Wayne Geurink Family

Generations: Great Great Grandfather, Arent, migrated to the U.S. from the Netherlands in 1847. Hermina Oonk survived the wreck of the ship Phoenix in Lake Michigan, several miles off the coast of Wisconsin near the present city of Sheboygan to become his future wife, and my Great Great Grandmother. They married in 1854 and settled on an 80 acre homestead in an area that appears to now be part of downtown Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Arent and Hermina migrated from the Province of Gelderland, Netherlands.

Great Grandfather Henry John Geurink lived, and farmed, in Ringle Wisconsin, about 20 miles East of Wausau, from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s. Below he is taking a break in the field with Grandmother, Willie, and Grandfather, Jesse, Geurink.

Note - All dates are guesses.

Henry John, Wilhelmina, and Jesse take a break while making hay

 Making Hay - Taking a Break
circa 1950
L - R
Henry John Geurink
Wilhelmina Geurink
Jesse Geurink

 Here Henry and Effie pose with their family in front of their farm home near Ringle. 

Henry J. Geurink Family  
Early 1900s 
Henry John Geurink 
Wife Effie 
Sons John, Jesse, Elmer and Hilbert 
Daughters Clara, Ruth and Ora
 

This is an aerial view of Grandpa Jesse Geurink's farm 15 miles East of Wausau, next to the
Eau Claire River in Ringle, Wisconsin. Pictured are house, garage, milkhouse, and barn.

Jesse Geurink Farm  
View is looking Northwest 
River is along West edge of the farm property. 
Marathon County Highway N runs East and West diagonally along the bottom of the picture. 
 
 

 
 
  Daughter Nell (Kristin Nell) poses with a giant apple near Eagle River, WI
while on a camping trip to Northern Wisconsin during the summer of 1997.
 
Son Josh meets mother at O'Hare Airport, Chicago, IL, as he exits the plane on his return trip from a summer, 1995, archeological dig on a site near ancient Carthage in Tunisia. Obviously mother and son are happy to see each other.
 
 
Judy is looking for some devine guidance. No doubt a reaction to something I said.
Our guard cat, Crash, looks over her back yard domain. Here she's riveted on movement back in the trees. A mouse? Squirrel? Rabbit? Maybe a deer.
Here I'm playing with a photo by superimposing a picture of me walking in the background while I'm in my wheel chair with Judy and Nell behind me in our back yard.