Johannes Hartman (1848 - 1923)

Born 22 Dec 1848 in Oude Tonge, island of Goeree en Overflakkee, Zuid Holland, Netherlands

Husband of Marijtje (Kooijman) Hartman — married 10 Nov 1871 in Oude Tonge, island of Goeree en Overflakkee, Zuid Holland, Netherlands

Descendants

Died 29 Mar 1923 at age 74 in Oude Tonge, island of Goeree en Overflakkee, Zuid Holland, Netherlands

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Biography

Johannes was born to Hugo Hartman and Suzanna Van Wezel, December 22, 1848 in Oude Tonge on the Island of Goeree en Overflakke, the Netherlands. ^[1][2] He was the second child named Johannes, the first child having died a little over a year earlier at about 4 months old. He grew to young manhood in that town, and when he was 22 years old, he married October 11, 1971, Marijtje Kooijman, born at Oude Tonge, February 3, 1849, the daughter of Bastiaan Kooijman and Anna Dolk. ^[3][4] John and Marijtje had one child, Hugo, born August 1, 1872. Marijtje died August 23, 1872, in Oude Tonge, and five days later, August 28th, the infant son Hugo died. A son, William, said that his father had a brother who also lived in Oude Tonge, but was not known to William.

Sometime after the death of his wife and child, Johannes moved to Dirksland and there on October 23, 1874, married Elizabeth Hof. Johannes was first a laborer and diker, and later he became a sugar beet broker. Sugar beets were a major crop in the western part of North Brabant Province. He spoke copy book Dutch. William recalled that his parents celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in the summer and that there was a band. William was 12 years old at the time.

At the urging of his daughter, Jennie, who had emigrated to America in 1895, and had settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he decided to leave Holland because of religious oppression. Johannes along with a son, emigrated to the United State in 1902, The manifest of the ship, Ryndam, gave both names as Jan Hartmann, and arrived at Ellis Island on June 2, 1902, with the help of money supplied by Johannes' son-in-law, Emil Tietz. Elizabeth followed, arriving on the Ryndam on July 6th with the rest of the children, except Hugo. John was 54 and his wife, Elizabeth, was 48 years old. Hugo was serving in the Dutch army at the time of his parents' emigration, and came to America, along with his wife, in 1904, with money supplied by his father.

Johannes became known as John, and all of John's children remained in Milwaukee or Wauwatosa, except Jennie, who later settled in Mauston, Wisconsin. Occasionally, Jennie would take her children to Milwaukee to visit her parents and siblings. Stella, in relating information in a taped conversation in October, 1999, said that the grandchildren called their grandfather, Opa.

John died in 1923 in Milwaukee, his wife having died in 1920. Both are buried in Union Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the same family plot that their daughter, Jennie, had purchased when her first husband, Emil Tietz, died in 1904.

Sources

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Birth - Index record at WieWasWie
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Birth - Image of certificate: "Netherlands, Zuid-Holland Province, Civil Registration, 1679-1942," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XSS9-6L7?cc=1576401&wc=9PGT-GPD%3A114023201%2C112924102 : 8 July 2014), Oude-Tonge > Geboorten 1843-1854 > image 152 of 333; Nationaal Archief, Den Haag (National Archives, The Hague.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Marriage - Index record at WieWasWie
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Marriage - Image of certificate: "Netherlands, Zuid-Holland Province, Civil Registration, 1679-1942," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-YS8B-P8R?cc=1576401&wc=9PJ3-VZ3%3A114023201%2C108792601 : 8 July 2014), Oude-Tonge > Huwelijken 1869-1882 > image 51 of 207; Nationaal Archief, Den Haag (National Archives, The Hague).

• Written from information left by son, William Hartman, in 1969; information left by a granddaughter, Pearl Tietz Beckman Sand, in the 1970s; information left by a granddaughter, Estella Beckman Barnwell, in a taped conversation in 1999; information related by Jennie Hartman Beckman to her granddaughter, Jeanne Sand Wingert and from Jeanne's research; and from information supplied by a great grandson, Howard Beckman.