A copy of the following obit was copied to me without the source, but would
have been in a paper published in or near Nokomis, Illinois:

_Died._

On Monday, June 28 [1915].  Mrs. Trientje Brakenhoff, aged 73 years, 11
months and 24 days.

Mrs. Brakenhoff, nee Trientje Arkebauer, was born July 4, 1841 in
Neufirrel, Ostfriesland, Germany and accompanied her parents to this
country when but four years of age.  The trans-oceanic trip was made in a
sailing vessel and occupied a period of three months.  The family first
settled, in this state, where the deceased grew to womanhood.  In 1858 she
was married in Staunton to George Brakenhoff.  About nine years later she,
with her husband, moved to this vicinity settling on a farm four and
three-fourths miles west of this city where they resided many years.  To
the above mentioned union were born fourteen children, six, with the father
preceding the mother in death.  Those surviving are Mrs. Oltman Brakenhoff,
Eilert, John and Robert of this city; Mrs. John Slaughter, residing
northwest of here; Henry Brakenhoff, of northwest of town; Mrs. Andrew
Pereboom, of Burke, South Dakota, and Garrelt Brakenhoff, of San Diego,
California.  Besides these she leaves one brother, Harm Arkebauer, who is
at present ill in the hospital of the Soldiers' Home in Quincy, twenty-one
grandchildren, besides many friends to cherish her memory.  Some few years
after the death of her husband in 1898, she moved to this city, having
purchased a residence on North Spruce street where she lived until called
by the Death Angel last Monday morning.  Her illness (neuralgia) was of but
short duration and her death most sudden and unexpected.

The funeral services were held at the Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran
church in this city by Rev. E. E. Gade, the pastor, Wednesday afternoon at
one o'oclock after which the cortege proceeded to the German Lutheran
church northwest of town, where a short service was conducted by Revs. Gade
and Theo. Harman [last two lines are illegible].




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