Isaak (Isaac) Van Gorkom

"the fourth child of Isaak and Anthonia was called Isaak as well, after his father. This son was born on 10 July 1821. He married in Utrecht Maria Oxenaar on 19 June 1844. Maria was born in Utrecht on 28 November 1825 as the daughter of Johannes Adam Oxenaar and Maria de Ruijter. .."

" On 15 June 1849 Isaak, his wife Maria and two young children arrived in New York on the vessel FRANZILEA and settled down in Pella where another seven children were born. In total, there were four firls and five boys. Some of their grown-up chldren moved around 1870 westwards and settled in Sioux County, in Orange City and Maurice Town. Isaak and Maria and their younger chldren followed them after 1880, according to census records.

Great granddaughter, Blanche Wiederhold describes in the book MAURICE IOWA CENTENNIAL 1891-1991 how a tornado destroyed the house of Isaak on 30 April 1898. Probably this happened in Sherman Township, near Maurice Town. In an attempt to reach the storm cellar, Isaak was pinned and internally hurt. He died a few days afterwards in Maurice Town, Iowa, on 5 May 1898. Maria Oxenaar had died nine years earlier on 16 September 1889, in the same town. All children are mentioned on a separate page dedicated to the American branches of generation x."

this from the website: www.vangorkom.net