Volume 18 , Issue 19

Walking With Sweet Silly Sadie

This weeks OkieLegacy Ezine/Tabloid is donated to our maternal family lineage of KOUWENHOVEN because NW Okie is searching for connections of John A. Kouwenhoven, who published a history and pictorial book, "Adventures In America" in 1938.


Kouwenhoven Burial Rites For Sarah E. Van Wyck Kouwenhoven
Found on Newspapers.com

Descendant of early Dutch settlers died suddenly after three day illness. Services for Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Kouwenhoven, 89, related by descent and marriage to the early Dutch settlers of Flatlands, would be held 24 October 1932, Monday, afternoon at her home, 1110 Ocean Avenue. (as quoted from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, dated 23 October 1932, Sunday, page 6.)

Death came suddenly Saturday after only three days of serious illness caused by complications of old age. She would have been 90 next January (1912).

As Sarah Van Wyck, the daughter of Theodore and Jennie Rumsen Van Wyck, she married the late John B. Kouwenhoven in 1864. For nearly 50 years they lived on the old family homestead on Kouwenhoven Place, later moving to 2 Remsen Place, where they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 1924. Mr. Kouwenhoven died January 27, 1926.

Services would be conducted by the Rev. Dr. Charles Roeder, pastor of the Flatlands Reformed Church, of which Mrs. Kouwenhoven was the oldest living member. Until recent years she was active in the women's activities of the church, belonging to the Missionary Society and the Needlework Guild. Burial would be in Greenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Kouwenhoven was survived by a daughter, Mrs. William H. Kouwenhoven; a son George K. Kouwenhoven; four grandchildren, Mrs. George C. Henckel, Mrs. Lindsley F. Kimball, Miss Lucretia Kouwenhoven, and William W. Kouwenhoven, and four great grandchildren.

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