VandenBerge, Adriaanus 1832-1897 & Elizabeth Rysdam Family

VANDENBERGE, RYSDAM, DUPREE, VANMAANEN, RIJSDAM

Posted By: Wilma J. VandeBerg -volunteer (email)
Date: 3/10/2025 at 11:26:42

Vanden Berge, Adriaanus 1832-1897 & Elizabeth Rysdam 1836-1914
This biography of the Adriaanus Vanden Berge family was composed by Wilma J. Vande Berg of the Greater Sioux County Genealogical Society. The narrative was made from various sources including records from the web site www.iagenweb.org/sioux ; family reports and vitals collected from ancestry.com records and public member trees, Find A Grave index and various local archives, books and publications.

Disclaimer: Names, dates and places may very form one source to another, but have been stated in this biography as presented in the source. Family data taken from ancestry.com public member trees is subject to the submitter of data to ancestry.com and was not verified by this submitter. Information was cross checked from sources where possible. Sometimes facts may get clouded as information passes down the generations.

RESEARCH Notes: From Ancestry.com public member trees, www.wiewaswie.nl Netherlands vitals,
The family arrived Jun 12 1848 New York. From the Pella Souvenir Book page 55, listed arrivals of Jan Vanden Berge, Mrs. VandenBerge, Adriaanus, Jacobus, Pieter, Willem and Mijntje.
Residence in 1850 was in Lake Prairie, Marion IA. In 1880 the family were residents of Nassau Sioux County IA In 1905 He was a resident of Sioux County IA

Adriannus ‘Adrian’ Michiel Vanden Berge was born 1 Jan 1832 Terneuzen, Zeeland, Netherlands and died 4 May 1897 Sioux Center IA His parents were Jan ‘John’ van den Berge born 20 Jun 1809 Terneuzen, Zeeland Netherlands died 14 Apr 1873 Pella Marion Co. IA and Neeltje Elisabeth du Pree born 26 Jul 1807 Terneuzen, Zeeland Netherlands died 7 Aug 1873 Pella Marion Co IA. Adriannus married Ellizabeth Johanna Rysdam 22 Feb 1856 Marion Co IA

Elizabeth Johanna Rysdam was born 28 Jan 1836 Weesp Noord Holland Netherlands and died 18 Jan 1914 West Branch Tsp Sioux Center IA Her parents were Arie Rysdam / Rijsdam born Kamerik, Woerden, Utrecht, Netherlands died 1 Oct 1867 Amsterdam, Hancock, IA and Geertruij ‘Gertrude’ van Maanen born 25 May 1802 Weesp, Noord Holland Netherlands and died 16 Apr 1870 Sioux County IA. After the death of Adrian Vanden Berge, on 29 Oct 1900 Elizabeth Rysdam Vanden Berge married Rev. Dires Mouw.

Adriran and Elizabeth had the following children:
CHILDREN: Children may have dropped the ‘e’ on end of surname.

1. Neiltje Elizabeth Vanden Berg born 13 Nov 1856 Pella Marion IA died 5 Dec 1914 Harrison, Douglas SD. She married Cornelis Beukelman 1842-1919. Their children were Zoetje Susie Beukelman 1878-1907, Elizabeth Beukelman 1877, John Beukelman 1879, Cornelius Beukelman 1879, Adriaan Beukelman 1880, Willingje Beukelman 1881, Affie Beukelman 1885, Jan Beukelman 1887, Arie Beukelman 1889, Nellie Beukelman 1894, and Gertie Beukelman 1897.

2. Geertruida Nellie Vanden Berge born 5 Jan 1858 Marion Co IA Marriage Jul 1913 Douglas Georgia died 28 May 1924 Davison Co SD. She married Hendrik Beukelman 1843-1914 and Jan J. Hoekman 1855-1903. Children – John J. Hoekman 1880-1903, Adrian Michael Hoekman 1883-1953, Johnan J. Hoekman 1886-1926. Elisha Albert Hoekman 1889-1928, Henrietta Johanna Hoekman 1892-1977 and Arie Hoekman 1895-1973

3. Willemina Vanden Berge born 22 Mar 1859 Pella IA died 7 Feb 1942 Sioux Center IA She married Wouter Van Steenbergen 1858-1910. Their children were Elizabeth Johanna Hillmer 1879-1952, Adrian Machiel Van Steenbergen 1881-1922, Gerrit Van Steenbergen 1883, John Van Steenbergen 1885-1967 and William Van Steenbergen 1887.

4. John Vanden Berge born 3 Mar 1862 Marion County IA died 27 Oct 1883 Sioux County IA. The Sioux County Herald of Nov 1, 1883 It is our duty this week to chronicle the death of a son of Adriaan van den Berge of Alton, aged 21 years. He died of Typhoid fever last Saturday and was buried Monday. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of the entire community.

5. Arie ‘Ira’ Vanden Berge 18 Dec 1865 Pella Marion IA died 25 May 1944 Mitchell Davison SD He married Alida Vander Meer 1864-1941. Children – Adrian Michael Vanden Berge 1891-1964, Anna VandenBerge 1893-1969, Elizabeth Johanna VandenBerge 1894-1933, Leendert A. ‘Lane’ Vanden Berge 1896-1988, John J. Vanden Berge 1898-1971, Adriana Vanden Berge 1899-1992, Isaac Vanden Berge 1902-1989, Nellie Gertrude Vanden Berge 1905-1985

6. James Vanden Berge born 6 Jun 1870 Pella IA died 18 Jul 1953 Davison Co SD. He married Cornelia Vander Meer 1874-1923. Children – Adrian . Vanden Berge 1893, Leonard Vanden Berge 1896-1966, John Robert Vanden Berge 1899, Ernest Raymond Vanden Berge 1908-1984 and Harold O. Vanden Berge 1910

7. Elisabeth ‘Lizzie’ Vanden Berg Dykstra born 20 Nov 1874 Alton, Sioux IA died 3 Jan 1947 Monroe, Turner SD. She married Jacob H. Dykstra 1869-1960 children – Klaas Dykstrs 1886-1973, Jeannette Dykstra 1900-1992, Adrian Michael Dykstra 1902-1990, Henry Dewey Dykstra 1904-1968, Elsie J. Dykstra 1909-1979, Gertrude M. Dykstra 1914-2017.

OBITUARY of Adrianus Vanden Berge born 1832 died 1897
From the Alton Democrat of May 15, 1897
Sioux Center News
A. M. Vanden Berge one of the first settlers of Sioux county, died at his home in the north part of town early last Friday morning at the age of sixty-live. Mr. Vanden Berge was one of those who came from Pella, about twenty-three years ago. He settled on a farm about a mile west of
Alton, where he lived until about twelve years ago when he removed to Harrison, S. D. In 1896 he returned to Sioux county settling in Sioux Center. Adrian, as he was called by his friends, leaves a host of friends to mourn his departure and he was much esteemed by all who knew him.
(Adriaanus Vanden Berge's wife was Elizabeth 1836-1900. 1880 census of Holland tsp Sioux County Adriaan M. was 48, Elizabeth was 41, son John was 18, son Ira was 14, son James was 10 and Elisabeth was 6.)

OBITUARY of Elizabeth Rysdam (Mrs. Adrianus VandenBerge) (Mrs. Rev. Dries Mouw)
Original obituary was in Dutch, Translated it is believed to state:
Mrs. Rev. D. Mouw Died of pneumonia today.
It was her 78th birthday just. Mrs. Mouw was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1836 and came to Pella, Iowa, 60 years ago, in 1854 .- The same year she was in marriage associated with Mr.. A. M. van den Berge. They came to Sioux County in 1870 and moved to Dakota in 1885. In the autumn in 1894 they came back here. Mr. Van der Berge died in 1896(1897). In 1900 joined in marriage with the Reverend. D, Mouw. From her first marriage children are living, Mrs.. W. van Steenbergen lives here.
The funeral will Friday held at half past one
In the First Reformed. Church, Reverend. Lubbers officiated,
Our sympathy with husband and children.
From the Sioux Center Nieuwsblad of Jan 28, 1914
(This was the third wife of Rev. Dries Mouw. She was Elizabeth Rysdam, Vanden Berge, Mouw. Her first marriage was with Adriannus Michiel Vanden Berge 1856 Marion Co. IA , they lived in South Dakota and Nassau Sioux county for some time. She came with her parents Apr 17, 1948 to Pella IA. She was 63 years of age in October 29, of 1900 when she married Rev. Dries Mouw. On the marriage record her parents were listed as Arie Rysdam (Rijsdam) and Gertrude VanManen. Children found on ancestry.com were Nellie 1856-1914, Willemina Mrs. W. VanSteenbergen 1859-1942, John 1862-, Arie 1865-1944, James 1870, Elizabeth 1874-1947. Adriannus Vanden Berge born 1 Jan 1833 Terneuzen, Neth died 4 May 1897 Sioux Center IA. Both are assumed buried in the Sioux Center Cemetery, however, no headstone exists in Sioux county cemetery Index of headstones.

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