Person talk:Antonie Bot (1)

[17 September 2012]

Anthony [Antoine/Antonie] Bottje I [1825-1907] Born in Groningen, Netherlands, on November 14, 1825, Anthony Bottje in 1853 came to America on board the South Carolina, went to Chicago, and set sail on the schooner Pioneer, bound for Grand Haven. Gerrit Gringhuis I sailed with him. Anthony opened a dry goods and grocery store at 106 Washington, in a building previously occupied by the Ester Price Clothing Company. Anthony‟s store sold flour, buttons, boots, thread, and whiskey at $1.25 a gallon—as long as the customer provided his own container. Anthony was a member of the First Reformed Church. On December 6, 1851 Anthony married Henrietta [Anna] Gringhuis, who was born December 19, 1827 and died April 18, 1894. Gerrit Gringhuis was her brother. Their children were Antoine II, who died October 15, 1952 in Kenosha, Wisconsin; Gerrit A., who was born in 1854 and died June 5, 1942; Derek [Dick], who was born in 1856 and died on February 5, 1910; Henrietta [Henrikje], who was born about 1858 and in 1882 married John [Jan] Roossien of Grand Haven; Harmon, born in 1859; John, born in September, 1861; Peter, who lived from September 13, 1863 to July 16, 1930; Sena, who was born in June, 1866 and died in July, 1933; Anna, Sena‟s twin, who was Assistant Register of Deeds and died on April 25, 1945; and Jennie, who lived from July 16, 1869 to January 25, 1940. Peter was “crippled” since childhood and after his parents‟ death was closely confined to the family home at 115 South Fifth Street, which he shared with three sisters and his nephew, Frank, who was County Register of Deeds. Anthony died in Grand Haven on October 17, 1907 and was buried at Lake Forest Cemetery. [Tribune obituaries, October 17, 1907 and July 17, 1930.]--henk 07:31, 17 September 2012 (EDT)