Hendrik Gerrits Schuiteman^{[1, 2]}

1854 - 1940  (86 years)

• Name	Hendrik Gerrits Schuiteman
  Birth	26 Apr 1854	Doornspijk, Elburg, Gelderland, Netherlands
  Gender	Male
  Death	31 Dec 1940	Jamestown Township, Ottawa, Michigan, USA
  Burial	4 Jan 1941	Forest Grove Cemetery, Jamestown Twp, lot 6-2-8
  Person ID	I332	Murrow
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2026

  
  

  Father	Gerrit Hendriks Schuiteman,   b. 18 May 1816, Doornspijk, Elburg, Gelderland, Netherlands d. 15 Oct 1858, Doornspijk, Gelderland, Netherlands (Age 42 years)
  Mother	Grietje Benjamins Eibrink,   b. 16 Jul 1824, Nunspeet, Gelderland, Netherlands d. 29 Jun 1904, Jamestown, Ottawa, Michigan, USA (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	6 May 1848	Doornspijk, Elburg, Gelderland, Netherlands
  Family ID	F102	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 26 Apr 1854 - Doornspijk, Elburg, Gelderland, Netherlands Death - 31 Dec 1940 - Jamestown Township, Ottawa, Michigan, USA Burial - 4 Jan 1941 - Forest Grove Cemetery, Jamestown Twp, lot 6-2-8  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  KNOWN TO THE KAMPS CHILDREN AS 'UNCLE HANK' / 'LITTLE HANK'. Lived in the little red garage (dirt floor) next to the chicken coop on the Gradus Kamps farm, R#1 Byron Center. SINGLE (never married) per his death certificate at age 90; not blood family - a hired man/lodger. Donald Kamps reportedly paid for his burial. GRADUS KAMPS was the informant on his death certificate. Michigan death cert State File 70-5455 (image: kamps/Schuitema-Hendrik-death-cert-1940.jpg): DIED OF A HEART ATTACK WHILE HUNTING on Dec 31, 1940 (per Geraldine Menken Kamps: he didn't come back from hunting and the family went out to look for him) - the certificate shows months of heart disease (under physician care since Jul 19, 1940, last seen alive Dec 30), cause arteriosclerosis with myocarditis. Certificate DOB 'April 15 1850' is the informant's guess; Dutch birth record says 26 Apr 1854. 1940 CENSUS (Jamestown Twp ED 70-31 sheet 10A, enum. Apr 26 1940): enumerated as HEAD OF HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD (dwelling 42B/206), the little red garage counted as a separate dwelling between the Kamps home (205) and Gerald Kamps's place (207); owns home 'O'; occupation OPR (farm operator), industry 'NURSERY FARM' as recorded (family says the Kamps were DAIRY farmers - enumerator's word questioned); no wage/other income; single; lived same place since Apr 1935; naturalized; 0 years of school. Gradus household 1940: Gradus 65, Hendricka/Hattie 55, Rhoda 23 (canning factory), Donald 18 (handyman, State), Mildred 15, Vivian 14. Gerald Kamps (b. Feb 1906) 34, farm operator (census industry 'NURSERY FARM'; family says DAIRY) at dwelling 207. FAMILY (Rob, via Donald Kamps): Donald & Geraldine Kamps added KAMPLAND DAIRY to the home farm in the 1960s - home & store dairy products; bottling plant was the original tool shed converted to a modern dairy plant; prize-winning registered Guernsey cows sold under the GOLDEN GUERNSEY brand. CORRECTION: Rhoda born ~1916-17 (23 in 1940, 13 in 1930), NOT Oct 1907 - baptism-register 'Rimaeth b. Oct 1907' garbled/misattributed.

  
  

• Sources

  [S57] Hermes Agent for Rob Murrow, Extension research reports (Sep 2026), ~/Desktop/genealogy/reports/extension-{dutch,scottish,colonial,ontario,michigan}.md, (8 Sep 2026), Michigan death cert 70-5455 + Forest Grove Cemetery transcription + ancestorspeak.net Schuiteman lineage (Dutch civil records). [S500005] FamilySearch Family Tree, (MyHeritage) (Reliability: 3). Hendrik Gerrits Schuiteman Gender: Male Birth: Apr 24 1854 - Doornspijk, Gelderland, Netherlands Death: Dec 31 1940 - Jamestown Township, Ottawa, Michigan, United States Father: Gerrit Hendriks Schuiteman Brother: Beert Gerrits Schuiteman