DE JONG, BOUWKAMP, DIJKEMA, SLAGER Bauke de Jong and wife Johanna Bethlehem who came to Michigan in 1888 with six or so children. (I can't open my computerized files right now.) I believe they started in Kent County and soon settled in Forest Grove. Bauke gradually changed his name to Bert DeYoung. Bert's sister, Grace, married Adema and lived in the Byron Center area for many years. Bert and family moved to Antrim County in the 1890s where he lived the remainder of his life. I want information about his life in Forest Grove. Hendrik Bronts Bouwkamp and wife Kornelske Jacobs left Groningen and came to Spring Lake in 1873 with son Bron and daughter Elizabet. Elizabet married DeGraff. Can't find death information for Hendrik or Kornelske. Elizabeth Jakobs Dijkema, widow of Geert Slager and mother of Julle and Jacob Slager, came to Spring Lake in 1873 with the Bouwkamp family. Can't find death information for Elizabeth. Julle Slager's wife, Anje or Anna Bouwkamp, came to Spring Lake in 1872 and were living in Spring Lake Township in 1880. Julle remarried as a widower in 1918 in Muskegon. But I can't find a death record for Anna Bouwkamp Slager.