884, brother Walter weighed 16 pounds(was born Feb. 13, 1884); June 25, 1884, Ma and I went buggy ridicig; April 8, 1886 set the turkey eqqs. f note on the buck paqe wus: of Pa’s watch:1,282,93C, the works, 15, 616, the case. Pa.4