Popteus Willems SWIETERS
Characteristics
| Type | Value | Date | Place | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| name | Popteus Willems SWIETERS |
|
Events
| Type | Date | Place | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| death | 19. May 1939 | Rapid City, Pennington County, SD, USA
Find persons in this place |
|
| birth | 30. March 1859 | Eilsum
Find persons in this place |
|
| marriage | 1888 |
??spouses-and-children_en_US??
| Marriage | ??spouse_en_US?? | Children |
|---|---|---|
|
1888
|
Tadena Bleeker MEYER |
|
Sources
| 1 | https://www.ancestry.de/family-tree/person/tree/1464319/person/-1938020639/facts mit 7 Kindern Swyter Bleeker in USA. Geschichte: https://www.ancestry.de/mediaui-viewer/tree/1464319/person/-1938020639/ Peter's father died when he was 5 years old. At 10 he came to the US with his mother and siblings. They settled on a farm near Acley, Iowa. In his adolescence he moved to Oregon where he lived about 7 years, and finally he settled near Lennox, South Dakota where he married TaDena (Dena) Bleeker in 1888. He conceived 9 children (all boys), of which 2 died during infancy. Peter died at the age of 80. A letter that Peter Swyter wrote to his children Ranco and Grace 1935: - source Lois Huber Rapid City March 28, 1935 Dear children: - I will try and answer your letter. dated Feb. 14 -35. I do not feel like doing anything, I had a bad cold, with nervous indigestion, all winter. And have not been outside for a long time. But anybody that went through, what I went through, does not think much of death and dying. All of us will sooner or later be put in the balance, and if we have not the blood of Christ in our favor, we will be found wanting. Rapid City is going to have a big time this summer they are going to spend $40,000 to improve the fair-ground right north of the home here. There are to be 2 races 1 in June and 1 in September then they are talking of a Government mail route by air. They will have what they call the Pageant of America an outside theater. And the Strato Balloon flight. So I expect there will be plenty of excitement, and bring many people out in this part of the woods. But the signs for a favorable season are no good and special the farmers, are up again it. No seed and no feed and no prospect whatever, and the farm is the foundation of all other industry. The building we live in is about 72 X 36 there is a basement and 2 storeys high, on the east end of the basement is the laundry room. And on the west end are the toilet rooms and a hall reaching from end to end with bed-rooms on both sides. The first floor is occupied by the management, dining-room, and visiting room. The second floor has a reading room on the east end and toilet rooms on the west end and a hall reaching from end to end, with bedrooms on both sides. The bedrooms are 12 X 16 with 3 single beds in each room. There are 27 inmates here, now and every bed is occupied. The place is steam heated. And has electric light. The rules of the Institution are as follows. We have to take a bath, and shave once a week. And take our beds out airing every week. Make our own beds, and sweep and mop our rooms. There is a shower bath and a bath-tub in each toilet room. With cold and hot water all the time. Now I don't know whether you like to read all this dope. But a fallow has to say something to keep up the conversation. Right south of us hear, across Rapid creek there is a fire that never goes out, where they burn all the waste that comes from Rapid City. I just talked to a man, he lost over $4000 in the Rapid City Banks, and now he is here to stay until they carry him out to the Potter's Field. such is life and then some. But smile in spite of misery. It wont make things no worse, for smiling is a blessing..that softens up the curse. Well I thank you for the Photograph of little Lois, on the one where she is alone she looks like a little Queen looking at this world for the first time,, And my prayer is that God may gard, and protect her. The weather here is still dry, to dry to grow anything. I think I will have to come to a close. For it's no use to mention troubles. For each mortal has his own. And what others bear in union. With God I bear alone This world is long on sympathy. But rather short on aid. And life is like a summers day, where sunbeams chase the shade. Some moments bright as crystal. And others dull as lead. Sometimes content and happy, And sometimes doleful sad. But there is a time in living. That lends to life a charm. Rest on my Savior's bosom . .Or lean up on his arm. Then though I never realize, The power of his might His hand will safely guide me. Through tempest and through night I hope that these lines will find you in good health and happy. With kind regards, your Father, P. W. Swyter. |
Unique identifier(s)
GEDCOM provides the ability to assign a globally unique identifier to individuals. This allows you to find and link them across family trees. This is also the safest way to create a permanent link that will survive any updates to the file.
files
| Title | Tammena |
| Description | Ich suche und biete aus meinem Ahnenfundus reiche Quellen und viele offene Punkte. Die größten Familien sind folgende: TAMMENA Hier gehen alle heute bestehenden Familienzweige zurück als „nach Tamme“, also hier Nachfahren von Kirchvogt Tamme Hindriks, gest. 1749 in Visquard. Seine Kinder und Enkel wurden dann in Folge der Weihnachtsflut 1717 in Suurhusen, Osterhusen und Loppersum ansässig. DREESMAN(N) Diese weit verzweigte Familie geht zurück auf den Pastor Rudolf Dreesman (1579-1650), der als Sohn eines Erbhofbauern in Haselünne nach katholischem Theologie-Studium konvertierte und ab 1604 bis zum Tode in Esklum lebte. Hier sind es inzwischen rund 1.400 Nachkommen vieler Familien, die auch in Tochterlinien den Namen führen. Teilweise wird es kaum auflösbar, wenn mehrere Roelfs und Ockes etwa in Marienchor und Midlum zugleich leben… - aber etwa die Brandkataster bei ancestry haben hier weiter geholfen. GROENEVELD Sehr enge und häufige Verbindungen der Dreesmanns gibt es zu den weiteren gut erforschten Familien im Rheiderland und Overledingen wie den Groenevelds, LEEMHUIS und HENSMANS. Über diese besteht auch unsere Verbindung zum legendären Häuptling Focko Ukena – und damit zu den Windsors in England. VAN HETTINGA Die Verbindung zur früher adeligen Familie in Friesland/NL ist sehr naheliegend, wenn auch immer noch nicht ganz durch die Quellen bestätigt. Enge Verbindungen der Tammena bestehen in der Krummhörn zur Familie OHLING und IDERHOFF. |
| Id | 67124 |
| Upload date | 2025-06-13 10:47:52.0 |
| Submitter |
Heiko Tammena
visit the user's profile page
|
| htammena@googlemail.com | |
| ??show-persons-in-database_en_US?? | |
Download
The submitter does not allow this file to be downloaded.