Genealogie Familie van Roekel 17-1523

Birth: Jul. 13, 1842
Ede
Ede Municipality
Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: Jun. 6, 1929
Orange City
Sioux County
Iowa, USA

PIONEER SETTLER HERE ANSWERS LAST CALL
George D. Van Peursem, aged 87 years, a pioneer of northwestern Iowa died Thursday night at the Pioneer Memorial Home in Orange City. Death was due to old age.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Peursem had made their home in Le Mars for the past few years having an appartment at the Community hospital. A few weeks ago when the was abandoned and the building sold they moved to Orange City.
George D. Van Peursem was born July 13 1842, in The Netherlands, and when a boy of fourteen came with his parents and seven brothers and sisters to America. They settled at Pella, Marion county, Iowa, where a large Holland colony was already established.
Mr. Van Peursem was married at Pella March 2, 1865, to Wilhelmina Kars, also a native of Holland, who came with her parents to this country when a child of three years.
To their union eleven children were born. Four preceded the father in death.
Besides his wife he leaves six sons and a daughter, Peter, William, Henry and Martin residing in the vicinity of Maurice, Rev. John Van Peursem of Zeeland, Mich., Gerrit who is engaged in missionary work in Arabia and Mrs. Janettte De Jong of Omaha. There are thirty-seven grandchildren and twenty-nine great grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Peursem came to Sioux county in 1873 and took up land southeast of where the town of Maurice was later built. They retain possession of the land to this day.
They experienced the vicissitudes which befell the early settlers both in Marion and Sioux counties. Mr. Van Peursem recalled landing from the Mississipi river at Keokuk, with his father, Peter Van Peursem, and treking across the country when there was nothing but a trail and the emigrants in their oxen drawn wagons forded streams and sloughs.
Mrs. Van Peursem remembers when wolves and other predatory animals harried the stock of the early settlers and were a menace to women and children in their homes.
After their arrival in Sioux county the Van Peursem's saw their crops devastated in the seventies by the inroads of the grasshopper. Dishearted by these onslaughts at one time they offered their holdings for $300 with the idea of returning to Pella.
Finding no acceptance of this offer they continued on the place and with beter conditions, began to prosper and farmed succesfully until 1900, when they moved to Maurice to make their home and in later years lived in Le Mars.
The funeral was held Saturday afternoon from the Memorial home in Orange City at one o`clock, and services were held at the First Reformed Church in Maurice and interment was made in the Sherman Township cemetery, Sioux Center.
Among those from a distance in attendance at the funeral were James Rovaard and M, Van Wyk of Prairie City, Ia., Mr. and Mrs. D. De Boer and Mr. and Mrs. Will Nordzee of Monroe, S.D., and Mrs. Will De Jong of Greyhawk, Kentucky.
Maurice Times 1929-06-13.

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Parents:
Peter Van Peursem (1809 - 1877)
Jenneke Bos Van Peursem (1815 - 1858)

Spouse:
Wilhelmina Kars Van Peursem (1843 - 1930)

Children:
Janette Van Peursem De Jong (1866 - 1951)*
Jane Adriana Van Peursem Mieras (1867 - 1900)*
Peter Van Peursem (1868 - 1962)*
John Van Peursem (1869 - 1930)*
Henry Van Peursem (1870 - 1951)*
William Van Peursem (1872 - 1950)*
Martin Van Peursem (1878 - 1975)*
James Van Peursem (1881 - 1899)*

Siblings:
George D. Van Peursem (1842 - 1929)
Jantze Van Peursem De Jong (1844 - 1928)*
Gerritje Van Peursem Hasselman (1846 - 1932)*
Willem Maas Van Peursem (1848 - 1938)*
William Van Peursem (1849 - 1939)*
Art Van Peursem (1852 - 1937)*
Neeltje Van Peursem Van Roekel (1854 - 1933)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Sherman Township Cemetery
Maurice
Sioux County
Iowa, USA

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