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Clara <I>Dykstra</I> Leep

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Clara Dykstra Leep

Birth
Sexbierum, Franekeradeel Municipality, Friesland, Netherlands
Death
27 Jul 1958 (aged 69)
Zeeland, Ottawa County, Michigan, USA
Burial
Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan, USA Add to Map
Plot
GS-209-1
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She is born in December 1888 as Klaske Dijkstra in the country village Sexbierum, in the utter northwestern part of the Dutch northern province of Friesland, daughter of the 28 years aged laborer Sippe Dijkatra and Antje Posthumus.

She emigrated to the USA when she was four years old. She lived in Chicago until moving in 1924 to the Dutch settlement Zeeland in the western part of Michigan.

Clara Dykstra married on 16 December 1909 in Chicago at the age of almost 21 years to the five years older Henry Leep, also born in Friesland, in the country village Sint Annaparochie, not faraway from Sexbierum.

The last 15 years Clara lived in the city of Holland, another Dutch settlement in the western part of Michigan, not faraway from Zeeland. She died there in hospital at the age 69 years.
She is born in December 1888 as Klaske Dijkstra in the country village Sexbierum, in the utter northwestern part of the Dutch northern province of Friesland, daughter of the 28 years aged laborer Sippe Dijkatra and Antje Posthumus.

She emigrated to the USA when she was four years old. She lived in Chicago until moving in 1924 to the Dutch settlement Zeeland in the western part of Michigan.

Clara Dykstra married on 16 December 1909 in Chicago at the age of almost 21 years to the five years older Henry Leep, also born in Friesland, in the country village Sint Annaparochie, not faraway from Sexbierum.

The last 15 years Clara lived in the city of Holland, another Dutch settlement in the western part of Michigan, not faraway from Zeeland. She died there in hospital at the age 69 years.


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  • Maintained by: Peter Hakze
  • Originally Created by: Scout
  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100696422/clara-leep: accessed ), memorial page for Clara Dykstra Leep (26 Dec 1888–27 Jul 1958), Find a Grave Memorial ID 100696422, citing Restlawn Memorial Gardens, Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan, USA; Maintained by Peter Hakze (contributor 47703868).