Category: Memoirs
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1909-03-14 Elizabeth to H. Beekhuis
Read More: 1909-03-14 Elizabeth to H. BeekhuisSunday, 1909-03-14. From Elizabeth Stuit to H. Beekhuis. Sunday, March 14, Woldendorp. Dear brother and sister, You must have been waiting for a letter. We are all reasonably well, except me and my leg. It just won’t get better. Thursday the doctor was here and then he thought that the swelling was down. He had…
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1908-12-22 Elizabeth to H. Beekhuis
Read More: 1908-12-22 Elizabeth to H. BeekhuisTuesday, 1908-12-22. From Elizabeth Stuit to H. Beekhuis. Woldendorp, December 22. Beloved brother and sister, We hereby give you notice that Rientje has died suddenly. At 11.30 she was fully conscious, and at 12 o’clock everything was over. Gently, oh so gently, the Lord took her to Himself. She had the same illness as mother,…
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1908-11-29 Elizabeth to H. Beekhuis
Read More: 1908-11-29 Elizabeth to H. BeekhuisSunday, 1908-11-29. From Elizabeth Stuit to H. Beekhuis. Woldendorp, November 29.1908. Dear brother and sister, We received your letter with the news that a little son was born to you. Are you feeling better dear sister? Rientje just is not improving. She is very short of breath. Jan now also gets medicine drops and has…
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1908-11-06 Elizabeth to Siblings
Read More: 1908-11-06 Elizabeth to SiblingsFriday, 1908-11-06. From Elizabeth Stuit to brother and sister. Woldendorp, November 6, 1908. Dear brother and sister, I am sitting down to send you the sad news that Mother has died. It still came very unexpectedly. We had left at 8.30 and at 10 o’clock mother was dead. It is a very heavy blow for…
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1908-11-06 Elizebeth to H. Beekhuis
Read More: 1908-11-06 Elizebeth to H. BeekhuisFriday1908-11-06. From Elizabeth Stuit to H. Beekhuis. Woldendorp, November 6, 1908. Dear family! On behalf of Father, we inform you that your Mother died on Thursday evening 9 o’clock. Entirely gently and in all peace she fell asleep. She is now released from all suffering and is presently enjoying that which she expected here in…
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1908-09-12 Elisabeth to H. Beekhuis
Read More: 1908-09-12 Elisabeth to H. BeekhuisSaturday. 1908-09-12. From Elizabeth Stuit to H. Beekhuis. Dear brother and sister, I am sitting down to write you the sad tiding that our dear little son and brother [Siepko Stuit: 1899-1908] died last night at one o’clock. He didn’t talk anymore the last week. He recognized no one. On Friday his little chest was…
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1908-08-21 Elizabeth to H. Beekhuis
Read More: 1908-08-21 Elizabeth to H. BeekhuisFriday, 1908-08-21 from Elizabeth Stuit to H. Beekhuis Woldendorp, August 21, Dear Hinderik and Stientje, It is a while ago since we received your letter from which we learned that you were all in good health but have a constant tooth ache. You must have received Rientje’s letter. Mother’s condition remains the same. Always coughing…
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1908-01-12 Ena Berrelkamp to H. Beekhuis
Read More: 1908-01-12 Ena Berrelkamp to H. BeekhuisSunday, 1908-01-12? from E. Berrelkamp to H. Beekhuis Woldendorp, January 12. Dear cousins [‘cousin’ is multi-generational in Dutch], We hereby inform you that Leena delivered a son. And all is well. Your mother [Tietje] assisted her without the doctor. He is a very heavy Jan. It is now the third day. I wasn’t able to…
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Notes
Read More: NotesNoted by Stiny van der Laan de Jong Rientje Stuit, born Feb, 27, 1891, seventh child of Albert Stuit (b. Oct, 24, 1851) and Tietje Berrelkamp (b. Jan.25, 1860) who married at age 27 and 18 resp. on November 8, 1878. They had 13 children: 1) Stientje, b, Dec, 12, 1878, married May 16, 1900…
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1907 Rientje Stuit to H. Beekhuis
Read More: 1907 Rientje Stuit to H. Beekhuis1907 or 1908 from Rientje Stuit [1891-1908] to H. Beekhuis, Finsterwolderpolder. Sunday. Which date it is I don’t know and now I can’t put that up there, but that’s what it is just about… Dear brother and sister, I had promised you that I would write too sometimes. It is now certainly three weeks ago…