WITTEVEEN FAMILY TREE misc.notes_____________________

  Hardewyk Christian Reformed Church
1627 West Lakewood  Blvd, Holland Mi 49424
telephone 1-616-399 9190

The Witteveen family is one of the early families who settled near Holland in Hardewyk, Michigan.  I have genealogies of the family and since the Vandeb Brink family married into the  family we also included that surname on our list. We have a rather large  obituary file(300,000)  of obituaries from western Michigan and I'm sure our library would be an excellent resource for you to "tap".
--Genealogy room head, Holland (Herrick) Public Library:
  Ralph Haan:  holrh@hotmail.com

	12/22/1999 visit to Grandma (Grace W- Rooks, #426 Warm Friend)
.Born 23 April 1910 (mo.Grace died 26 years old in late August 1910, buried 29 Aug. at Lakewood cem; raised therefore by Grace's younger sister Mary -later Bredeway- who was then about 18 and still living on parent's farm: Rein & Heintje Van den Brink on 160th & Douglas Ave) in house built by father Cornelius Stam near intersection of 17th & Pine St., on southside, 2nd or 3rd from SE corner: white, porch out front. Older brother Gary (=Gerrit?) raised instead by father (who remarried) in town and attended "1st Reformed Church." Bro & sis were together on Sunday visits, though. But Heintje would not let Cornelius raise both children. Gary was a cheerful soul; ran the gas station on the corner of 17th and Pine at one point.
	Namelist (cemetery & genealogy records from Herrick Pub.lib)
.Grandpa Gerrit Stam (widower for 17 years following wife's death in 23 Jan 1912, aged 59) died 3 Nov 1929, aged 73 years, both buried in Lakewood Cemetery. He lived as a widower with daughter Kate Stam HOVING across the road from Grace vdbrink (my --GPW-- Grandma) on 160th Ave.
.WITTEVEEN: 
	Gertrude & Albert J. W- (listed in farm almanac, see xerox)
	John W- (Chicago area; ?well to do)
	Marie W- (died young, ?not married)
	Richard W- (son of Aart)
	Rose W- (daughter of Winnie & Jake W- of 160th Ave, 1918 almanac: farmer & treasurer, 6 children)

.WATERWAY:
	Bert also Jacob Wa- (bro.s of Aunt Mary Wa- Witteveen's dad)
	Jennie (mo. to Aunt Mary Wa- Witteveen), late April 1969
	Grace Wa- (maiden sister to Jake Wa-, d. late Oct 1949, aged 71)

.JAGER:
	Mrs. John (=Anna?) d. end June 1961, aged 55.
	John A. J- (m. Anna, d.'46, aged 61 =b.1855), bro to Maggie (m. Oscar W-):  John A (d.'46)
	Mrs.Anna J- (d.'65, aged 92 =b.1873) or Mrs.Anna J- (d.'55, aged 70 =b.1885)

.VANDENBRINK:
   children of Rein Vdb (fa: Beert b.1809, gfa: Jacob b.1767, ggfa: Evert b. 1713, gggfa: Jacob b.1681; Rein's bro Dirk b.1841, Rein b.1844, Evert b.1853) & Heintje
	Beert (b. 1875, d.late May 1936, aged 60)
	Aart (b. 1877 ?obit Holland Sentinel gives Arthur d. mid March 1947, aged 68 =b.187??9)
	Albert (b. 1881, d. early Feb 1916, aged 34): 7th st. in Holland; "went to buy a horse in the morning, came home and after eating dropped dead." (Grandma G.Rooks W-; age 6 at the time)
	Grace (b. 1884, m. Cornelius Stam 1905? see cert.marr framed in G.Rooks W- apt, d. late Aug 1910, aged 26)
	Mary (b. 1892, m. -Bredeway)
	Aart (b. 1889, d. mid NOV 1974, aged 85)

*genealogy: probated estates are public record, hence ancestors holdings can be examined from an "archeological" p.o.v. (material culture).
	

B O O K S  &  R E F    M A T E R I A L S
The title is: Eighty Acres (Elegy for a Family Farm).  It is by
Ronald Jager, with a foreward (didn'r know that's how it was spelled) by
Donald Hall.  Publisher is Beacon Press.