Schreur, John 1871-1943 & Nellie Meylink Family

SCHREUR, MEYLINK, RADMAKER, MEIJLINK, LUDENS

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 9/29/2024 at 14:45:21

Schreur, John 1871-1943 & Nellie Meylink Family

This story was taken from pages 479A-480 of the Maurice Centennial Book (1891-1991). The story was transcribed for this BIOS by Beth De Leeuw of the Greater Sioux County Genealogical Society. Some research notes were added by Wilma J. Vande Berg .

John Schreur was born December 11, 1871, and died August 7, 1943. Nellie (Meylink) Schreur was born June 21, 1882, and died in 1927.

John Schreur was born in Zeeland, Michigan, in a log cabin. He was one of ten children, five of which were born in a log cabin, and five in a home. Nellie (Meylink) Schreur was born on a farm northwest of Maurice, where Peter De Jager’s used to live. She was married there, and four of her children were born there. In 1918, they moved to the farm two miles west of Maurice. John Schreur died in the Union Station in Chicago, enroute by train to visit relatives in Michigan. He died of an apparent heart attack.

John Schreur was a son of Arend Schreur and Gertie Kleinjans.

Their family consisted of: Dick – died at age 19 of appendicitis; Jennie (Schreur) married Kroodsma; John Schreur married Nellie Meylink; Herman married Minnie Kleinhesselink and lived in Orange City; Gerrit married Jennie Gelder; Hattie (Schreur) De Roo – died during childbirth; Walter married Jennie Smits and lived near Alton; Zena (Schreur) Vreeke; George married Lizzie (Stevens?); and Gertrude (Schreur) Meylink who later married Andrew Gelder.

John and Nellie Schreur’s children were: Ted born April 12, 1902, and died January 28, 1961; married Jeanette Bolluyt, born June 5, 1900, and died June 29, 1956. Gertrude was born April 4, 1904, and died December 5, 1980, married on February 15, 1928, to Dick De Jong born April 14, 1898, and died March 10, 1975. Susan was born October 22, 1907, and died May 17, 1978, married Bert Bolluyt, born November 11, 1897, and died April 15, 1987. Agnes was born September 5, 1911, and died January 27, 1988, married Norman Oftedahl, born? and died?. Nelson was born March 24, 1918 and married Johanna Vis on April 29, 1947.

Daughter, Gertrude De Jong, tells of her Grandpa Meylink walking to LeMars with a sack of wheat on his back, having it ground there into flour, and walking home again. Also, they would gather up dried cow dung and bring it into the house and burn it for fuel. (Grandpa Meylinks). During that time, as the country was entirely open prairie, there were no trees (only along rivers) to cut down and use for fuel. Maurice’s “Dr. Oggel” delivered Gertrude (Schreur) De Jong, and Grandpa Schreur went into town to get the doctor, and traveled by horse and buggy.

Arend Schreur, father of John, plowed with oxen. They had sheep and he sheared his own sheep, and Arend’s wife spun the wool, dyed it, and Arend knitted the socks for the five older children.

Every Saturday, grandsons of John Schreur, Pierce and John De Jong, would walk the two miles west to the Schreur farm, and spend the day there, and Nelson Schreur would then bring them home in the evening. Gertrude (Schreur) De Jong would watch her sons walking west until they were out of sight.
IN MEMORY OF Mr. and Mrs. John Schreur by Greta (De Jong) De Zeeuw
(end of story in the Maurice book)

RESEARCH Notes: From Find A Grave and from a family history on ancestry.com public member trees, submitted by other than this submitter. Noted – the surname of Gertrude is recorder in the ancestry family report as Radmaker her mother being a Kuipers. The 1925 Iowa state census his his mother as Gertrude Kuypers.

Jan ‘John’ Schreur was born 11 Dec 1871 Zeeland Ottawa County, Michigan died 7 Aug 1943 Chicago, Cook, Illinois. His parents were Arend Schreur 1830-1910 Zeeland MI and Geertje ‘Gertrude’ Kuipers (Radmaker) 1845-1911 Zeeland MI. John married 21 Nov 1900 at Orange City IA to Pieternella ‘Nellie’ Meylink

Pieternella ‘Nellie’ Meylink was born 26 Jun 1882 Sherman Tsp. Sioux County IA and died 15 Dec 1927 buried Sherman Tsp. Sioux County Iowa. She was the daughter of Teodorus Janszen Meijlink aks Theodore Meylink 1849-1921 Maurice IA and Zwaantje ‘Susan’ Ludens 1859-1924 Maurice Iowa .

CHILDREN of John and Nellie

1. Ted born April 12, 1902, and died January 28, 1961; married Jeanette Bolluyt, born June 5, 1900, and died June 29, 1956. Children - a son, Tony, of Sioux City; two daughters, Mrs. Albert Hamersma and. Mrs. Donald Nelson, both of Hawarden. See the obit of Theodore Schreur 1902-1961 on this web page.

2. Gertrude was born April 4, 1904, and died December 5, 1980, married on February 15, 1928, to Dick De Jong born April 14, 1898, and died March 10, 1975.Their children - four sons and two daughters, Pierce of Remsen, John of Maurice, Greta (Mrs. John E. De Zeeuw) of Sioux Center, Nelvina (Mr. M.G. Wissink) of Minneapolis, Minn., Milo of Colfax, Washington; Nelson of Phoenix, Ariz. See Gertrude’s obituary on this web page, DeJong, Gertrude Mrs. Dick 1904-1980.

3. Susan was born October 22, 1907, and died May 17, 1978, married Bert Bolluyt, born November 11, 1897, and died April 15, 1987. They had one daughter, Mrs. Don (Edith) Schlueter of Hawarden. See the obit of Bolluyt, Susie Mrs. Bert 1907-1987 on this web page.

4. Agnes was born September 5, 1911 Iowa , and died January 27, 1988 San Diego CA , married Norman Oftedahl born 1908 MN died 26 Nov 1979 San Diego CA On Ancestry.com family report they had two children listed as Eugene Leroy Oftedahl 1936-1994 and Donald Roy Oftedahl 1946-2010.

5. Nelson was born March 24, 1918 and married Johanna Vis on April 29, 1947. Children  two daughters and their husbands, Margene and Jay Stellinga, of Hull; and Debra and Steve Streff, of Alton See the obit of Schreur, Nelson J. 1918-1996 on this web page.

OBITUARY OF JOHN SCHREUR 1871-1943
John Schreur Dies Birth: December 11, 1871 Death: August 7, 1943
Service: August 11, 1943, First Reformed Church, Maurice, IA., Interment, Sherman Twp. Cemetery.
A telegram was received here Saturday by relatives stating that Mr. John Schreur a former resident of Maurice and now staying with his children at Hawarden, died suddenly from a heart attack in the Union Depot at Chicago. He was enroute to Beaver Dam, Mich, where he had planned to visit with relatives. Mr. Schreur was born on December 11, 1871 at Vriesland, Michigan and died on August 7, 1943, having reached the age of 71 years, 7 months, 27 days.
On November 21, 1900 he was married to Nellie Meylink who preceded him in death in December, 1928. Surviving are two sons and three daughters: Ted from Hawarden, Gert (Mrs, Dick De Jong) of Maurice, Susan (Mrs. Bert Bolluyt) of Hawarden, Agnes (Mrs. Norman Offadahl) from San Diego, Calif:, and Pvt. Nelson Schreur from Camp Edwards, Mass.
Also surviving are four brothers and two sisters: Herman of Orange City, Walter of Alton, Gerrit and George and Cenie, (Mrs. David Vereeke) of Beaver Dam, Mich., and Gert, (Mrs. Jake Meylink) of Maurice. Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Dick De Jong home in Maurice and at 2 o'clock at the First Ref. Church with Rev. Roggen officiating. Source: Sioux Center News of August 12, 1943

OBITUARY OF NELLIE SCHREUR 1882-1927
Schreur, Nellie nee’ Meylink born 26 Jun 1882 died 15 Dec 1927 Reading Tsp Sioux County IA, husb: John buried in Sherman Tsp. Cemetery Maurice IA.
See the obit of John Schreur 1871-1943 lists his wife as Nellie Meylink married Nov 21, 1900
Her death record list Nellie Schruer born Jun 26, 1881 to Theodore Meijlink (Meylink) 1849-1921 and Zwantje Ludens 1858-1924. She died Dec 15, 1927 Maurice IA.
DeVolksvriend of Dec 22, 1927 In Dutch
Translation attempt:
Maurice – Mrs. John Schreur is Tuesday morning 13 Dec died at the age of more than 45 years at her house, west of here Her health has been not desirable for several months, yet her death unexpectedly came. Her death is regretted by her husband, five children, three grandchildren a sister and a brother. The Funeral held Tuesday of this week from the First Ref church of which the deceased was a member. Mr. Scheur's family is coming from Michigan to attend the ceremony.

Picture on 479A of the Maurice Book.

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