Warnshuis, Anna (Mrs. A. L.), 1874-1941

WARNSHUIS, DEVRIES, BORGERS

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From the Alton Democrat, December 12, 1941:

Mrs. Warnshuis Dies in New York

Mrs. Anna Warnshuis, wife of Dr. A. L. Warnshuis, a boyhood resident of Alton, passed on recently at her home in Bronxville, N.Y., according to a letter received by Mr. W. S. Slagle from his niece, Mrs. Helen Slagle McConnell, of Bronxville.

Dr. Warnshuis’ father was the first pastor of Alton’s Reformed church, and the family will be recalled by early residents here. Dr. A. L. was known as “Lib” and attended school here for some years. He and Mrs. Warnshuis were missionaries at Amoy, China, for twenty years and for the past fifteen years Dr. Warnshuis has been secretary of the International Missionary Council. They reside in Bronxville, neighbors and warm friends of the Luther McConnell family.

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From the Petosky (Michigan) News-Review, October 28, 1941:

Church Worker Dies

Holland, Oct. 28—Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Anna Warnshuis, well-known church worker and for many years a missionary in China. Mrs. Warnshuis died yesterday at her home in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., and the body was brought here for burial.

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RESEARCH NOTES

FindaGrave.com has a page for Anna De Vries Warnshuis, born 23 Feb 1874 in Holland, Michigan; died 27 Oct 1941 in New York, N.Y.; buried in Pilgrim Home Cemetery, Holland Michigan. Spouse Abbe Livingston Warnshuis (1877-1958, married 1900). There is a photo of her, and of her headstone.

The 1940 U.S. census shows Abbe Living[??] Warnshuis (62), born in New York, occupation secretary, foreign missions, and Anna D. Warnshuis (66), born in Michigan; residence in 1935, Sanbourne[?]; guests in the home of Harold A. Stein and family, Mount Vernon, Westchester County, N.Y.

The 1900 Ottawa County (Mich.) marriage register has groom Livingston Warnshuis, age 22, resident of Holland, Mich., born in New York, occupation clergyman, parents J. W. Warnshuis and Hendrika J. Oonk, bride Anna De Vries, age 26, resident of Holland, Mich., born in Holland, Mich., parents Peter De Vries and Hannah Borgers; Married July 11, 1900 in Holland.

Sioux County newspapers, particularly the Alton Democrat and De Volksvriend, have some coverage in the 1900s and 1910s of the Warnshuis’s service in China; A. L. Warnshuis was sponsored by the First Reformed Church of Alton.