Arnold Van Doorn

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Name                    Occupation             Date of Birth        Birthplace               Date of Death       Notes           

Arnold John                                            July 19, 1868       Rochester, NY         July 21, 1881       Died of drowning

Van Doorn 

Arnold was baptized as “Arnoud Johannes Van Doorn” at the First Reformed Church of Rochester, New York on August 9, 1868.

As mentioned earlier, the east side of Grand Rapids was known for its brick factories. Arnold drowned in the “clay hole” at Fulton and Diamond streets in Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 21, 1881.

Jeannette Isenga said that Arnold’s parents, Adriaan and Elizabeth Van Doorn, kept his clothes in a closet for many years after he died. His brothers and sister would sometimes open it and say “Where’s Arnold? His clothes are here, but he’s not. He’s in the clay hole.”

Actually, Arnold is buried in Block 3, Lot 7 of the Fulton Street Cemetery in Grand Rapids, Michigan.