Is written out of Melissant, The Netherlands on 18 October 1895. Arrives in New York on 3 September 1895 with the SS Veendam. The first years of his stay in the USA he lives in Paterson, Passaic Co., New Jersey.
"Services held Monday for Nicholas DeGraff, 89, who died on Jan. 4. Nicholas De Graff, Fond du Lac, died in St. Agnes hospital Friday morning, Jan. 4, where he had been a patient for three days.
He was born Dec. 7, 1867, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John De Graff of the Netherlands. He came to this country in his youth and married Mina Wilderman.
Following her death he married Mrs. Nellie Nummerdor who preceded him in death in 1945.
His entire life was spent farming in this community. Survivors are three sons and three daughters, Peter of Waupun, Tony of Milwaukee, Henry of California, Mrs. Ernest Kumber of Waupun, Mrs. Harriet McCabe of Ripon, and Mrs. Melvin Broadway of Fond du Lac, two brothers, one sister, 32 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Monday at 1:15 p.m. from Kohls and Giebink Funeral home and at 2 from the Christian Reformed church in Alto where he was a member. The Rev. William Alkema officiated and burial was in the Alto cemetery."
Brother of John Degraff
Is written out of Melissant, The Netherlands on 18 October 1895. Arrives in New York on 3 September 1895 with the SS Veendam. The first years of his stay in the USA he lives in Paterson, Passaic Co., New Jersey.
"Services held Monday for Nicholas DeGraff, 89, who died on Jan. 4. Nicholas De Graff, Fond du Lac, died in St. Agnes hospital Friday morning, Jan. 4, where he had been a patient for three days.
He was born Dec. 7, 1867, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John De Graff of the Netherlands. He came to this country in his youth and married Mina Wilderman.
Following her death he married Mrs. Nellie Nummerdor who preceded him in death in 1945.
His entire life was spent farming in this community. Survivors are three sons and three daughters, Peter of Waupun, Tony of Milwaukee, Henry of California, Mrs. Ernest Kumber of Waupun, Mrs. Harriet McCabe of Ripon, and Mrs. Melvin Broadway of Fond du Lac, two brothers, one sister, 32 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Monday at 1:15 p.m. from Kohls and Giebink Funeral home and at 2 from the Christian Reformed church in Alto where he was a member. The Rev. William Alkema officiated and burial was in the Alto cemetery."
Brother of John Degraff
Family Members
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Peter De Graff
1900–1990
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Johannes "John" Dykgraaf
1902–1912
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Anthony "Tony" De Graff
1903–1983
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Johanna De Graff Blase
1905–1925
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Harriet "Hattie" DeGraff McCabe
1908–1976
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Minnie DeGraff Kumber / Dykstra
1908–2002
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Lena DeGraff Rhode
1909–2000
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Nicholas Dykgraaf
1910–1910
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Hendrik (Henry) "Hank" De Graff
1911–1978
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