Stientjes, Johannes Sr. 1832-1914

STIENTJES, EERKES, WESSELINK, DEVRIES

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Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:37

Source: Alton Democrat issue of 28 Feb 1914, Alton, Hospers and Boyden columns.

Hospers:
Johannus Stientjes passed away Saturday at his home near Boyden at the age of 82 years. The funeral was held at Boyden Tuesday. Mrs. Jake De Vries is a daughter of Mr. Stientjes.

Boyden:
Mrs. M. Moret and John Versteeg of Sheldon attended the funeral of Wm. Stientjes here Tuesday and also called on friends and relatives.

J. Stientjes Sr. passed away at the home of his son T. Stientjes northwest of town Saturday. The funeral services were held in the Dutch Reformed church Tuesday and interment made in Boyden cemetery.

Alton:
Johannes Stientjes was born on the 2nd day of August, 1832, in the Netherlands and died February 21, 1914, at the age of 81 years, 6 months and 19 days. At the age of 14 years he chose the seaman's life and was sea-faring for 35 years. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States with his wife and five children. Arriving at Patterson Ville, now Hull, in March and lived on a farm four miles east of Hull, moving onto a farm he bought in Lyon county, 1 mile north of Joe King, the next year. Two years later he moved onto the farm now occupied by his two sons. In 1899 he retired from farm life and moved to Boyden where he lived until after his wife's death in 1902, when he went back to his old home with his son, T.J. Stientjes, were he died. He was one of the first Hollanders in this community and helped organize the Reformed church of which he has been an active member and hard worker until the end. Besides one sister in the Netherlands he leaves two sons and three daughters, T.J. and Joe at Boyden, Mrs. J. Eerkes and Mrs. G. Wesselink of Sheldon and Mrs. J.S. De Vries of Hospers, also twenty-five grand-children to mourn their loss. Funeral services were held Monday at 12 o'clock from the home and at 2 o'clock from the Reformed church in Boyden, interment was made in the Sheridan township cemetery.---Boyden Reporter