Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — Beukhof-Burtholf Marriage. [ARTICLE]

Beukhof-Burtholf Marriage.

There was a quiet wedding at the residence of Rev. J. C. Parrett, pastor of the Presbyterian church who was the officiating minister, at 2:30 P. M. Thursday ?Jan. 3rd, atgwhich the contracting parties, evidently very worthy people, had the oddly similar yet similarly odd names of Benkhof and Burtholf. In personal appearance tiey were as dissimilar as in names they were similar. He was unusually tall and large, with light complexion, while she was short and slight and a brnnette in appearance. In point of age too, they were out of Che ordinary in assorting, as he was only a little past 23 and she about as much past 34. The groom was Mr. John C. Benkhof and the bride Miss Ella Bnrtholf. He is a son of Everett Benkhof, of Keener township, tbo he lives in Chicago, and both father and son were born in Holland. The bride’s father also lives in Keener township. There were no friends with them at the wedding.