Adrianus (Adrian Johan) Elings
Kelner, zoon van Derk Elings en Ant(h)onia van Ren(n)es, geboren 30-6-1857 NL Hemmen [3], overleden 5-7-1941 USA WA Yakima Co en begraven Zillah CemeteryTrouwt 4-11-1880 Gorinchem [74] Agatha Stufkens, dochter van Jan Stufkens en Carolina Karsmeijer, geboren 25-7-1852 Gorinchem [196], overleden USA WA Zillah en begraven bij haar man
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On 4 November 1880 waiter Adrianus Elings, 23 y, residing in the city of Dordrecht, province Zuid-Holland, married in the city of Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, to the five years older Agatha Stufkens, who was born there. On 26 April 1881 their daughter Carolina Pieternella died at Gorinchem, less than one year old. Their son John D. was born in Rotterdam on Mar. 11, 1882. Almost nothing is known of their life in Holland except that they had lived in Amsterdam for a long time, where they operated a hotel. Their children Carolina was born here on 2 Januray 1884 Joe on 1 December 1886 and Dick (or Dirk) 16 May 1888.
The Elings family sailed from Antwerp about Oct. 22, 1897 aboard the German Diedericksen liner Olinda, and docked in Galveston, Texas, on Nov 14, 1897. Of a first party of 50 immigrants, 46 men, women, and children were bound for Nederland. The Galveston newspaper was especially laudatory of them, explaining that the Dutchmen were the "cleanest, best-dressed people to arrive in Galveston in many years. None carried less than $30, and several speak some English..." The immigrants traveled via the Gulf and Interstate Railroad to Beaumont and then over the Kansas City Southern rails to Port Arthur where they spent the night of Nov. 17 in the Nash Hotel. The next morning they were taken to the Orange Hotel in the tiny Dutch settlement Nederland, where sadly the host lady, Agatha Elings, had to begin cooking for 46 hungry tenants.
The Elings family left Nederland in 1900, settling at first on the East Coast. In Dec. 1900 the Elings family resettled at New Glatz, MD., which is in Prince George County, a short distance south of Washington D.C. In June 1903 they moved to the Dutch settlement Holland, later on called Amsterdam-Churhill, Gallatin County, in the southwestern part of Montana. In 1909 the family moved to a farm 9 miles east of Conrad, the seat of Pondera County, in the northern part of Montana.
In 1918 his daughter Carolina Bos' family moved to Zillah, in the Yakima River valley of Washington. Adrian and his wife Agatha followed them in about 1921. Agatha died there on Jan. 3, 1926, at the of age 73 years. In the 1930 census A. J. Elings was enumerated as a 73-year-old widower, lodger, and farm worker in Seattle. Adrian lived with his son Dirk's family for the 2 years immediately prior to his death in Yakima, Washington, where he died in July 1941, and was buried beside his wife Agatha on Plot S-12 in the Zillah Cemetery.
In 1900 Clauzon Bos (18 years old, born in Holland, farm laborer), his parents, farmer John and Gertie Bos, and siblings Henry (23, Holland, black smith), John (26, Holland, black smith), Alice (23, Holland), Anna (21, Holland), Adolph (15, New York, Irish) and Martha (13, Iowa) were living in Manhattan, Gallatin County, Montana.
On October 18, 1905 Clauson Bos married Carolina Elings, who had Dutch parents too. They had five children and they lived in the period 1905-1918 in Churchill, Gallatin County, Montana, and from 1918 until 1926 in Moxee City and Zillah, Washington ; then they returned to Churchill. See for a very detailed story about the Bos Elings family in the USA by a granddaughter and a granddaughter's husband: Enkele notities over de familie Adrian Johan Elings
In 1910 Clausen Bos (27) lived with his wife Lena (25) and their children Joe (2) and Grace (1) in schooldistrict 58 of Gallatin County, probably in or near the Dutch settlement of Holland, later on called Amsterdam-Churchill. In 1920 Clauson, his wife Lena A and their children Joseph A (12), Grace (10), John (8), Dick A (6) and Henry (5) Bos lived in Moxee City or Zillah, Yakima County, Washington. In 1930 Clauson, his wife Lena A and their children Joseph A (22), Grace (20), John H (18), Richard A (16) and Henry J (15) lived at West Gallatin, Gallatin County, Montana. In 1940 farmer Clauson Bos (56) lived with his wife Lena A (56) and their son Henry J (25, road worker) on a rented farm in the Dutch settlement Holland, Godfrey Canyon Road, Gallatin County, Montana. Clauson was for many years member of the graingrowers partnership called the "Bos Brothers".