Pedigree
Johannes W. Hendrickx
Johannes A. H. Hendrickx
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Maria J. Brouwers
Hendrickx, Louis Joseph
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Jacobus James Timmermans
Maria M. Timmermans
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Petronella Peeters
Born:
24 September 1895
Venlo, Province of Limburg, The Netherlands (Holland)
Died: 17 August
1964
Perham, Minnesota
Buried: 20 August 1964
St. Stanislaus Cemetery, Perham, Minnesota
Father: Johannes
Antonius Hubertus Hendrickx
Mother: Maria Margaretha
Timmermans
Siblings: Jacques Antoine
b. 11 June 1890 - d. 19 July 1955
Anna Petronella
b. 1 June 1891 - d. 18 February 1975
Maria Antoinette
b. 7 November 1892 - d. 21 March 1972
Josephine Barbara b.
5 March 1894 - d. 4 July 1974
Emilia Brigitta
b. 8 April 1897 - d. 8 December 1973
Clara Maria
b. 15 August 1898 - d. 26 June 1899
Matilde Aldegonda b. 26 February
1900 - d. 21 January 1970
Male (stillborn)
b. & d. 18 September 1901
Pierre Gerard
b. 18 September 1902 - d. 2 May 1969
Frans Coenraad
b. 1 April 1904 - 10 May 1913
Spouse: Julianna
Jacoba Dousi
Married: 20 November 1919
Holy Cross Catholic Church, Butler, Minnesota
Children: Francis
Joseph b.
12 January 1921 - d. 8 July 1996
Maria Johanna
b. 19 February 1922 -
Joseph James
b. 4 May 1923 - d. 14 November 1999
John Anthony
b. 17 November 1924 - d. 1 January 1990
Norbert Peter
b. 18 May 1926 - d. 14 November 1987
Anna Theodora
b. 13 January 1928 - d. 30
March 1982
Christine Petronella
b. 29 January 1929 -
William Marinus
b. 31 May 1930 - d. 27 May 1996
Louis Adrian
b. 29 December 1931 -
Andrew George
b. 14 July 1933 -
Clara Josephine
b. 16 July 1935 -
Petronella Odelia
b. 16 July 1935 -
Notes:
On 20 March 1910, 14 year old Louis arrived in the United States from
The Netherlands.
He had traveled with his parents and siblings on board the steamship
Megantic. The family
was a part of an 84 member colony of Hollanders heading for the
New York Mills / Butler
Township area of western Minnesota. This group of settlers
was gathered by the Minnesota
Catholic Colonization Society and constituted the first settlement
organized by the society.
The family settled and established a farm in
Butler Township, Minnesota. In addition to his
regular chores on the farm, Louis hauled the cream approximately
15 miles to the New York
Mills Creamery. He made two trips a week in the winter and
three in the summer. Eventually,
a cream drop-off station was established nearer to the farm in
the small town of Butler. Louis
ran the station until it closed.
After their marriage, Louis and Juliana purchased
a 200 acre farm in section 9 of Butler
Township. In addition to farming, Louis was a skilled carpenter
and woodworker. He built
every building on his farm and made wooden toys for his children.
He was a partner with
of his brothers, Jacques and Pierre, in ownership of the Butler
Cement Block Works, which
was located by a gravel pit near Louis' farm. The business
started in the 1920's and operated
into the 1940's. Louis built silos and the walls of barns
out of the cement blocks produced
by the company and also laid brick for chimneys in houses.
Louis played violin and sang in the Holy Cross Church choir and
later at St. Stanislaus Church
in Perham, Minnesota, where he and Juliana attended after they retired.
He was a member of
the township board and an election judge. He was an officer
for the school board and was
elected clerk of the Butler School District in July of 1929. He
was partially responsible for the
building of the new school in 1938.
Louis and Juliana retired from their farm in November of 1953. They
sold the farm to their son
John, and the farm machinery and personal property to their son
Norb. They moved into a
house Louis built in the nearby town of Perham. He house is
located at 144 5th Street, NW.
After the deaths of Louis and Juliana, the house was sold,
but is now back in the family after
being purchased in 2001 by grandson, Mark Hendrickx.
Louis continued doing carpentry work while living in Perham,
and it was while working he
suffered a fatal heart attack. The offical cause of his
death is listed as coronary occlusion.
Photos:
Louis Hendrickx - First Communion - May 1907.
20 November 1919 - Louis and Julianna Hendrickx (middle two) on their
wedding day.
Louis' best man, bother Peter, and maid of honor, Julianna's sister,
Minnie Dousi are
pictured with them.
Louis and Julianna Hendrickx (seated) and their 12 children - circa
1936.
Julianna and Louis Hendrickx - circa 1944.
26 July 1947 - Louis and Julianna Hendrickx with Margaret and
Raymond Mulhern
at the wedding reception of their children, Anna Hendrickx and Maurice
Mulhern.
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