Notes
Note for: Grace Rychel, 25 MAR 1883 - OCT 1942 Index
I have copy of Obit:
Kalamazoo Gazette
Oct 26, 1942 Page 4 Col 8
Mrs. Grace Moses
Vicksburg - Services for Mrs. Grace Moses, 58 will be held in Rupert
funeral home at 3 Tuesday, with burial at Constantine. She was born in
Otsego. Mrs Moses leaves her husband, George, two sons, Richard,
Vicksburg; Jacob, U.S. Navy; two daughters, Mrs. Violet McNeal, Climax;
Mrs. Bessie Simmons, Vicksburg; a sister, Mrs. Bessie Plasmun, Cleveland.
Notes
Note for: Euwit Rychel, - Index
Info from Chris Penning:
www.chrispenning.com
Euwit RYCHEL
1 Mar 1814 - 27 Nov 1899
BIRTH: 1 Mar 1814, Ouddorp, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
DEATH: 27 Nov 1899, Zeeland Twp,Ottawa, Michigan
BURIAL: N. Vriesland Cemetery
Father: Jan REIJGEL
Mother: Pieternella TANIS
Family 1 : Pietertje TANIS
MARRIAGE: 19 Aug 1837, Ouddorp, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
1. Pieternella RYCHEL
2. Jacomijntje RYCHEL
3. Jannetje RYCHEL
4. Jannetje RYCHEL
5. Jan RYCHEL
6. Job RYCHEL
7. Neeltje RYCHEL
8. Jacob RYCHEL
9. Maartje RYCHEL
10. Cornelis RYCHEL
11. Cornelis RYCHEL
12. Cornelis RYCHEL
[251] Birthdate taken from birth record, seen by Chris Penning personally
at Goedereede, Zuid
Holland in February of 1994. Father is Jan Reijchel, aged 24,
vragtrijder; mother is Pieternella Tanis.
Notes
Note for: John W. Rychel, 1873 - 10 JAN 1931 Index
Burial:
Date: 1931
Place: Riverside Cemetery, Kalamazoo, MI[df]
Individual note:
[df]
Riverside Cemetery, Kalamazoo, MI, Plot P-48
Rychel :
Jacob 1848-1932
Sarah 1850-1924
John W. 1873-1931
Jennie 1877-1957
John J. 1897-1923
and then Lillian L. Kelley 1905-1964 was right next to them.
Riverside Cemetery Plot B-27
Frielink :
Garrett 1827-1905
Hellen 1837-1910 (it was spelled with two L's)
Herbert 1879-1944
William 1860-1941 (I had his birth as 1859)
Harry 1861-1906 (Also a different birth. 1860 in my papers)
Kalamazoo Michigan Gazette Mon Jan 12, 1931 pg 13
Rychel, John W
Friends will be received at the D.S. Field funeral home 219 W Lovell St,
where services will be held at two Tuesday afternoon. The Rev James J.
Burgoff will officiate. Burial in Riverside.
Monday Jan 12, 1931 Kalamazoo Michigan Gazette
Jury Find Rychel Death Unavoidable
Verdict Exonerates Robert Bohnet, 16, of Responsibility
An unavoidable accident caused the death of John Rychel 55, of 1?10 West
Michigan Avenue, Saturday night, according to a verdict returned by a
coroner's jury Monday noon, following an inquest at the county building.
Robert Bohnet, 176 State high school student and driver of the car which
struck Rychel was still being detained at the Kalamazoo detention home
Monday afternoon, although no charges had been placed against him.
JURY's Verdict
The jury verdict was a follows:
"We find that John Rychel came to his death at 7:45 pm Jan 10, 1931, in
the City of Kalamazoo at the intersection of Oakland drive, Michigan
avenue and Lovell street, by being struck by a Chrysler coach driven by
one Robert Bohnet, and after careful consideration we, the jurors find
the accident was unavoidable."
signed Louis Raseman, Clyde E. Waler, Ed Freeman, W.H. Smith, Richard
Frank, and L.R. Smith
The coroner's jury inspected the Bohnert car, to note marks made on the
machine as the result of the accident, shortly before the close of the
inquest.
LONE WITNESS TESTIFIES
Rychel was killed almost instantly when Bohnet in company with his
brother, Martin and a boy companion were en route to Western State
Teachers college gymnasium, where Robert was to join his teammates on the
basketball squad to go to Allegan for a game. Ernest Rychel, son of the
dead man, was also a player on this team and a pal of Bohnet.
J.W. Edwards, the only witness to the accident found by the police,
testified at the inquest that to his opinion the Bohnet car was being
drive in Michigan avenue at a speed of about 40 miles per hour. He said
he saw Rychel step from the curb and start east across Michigan avenue
from Lovell street. H saw the man catapulted into the air.
BROTHER ON STAND
Martin Bohnet, brother of Robert and a passenger in the car at the time
of the accident, was the first witness called at the inquest. He
testified his brother was driving greater than 25 or 30 miles per hour.
He also stated the pavement was dry and the weather favorable. He said
the car was in good condition because he had driven it earlier in the
day, and stated the brake were exceptionally good.
The witness declared he did not see Rychel before the car struck him. He
could not state the distance his brother drove the machine after the
accident and before brining it to a stop in Oakland drive.
Six witnesses three of them police officers, were called during the
inquest.