Gerret Postema

Birth: 30 MAR 1838 Gronigen, The Netherlands (Harkema Opeinde, gem Achtkarspelen per genlias)

Name Var: Errit Postma

Marriage: 28 JUL 1862 to Hendrika Cleveringa in Leens, Groningen, Netherlands

Birth of Dau: ABT 1862
Name: Geertruida Postema

Birth of Dau: ABT 1863
Name: Clara Postema
Place: The Netherlands

Birth of Son: ABT 1864
Name: Tjeerd Postema
Place: The Netherlands

Immigration: 09 MAY 1873
Place: from Rotterdam, Netherlands to New York
Note: Came on the steam ship "Castor". Gerrit came with three children: Geertruida (age 9), Klasina (age 9), and Tjeerd (age 8). Occupation was listed as farmer, landsman, peasant, agriculturalist, countryman. They traveled in steerage.

Note: 1870s
Details: In the early 1870s, there were a group of five families that settled in West Branch Twp, Sioux Co, Iowa near Sioux Center. They came from Muscatine, Iowa. These families were the families of Frederick Kuhl, Frederick Cleveringa, Broer W. Jansen, John Pekelder, and Gerrite Postema. The Muscatine group had been in this country longer than the other local homesteaders. The Dutch people in this group had lived in Bloomington, Illinois in 1853 before coming to Muscatine.

1880 Census: 09 JUN 1880
Place: West Branch, Sioux Co, Iowa
Note: Wife, Hendrika, and two children are living in household.

1885 Census: West Branch, Sioux Co, Iowa
Note: Wife, Hendrika is also in household. Unsure of children. Will have to look this census up at library. Living in Range 45, Section 10.

Lived in: 1886?-1889
Place: North Dakota

1900 Census: Not able to find in Iowa.

1910 Census: Not able to find in Iowa or North Dakota, where daughter Clara was living.

2nd Marriage: to Anna Wolf

1920 Census: JAN 1920
Place: Plato Twp, Sioux Co, Iowa

Death: 03 NOV 1921
Place: Sioux Co, Iowa
Note: Died of bladder cancer. Was married to a Mrs. Wolf. He must have remarried after Hendrika's death.

Buried: Carmel Cemetery, Sioux Co, Iowa

Click here to see parents: Tjeerd Kornelis Postma and Taapke Folkerts van der Tuuk

Hendrika Cleveringa

Birth: 01 JAN 1825 Stoepen, Warhuizen, Netherlands

Name Var: Henderijka Cleveringa

1st Marriage: Pieters Pompstra

2nd Marriage: 24 NOV 1853 to Dirk Ijkes Sevinga in Leens, Groningen, Netherlands

3rd Marriage: 28 JUL 1862 to Gerrit Postema in Leens, Groningen, Netherlands

Death: DEC in North Dakota

parents are Klass Pieters Cleveringa and Klaaska Roelf Torrenga OR Klaas Pieters Cleveringa and Klaaske Roelfs Torrenga (spelling in genlias)