Iowa Family Group Sheet for the 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 <becky_kato@yahoo.com>
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)