TenNapel, Fred, 1893-1915

TENNAPEL, TENAPLE, BOTKE, BOTTGER

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/20/2016 at 19:35:41

From the Rock Valley Bee, June 19, 1915:

DEATH OF FRED TENAPLE

Fred Tenaple died in the hospital at Sioux Falls Tuesday morning [June 15] after a little over a week's illness with bright's disease. He had not been very well for some time, but was not considered seriously ill until about June 10 when he was taken to the hospital. There he continued to fail rapidly, and Monday his brother, Henry Tenaple, who lives southwest of Rock Valley received a message from the hospital stating that he could not live. Mr. Tenaple hastened to his brother's bedside and stayed with him until the end came.

The deceased was born in Holland July 23, 1893, and was at the time of his death twenty-one years, ten months and twenty-two days old. His early life was spent in Holland. He came to this country about four years ago and most of that time lived in the vicinity of Rock Valley. The latter part of last August he was united in marriage to Miss Kate Botke who with his parents and four brothers and two sisters are left to morn. His parents, brothers and sisters, with the exception of Henry and one brother in Texas, live in Holland.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon from the Reformed church in this city, conducted by the pastor, Rev. DeJonge, and the remains were buried in the Valley View cemetery. The bereaved wife and brother have the sympathy of friends here in their sorrow.

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From the Alton Democrat, June 19, 1915: Rock Valley news:

Fritz Ten Napel of Sioux Falls, S.D., formerly a resident of Rock Valley, died at Sioux Falls and was brought here Wednesday for burial....

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The surname appears to be properly spelled Ten Napel. The South Dakota 1915 state census index on Ancestry.com has Fred Tennapel, age 21, born Holland, married 1914, religion Salvation Army; and Kate Tennapel, age 22, married 1914, father born Germany, mother born Holland, religion Salvation Army. South Dakota Marriages 1905-2013 shows Fritz Ten Napel, residence Rock Valley, age 21, marrying Kate Bottger, age 21, residence Ireton, marrying in Lincoln, S.D., 13 August 1914. (She remarried in February 1917 to Henry Van De Woerdt.)

The Sioux County Cemetery Index has several Ten Napel and Ten Naple, but no Fred (or anyone else dying in 1915). The South Dakota Death Index on Ancestry.com has a John Tennapel dying on 14 June 1915 in Minnehaha County (which includes Sioux Falls).