Kruit, Martin, 1846-1926

KRUIT, BLOM

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:34

The Sioux County Cemetery Index has an entry for Kruit, Martin, b. 1846, d. 1926, Hope Cem Hull IA. No obituary was located via a surname search in Sioux County newspapers or a page-by-page search in the Sioux County Index (Hull) for the two weeks following his death on April 22, 1926.

His death certificate has Marten Kruit; born November 11, 1846 in Callantsorg[?], Netherlands; parents Floris Kruit and Johanna Blom; died in Carrol Township, O’Brien County, Iowa, at 3 p.m. April 22, 1926; cause, lobular pneumonia, duration 23 days; contributory cause, apoplexy, second stroke, duration 1 month 16 days; buried at Hull, April 26.

The 1900 U.S. census for Sioux Township, Sioux County, has Martin Kruit, age 43[53?], born November 1846, married 28 years, a farmer; wife Martha, age 43[53?], born July 1846, mother of 9 children, 4 living; son Flores, age 26, born August 1873; daughter Gertie, age 18, born March 1882; and daughter Mary, age 16, born March 1884. All were born in Holland and immigrated to the United States in 1887.

The 1910 U.S. Census has the family living in Nassau Township, Sioux County: Martin Kruit (63), wife Mary (63), and daughters Gertie (28) and Mary (26). He is a farmer (small farm), and his daughters are seamsters [seamstresses?].