General Notes

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BIOGRAPHY
NOTE:  Ubbe and Janna Beving came to America in 1864, spendi ng a few
years near Freeport, Illinois and later moving to a farm near Cleves,
Iowa.  Jan and Gepke left Germany on 14 April 1866, spending six weeks
on th e ocean, and making their home with Ubbe.  Jan worked In Illinois
for several years, later coming to Ackley, Iowa and settling on a
place near Wellsburg. Dirk and Trientje Beving emigrated to America
in the spring of 1867 with their three youngest children.  In May of
that year, they arrived at Forreston, Ill inois when Dirk was 18 years
of age.  This is also the same community that the Jakob Smidt family
had come to in the autumn of 1856.
The next spring, in 18 68, they moved to Iowa, as did the Smidt
family not long after.  There is no r ecord that the families actually
knew each other then, but having come from th e same part of Germany,
talking the same East Friesian dialect, and having arr ived in the same
Illinois community, it is likely that they had become acquain ted.  The
Bevings bought a farm near Cleves, Iowa.
INFORMATION SOURCE
Bevi ng Family History of Rev. Jackson E. Smith