Hulstein, Gerrit 1861 and Cornelia Ver Ploeg Family

HULSTEIN, VERPLOEG, DEKOCK, VANROEKEL

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 8/19/2021 at 12:50:07

Hulstein, Gerrit 1861 and Cornelia/Caroline Ver Ploegh Family

This story was taken from the Sioux Center Centennial book of 1991 page 370 and submitted to the book by Johanna Lidhudis and Wilma J. Vande Berg, Beth De Leeuw Transcribed the story for this BIOS and Wilma J. Vande Berg added some research notes.

Gerrit and Caroline (Ver Ploegh) Hulstein lived in the rural Carmel area all of their family life. They were farmers and lived on the same farm where they raised their children.

Standard of transportation, horse and buggy, kept the family in the common small realm of rural environment with school, church life and farm work.

Gerrit was born Jan. 3, 1861, to Cornelius Hulstein and Rykje (Van Roekel). He married “Caroline” Cornelia Ver Ploegh, born in 1869, daughter of Conrad Ver Ploegh.

Gerrit liked to “break in” wild horses in the fall and sell them in the spring. Horses were the “horse power” used in all the farming operation. He was a very able gentleman and loved handling animals. The family had a large garden and orchard. A peddle wagon from the Carmel store would come around to sell the groceries that were not produced on the farm. Their first car was purchased about 1917.

Gerrit and Caroline Hulstein retired in Sioux Center and became members of the Central Reformed Church. Gerrit died in 1934 and Caroline died in 1940. They are buried in the Sioux Center cemetery.

Their nine children were as follows:

“Hattie” Rykje Hulstein was born May 7, 1887. She married Ralph Kastein. They lived at Doon, Iowa, and had seven children.

“Pearl” Peterje Hulstein was born Sept. 16, 1889. She married Peter Bos. They were from Sioux Center and the parents of six children.

“Neal” Cornelius Hulstein was born Nov. 26, 1891. He married Clara Vermeer. They were from Sioux Center and the parents of eight children.

“Conrad” Coenraad Hulstein was born July 26, 1894. He married Grace Van Maanen and they were the parents of eleven children.

Willem Cornelius Hulstein was born Oct. 5, 1897. He married Anna Schuiteman. They were from Sioux Center and the parents of five children.

“Henry” Hendrik Jan Hulstein was born Sept. 12, 1900. He married Alice Juffer. They were from Sioux Center and the parents of five children.

Steven Hulstein was born August 5, 1903. He married Pauline Ver Hoef. They were from Sioux Center and the parents of two children.

Johanna Margaret Hulstein was born Nov. 5, 1904. She married George Lihudis. They were from Sioux Center and the parents of two sons.

“Raymond” Edward Raymond Hulstein was born Nov. 3, 1908. He married Della Gritters. They were from Carmel and later moved to Edgerton, MN, and were the parents of thirteen children.

A picture of this family also accompanies the Gerrit Hulstein story by Eunice and Cheryl Hulstein.

by Johanna Lihudis and Wilma J. Vande Berg

Research Notes: Added by Wilma J. Vande Berg

BIRTH RECORD of Gerrit Hulstein born on 4 Jan 1861 at Bennekom, Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands to Cornelis Hulstein a farmer age 30 and Rijkje Van Roekel.
(Note he was born 1861 not 1862 source www.wiewaswie.nl ))

OBITUARY OF Gerrit Hulstein, Sr.
Mr. Hulstein succumbed to a heart attack Friday morning. He had put on his wraps and was just about to open the door preparatory to going to town for groceries when he collapsed and died without regaining consciousness. He had planned to go to Sioux City that day with Mrs. Hulstein to visit their son, Raymond, who was in a hospital there following an eye operation.
Mr. Hulstein was born in the Netherlands January 3, 1862. At the age of nine he, with the rest of the members of his family immigrated to America. They first settled at Pella where they lived for a few years before they again moved to a more virgin country.
Forty-seven years ago he was united in marriage to Miss Cornelia Ver Ploeg by Rev. James De Pree. The young couple settled on a farm northwest of town where they lived happily until 1919 [when] they retired and moved to Sioux Center, building the house in which they now live.
Mr. Hulstein is survived by his widow; nine children, Mrs. Ralph Castein, Canton; Mrs. Peter Bos, Sanborn; Neal, Conrad, Will, Henry, Steven, Mrs. George Lehudis, and Raymond, all of whom live in this vicinity; and two brothers, Steven and Will; and 42 grandchildren.
Rev. J. H. Keuning conducted the funeral services, which were held at the home and in the Central Ref. Church.
Source: Sioux Center News, February 1, 1934.

OBITUARY of Cornelia VerPloeg Mrs. Gerrit Hulstien
Hulstein, Cornelia (Verploeg) 1869-1940 later Mrs. A. Van Drimmelen
Mrs. A. Van Drimmelen passed away very suddenly at her home at about 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning, Nov. 14. She had passed her 71st birthday.
Mrs. A. Van Drimmelen, daughter of Koemad[?] Verploeg and Petertje de Kock was born south of Pella, Iowa on March 9, 1869. The family moved to Sioux County about 1845[??--probably should be 1875?].
In 1886 she married Gerrit Hulstein and settled on a farm 4-1/2 miles north and west of Sioux Center. Mr. Hulstein died Jan. 26, 1934. 9 children were born--all left to mourn the loss of a devoted and loving mother. On March 5, 1938 she married A. Van Drimmelen who is now left to mourn. The Lord has given, The Lord has taken, blessed be the name of the Lord. Our loss is her gain. She was a devout Christian woman, always wanted to do something for other people, never asking for anything, happy in the thought that she had a desire to do some thing for her Savior Jesus Christ.
So--Let us think of her faring on, as dear, in the love of there as the love of Here;
Think of her still as the same today; she is not dead--she is just away.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, Nov. 18 at her home at one o'clock and at 1:30 o'clock at the Central Reformed Church with Rev. R. D. Meengs her pastor in charge. Interment was in Sioux Center cemetery.
Survivors are Mrs. Hattie Kastein, R. Rapids; Cornelius, Hull; Conrad, Carmel; Mrs. Peter Vos, William, Henry, Steven, Raymond, and Mrs. John Lehudis, all of Sioux Center. Two sisters also survive, Mrs. R. C. Jongewaard and Mrs. Dreka Wesselink. There are 51 grand-children and 17 great grand-children.
Source: Sioux Center News, November 21, 1940.
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