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Dale Nelson
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jwiborg
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 Posted - 11/06/2012 : 00:23:22
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The original marriage record #27
The date of April 7th, 1853, was the date of attestation for emigration. They would have left after April 26th.
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eibache
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Posted - 11/06/2012 : 00:34:37
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but the marriage states: "Han attest 7/4 53 fra Kongsberg" - which is the same date as the departure...curious.
- he was a bachelor when he got the attestation from Kongsberg. After he was married he moved out from Eiker May 3 1853, see #33.
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Dale Nelson
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JaneC
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Posted - 12/06/2012 : 14:14:43
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Another family said to have been affected by the uprising was that of Lars Askjelson Lee (Li, Lid, Lie) and wife Ingeborg Olsdatter Førde (Fyre). They came from Bergsdalen, Voss, Norway and left for America in 1860 with three small children: Askjel, Ole, and Marjo. They settled in Jackson, Minnesota, but fled the area during the 1862 uprising, leaving their home and property behind, all but what they could carry. They walked for eight days. They followed the timberlands and lowlands to avoid detection. Lars had his family sit on the ground at night with their backs together, and covered them with slough grass to protect them from the rain. Finally, hungry and sore-footed, they arrived at the Norwegian settlement at Decorah, Iowa. There they found shelter with the family of Ingebret Grindeland. Later the Lee family settled in Dodge County, Minnesota. The parents and their six children (Askjel 1853-1886, Ole 1854-1932, Mary Holtan 1856-1936, Nels 1860-1888, Anna Gorden 1862-1916, and Oline 1865-1880) are all buried at the West Saint Olaf Church
I have not researched this story; it comes from a descendant who based a longer version of it on their own research (sources not noted in the online story) and on the obituaries of Lars Lee and daughter Mary (Lee) Holtan. |
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Hopkins
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JaneC
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Posted - 12/06/2012 : 17:15:19
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A very sad but interesting story, Hopkins. This attack came at the home of Ole Olsen Førde. I wonder if he is brother to Ingeborg Olsdatter Førde. They both seem to be from the Førde farm in Voss (the farm later called Fyre). The author of the article says she is delivering news of the massacre many years later, but many emigrants to America and their families in Voss were in close contact so I suspect the tragedy had been heard about i Voss long before her visit. Wouldn't the news have been noted in the churchbook or other records in Voss?
Dale Nelson, is part of your project to sort out the Norwegian families who had settled in the area of the uprising? |
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lenzoarlene
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Posted - 09/04/2013 : 17:55:56
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| Hans Olson Nigard and Gjertrud Halvorsdatter and family and friends had settled in the Brule Creek region of SD 1862/daughter Bessie born 3/18/62 in SD although most records show the same dates for Iowa. These settlers had to leave SD because of the Sioux Uprising and settle in Chickasaw County Iowa. More info on this is available at the Chickasaw County Iowa website with list of all the settlers involved. |
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JaneC
Norway Heritage Veteran
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Posted - 10/04/2013 : 17:23:15
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Here is a link to a poignant letter sent by an immigrant in Dodge County, Minnesota, and published in the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet, on 22 November 1862. Theodore C. Blegen quoted the letter in his book Norwegian Migration to America: The American Transition, pub. 1940. As found and shared by Mike Oiseth on his useful website "OLE AND LENA: LOCAL HISTORY OF THE NORWEGIAN SETTLEMENT IN DODGE & OLMSTED COUNTIES OF MINNESOTA"
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http://oiseth.org/Ole_and_Lena:_genealogy/?page_id=275
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