Petrus was die seun van Petrus van der Westhuizen en Margaretha Johanna Steenkamp.
Sy naam kom voor in hulle ma se sterfkennis van 1922.
Boer en winkellier.
Volgens sy sterfkennis is sy plek van afsterwe: Draghoender Hotel, Draghoender.
Near the railway line beyond Prieska is a farm with the puzzling name of Draghoender. It should be Dragonder, the Afrikaans for dragoon; and the name goes right back to the days when a British cavalry regiment formed part of the Cape Town garrison, nearly a century ago. When the dragoons sold their horses, one of the buyers named his mount Dragonder and rode it into the North West Cape on a hunting expedition. The horse strayed, and he returned without it. Next year he went hunting again, and found the horse where he had lost it. The horse had survived in that barren world by smelling water in a river bed and kicking up the sand until a fountain was revealed. This discovery made it possible for a farmer to settle there, and he named his farm Dragonder in honour of the horse. Hottentots corrupted it to Draghoender. (https://archive.org/stream/Karoo/Karoo_djvu.txt)
Near the railway line beyond Prieska is a farm with the puzzling name of Draghoender. It should be Dragonder, the Afrikaans for dragoon; and the name goes right back to the days when a British cavalry regiment formed part of the Cape Town garrison, nearly a century ago. When the dragoons sold their horses, one of the buyers named his mount Dragonder and rode it into the North West Cape on a hunting expedition. The horse strayed, and he returned without it. Next year he went hunting again, and found the horse where he had lost it. The horse had survived in that barren world by smelling water in a river bed and kicking up the sand until a fountain was revealed. This discovery made it possible for a farmer to settle there, and he named his farm Dragonder in honour of the horse. Hottentots corrupted it to Draghoender. (https://archive.org/stream/Karoo/Karoo_djvu.txt)
