Great Grand Parents
Jurgens Mennen | Hiske Ubben (d.1887) |
Dirk Ulferts Dirks (26Nov 1828-26Nov 1876 | Antje Jannsen Schoon (14Mar1830- 25Nov1917 |
Antje (February 10,1854), John Ulfert (September 8,1856),
Altje (February 6, 1860), Ulfert (August 25,1962), Jurina (October 9,1864), Metje (1867). |
THE DIRKS COME TO AMERICA
Dirk Ulfred Dirks was born November 26,1828 in Ostgrossfehn,
Germany. On November 5,1851 he married Antje Janssen Schoon at Aurich, Germany.
Antje was born March 14,1830 in Ostgrossefehn, Germany. There were six children,
Antje (February 10,1854), John Ulfert (September 8,1856), Altje (February
6,1860), Ulfert (August 25,1862), Jurina (October 9,1864), and Metje
(1867). Dirk U. Dirks Died November 26,1876.
Antje Jannsen Dirks came to America in 1883 with her four
daughters, Antje, Altje, Metje and Jurina. Her daughter Altje married Sander
Assing that same year. She made her home with Altje and Sander. John
Ulfert came to America in the late 1880's. They all came from Ostgrossefehn
(Ostfrl) Germany. Antje Jannsen Dirks died November 25, 1917 and is
buried next to her daughter Metje in the Union Cemetary, Pomeroy, Iowa.
The plot is in the southeast corner and is a short distance north of the
Dick Dirks family plot.
Antje Dirks married John Heide a widower with six children
John, Peter, Otto, William, Anna and Louise. They lived on a farm west
of Pomeroy. They had a very nice home and were blessed with four more
children, Amelia (Mattie), Lena, Antje Louise (Lizie), and Fritz. John
Heide came from Schewig, Holstein.
Altje Dirks married Sander Assing. They lived on a farm northeast
of Pomeroy. They all had pretty hard sliding. They were a long ways
from Fort Dodge, no cars, no trains, just dirt roads. They either
had to go by foot, horseback, or team of oxen on the lumber wagon. They had
a large family, Dick, Antje, Gertie, Ella, Anna, John, Sander, Bill,
Lizie.
Metje Dirks married a cousin, John Dirks. They lived
on a farm northeast of Pomeroy and raised a family of six, Anna, Hannah,
Hilda, Irene, Jurgen, and Alfred. Her husband John was killed by a
bull. She got hurt trying to help him, but was lucky to
get through the fence and up to the house.
Jurena Dirks married Wenzel Zeman and made their home near
Palmer. They also had a large family. Mary, John, Willie, Albert,
Anna, Alvina, Magie and twin girls Lenie and Minnie. She died at the
age of 80. They were the only couple to celebrate their Golden Wedding
anniversary, that was in 1938.
John Ulfert Dirks was a skipper. He married Johanna Jannsen
Schoon and lived in Germany. They had two daughters Antje and Tena.
Johanna got sick and died and left him with two little girls about 3
and 4 years old. His sister,Mrs Assing
got him to come to America in the late 80's. He stayed with his sister a
while, then he had his sweetheart, Peterje Schoon come over to America.
They got married July 30,1890. He worked for a farmer for a while and then
he got a job at the Blanden farm where all the newcomers got work. also girls
got work there. They had about 20 hired men and 3 or 4 hired girls.
The men slept in the out buildings and some times the bedbugs got so thick
they about carried them away. They had to smoke them out now and then.
One day they were hauling coal and it was icy. He fell and broke his
hip, so he was laid up for a while. It didn't heal right and
his one leg was shorter than the other, so he walked with a cane. In his
family there were thirteen children, Sena, Dick, Lena, Stella, Ella, Hannah,
Rena, Otto, Mattie, Minnie, Mary and the two girls from his first wife Antje
and Tena. The girls all got married quite young. After old man Blanden died
they moved on his sister's farm as she had an empty house that nobody lived
in, it was northeast of Pomeroy. Next one of his sons got married so they
had to move on. They rented a house north of Pomeroy, close to the Swede
church. He had a team of horses so he took care of the cemetary to make a
few dollars, it all helped. Then one of his daughters got them to move
on their farm and they built them a two room house, a kitchen and a
bedroom. There they lived until he died in May 1938.
Antje married Henry Coleman at the age of 15. They had one
son, John and an adopted daughter, Marie. Tena married William Loll and they
had three children, Carl, Fritz and Hanah. Hanah was born
after her dad died. He had a bursted appendix. They operated at home
and made the wrong cut. So she was left with three children. Later
she married Reinhard Roda Maden, that didn't last. Then in 1917 she married
Reinard Benting, he had one daughter, and they moved
to Illinois and then back to Palmer where they farmed a few
years. Then they moved to Minnesota where he died so she was left
alone. Tena died December 31, 1944. Minnie (1904-1910) and Mary
died of diptheria.