Longevity ~ Engel van Zee (92)

Engel van Zee was born on the 17th and baptised on 18 June 1775 in Herwijnen, Gelderland, The Netherlands. He was a younger son of Gerrit (“Geurt”) van Zee (1728-1789) and his wife Jenneke de Fokkert. Most of Engel's ancestors were settled in Herwijnen. The family did not belong to the nobility or aristocracy, but did use a family coat of arms consisting of a double eagle with a background of gold.
On 17 February 1799 in Herwijnen Engel married Engeltje Bijl. She was born on the 17th and baptised on 20 July 1777 in Herwijnen. Her parents are Coenraad Bijl (1756-1830) and Judith de Bruijn (1748-1820).
Engel and Engeltje had 9 surviving children, when Engeltje died on 15 July 1827 in Herwijnen, aged 49.

Which Engel van Zee is depicted here?

In 1847 the schip "Pieter Floris" departed for Baltimore. On board were Engel's son Coenraad van Zee (1813-1891) and his daughter Judith van Zee (1820-1909) with their spouses and children. Engel's son Govert left for Pella in 1853, but he became ill, and was allegedly left on an island to die.
Coenraad van Zee had a son Engel (“Engle”) van Zee, born on 9 October 1841 in Herwijnen, who died on 26 November 1902 in Iowa, aged 61. He, too, could be the Engel van Zee on the picture above.
The elder Engel van Zee died in Herwijnen on 9 June 1868 around 06:00 A.M. If he had lived 8 days longer, he could have celebrated his 93rd birthday.

Engel van Zee died on 9 June 1886 at the age of nearly 93

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, FindAGrave.com, GeldersArchief.nl, FamilySearch.org, Souvenir History of Pella, Iowa, Compiled and Published by The Booster Press, G.A. Stout, Publisher, Pella, Iowa, Genealogie in Herwijnen, E. de Bruijn, Gens Nostra 1998, p. 23-44, see also: Gens Nostra 1970, p. 370-372, Gens Nostra 1974, p. 193-194, Gens Nostra 1976, p. 33-36.

How the DIV tag can disrupt blog formatting

When a new, programmed blog post was automatically posted to my blog, once in a while it happened to mess up the layout of the blog. Strangely, the Archive and Label sections to the right of the blog post, then appeared at the bottom of the blogs.

Recently, I had a newly released blog post that didn't mess up the layout at first, but when I pressed the "Read more »" link, the Archive and Label sections moved to the bottom. Thus, I knew the problem was after the jump-break tag. That section contained a HTML list. Immediately before the list I noticed a

tag. The matching end tag with the slash, however, didn't appear until the very end of the blog post. When I removed both this opening divider tag and its end tag, the Archive and Label sections of the blog page returned to their normal position at the right.

The <div> tag in HTML is a fundamental and versatile element used for grouping and structuring content on a web page. It stands for “division” or “divider”. It is by default a block element, meaning that it takes all available width, and comes with line breaks before and after.
This is the HTML layout:

<div>
<!-- contained content goes here -->
</div>

My impression is that Blogger inserts <div> tags too casually in blog posts.

Further reading: w3schools.com, GeeksForGeeks.org, Elementor.com/blog, Shiksha.com/online-courses.

Jan van der Sluis left Heerenveen for the USA

Jan van der Sluis was born on 18 November 1841 in Heerenveen, Friesland, The Netherlands, as the eldest child of Geert Andries van der Sluis (1819-1890) and Elisabeth Halbes de Vrieze (1820-1886). Jan was named after his paternal grandfather, an earlier Jan van der Sluis (1784-1862) who had been an alderman.

Jan, aged 24, married 21-year-old Jacobina Alma on 12 July 1866 in Menaldumadeel, Friesland. She was born in Menaldumadeel on 4 March 1845. Her parents are Tjeerd Alma (1806-1867) and Geertje Adama (1809-1870).

Jacobina gave birth to her first son, Tjeerd, on 23 June 1867 in Haskerland, Friesland. Two sons named Geert Andries died young, the first as a baby in 1868, the second at the age of 3 on 15 February 1874 in Nijehaske. The couple's fourth son was Hendrik Willem, born in Haskerland on 3 May 1872.

Jan van der Sluis left for the US on 28 June 1877. He settled in St. Paul, Minnesota. On 13 May 1880 he (bigamously) married Elisabeth van Hoven. She gave birth to his child in 1881.
Jacobina Alma acquired a divorce at a district court in Frisia on 20 December 1882. Her son Hendrik Willem became a a pupil at the Military School in Nieuwersluis, and lived with his uncle Hermanu Alma (1839-1915) and his wife^*. Hendrik Willem died at the age of 13 on 11 July 1885 in Ferweradeel, Friesland.

Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad, 29-8-1895

At the age of 150, Jacobina Alma died in Leeuwarden, Friesland, on 18 Augustus 1895.

^* Hermanus Alma and his wife Margrieta Maas (1842-1916) had a daughter Clasina Cornelia Alma (1871-1938) who married Nollius Hajonides van der Meulen who drowned in 1907 when steamship "Berlin" went down.

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, Delpher.nl, AlleFriezen.nl, D. de Vries: "Genealogie Alma, Frysk Genealogysk JIerboekje" 1970, p. 70-97.
For more information on the Alma family, see also: DocPlayer.nl.

Longevity ~ Arie Monster (91) of Pella

The Dutch Monster surname can be either a topographic surname, derived from a place name in South-Holland, or it might refer to a monstrosity.

Arie Monster was born on 17 December 1890 in Pella, Iowa, USA. His parents are Jacob Monster (1853-1899) and his wife Adriana “Jana” Klijn^*, daughter of Arie Klijn and Neeltje Klein. Jacob Monster had always had poor health and died at the age of 45, when Arie was 8 years old.

Registration Card of Arie Monster of Pella

Arie Monster was tall and stout with grey eyes and light blond hair. He married on 19 December 1912 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, Gezenna Schakel, born on 18 August 1889 in Bussey, Iowa. She died, aged 85, on 26 October 1974 in Pella, and was buried at the Oack Wood Cemetery. Arie Monster died on 3 November 1892 at Pella Community Hospital. He was 91 years old. He left no issue.

^* The birth of Adriana “Jana” Klijn is registered at OpenArchieven.nl, FindAGrave.com and WikiTree.com as 11 March 1854 in Nieuwland. However, I've looked up the birth records of March 1854 in Nieuwland at the FamilySearch.org website, and there is no record for Adriana's birth at that date at that place. Neither in Leerdam, nor in Lexmond.

Sources: FindAGrave.com, WieWasWie.nl, FamilySearch.org.