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Pieter “Peter” Verwolf Sr.

Birth
Tienhoven, Zederik Municipality, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Death
2 May 1921 (aged 72)
Oral, Fall River County, South Dakota, USA
Burial
Oral, Fall River County, South Dakota, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec 2, L-G, #105-106
Memorial ID
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Pieter Verwolf Sr. died May 2, 1921 at age 72 years, 7 months, and 8 days. The cause of death was cardiovascular.

Pieter was born in Tienhoven, nowadays municipality Zederik, province Zuid-Holland, Netherlands to Joris and Leentje Verwolf. His occupation was a farmer.

He is survived by his wife, Mary (VandenBerg) Verwolf and a brother, John Verwolf of Amsterdam, Montana.

Additional information provided 10/2012 by P. Hakze: Source: scan Bevolkingsregister Ameide 1880-1900, page 472, Familysearch, image 457: "Merchant Pieter Verwolf left on 24 May 1882 with his wife Merrigje van den Berg (born in 1849, at Tienhoven too) and their sons Joris (1869, Tienhoven) and Pieter (1873, Langerak) his home at Ameide in province Zuid-Holland, Achterweg (= Backroad, nowadays called Van der Puttestraat), housenumber 149, for America. They are Dutch Reformed."

Peter went first to Orange City, a Dutch Reformed community in northwest Iowa, and moved then to Douglas County in southeast South Dakota, with the Dutch agrarian settlements New Holland and Harrison, and also Corsica and its seat Armour. Source: Peter's unclesayer Bill Verwolf, writing March 1983. Peter resides in 1920 in Fall River County in southwest South Dakota, where he dies in May 1921 at the town Oral at the age of 72 years.
His wife Mary died 1 1/2 year later, in December 1922, in Corsica, Douglas, SD.
Pieter Verwolf Sr. died May 2, 1921 at age 72 years, 7 months, and 8 days. The cause of death was cardiovascular.

Pieter was born in Tienhoven, nowadays municipality Zederik, province Zuid-Holland, Netherlands to Joris and Leentje Verwolf. His occupation was a farmer.

He is survived by his wife, Mary (VandenBerg) Verwolf and a brother, John Verwolf of Amsterdam, Montana.

Additional information provided 10/2012 by P. Hakze: Source: scan Bevolkingsregister Ameide 1880-1900, page 472, Familysearch, image 457: "Merchant Pieter Verwolf left on 24 May 1882 with his wife Merrigje van den Berg (born in 1849, at Tienhoven too) and their sons Joris (1869, Tienhoven) and Pieter (1873, Langerak) his home at Ameide in province Zuid-Holland, Achterweg (= Backroad, nowadays called Van der Puttestraat), housenumber 149, for America. They are Dutch Reformed."

Peter went first to Orange City, a Dutch Reformed community in northwest Iowa, and moved then to Douglas County in southeast South Dakota, with the Dutch agrarian settlements New Holland and Harrison, and also Corsica and its seat Armour. Source: Peter's unclesayer Bill Verwolf, writing March 1983. Peter resides in 1920 in Fall River County in southwest South Dakota, where he dies in May 1921 at the town Oral at the age of 72 years.
His wife Mary died 1 1/2 year later, in December 1922, in Corsica, Douglas, SD.


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  • Created by: Joanne
  • Added: Jun 14, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53692571/pieter-verwolf: accessed ), memorial page for Pieter “Peter” Verwolf Sr. (25 Sep 1848–2 May 1921), Find a Grave Memorial ID 53692571, citing Fairview Cemetery, Oral, Fall River County, South Dakota, USA; Maintained by Joanne (contributor 46957268).