Hinderk Evers Stratemeier


(from Gene Straatmeyer's diary)


Jacob Brunke Straatmeyer was my grandfather's older and only brother - eight years older than my grandfather, Henry. He went to the U.S. ahead of the rest - we found him and his wife as members of Turner County First Presbyterian Church at one time. His wife was Severina (Van Hove). 

Jacob "Jake" died and left his wife as a widow.   Henry married Jake's widow. She must have been much older she was than Henry. She died some time after - soon enough so that Gene never knew her. 

Gene remembers Jacob's son, Jake - a very homely and coarse man - all of Jake's kids, other than one or two of the girls, were homely. 

Henry & Severina never had any kids together. 


Brunke and my grandfather Henry and his wife Anna Wibben, his first wife, are buried in the Reformed Cemetery south of Chancellor - as was my grandfather's sister, Mareka.


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More from Gene's diary 


Hindirk (Henry) Evert (he must have changed his middle name to Evert) Stratmeyer.  Born 8.22.1870.  Left for the U.S. approximately in 1884.  Died 1955. 


 Married Anna Wibben at the Christian Reformed Church northeast of Ridot, IL 12.9.1893 Anna was born 1872.  They had six children Ben, Claus, Henry, one child who died in infancy, Mrs Henie Binger, who was Art Bingers mother, and she died in childbirth in 1911 giving birth to Arnold.  


He later married Sevarina (Van Hove) Straatmeyer (who died in 1928 or 1929), the wife of his disceased brother Jacob Brunkes Straatmeyer who was born May 12, 1859 and whose death date is unknown.  


Severina had several children by her previous marriage and they had no children together.  I knew several of these children, Jake, Ella, Albert and Mrs. Otto Van Loh.  Jake lived in Sioux Falls and had a family. Ella never married and Albert thought about becoming a minister, went to Dubuque either to college or seminary or both, didn't finish seminary, and ended up as a postman in Chicago.  His son Dennis is a member of the Wycliff Bible Translators who has spent a number of years in Guatamala.  Mrs. Otto Van Loh had a family and lived in the Tea and Sioux Falls area.

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