OUR GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER,
JOHANNAH GROENENDYKE

Johannah was the daughter of James Groenendyke and Barbara Buck/Groenendyke. Barbara was James' second wife, after his first wife, Johannah Hagerman/Groenendyke had died in 1825.

At the age of 17, Johannah married Isaac Newton Ware on October 11, 1846 in Henry County, Indiana.
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"Isaac N Ware
to
Johannah Groenendyke

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 10th day of October 1846 the following marriage license was issued, to wit:
INDIANA, TO-WIT; HENRY COUNTY,SS.

To all who shall see these Presents, Greeting: Know ye, that any person legally authorized to solemnize matrimony is hereby licensed to join in marriage as husband and wife Isaac N Ware and Johannah Groenendyke and for so doing this shall be his sufficient authority,
Witness, SAMUEL HOOVER, Clerk of the Henry Circuit Court the 10th day of October 1846.
(signed)Samuel Hoover, Clk.

Be it Further Remembered, That on this 26th day of October 1846 the following certificate was filed in my office to-wit:
Indiana, to-wit: Henry County:

This certifies that I joined in marriage as husband and wife Isaac N Ware and Johannah Groenendyke on the 11th day of October 1846.
(signed)Jacob Swafford,JP
Witness (signed) Samuel Hoover, Clerk"
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"Hannah" and Isaac had 4 children together;
1st: Mary Jane Ware-born July 19, 1847
2nd: William Montgomery Ware-born August 22, 1848
3rd: James Monroe Ware-born after the September 13, 1850 census, and up until March 11, 1851. He died at age 29, on March 12, 1880.
4th: John Addison Ware-born April 19, 1853

Almost 10 years after their marriage, Hannah died in 1856 at a very young age of 27, leaving her husband , Isaac, with their 4 young children.
Isaac, a farmer, remarried 2 years later in 1858, to the widow, Mary Ann Huddleston/Doran. Mary had 2 young daughters of her own.
Mary was able to take care of the children, while Isaac worked the farm; both of them receiving help from the children.

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*The name Johanna, meaning 'God is gracious', was a popular name in the Netherlands, as elsewhere.
Johanna is still to this day, the most common name given to a baby girl in Zeeland, a northwestern part of Netherlands.

The Groenendyke ancestors came to New Amsterdam (eventually becoming New Jersey state) in the mid 1600s from the Netherlands. Called New Amsterdam, because most inhabitants came from the Netherlands, with the Dutch Reformed Church being most common, whose records list Groenendyke births and marriages in the New Jersey, New York area.

* another findagrave memorial bio, lists the last two sons of Johannah and Isaac, as being the children of Isaac and his next wife, Mary Ann. By looking at all the birth dates, and birth places, marriage dates, and the death date of Johannah, and of Mary Ann's previous husband; all of the 4 children of Isaac and Johannah can be proven.
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written by, t.garlow
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