Jeannette Bogaard was born on 23 July 1884. She married John Willem TeSelle (1867-1945) in 1923 after the death of his first wife, Geertje Van der Beek (1871-1922). John William and Jeannette had four children together. Jeannette died in Firth, Lancaster County, Nebraska in December 1973, and her body was buried in Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa.