DeBoom, Cornelius T., 1866-1933

DEBOOM, BOER, DEGROOT

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Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:36

From the Sioux Center News, November 9, 1933:

C. T. De Boom Passes Away

Mr. C. T. De Boom of Middleburg died Tuesday noon. He had been sick three months with a cancer of the throat. Funeral services will be held at Middleburg Saturday. Although Mr. De Boom was a member of the Christian Reformed Church funeral services will be held in the Reformed Church at Middleburg. It is felt that so large a crowd will be present that the Chr. Ref. Church would be too small. Rev. Schuurman and Rev. Mansen will officiate. Burial will be in the cemetery at Sioux Center.

Mr. De Boom is survived by his wife and eleven children. But they are not the only ones who mourn his passing. He was loved by the entire community. It is but a few short weeks ago that he was in Sioux Center to bid good-bye to his many friends. He knew that he had only a little longer to live and he wished to tell his friends a last farewell. He was confident that he was leaving this world for a much better one.

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From the Sioux Center News, November 16, 1933, Middleburg News:

OBITUARY OF C. T. DE BOOM

Mr. C. T. De Boom of Middleburg died Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1933, after suffering from cancer of the throat for some three months, at the age of sixty-seven years and seven months. He was born in Krimpen, Yssel Province, South Holland, Netherlands. On March 21, 1893 he arrived in the United States and settled on a farm near Hospers where he farmed until two years ago, at which time he retired.

He and Miss Jannetje Boer of Orange City were married on March 1, 1897. Twelve children were born to them of whom eleven survive. The survivors are his widow, Mrs. Jannetje De Boom, and Arie De Boom, Hull; Cornie De Boom, Orange City; Jacob De Boom, Maurice; John De Boom, Round Lake, Minn.; Toney De Boom, Maurice; Henry De Boom, Minneapolis, Minn.; Frank De Boom, Middleburg; Simon De Boom, Middleburg; Mrs. Albert Vander Kamp, Sioux Center; Miss Lucy De Boom, Middleburg; Miss Lydia De Boom, Middleburg; fourteen grandchildren. A son, Gerrit De Boom, died at the age of 15 years and four months at Starbuck, Minn., August 27, 1914. Mr. De Boom is also survived by three brothers and one sister, Mr. John De Boom, Mr. Tony De Boom and Mrs. Adriana Verdoid of the Netherlands and Mr. Wm. De Boom of St. Paul, Minn.

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RESEARCH NOTES

His death certificate gives his full name as Cornelius T. de Boom, and adds his birth date, April 8, 1866; retired farmer, 33 years in this occupation, last worked September 1930, resident of Middleburg 3 years; parents Teunis de Boom and Maria de Groot; died at 12:00 a.m. November 7, 1933 [Nov. 8 was originally entered, then overwritten]; cause, carcinoma of larynx, for which the doctor had been treating him since October 15.

The Sioux County Cemetery Index has De Boom, Cornelius, b. 1866, d. 1932, Father, Memory Gardens, Sioux Center IA. FindaGrave.com also gives his death year as 1932, and lists his wife, Jennie Boer De Boom (1873-1943) and all 12 of his children. The Iowa Gravestone Photo Project has a photo of his headstone with the years 1866-1932.