Christiaan Jan Walvoord (1841-1920)

Christiaan Jan Walvoord Family c.1890

CHRISTIAAN JAN WALVOORD also known as Chris, was born on February 02, 1841 in Winterswijk, Gelderland, Netherlands. He died on February 26, 1920 in Oostburg, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. He married JANNA GERTRUIDA LAMMERS on April 21, 1864 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. She was born on April 10, 1844 in Gelderland, Netherlands. She died on October 01, 1916 in Holland, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA.

Christiaan Jan WALVOORD and Janna Gertruida LAMMERS had the following children:

CENA GEZENA WALVOORD was born on April 05, 1865 in Holland, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. She died on March 12, 1937 in Oostburg, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. She married HENRY TERONDE on January 27, 1886 in Oostburg, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. He was born on August 20, 1862 in Oostburg, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. He died on March 26, 1945 in Oostburg, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA.

DIRK J. WALVOORD was born on October 30, 1866 in Sheboygan, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States. He died on October 30, 1946 in Big Timber, Sweet Grass, Montana, USA. He married CAROLINE CARNES on Unknown date. She was born in 1884. She died on Unknown date.

JOHN BERNARD WALVOORD was born on March 30, 1869 in Holland, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. He died on April 22, 1955. He married JENNIE NYHOF on December 05, 1900 in Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA, daughter of Gerrit NYHOF and Geziena B. TE SEELE. She was born on September 07, 1878 in Winterswijk, Gelderland, Netherlands. She died on September 14, 1956.

DELIA WALVOORD was born on March 16, 1871. She died on Unknown date. She married JOHN KREUNEN on Unknown date. He was born on Unknown date. He died on Unknown date.

JENNIE WALVOORDwas born on July 10, 1875. She died on July 04, 1942. She married EDWARD B. HARMELING on October 28, 1895 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. He was born on Unknown date. He died on Unknown date.

Windmill Memories by William C. Walvoord was published in 1979 and tells the story of pioneer life of the Christiaan Jan Walvoord Family in Oostburg, Wisconsin in the late 1840s.

WILLIAM C. WALVOORD was born in December 1883 in Wisconsin. He died on October 12, 1958 in Pultneyville, Wayne, New York, USA. He married JOHANNA W. RENSKERS on June 29, 1911 in Cedar Grove, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA, daughter of John RENSKERS and Julia VOSKIUL. She was born on October 16, 1886 in Wisconsin, USA. She died after 1958.

Sheboygan County Landmarks Ltd. granted status to the Christiaan Walvoord home in 1995

In 1883, Christiaan Walvoord built a farmhouse near Oostburg, Wisconsin out of “Cream City” brick.  It occupies a site once held by Gert Hendrick TeKolste who settled in the area in 1846.  Some accounts name TeKolste as the first settler in the Township of Holland.  Gert sold a portion of his 600-acre holding to Chris’ father J.D. Walvoord.

The Christiaan Walvoord Farmhouse as it appeared in 1995. David Randall Walvoord is pictured to the left, and Randall Allen Walvoord (of the Walvoord Berry Farm) is pictured to the right.

The brick is set three-thick for the lower floor while the upper floor has a two-brick thickness.  Family members recall that approximately 55,000 bricks were used to build the home.  The home is located on Smies Road, west of Sauk Trail and just a short distance from the Oostburg Cemetery.  Landmark status was granted on the home 1995 when the house was 102-years old.  At the time it was one of the few farmhouses in Wisconsin occupied by the same family (five generations) for over a 100-years.