DEVRIES : POOL : VAN DER LEIDE : WOLTHUIS : ZICHTERMAN : Genealogy Query


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29-Oct-2004

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DEVRIES : POOL : VAN DER LEIDE : WOLTHUIS : ZICHTERMAN

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I have questions about Geziena Alberts Pool and her family: Geziena was born as the daughter of Albert Jans Pool and Jantje Willems Wolthuis, 1824 in St Annen, Groningen Netherlands. When she was 23 years of age, in 1847, she had a child: Jacob Pieters Pool. She married in 1865 the widower Tjipke de Vries. They had a child together: (in 1866) Roelf de Vries. Shortly after the birth of the child they pack their things and travel, together with Jacob, to the US to emigrate. They arrive in Chicago and there the baby dies. Jacob is 20 years old now and is a shoemaker by profession. Soon after they travel to Springlake MI and stay there for the rest of their lives. In 1869 Geziena again has a baby (she is 45 years old now!) and they call him again: Roelf (Ralph). Geziena Alberts Pool died in 1911 in Springlake MI. Last year I found their graves in Springlake MI. But that is still a puzzle. What I discovered is the owner of the grave, the man who bought it: Jacob P. Pool. In the cemetery records it says: POOL Jacob Gesiena Jan. 1, 1869 Ralph Jan. 17, 1895 Source: SPRING LAKE CEMETERY (East Side) Spring Lake Twp, Section 14. Until now, what I do not understand is who is this Geziena and who is this Ralph? Roelf, the second son with that name of Geziena and Tjipke had as his last name of course: DeVries. Not Pool. There is nothing readable on the gravestones anymore. I checked that. Is it possible that this person buried in Springlake is Ralph DeVries? If not: who is it? Even harder is the puzzle of Geziena Jan. 1, 1869. It is not Geziena Alberts. She died in 1911. So who was it? And: where are Geziena Alberts and her husband Tjipke de Vries Buried? May questions. I hope anyone can help me with this. Greetings, Erik Stam http://www.stamek.nl/