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I am the owner of The Clock Shoppe in Sycamore Illinois. If you are interested in a clock for yourself or as a gift please visit this web site. http://www.sycamoreclockshoppe.com

I am currently researching these surnames Niewold, Mitchell, Harms/Harmes, and Martin.

The Niewold family origins are found in the Groningin area of the Netherlands. Jakob Nieuwold/Niewold and his family left their home there in 1842 to settle in New Holland, Logan County, Illinois. Pioneer life was tough on them causing the death of Jakobs wife Anna in 1848, Anna's mother Klaaske died in 1846, their daughter Clarrissa died in 1851. The Civil war took the life of the youngest boy Theodore in 1862. The older daughter Margaret married, had 5 children and soon died in 1866. The surviving two sons prospered and grew old in New Holland fathering 10 children between them including my grandfather Newton Niewold. My dad, John H. Niewold and his three brothers and one sister were all born there but they soon started moving around the country in search of a new home which they finally found in Sycamore, Dekalb County, IL. in about 1932. Some of the remnants of this family are still here in Sycamore but most have gone the ways of the wind.

The Mitchell family was living in Maine in the 1700s and some of them migrated to Macon County, Missouri in the 1860s. My grandfather Harry Mitchell was raised there but his parents were supposedly living in Chicago when he was born. His mother died when he was two years old and his father when he was fourteen. He found work at Turner Brass in Chicago when he was 17 and when they moved the factory to Sycamore, Dekalb County, IL. in 1907 he came with them. In 1910 he married my grandmother Irene Harms Mitchell who was born in Sycamore. My mother Helen Mitchell Niewold and her brother Harry E. were born here and both are buried here. Of 5 children I am the only one still living in Illinois.

The Harmes family resided in New York before moving to Dekalb County, Illinois in the 1850s.

The Martin family emigrated from England to Pennsylvania along with William Penn and on to West Virginia. Some of the family moved to Nebraska in the 1890s. The dust bowl of the 1930s forced most of them to move on to the Napa Valley of California.
The James H. Niewold Family Home Page
Updated September 30, 2001

James H. Niewold
The Clock Shoppe
330 West State Street
Sycamore, IL 60178
A-United States
815-895-6488
NiewoldJ@tbc.net

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