Let’s continue the Paake/Paak/Peek/Pake family saga.
I grew up not knowing that great-great-grandmother Alice had had a brother named George. When I discovered him, it was, in part, because of a newspaper clipping I found among the family papers. I’ve already written about George’s family here:
The Children After the Fire, 1902
In the Paak-a-Boo post, I contemplated whether an unidentified photo I owned could be George Paake, based on the resemblance to great-great-grandmother Alice.
It turns out we still don’t know who is in that photo, but I now know what George looked like!
Here is a photo of Lucy Kliphouse (her name was Anglicized from the original Dutch: Lukkien Kliphuis ), the mother of George’s five children.
This is his first wife. After she passed away in 1900 (two years before the fire), George went on to marry a few other women. It’s said he might have had five wives.
Stay tuned for more information about the leaves and blossoms of George’s branch of the family!
The Family Kalamazoo 