Torgun Hansdatter Nelson

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83927204/torgun-hansdatter-nelson

Birth, death, marriage and emigration records from Norway:

"1842: Knud Ellingsen Solum med Kone [with wife] 2-42, 20.6.1823, 100. (Elling Joensen Solum-Christie Knudsd), f 20.6.21,. Knud leste Amerika-brev av Nattestadbrødrene i Numedal, til Rock Prairie, Rock Co WI, 40 acres i 1861, 1876 til Town of North Fork, Stearns Co., MN, 9 barn, g 5.3.1842

Torgun Hansd Melbraaten 3-42,-101 (Hans Østensen Mælbraaten, 57-52-Barbro Engebretsd), f 26.3.1824, se 57-52. Barn: Christi 1845-1848, Christie 5.3.1849, Barbro 15.4.1852 Hall okt 1912-11."

Emigrated from Norway to America on the ship "Ellida" which arrived in New York from Gøteborg, Sweden on August 9, 1842. Jens J. Jensen was the ship's captain. They settled first in Rock Prairie, Rock County, Wisconsin, but later moved to Spring Grove, Houston County, Minnesota after Torgun's parents and brothers arrived from Norway in 1852. After the death of her first husband, Torgun married Niels Nielsen, and in 1866 they moved with their son Lars to Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.