Person Sheet


Name Willemina Berendina (Mina or Minnie) Harbers [immigrant]
Birth 30 Jan 1852, Dinxperlo, Netherlands4
Death 7 Feb 1921, Prairie View, Phillips Co., Kansas4
Burial Luctor Cemetery9,4
Father Berend Harbers [immigrant] (ca1825->1889)
Mother Theodora Apenhorst [immigrant] (ca1829->1889)
Spouses
1 Gerrit Willem Ruesink [immigrant] - 7A10
Birth 16 May 1845, Dinxperlo, Netherlands10
Death 10 Apr 1889, Greenleafton, Fillmore Co., Minn.4
Burial Greenleafton S. Cemetry, Preston, Minn.
Occupation Clog maker10
Father Willem Ruesink (1813-1881)
Mother Hendrina Nagel (1822-1874)
Marriage ca 18744
Children Hendrik Willem (Henry William) (1875-1952)
Dora Berendina (1877-1962)
Gerrit Jan Derk Willem (John G.) (1881-1962)
Gerrit J. (1886-1968)
Minnie (1888->1962)
Notes for Willemina Berendina (Mina or Minnie) Harbers [immigrant]
Emigrated from house number 461 in De Heurne to America with husband (Gerrit Willem Ruesink), 2 daughters & son about 1882.10 One source says they arrived in New York 25 May 1883.4 After her husband died in 1889, in the fall of that year she and her five children moved to Prairie View, Kansas.4
Notes for Gerrit Willem (Spouse 1)
Emigrated from house number 461 in De Heurne to America with wife (Hermina Berendina Harbers), 2 daughters & son about 1882.10 One source says they arrived in New York 25 May 1883.4 According to his grandson Erwin, Gerrit Willem is buried in an unmarked grave in the small Presbyterian cemetery south ca. 0.5 mile S. of Greenleafton. His family was very poor and could not afford a stone, and now the exact location is forgotten.
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