Person Sheet


Name Gerrit Jan (John) Ruesink [immigrant] - 7C10
Birth 15 May 1859, Dinxperlo, Netherlands10
Death 8 Sep 1940, Prairie View, Phillips Co., Kansas16
Burial Luctor Cemetery, Prairie View, Phillips Co., Kansas19
Occupation Farmer19
Father Willem Ruesink (1813-1881)
Mother Hendrina Nagel (1822-1874)
Spouses
1 Johanna Gertrude (Anna) Pakkebier [immigrant]16
Birth ca 1866, Aalten, Netherlands16,18
Death 1939, Prairie View, Kansas19
Burial Cemeterry about 1 mile from Luctor CRC19
Father Hendrikus Pakkebier [immigrant] (ca1825-)
Mother Geertruida Albers (ca1830-1867)
Marriage 24 Apr 1886, Prairie View, Kansas19
Children Henry (1887-1960)
William (Will) (1891-1964)
Jennie (ca1895-ca1900)
Gertrude (Gertie) (1896-1982)
Hattie (1903-1993)
Notes for Gerrit Jan (John) Ruesink [immigrant] - 7C
Came to the Greenleafton (Minn.) area from the Netherlands in 1881 at the age of 22 years (R. Wartena says emigrated about 188210 ). Naturalized 15 Jan 1894 in Kansas.19

In Prairie View Twp, Phillips Co, Kansas, in 1910.20

Another source says he died in Douglas Co, South Dakota.19 Name spelled Reusink in 1920 census.11
Notes for Gerrit Jan (John) & Johanna Gertrude (Anna) (Family)
Date of marriage given as 23 Apr 1866 in another source.16
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