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Newspaper clipping on the Find A Grave memorial for his wife mentions "came to this country with her husband in 1857 from the Netherlands and by the death of her husband at Paducah, Ky., shortly afterwards"
Poelstra, Anne d. 1861 at Paducah, Ky.; a. 40y.http://kent.migenweb.net/cemeteries/paris/valleycity/ph-pu.html