James Mapes Pool
UNITED STATES Veterans
James Mapes Pool, first child of Vera and Dan Pool, served in the United States ARMY for two years. Specialist 4th Class. He is the author of “A POOL OF THOUGHTS.”
Daniel Mesner, is the first child of Tom Mesner, served in the United States Marine for 4 years.
Dan Pool, fifth child or Henrietta and Wieb Pool, served in the Army from September 1918- October 1919.
Doug Pool, the third child of Vera and Dan Pool, served in the Army reserves for 2 years.
Mary Canada, sister to Brenda Canada, Mr. James Mapes Pool wife, 1963 was a secretary in the Capital of Austin, Texas. She personally knew Lindon B. Johnson. Linden B. Johnson was in the motor vehicle when JFK was shot
Descendants of Annie Pool
Dana Stephen-Annie’s third child Stephen Jay, first child was Dana Stephen. He spent three years in the Navy and Marine Corps during WWII. He received the Bronze Star while in action on Okinawa.
Raoul Eric, fifth child of Rena and Elof Larson is a Mechanical Engineer and he served 2 years as an Army Technical instructor at Ft Eustis, Virginia. He was an Aircraft and engine mechanics helper, railway locomotive fireman, heavy equipment operator and welder.
Nels Bernarr, second child or Rena and Elof Larson, served ten months in the U.S. Air force, stationed at Amarillo, Texas, and Merced, California. As a pilot, he crop dusted in wheat country, in the spring apple orchards and Forest seeding later in the season. He became a helicopter pilot and was employed at Yakima spending summers in Alaska and flying geologists who were hunting for oil. He rescued a woman from a mountain top in Alaska and saved a lost little girl in eastern Washington.
Stanley Jay, second child of Fara and Stephen Mulder, served in the U.S. Army for two years. He worked in an entomology laboratory at the U.S. Army Hospital in Okinawa. He was employed as a plant pest control inspector in the Agricultural Research Division of the united States Department of Agriculture, at Lemesa, Texas. This involved survey and detection of known and unknown pests, enforcement and quarantines on regulatory pests already infesting limited areas in the States, and measures to eradicate those pests. The specific pests he worked with are : Japanese Beetle, White-fringed Beetle, Witchweed, Imported Fire Ant, Pink Bollworm and Boll Weevil. He loved model rocketry, star stud, bird watching and photography.
Jay Ivan Mulder, M.D., second son of Marjorie and Ernest Ivan Mulder, M.D., served as Captain in the U.S. Medical Corps during the Korean War, from 1951-1953.
Anna Marguerite, second child of Hattie and Leslie Henry, married Orin A. Kimball an electrical contractor. Orin and his wife were active in civic affairs and politics. Orin was Mayor of a Midwest City and Marguerite oversaw the Republican Headquarters in the same Midwest City.
Leslie Lorraine, first child of Hattie and Leslie L. Henry, attended Military Service School, and served 7 years in the Army in the United States, France and Germany.
Descendants of Tryntje and Okke Pool
Marion Pool, thirteenth child of Tryntje and Okke Pool, served five years in the United States Army, overseas in the Pacific theater. He was the Chief of Police in Edgerton. Minnesota.
Owen Roger, first child of Emma and Steven Pool, served in the U.S. Navy from 1952-56 as a Hospital Corpsman.
Virgil Dean, fifth child of Mary and John Tinklenberg, served in 1958 served overseas in Germany.
Orlin Ray, third of Mary and John Tinklenberg, served two years in the U.S. Air force and worked at the IRS in South Dakota.
Alvin Arther, first child of Mary and John Tinklenberg, served 14 months in the United States Navy.
Oscar Pool, first child of Bertha and Simon Pool, served in the U.S. Navy from December 9, 1942-December 1, 1945. Battle of Kiska in the Alleutians, August, 1943, Battle of Tarawa, November 1943, and the Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, January 1944. He was also in the invasion of Iwo Jima, February 1945. He received 5 bronze stars for service in these five battles.
Duane Veron, third child of Bertha and Simon Pool, served the U.S. Navy in 1954 as a disbursing clerk on board ship. He went to Cuba, Spain and England. He was medical discharged October 1955.
Lester Van Essen, the ninth child of eleven, of Hattie and William H. Van Essen. In 1962, went to Nigeria for two-and-one-half years helping to build a dispensary for the natives. In Sevav, they were taught, in six months, the native language of Tiv. Thereafter, they lived in Isherev covering approximately 1700 square miles. As missionaries, they helped educate the youth, built a chapel, a garage and a 75- foot well that was dug by hand.
Henry Willard, third child of Hattie and William H. Van Essen served two years in the U.S. Army, third Division, 15th Infantry. He spent 18 months overseas in Germany during WWII. He trained in Fort Hood, Texas.
Oscar Henry, second child of Hattie and William Van Essen, served in the Navy for 43 month and went overseas in the Marshall Islands. He raised and registered Shetland ponies and built homes and commercial buildings.
Descendants of Susan Pool and Stephen Eason
Frederick Marion, eleventh child of Susan and Stephen Eason, was the Chief of the Fire Department in Alton City, Iowa
Paul Glenn, second child of Zella Vern and Harry De Jong, was in military training for two years in Texas. Thereafter he farmed southwest Orange City.
Alvin Jay, ninth child of Susan and Stephen Eason, 1925, was a dentist for fourteen years in Luverne, Iowa.
George Ernest, second child of Hilda and Bart Van Zyl, served four years in the U.S. Air Force from 1953-1957, two years in Newfoundland.
Frederick Stephen, first child of Hilda and Bart Van Zyl, served in the U.S. Airforce for four years as a Radio Maintenance man. He worked as a city patrolman in St. Paul Minnesota.
Raymond Bart, fourth child of Minnie and Bart Van Zyl, was a Chemical Engineer and employed as a chemist for Rayette Company (supplier of permanent wave solutions)
Robert James, third child of Minnie and Bart Van Zyl, served in the U.S. Army from March 1943 until 1945 in the Artillery Division.
Harold Ralph, first child of Minnie and Bart Van Zyl, served in World War II as a Major in the Airforce. He was a four-engine pilot and may have flown a B29, B24 or B17, the family is unsure.
Frederick Stoddard Wason, first child of Blanche and Ernest Wason, was a First Lieutenant in the Retired Airforce, Reserve. He worked in land development and real estate investments in San Diego.
Joan Marie, third child of Marie and John Eason, served three years in the U.S. Air Force as a WAF and medical technician from 1956-1959.
John Verne, first child of Marie and John Eason, served in the Marine Corps from 1944-1946. He went to Okinawa and then in Japan. He is a recipient of the Purple Heart and his Company won the Presidential Citation.
John Marden, fifth child of Susan and Stephen Eason, served as First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps in 1917. He was a dentist in Sanborn, Iowa. He served as town clerk for eight years and was Mayor of Sanborn, Iowa for three terms.
Wayne Freriks Eason, second child of Susan and Oscar Eason, served as the Army Signal Corps in 1945-1947 and stationed at Camp Robinson, Arkansas, and overseas in Naples and Leghorn, Italy.
Norman Ray, first child of Susan and Oscar Eason, served overseas in WWII as an anti-aircraft artillery, 791st AAA Bn., at the end of the war. He was assigned to military police at Camp Herbert Tarrington at Le Harve, France. He went to England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, and Switzerland. He was discharged in 1946.
Mildred Mary, third Child of Grace and Oscar Eason, Member of Iowa Historical Society of Iowa City, Cherokee County Historical Society and Iowa Genealogical Society of De Moines, Iowa. Author of Bosgra-Pool Family History, Pioneer Family of Sioux County, Iowa, 1967.
David George, first child of Jean and George Eason, technician for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. lived on Merritt Island, Florida. He was on the launch team for the Mariner II Venus probe, Mariner 2 became the first successful mission to another planet when it flew by Venus on December 14, 1962. The spacecraft made a few discoveries about the planet and marked another first by measuring the solar wind, a constant stream of charged particles flying outward from the sun. Ranger Series, Mariners to Mars O.G.O. (Geophysical Observatory) RANGER Mars Mission Report Mariners NASA.
George Stephen Eason, second child of Grace and Oscar Eason, commissioned by the government to head up a model farm in Cambodia, to teach the men and women of that county more progressive methods of farm production. He served in Vietnam as a Foreign Service office for the State Department. He was an ardent advocate of conservation practices in farming in Plymouth County and Northwest Iowa. He helped to develop the Floyd Valley watershed.
Oscar Eason, fourth child of Susan and Stephen Eason, farmed 240-acres on the Sioux and Plymouth County line. They farmed corn, oats, barley and rye. He was secretary of the Sherman Township school board for 15 years, Sioux County Board of Review for 17 years, a trustee of Sherman Township for 12 years and served as Charmian for the first AAA Committee in Sherman Township.
Alan Eason Huygens, second child of Evelyn and Adrian Huygens, served in the Air Force and was medically discharged.
Donald Warren, first child of Evelyn and Adrian Huygens, served in the National Guard, he was a pharmacist.
George Eason, third child of Susan and Stephen Eason, was a driver for the first tank wagon service in Alton, MN, He drove a wagonload of gas to towns in a 30-40 mile radius. This wagon was hauled by six or eight mules. Roads were poor and trips to Paullina, or Ireton, and Maurice was grueling.
Stephen Eason, Jr., the second child of Susan and Stephen Eason, operated one of the earliest automatable livery service in Alton, MN. He lost his life in a auto accident on December 5, 1912.
Descendants of Wieb Pool
Ranzie John Hoekstra, first child of Jeannette and Cyrus Hoekstra, served three years in the U.S. army.
Lawrence Robert Hoekstra, second child of Jeannette and Cyrus Hoekstra, served six months in the U.S. Marines.
Burnell Sidney, fourth child of Jeannette and Cyrus Hoekstra, served three years in the U.S. Marines.
Cornelius Robert Feenstra, first child of Henriette and Henry Feenstra, finished high school in the Air Force and spent four years in the U.S. Airforce serving them.
John Mellema, fourth child of Lena and Bert Mellema, served four and a half years in military service in Europe and Africa. He was a Sergeant. He was wounded in action.
Harlon Gilbert, first child of Anne and Walter Mellema served three years in the U.S. Army from 1962-65. He spent 13 months overseas in Korea.
Lenora Marie, ninth child of Lena and Bert Mellema helped her husband Ervin Henry Roberson, farm about 400 acres of land. They raised 400 pigs a year and 75 heads of cattle. Ervin was president of the Nobles County Farm Bureau, which entertained sever visitors on weekends from Africa, who were students at the University of Minnesota. They learned good agriculture practices. They housed exchange students from Germany in 1965 for three months.
Robert Leon, tenth child of Lena and Bert Mellema, an account for Touche, Ross, Bailey and smart, served in the military and his last service was Anchorage, Alaska. Robert and his wife worked for the U.S. Rubber Company in defense work. He was Executive Vice President and GM of Designwear Industries, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Vernon Richard, first child of Frances and Leo Kepler, served in the U.S. Navy from June 112-1952-June 7, 1955. He was stationed on the U.S.S. Boxer.
Alice Joan, fourth child of Frances and Leo Kepler, husband, Forrest Wixon served in the National Guard, flying jets from Sioux Falls.
Donald James, fifth child Frances and Leo Kepler, served in the U.S. Army.
Donald Woodrow, third child of Hattie and Frank Reinsma, served in the United States Navy from 1943-1945
Elizabeth Louise, first child of Mary and Donald Reinsma, married Bruce Paul Hediger, who served in the United States Air Force. The family was stationed in Germany.
Donald Joseph, second child of Mary and Donald Reinsma, served in the United States Navy at 17. He was aboard the aircraft Carrier Valley Forge and assisted in landings Thailand and patrol duty of Tonkin Bay.
Howard John, first child of Josie and Gerrit Buysman, owned the Frozen Food Locker in Bellflower, California. He also served as president at the Kiwanis Club.
Marvin Gerald, first child of Cornelia and Howard Buysman, owned Ontario Frozen Food locker, in Ontario, California. Marvin rented locker space to families, in addition to breaking down animals for storage and consumption. Howard Dean, third child, owned Bellflower Frozen Food Locker.
“Bill” William Sidney, second child of Josie and Gerrit Buysman, enjoyed placing vending machines in businesses. He was a great salesman.
Gilbert L. Buysman, third child of Josie and Gerrit Buysman, trained in the Army Infantry in 1942, at Camp Bowie, Texas and served in the Pacific as Guadalcanal, New Georgia, and New Guinea. He landed at Luzon in the Philippine Island in 1945. He contracted a disease there. and was discharged January 9, 1945.
Huldah Letitia, first child of Mary Elizabeth and L.J. Millis, and her husband Fred R. Behrends, operated a turkey ranch at Riverside California.
Eleanore June, second child of Mary Elizabeth and L.J. Millis, served in the United States Airforce and stationed at Sioux Falls.
TIETE POOL DESCENDANTS
Juantia Marie, fifth child of Cora and Mike Hilbrands, married Robert L. Nesseim who served in the United States Navy.
Barbara Ann, first child of Jeanette and Soren Goodhope, married James Francis Dusek who served four years in the United States Navy and has a Ph.D from State College in San Diego, California.
Richard Neil, second child of Genevieve and Benjamin Van Ningen, served in the United States Navy for four years.
Earl Glenn, third child of Florence and John Van Nigen, served in the United States Army from 1945-1946.
Robert LeRoy, fourth child Florence and John Van Nigen, served with the First Cavalry in the South Pacific area from 1944-1946. He owned a motel in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Jane Pearl, only child of Jennie and Clarence E. Knight, Her and her husband were missionaries in Lima, Peru, South America for eight and a half years.
Robert Dean, third child of Alice and Frank Pool, was a jet mechanic at Kingsville, Texas He served the Navy for a few years, where he spent 2 of them in Atsuta Japan.
Harvey Phillip, first child of Mamie and Lenard Norby, served in the United States Army in WWII and the Korean conflict.
Beverly Ann, first child of Lillian and Theodore Hoekstra, husband Ordell Burton Wolfe worked at Douglas Aircraft in California,
John Nickolas, fourth child of Lillie and Peter Hoekstra, and his wife Ina E. Hoekstra, sons Peter J. Hoekstra, and Roger W. Hoekstra, served in the Army during WWII.
Frank, fifth child of Jane and Tiete Pool, was a cattle buyer, grain elevator operator, dairy farmer, and the chancellor in a town in South Dakota. they both died in a car incident in May of 1938.
Bruce A. Wagar, first child of Sadie and Bruce Wagar Sr., served tow years in the United States Navy. He trained thoroughbred races horses.
Gregory Nelson, second child of Fern and Harold Pool, served two years in the United States Army at Germany.
Michael, second child or Ora and George Stout, Served three yeas in the United States Army, in Germany.
John, sixth child of Jane and Tiete Pool, operated a general grocery store and drove a 1 cylinder REO truck, selling groceries to the farmers. He was appointed Postmaster, December 1, 1909, by F.H. Hitchcock and Postmaster general under the administration of William Howard Taft. Chancellor was the only general grocery store to have a post office in it at the time.
John Pool, Jr., second child of Christine and John Pool, served the United States Army in 1941. He was a foreman in a print shot at Redondo Beach, California.
Larry Gene, third child of Anna and Kenneth Pool, served in the United States Army from 1959-1961.
Lyle Eugene, first child of Margaret and Raymond Petersen, served the National Guard for eight years.
CHILDREN WHO DIED TOO SOON
Mark Allen, second child of Miriam and Harold Mulder, born June 1947, died June 1947
Stephanas, sixth child of Tryntje and Okke Pool, born May 13, 1903, died Nov 1903.
Donna Beth, third child of Viola Jean and Marvin Van Essen, July 8, 1958 had spina bifida and hydrocephalus or “water head”, died April 1962
Baby Boy, first child of Arlene and Willard Van Essen, December 21, 1954 and died the same day.
Ricky Dale, third child of Lois and Paul De Jong, born October 1966, died 2 days after
Stephen James Eason, first child of Grace and Oscar Eason, born March 1913 and died April 1913.
John Eason and Elizabeth Mercer, two children died.
First child James Eason 17 month old drowned.
George Eason, died of Black Diphtheria, Sioux County Iowa.
Edith May, died at Age 13, daughter to Mary Ann Eason and John Crippen.
Samuel Eason and Elisabeth Jones baby, George at age nine, Ernest Eason and Ida and died.
Leanna Kay, fist child Lenora and Ervin Robertson born March 1948, died of birth injuries the same day.
Michael Dean Born Jan 17, and died Jan 22, 1963, child of Neva Carol and David Dean Swanson., seventh child of Frances and Leo Kepler.
Sandra Kay, ninth child of Frances and Leo Kepler., died in a car accident the night of her Jr.- Senior prom. 1946-1963.
Baby Ronald Dean, born December 23, 1965, died December 24, 1965, child of Shirley Burggraaf and Dorland Duane.
Lonnie Ray, fourth child of Dorothy and Lester Darrow, born September 1952 and died March 5, 1959.
Anna Rosetta, first child was born prematurely, July 3, 1944, and died the dame day.
Children of Bertha and Frank Pool, Frank T Pool, born Nov 7, 1915 died August, 1920; Burton Howard Pool, Born October 17, 1917 died November 1, 1917; Gladys L Pool, born October 1919, died November 1937. Ronald Pool, born July 1927 and died April 1937.
Oscar Luverne Pool died of whooping cough. He was the fifth child of Beulah and Nick Pool. (1919-1922) Cornelia, March born 1889 and died April 1889, ninth child of Jane and Tiete Pool
THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY
How Are We Going to Get to Mars?
Explained by Elonmusk
“Starship is extremely fundamental. So, the holy grail of rocketry or space transport is full and rapid reusability. This has never been achieved.
The closest that anything has come is our Falcon 9 rocket where we are able to recover the first stage, the boost stage, which is probably about 60% of the cost… of the whole launch, maybe 70%. And we’ve now done that over 100 times.
So, with Starship, we will be recovering the entire thing or at least that’s the goal. And moreover, recovering it in such a way that it can be immediately re-flown. Whereas with Falcon 9, we still need to do some amount of refurbishment to the booster and to the fairing.
But with Starship, the design goal is immediate re-flight. So, you just refill propellants and go again. This is gigantic, just as it would be in any other mode of transport.
And just to put the cost thing into perspective, the expected cost of Starship putting 100 tons into orbit is significantly less than what it would have cost or what it did cost to put our tiny Falcon 1 rocket into orbit.
Just as the cost of flying a 747 around the world is less than the cost of a small airplane, you know, a small airplane that was thrown away. So, it’s really pretty mind-boggling that the giant thing costs way less than the small thing.
So, it doesn’t use exotic propellants or things that are difficult to obtain on Mars. It uses Methane as fuel and it’s primarily oxygen, roughly 77-78% oxygen by weight, and Mars has a CO2 atmosphere and has water ice, which is CO2 + H20, so…
…you can make CH4 methane, and O2 oxygen on Mars… The fuel is a simple fuel that is easy to create on Mars and in many other parts of the solar system… It’s all propulsive landing, no parachutes, nothing thrown away.
It has a heat shield that’s capable of entering on Earth or Mars. We could even potentially go to Venus but you don’t wanna go there haha… Venus is hell, almost literally.
It’s a generalized method of transport to anywhere in the solar system, because the point at which you have propellant depot on Mars, you can then travel to the Asteroid Belt and to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn and ultimately anywhere in the solar system.”
STARSHIP STATS:
-Height = 120m (394ft)
-Diameter = 9m (30ft)
-Payload to low Earth orbit = 100+ tons (220+ klb)
-And it’s Bad Ass.
Visit Spacex.com/starship for more information
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