Individual Details
Cornelius Blankespoor
(4 May 1912 - 30 May 1934)
Events
| Birth | 4 May 1912 | Rock Valley, Plato Township, Sioux, Iowa, United States | |||
| Residence | 1920 | Plato Township, Sioux, Iowa, United States | |||
| Residence | 1930 | Plato Township, Sioux, Iowa, United States | |||
| Death | 30 May 1934 | Arnolds Park. Dickinson County, Iowa, United States |  | ||
| Burial | 2 Jun 1934 | Rock Valley, Plato Township, Sioux, Iowa, United States |
Families
| Father | Maas Blankespoor ( - ) |
| Mother | Magdalena Cornelisdr. "Lena" Moerman (1879 - 1936) |
| Sibling | Celia Blankespoor (1911 - 1983) |
| Sibling | Hattie Blankespoor ( - 1930) |
| Sibling | Henry Blankespoor ( - 1995) |
Notes
Death
On Memorial Day, 1934 the temperature had already reached 100 degrees.Six of the young folk from Rock Valley went to Lake Okoboji for the day. They were all in a boat when one of them who came from California decided to dive off the side of the boat.
This scared the girls who were not accustomed to boating. So he tried it again. But this time the boat turned over.
Henrietta [sic; should be Nellie] of John Blankespoor and her cousin, also a Blankespoor, were drowned. They lived on opposite sides of Rock Valley, one north, the other south.
oth funeral processions met on the main street of the town and lined up next to each other by the Reformed church. Since Doon had no minister at the time, I had the funeral for Henrietta. A rough estimate was that about 1800 people walked past those two caskets. John Blankespoor suffered from shock for a long time.
Memoir of Rev. C. Hanko edited by Karen Van Baren.
Miss Nellie Blankespoor, 21, of Rock Valley, Iowa, and Cornelius Blankespoor,22, of Rock Valley, Iowa, cousins, drowned between Pillsbury's point and Benits bathing beach at Arnolds Park, 3:50 p.m. when a rowboat in which their party of seven was upset.
Spirit Lake Beacon 1934-07-19.