VandenBos, Dirk 1835-1917 & Johanna De Velder Family

VANDENBOS, DEVELDER, VANMAREL, VERSTEEG, VERDUIN

Posted By: Wilma J. VandeBerg -volunteer (email)
Date: 2/10/2025 at 05:53:20

VandenBos, Dirk 1835-1917 Johanna De Velder family

This biography of the Dirk Vanden Bos family was composed by Wilma J. Vande Berg of the Greater Sioux County Genealogical Society. The narrative was made from various sources including records from the web site www.iagenweb.org/sioux ; family reports and vitals collected from ancestry.com records and public member trees, Find A Grave index and various local archives, books and publications.

Disclaimer: Names, dates and places may very form one source to another, but have been stated in this biography as presented in the source. Family data taken from ancestry.com public member trees is subject to the accuracy of the submitter of data to ancestry.com and was not verified by this submitter. Information was cross checked from other sources where possible. Sometimes facts may get clouded as information passes down the generations. The sources for information on the Oregon Wagon Train were passed on to the author of the book ‘Story of Sioux County’ by Charles Dyke in personal interviews in 1939 with grandchildren of the some of the families in the movement, published in 1942.

Dirk Vanden Bos family may have been involved in a Wagon Train that left Pella Iowa in 1864 and six months later arrived in Oregon after a grueling over land trip enduring many hardships. Our web page www.iagenweb.org/sioux has set up a page with accounts of that journey. See ‘Onsite Resources’ go to Biographies ‘Wagons Ho’ the 1864-1870 Oregon Trail, to read about this family who may have and others who experienced the wagon trip as well as the later migration 1870 from Pella that led to Sioux County Iowa. In the book Sioux County History, there are actual transcriptions of vivid accounts of the Oregon Trail experience on pages 402-414 and pages 429-430. In the page 429-430 it mentions “in the group were families of Leendert Van Der Meer, Dirk Van Den Bos, C. Newendorp, Dirk Van Der Meer, Lutje Mars, Wopke De Haan and Hannes Klein. (Therefore, it has can assumed that Dirk Vanden Bos family traveled with the Oregon Wagon Train).

HOWEVER, upon acquiring information on the children of Dirk Vanden Bos, as is later pointed out in this narrative, there are claims that the children were all born in Iowa during the period 1864-1870. Was that a later assumption by the family? Find a Grave Index sources also claim no children were born in OR 1864-1869. Also, upon searching the 1880 census of Sioux County the children that were born in that time period indicate born in Iowa. One record stated a child was born 1866 in SD which was certainly an error. Often birth places are assumed incorrectly in later years. Did the family get to Oregon, then were disenchanted and returned to Iowa shortly after arriving in Oregon, by means of railroads having been newly built during that time?

If anyone reading this BIOS has family records that can substantiate and reveal the true story of involvement of Dirk Van Den Bos family in the Oregon Trail experience, please contact our page coordinator to add the information. www.iagenweb.org/sioux

In 1869-1870 Dirk Vanden Bos was among the leaders of the Wagon trains that settled the Orange City area of Sioux county. In the Orange City Centennial book 1870-1970 page 8, ‘Sixty wagon made up the third wagon train to Sioux county , which was headed by Leendert Vander Meer and Dirk Vanden Bos’ .

RESEARCH Notes Time Line -
-1849 came to America, Pella Souvenur Book page 55, arrived fall of 1849: Van Den Bos, Cornelus, Mrs. C., Cornelus Jr., Dirk, and Antje.
-1850 Census of Marion County IA. Dirk VanderBush (Vanden Bos) was 15 yrs, born 1835 Holland, lived in Marion Co. IA., His father Cornelius Vander Bush 60, siblings named.
-1854, Nov 16, 1854 Dirk Van Den Bos married Johanna Christina Ouskina De Velder 1835-1900.
-1860 Census of Lake Prairie Marion Co. IA Dirk Vanden Bos was 25 yrs, born abt 1835, Netherlands, wife Johanna 24 yrs, son Cornelis 10 mo.
1864 – 1869 Time period no census or public vital records found.
-1870 census, couldn’t find family as they were possibly traveling by wagon train from Pella IA to Sioux County IA.
-1880 Census of Holland Township Sioux County IA. Dirk Vanden Bos 45, Johanna 44, Cornelis 20 born IA, John 18 born IA , Mary 13 born IA , Janie 11 born IA , William 8 born IA , Jacob 6 born IA , Isaac 3 born IA. (All claim birth place as IA)
-1900 Census of Holland, Douglas County SD, D. Vanden Bos age 65, born Mary 1835 Holland, lived in Holland Douglas County SD with son Cornelis’s family , immigrated in 1849, widowed, a farmer
-1902 Dirk Vanden Bos married Dingena VerSteeg Verduin July 25, 1902 Sioux County IA.

FAMILY RESEARCH From www.wiewaswie.nl , Find A Grave Index, Ancestry.com vitals records and public member trees submitted by other than this submitter.

Dirk Van Den Bos was born 7 May 1835 Zoetermeer, Zuid Holland, Netherlands died 1 May 1917 Sioux County IA. His parents were Cornelius Van Den Bos 1790-1860 and Adriana Van De Marel 1803-1860. Dirk married Johanna Catharina De Velder 15 Nov 1854 Marion County IA, who was the mother of his children. After the death of Johanna, Dirk married Dingena Versteeg Verduin 25 Jul 1902 in Sioux County.

Johanna Catharina De Velder born 28 Dec 1835 Bergschenhoek, Zuid Holland, Netherlands died 8 Feb 1900 Harrison, South Dakota. Her parents were Jan de Velder 1806-1916 and Maria Van Den Bos 1810-1883.

CHILDREN of Dirk and Johanna VandenBos. Found on Find a Grave and Ancestry.com public member trees submitted by other than this submitter subject to errors.

1. Adrianna Vanden Bos born 1855 died 1855 Marion County IA.

2.Cornelius Vanden Bos born 21 Sep 1859 Marion County IA died 3 Mar 1937 Lake View SD. He married Aaltje Alice Brinks 1882-1937. They had children – Dirk Vanden Bos 1882-1883, Derick Vanden Bos 1882-1957, Johanna C. Vanden Bos 1884-1953, Dirk Dick Cornelius Vanden Bos 1886-1967, Jantje Jennie 1889-1971, Roelof Ralph Vanden Bos 1893-1960, Marie Vanden Bos 1894-1973, Hendrik J. Vanden Bos 1897-1988, Harry Vanden Bos 1898-1977, John Vanden Bos 1899-1983, William Vanden Bos 1902-1959, Cornelius Vanden Bos 1904-1970, Adrian Jacob VandenBos 1908-1947

3.John Vanden Bos born 23 Apr 1864 Marion Co. IA died 17 Oct 1932 Douglas County SD He married Ella Aardappel 1870-1945. Their children were – Dirk Vanden Bos 1889-1943, William J. Vanden Bos 1891-1988, Cornelius John Vanden Bos 1894-1941, Walter Seymour Vanden Bos 1898-1990, John Clarnece Vanden Bos 1904-1983.

4. Maria Vanden Bos Van Roekel born Nov 1866 at Sioux County IA (error) died 1 Apr 1893 Douglas County SD. She married Albertus Bart Van Roekel died 1932. One son listed as Jan Van Roekel born 1893. (Maria was not born in Sioux county as not settled in 1866)

5. Adrianna Janie Vanden Bos Van den Brink born 11 Mar 1869 Alton Sioux County IA died 8 Sep 1944 San Joaquin County CA. Her husband was Bernardus Brink 1869-1950. Children not in birth order – Cornelius Adrinus Brink 1903-1979, Bernard Brink 1915-1975 , John Brink 1900-1958 , Dirk Bos Brink 1898-1968 , Cornelia Brink Eckhoff 1906-1977, Maria Brink Pranger 1894-1979, Johanna Christina Brink Wever 1892-1971, and Sebia Maria Brink Pranger 1896-1979

6. William Vanden Bos born 1 Jan 1872 Iowa died 16 Oct 1947 Mitchell, SD, He married Margareth Josiena Boer 1873-1958. Children – Johanna Vanden Bos 1895-1973, Jennie Vanden Bos 1897-1965, Henry Vanden Bos 1897, Marie Vanden Bos 1898-1918, Hermina Vanden Bos 1900-1900, Dick Vanden Bos 1901-1958, Adrianna Vanden Bos 1904-1966, Ada Vanden Bos 1905, John J. Vanden Bos 1907-1988, Benjamin Vande Bos 1909-1980, Fred Leo Vanden Bos 1912-1999, Lawrence Peter Vanden Bos 1913-2001, Margaret Vanden Bos 1916.

7.Jacob Vanden Bos born 16 May 1873 Sioux County IA died 1 Jul 1937 Douglas County SD. He married Hattie Bultje. Children Dirk R. Vanden Bos 1900-1971, Henry G. Vanden Bos 1907-1980

8. Issac Vanden Bos born 7 Aug 1876 Orange City IA died 19 Aug 1952 Eugene OR. He married Katie Belle Bruyn 1882-1948. Their children were – Clifford Harold Vanden Bos 1908-1969, Mable Rose Vanden Bos 1916-2004, Elmer Deyo Vanden Bos 1918-1969 and Forrest Ervin Vanden Bos 1920-2000.

OBITUARY of Dirk Vanden Bos 1835-1917
Sioux Center Nieuwsblad of May 2, 1917 In Dutch Translated:
Tuesday died here in the blessed old age of 81 years, 10 months and 24 days Mr. D. Van den Bos. This afternoon at 2 o'clock a service is held in the Chr. Reformed Church of which the deceased was a member, after which the remains will be transported to Harrison, SD., and buried there.
Mr. D. Van den Bos was born in 1836, in South Holland, the Netherlands, and came to America with his parents at the age of 14, where they settled in Pella. He lived here for 20 years and operated a sawmill for part of that time. He was one of the first to settle Sioux Co. Later he had a hardware store in Orange City. He was one of the pioneers of the Holland colony in Douglas Co. SD., Where he was postmaster at Harrison, and where he lived for 20 years. Here his first wife Johanna De Velder died, with whom he was married in Pella, she was a sister of Mrs. Johannes Klein here and their marriage was very happy. Then he came to Sioux Center, where he married the widow Verduyn 15 years ago, who was about his age. The two oldies had a very happy married life here, and although they had not imposed any treasures, they had enough for a carefree old man to be happy and contented, and that is, after all, the true wealth. His children lose in him a life having a father and his already 82 year old widow a loved one true friend.

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