GYSBERT VAN HOUWELINGEN Born January 2, 1813, at Niewland, Netherlands. His wife, Margie Kappetyn van Houwelingen, was born at Binschap, Netherlands, March ti, 1813. Mr. and Mrs. van Houwelingen came to America on the ship Maastrom in 1847 and arrived in this place in the fall of that year. Mr. van Houwelingen started the first dairy and butcher shop that Pella ever had and conducted the business for the first eight years. In the fall of 1853 they moved onto a farm southwest of town, where they remained until Mr. van Houwelingen died, on November 12, 1874. GYSRERT VAN HOUWELINGEN CHARLES RENAUD Was born in France, December 29, 1825. With others of the Renaud family he came to America and settled near Pella in 1860. Those who knew him during the years that he lived in this vicinity remember him as a man of warm heart and generous impulses, a good neighbor who was always ready and willing to help in time of need, and his death was recognized as a great loss to the community. He died March 1, 1908. CHARLES RENAUD GEHRIT NOLLEN GERRIT NOLLEN Was born in Diedam, Province of Gelderland, Holland, March 6, 1830. In 1854 he came to Pella with his parents and after a year in town the family moved to the farm. He lived in Pella until the beginning of the Civil war, when he took up his residence in Keokuk, then one of the leading cities of Iowa. Here he followed his chosen profession of landscape and portrait artist. Later he came back to Pella and engaged in the same line of work. In 1873 he was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude Kramer. He was an artist of unusual ability and in addition to doing art work he taught a number of pupils. He was a man of earnest religious convictions and blameless life. He died in Pella on the 1st day of April, 1901.