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Swierenga Family Genealogy [12 February 2016]
- Hendrik (Henry), born Nov. 3, 1860 at Stedum, who married his stepsister Dora Sietsma on Mar. 31, 1883, had 10 children, and died in Chicago on May 8, 1942 at 80 years of age.
- Dora died in Chicago on Aug. 19, 1936. Six of Henry and Dora's ten children were Fred, Annie (Mrs. Jake Molter), Cornelius married to Theresa Wierenga who had two children, Effie Swierenga, :Alice (Mrs. Pete Doornbos), and a son of Dora by her first marriage, Rynie Sietsema, married Jennie, died in Cicero.
- According to the 1885 Chicago City Directory, Henry was a varnisher living at 457 South Wood Street.
- He served as a deacon in the First Christian Reformed Church of Chicago, according to the Church's seventy-fifth anniversary booklet of l942.
- In 1928, Polk's Chicago Directory gives the family's address as 928 South Wood Street.--henk 09:10, 11 February 2016 (UTC)
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