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Lasse, b. 22.6.1879,
d. 1964. He immigrated to USA only 17 Years of age and settled down in Radcliffe
Iowa. This was a "Rennesøy area" in USA
with Thompson, Forest City, Belmond, Roland...
He married in Thompson in 2011 with Anne Veiner Edvardsdtr. Håvarstein,
b. 22.10.1882, from Håvarstein, Rennesøy. Her family immigrated in 1894. She died early, in 1935, and Thelma had
to take care of the
big family. Amy, the
eldest, worked in Chicago at that time.
Anne’s 2 sisters, Inger Tobia,
b. 1885 and Torborg, b. 1890, and 2 brother, Andreas,
b. 1888 and Sigurd, b. 1900, also settled down in
USA.
ML's farm
in Hanley Falls.
They lived in Minneota (MN) for some years
before they in 1916 bought a farm outside Hanley Falls (south of Hazel Run), in
Yellow Medicine County (MN), with ab. 400 acres. ML visited Norway in 1908,
1949 and 1955 together with Thelma and Elmer.
There is a centralization going on also in this Yellow Medicine County.
The school house in Hanley Falls has in the 1990s become Minnesota’s Machinery
Museum, and the school are centralized to Marshall, Granite Falls and Clarkfield, as the biggest town.
Back:
Arlen, Mildred, Ethel, Thelma, Elmer.
Front: Olav, ML, Helene, Amy.
Amy, b. 1912, d. 198x,
m. John Bellamy, b. d. 1964 who was a patent lawyer. They lived
in
Chicago.
Robert (Bob), b.
Jean, b. , m. Frizzell.
Mary Lou, b. , m. Mate
Olav E., b. 1913, d. 1990, m. 1938 Ina G. Wilson, b. 1911, d. 2011. They bought a neighbor farm in Hanley Falls in 1950.
Kathryn, b. 1939, m. Dyrdahl. 3 children. Minneapolis.
Ronald, b. 1943, m. Marie b. In 2013 they are farming 3,500 acres with corn and beans.
Address: 4584 250th Ave Clarkfield. Phone: 320-383-2221.
Todd, b. m. Lori
Jeff, b. 1974, Lives in Clarkfield.
Julie Ann, b. 1950, d. 2013, m. David L. Hard, b. 1949. No children. Benson (MN).
Thelma Edythe, b. 1915, d.
2001. She graduated from Lutheran Normal
School at Madison,
in 1932, and was an active
member of their basketball team. After her mother’s death
(1935) she was the homemaker
for the family until 1967 when she moved to Wheaton,
IL, and stayed together with
Amy. In 1983 she moved back to Clarkfield. Address
1999: 409 10TH AVE E) Clarkfield, MN 56223. She died at Cedar Lake Health Care
Center in West Bend, (WI),
but the funeral was held in Clarkfield.
Mildred, b. 1921, d. , m. Sandstrom. Lives in Ely in MN.
Johan
R. (Joe), b. 1952.
Helene, b. 1923, m. Oscar Batdorf, 2165 Belmont
Ave. Idaho Falls, ID 83404.
Phone: 1-208-522-8002. Visit Norway in 1982.
Linda, b. , m. Freeman.
James (Jim), b.
Arlen, b. 1924, d. 1978,
m. Doris J. Erickson, b. 1928, with
parents from Norway
(Haugesund
area). During the World War II, Arlen served in the marines at Guan on
Hawai. They bought the first farm in Clarkfield in the 1950-ies. They were also
farming the big Olav’s
farm on rental when he went to Chicago (se no 6.).
They visit Norway in
1974 together with Anette.
Doris J. m. again 1988
with Marvin Koenen, and they visit Norway in 2005
together
with her sister Gudrun
and husband Don which lived in Minneapolis.
They live on the second farm
that Arlen bought in 1976.
Address: 3872 250th
Ave, Clarkfield, MN
56223 USA. Phone: 320-669-7205.
Dean, b. 1950, Lives in 4340
192nd St. Montevideo Mail:
drrisa@mvtvwireless.com
Kristine, b. 1951, m. Kurley.
Ryan, b. 1990.
Arvid,
1954. Not married, (one child). Lives on
the first farm that Arlen bought.
Mike and Arvid are farming both farms together. 1640 acres with corn (mais)
and beans. Address: 4045
240th Ave. Clarkfield. Phone: 320-669-7603.
Anette, b. 1959, m. Viessman (Big truck owner, 500 trucks in 2013).
Ethel, b. 1926, m. Edvard Russell. Lives in Brookfield outside Milwaukee in
Wisconsin.
Jane, b. 1952, m. Widenski.
Pam, b.
1954, m. Berg.
Richard, b.
Picture of all cousins taken in July 1990. Back: Julie, Jane, Pam,
Arvid, Linda, Kristine, Richard, Annette, Mike. Front:
Dean, Ronald, Joe, Bob, Kathy, Jean, Jim, Mary Lou.
In 1977 Amy and Thelma were living in Wheaton, west of Chicago (where
Amy and Thelma was working). One Sunday
in November I had the pleasure to visit them, when I was on a two weeks
business trip. I have some picture from there.
Ole, b. 26.11.1881,
d. 1967. In USA he married Venke Olene
Jakobsdtr. Hodnefjell from
Mosterøy, b. 1883, d.
1960. They had no children.
They bought a farm (ab. 300 acres) at Radcliffe, where they also are
buried. Johan A. Hodnefield (1881 – 1956), the
brother of Olene is buried next to them.
There have been lots of people from Hodnefjell
going to USA. There they changed their names to Hodnefield.
Jon Hodnefjell came to USA in 1872, and was a farmer
in Radcliffe in Iowa.
In 1962 Ole gave the farm to the local church and moved to his brother Lasse in Clarkfield MN, who had
lost his wife many years ago. Thelma was looking after both. Later the church
sold the farm on the open marked. On our visit in 2013 we could not even find
the church, some miles north of Radcliffe. Local people said it was tear down
because of lack of people. It was only big corn field in that area now.
Olene did not dared to travel
back to Norway because of homesickness. And Ole did not travel alone.
Amerikabrevet:
Ole left Stavanger
on boat to USA, 03.04.1902, only 21 years of age. He traveled to Radcliffe to
meet his brother ML who had traveled 5 years earlier. His big brother Kornelius, 25 year of age (my grandfather), followed him to
Stavanger. On the boat back to teacher work in Suldal,
he wrote a poem saying farewell, se below. And they never met again:
Farvel til Ole
Farvel,
farvel min kjære bror,
som ud må dra fra far og mor.
Til
fremmed land du mål har sat,
Gud give vi fik sees att.
Aa
tungt der er at skilles her
for
dem som har hinanden kjær,
men håbet om at ses igjen
det
lindrer hjertets sørgestreng.
Dog taarer rinder lige godt,
naar
haanden den skal rækkes
bort,
og
trykkes afskedstryk af dig,
jeg saa det smertet dig som mig.
Med
sorg i hjertet du gik ombord,
men
prøvde at smile ved rækken du stod,
du
fikk det ei til, jeg saa det saa
godt,
du syntest at græde, det var lidt
"flaut".
Da
sangen blev sunget, du var ikke med,
med munden jeg mener, for hjerte jeg ved,
sang
sangen og synger den endnu vel længe,
thi
den sangen rører de norske strenge.
Da skibet fra land begyndte at sige,
vi saa, hvor du frem i baugen mon trine,
vi saa dig paa
"lugen" staa
sterk og stor,
vi vidste du tenkte paa Norge og
mor.
Skibet svinget, jeg saa dig
ei mer,
og øinene fulde af
tårer de er
og
snart er skibet ude af sigte,
men mindet om bror skal mig aldri svigte.
Ombord
paa "Rogaland", Torsdag den 3. april 1902.