I did know he was coming to this area and I'm pretty sure he is there at the same time as older brothers and a brother-in-law. Did not have that name. I'm doing more search in that area.
There are about 7 newspaper articles about Tom Taraldsen in the Beaumont, Texas papers. In June 1929 he was being divorced by a woman named Jewell. Don't know what her maiden name was but there is one woman named Jewell who is of such an age to be marriageable in the 1930 census who is listed as divorced, Jewell Perdue and who lived in Jefferson county, Texas: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:C9FF-LZM
The relative in Norway was asking about a wife named Jewell so this is probably true. I will look at what you gave me. I do have some newspaper articles.
The relative in Norway found an article in Beaumont Enterprise about him going to Norway to escort his sister and 2 children to US in 1925. There are some articles about a fishing pier opening in Port Arthur and a pictures was attached to one of them in 1937. this was all before he met my husband's mother.
Thank you. I see that I didn't have the back page for either of the 2 trips. He did have a sister in New Jersey but there were 12 kids altogether. The message from Unni is the granddaughter of one of the siblings. She has shared some personal information her grandmother has written and we have been communicating. Anna and Tom are buried in Green Lawn Cemetery in Port Arthur TX. We placed markers on their graves in 2017. As far as I know, my Tom would have been the surviving son. He mother remarried and simply began using her new husband's name as Tom's last name. My Tom was born in 1943; his father died in 1946 but was a patient in a TB hospital for most of that time. Thank you!
I want to thank all of you on this forum; you have provided a link to a relative who sent me the picture I needed. I hope you can see it using the dropbox link. I am so grateful. The picture is of Tarald Taraldsen taken in Beaumont TX, guessing at mid 1920's. And yes, my husband favors him.
Tharald Tharaldsen
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