Teunis Klootwyk (1865-1938) and his wives

Teunis (“Tunis”) Klootwyk was born on 11 August 1865 in Pella, Iowa. He is one of two sons of Johannes Klootwijk and his first wife Gezenna Maria Mathilda Krijnders. Johannes Klootwijk was born on 10 December 1836 in Kedichem in The Netherlands, as a son of an earlier Teunis Klootwijk whose 18th-century ancestors were living in Dussen in The Netherlands.
In the USA Johannes was known as "John". He married his second wife in Pella on 20 March 1879, when his eldest son Teunis was 13 years old. John Klootwijk lived to the old age of 80, and died on 16 November 1917 in Pella.

Pella, Iowa

Teunis Klootwyk married his first wife Mary de Bond on 18 December 1888. They had 7 sons in the period 1889-1902^*. Mary died, aged 34, on 13 May 1870 in Pella.

De Grondwet (newspaper), 1-11-1904

Teunis married his second wife Neeltje (“Nellie”) Toll on 29 Noember 1906 in Pella. Nellie was born on 13 july 1880 in Barendrecht, Holland. Her parents are Arie Tol (1834-19150 and his fourth wife Arendje Zevenbergen (1849-1919). Nellie arrived in the USA with her parents at the age of seventien. Her first husband was Everett van Engelenhoven (1872-1904).
In Washington Township, Iowa, Nellie and Teunis had two sons - Ira Nelson (1908-2000) and Nelson Tunis (1911-1991) - and a baby who lived for just four weeks. Nellie died on 7 September 1911, nine weeks after the birth of her youngest child.

In 1916 Teunis married his fourth wife Minnie or Jennie van Steenis. She was born on 19 February 1879 in Pella and died on 14 October 1920 in Melcher-Dallas, Iowa. She had earlier been married in 1889 to Philip Schmidt (1851-1915).

Between the death of his third wife in 1920 and his marriage to Mary Verheul in 1928, Teunis may have married another wife with the surname Schaft. 

Teunis Klootwyk married his last wife Mary Verheul in the summer of 1928. Mary was born in 1869. In 1891 she had married Rein Terpstra. He was likely born on 10-8-1859 in Rotterdam as son of Rein senior and his wife Jacoba Louisa Aletta Nijhoff. Rein junior died in 1927. Teunis Klootwyk died on 4 June 1938 in Knoxville, Iowa. Mary Verheul survived him until 1943.

^* Teunis' sons with his first two wives are enumerated on both the websites Klootwijk.net and FindAGrave.com.

Sources: Klootwijk.net, FindAGrave.com, WieWasWie.nl, StadsArchief.rotterdam.nl, Delpher.nl.