Holland City News, Thursday, December 12, 1918

One more member of the A. C. Van Raalte Post, G. A. R. has answered the final roll call. Death came suddenly Tuesday evening to Klaas Dykhuis at his home in May, where he was living with the family of his son, Nicholas Dykhuis. For some time he was a resident of Holland, but later he returned to the farm homestead, where he had spent most of his life. His wife died seven years ago.

The deceased was 74 years old. He was unusually well known in Holland and throughout the section of the country in which he spent most of his life.

Mr. Dykhuis served as a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War. He enlisted as a very young man in Company I of the 25^th Michigan Infantry and went with the regiment through all the battles in which it served. His fellow member, G. Van Schelven, today paid him the tribute of declaring that he had been an unusually good soldier. In 1865, he mustered out with the others, and he lived on his farm near Holland almost ever since.

Within the past year, five members of Company I have passed away. They are Benj. Van Raalte, John Grootenhuis, J. W. Wilterdink, G. Hesselink and Klaas Dykhuis.

The deceased is survived by five sons; John, Albert, Lawrence, Cornelius and Nicholas; and by two daughters, Mrs. Jacob Lievense of Holland and Mrs. J. O. Stryker of Grand Rapids.

The funeral will be held Friday at one o’clock from the Ebenezer Church.

(Buried in Pilgrim Home Cemetery)