Help needed reading Else Paulsdtr records

Can you help me narrow in where this family lived? Also on the migration record, is the 9/3 53 saying 9 Mar 1853? Else Paulsdtr married Knud Johnson in earlier message. She died 1930 in Lake Mills, Iowa. Knud died in 1921. Record #30 - Else Tarine born 4th Juni Else Migration Record #36