Iowa Family Groupsheet for Gerard Fredrik ROELOFSZ Family

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Submitted by: Norma WINGET PAUl
Email address: npaul@nethere.com


Husband: Gerard Fredrik ROELOFSZ
Birthdate: 18 June 1844
Birthplace: Amsterdam, Holland
Death date: 22 Oct 1937
Place of death: Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska
Father: Pieter ROELOFSZ
Mother: Margaretha  E. PHILLIPS

Marriage date: 24 April 1869
Marriage place: Pella, Marion, Iowa

Wife: Nancy Elizabeht GROVE
Birthdate: 12 Mar. 1851
Birthplace: Mahaska Co., Iowa
Death date: 18 Jan. 1907
Place of death: Elmwood, Cass, Nebraska
Father: James GROVE
Mother: Nancy PRICE

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Minnie May ROELOFSZ
Sex: F
Birthdate: 4 Feb 1870
Birthplace: Sunlight, Cass, Nebraska
Death date: 1956
Place of death: Elmwood, Cass, Nebraska
Marriage date: 
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: (1)Charlie W. KRAFT

Child No. 2: James Pieter ROELOFSZ
Sex: M
Birthdate: 18 Oct. 1872
Birthplace: Sunlight, Cass, Nebraska
Death date: 9 Mar. 1903
Place of death: Alvo, Cass, Nebraska
Marriage date: 16 Mar. 1897
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: Susan Olive HORST

Child No. 3: Cora Cinthy Henrietta ROELOFSZ
Sex: F
Birthdate: 4 Dec 1874
Birthplace: Sunlight, Cass, Nebraska
Death date: 17 Jan 1949
Place of death: Alvo, Cass, Nebraska
Marriage date: 4 Dec. 1900
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: Oscar H. SNAVELY

Child No. 4: Nancy Betsy Hannah
Sex: F
Birthdate: 8 July 1880
Birthplace: Sunlight, Cass, Nebraska
Death date: 24 Feb 1974
Place of death: Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska
Marriage date: 12 Dec 1901
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: Charles SNAVELY

Child No. 5: Amanda Venetta ROELOFSZ
Sex: 
Birthdate: 6 Aug 1884
Birthplace: Sunlight, Cass, Nebraska
Death date: 18 July 1960
Place of death: 
Marriage date: 4 Mar 1903
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: Lee Milton SNAVELY

Child No. 6: Ettie Ethel
Sex: F
Birthdate: 18 Mar 1888
Birthplace: Sunlight, Cass, Nebraska
Death date: 1 Feb 1889
Place of death: 
Marriage date: 
Marriage place: 
Spouse's name: 

Child No. 7: Charley Henry Christopher ROELOFSZ
Sex: M
Birthdate: 27 May 1891
Birthplace: Alvo, Cass, Nebraska
Death date: 14 Aug 1973
Place of death: Alvo, Cass, Nebraska
Marriage date: 9 Sept. 1915
Marriage place: Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska
Spouse's name: Hazel Dell REEDER

Documentation:  known as "Henry"
Sources:
•Dutch Households in U.S. Population Censuses 1850, 1860, 1870 by Robert
P. Swierenga.
1860
Name: ROELOFSZ, Gerard F H
Age:  15
Sex:  M
Mar Stat:  1. Single
#Children:  0
Fam Stat: 10. Son
Occ:  NA
Birth Place: Holland, Netherlands
Years in US: 5

•1870 Census Record: Nebraska, Cass, Stove Crees Pct. Elmwood
page 173 dwelling #68 (name spelled Rodef) Names: Henry 29, Farmer, Value
Real Estate $1000. Per. Prop. $200., Nancy 19. Minnie 4/12.
•1870, September 5, The Daily Platsmouth Harold. Registrators Notice-
Tipton Precinct. Persons of July registered persons of Cass Co.,
Nebraska. Grove, John H., James E., Roelofsz, Peter, Henry
•1885 Census Record: Tipton Pct., Cass, Nebraska: E.D. 100, pg. 2, line 5
dwelling #13, family #13 (name spelled Roelofn) , microfilm copy #499535
Salt Lake City Names: Henry 41, Nancy 34, Minnie 13, James 11, Cora 10,
Nancy 4, Manda 1
•1900 Census Record: Nebraska, Cass, Tipton Pct., Vol.5, Sheet 11, Ed.20
Line 42: Roll No. 1240919 Salt Lake City. Names: G. H. 55, store keeper,
married 31 yrs.;  Nancy 48, 7 children 6 living, Nettie 19, Amanda 15,
Charlie 9
•1910 Census Record: Nebraska, Cass, Stove Creek, Elmwood; pg. 6,
district 19, Dwelling 129, Family 130. Henry 64,  (with Henry’s second
wife, Pauline 52 )
•Books: Biographical Album of Otoe and Cass Counties,
Nebraska 1889.
History of Cass County Nebraska, pub. 1989
•Platt map of Tipton pct. 1905
showing Henry Roelofsz with 5 parcels of land totaling  480 acres.
•Becky Applegate 
Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, June 22, 1916
ALVO NEWS ITEMS.
The party who undertook to congratulate Henry ROELOFSZ last Tuesday by
giving him seventy-one birthday slaps has been laid up since with a lame
arm.
Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, June 22, 1916
ALVO NEWS ITEMS.
Henry ROELOFSZ drove to Lincoln Friday evening.
•5/8/03 6:07 PM, Becky Applegate at becky_kato@yahoo.com wrote:
Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, December 7, 1916
Henry ROELFSZ came down from Lincoln Wednesday on business. Mr. Roelfsz
is now  in the grocery business in east Lincoln. Last address: 910 H St.
Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska
•Brethren Cemetery print-out AB Row 1
•Pictures of Alvo Brethern Cemetery and tombstones of HENRY, NANCY
(GROVE) ROELOFSZ, all their children and some of their spouses.
•Death Certificate:  #H10454  (for HENRY)