Ingebjørg Helgedtr UVDAL

1845 - 1926  (80 years)

• Name	Ingebjørg Helgedtr UVDAL
  Birth	24 Aug 1845	Uvdal 2/2 Sygardé
  Gender	Female
  Emigration	1869	Kenyon Twp, Goodhue County, MN. USA   [1]
  Death	31 May 1926	Lyons County, Minnesota MN, USA
  Notes	Fra boka "Fever Saga" av Robert Lloyd Lee. Berit sat as if she were stunned. But her mind was sharp and clear as she reviewed the situation. After the first shock had subsided she realized that the America Fever signs had been right in front of her nose for months. It had been almost a year now since Nils Myre left for America. Berit had been aware of his interest in Ingeborg, and she was not displeased by it, either. He came from a fine family and seemed to be a sensible, hard-working fellow. Besides , it was time for Ingeborg to start thinking of a home of her own. And she could do a lot worse than Nils. How blind I have been! Berit scolded herself. Yet when she first heard that Nils was showing signs of the America Fever, it seemed to her that his visits to Ingeborg would cease. Surely a married man of his limited means could never consider such a venture. And that was that. But she heard that Nils was still seeing her. It made Berit uneasy, for she was sure that nothing would come of it now, and Ingeborg would only be hurt. And, besides, it would not do for other eligible young men to think that Nils had spoken fo r her. I must speak to Ingeborg about it one of these days, Berit had said to herself. The time came for Nils to go. It seemed to her that Ingeborg faced the farewells quite calmly. There were a couple of months of silence. And then letters began to arrive from America. Yet Berit was still blind to the obvious. The arrival of a letter from Nils became quite an event for the Opdal family. It was the custom for Ingeborg to come home on Sunday afternoons, and so it was then that she read portions of the letters aloud to the others. He wrote of his long voyage over the ocean, and then over a second trip by train across much of the American continent. Berit listened with half an ear while she went about her household chores, but the boys sat entranced barely moving a muscl e as Ingeborg read. The farthest they had ever traveled from home was the city of Fagernes, so the towering mountain peaks and narrow valleys of Valdres were the only world they knew. Now they listened wide-eyed to Nils' accounts of rolling farmland that was free fo r the asking, flat prairies with hardly a rock, stretching as far as the eye could see. Such a land was almost beyond their imagination. It sounded like heaven! The boys smiled at Ingeborg's attempts to pronounce some of the strange American words. "G-o-o-d-h-u-e C-o-u-n-t-y ... uff da!" she complained. "Why do they give such odd names to their districts?" But she repeated the words again after reading that this place was the new home for many Valdres folk, including not a few from the Van g Parish. However, there were some portions of the letters that Ingeborg didn't share with her family. Berit should have guessed. She should have been warned, too, by the glow of excitement in the eyes of Trond and Helge. It was as clear as da y that they had been making their plans for a long time. Now it was too late. Trond returned to the room, and Berit forced her mind to return from the past to the present, trying to concentrate on her son's words. "Nils wrote that he will send a ticket for Ingeborg. They have a real Norwegian pastor there, too, who will marry them. According to him, Helge and I won't have any problem finding plenty of work to do, either." Berit looked up quickly as though she would speak, but he continued with scarcely a pause. "Ja, I know that there is plenty of work for us to do here, too. But the farm isn't big enough to divide between four brothers. And even if I would clai m my rights as eldest son, I would still have to go into debt to pay off Ingeborg and the boys for their inheritance shares. You would have to receive your reserved rights, too. It would be impossible to even make a living under such a burde n of debt." It was a long speech for her silent son. But Berit had nothing to say. What was the use of words now when their minds were made up?
  Person ID	I12725	Valdres Slekt
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2007

  
  

  Father	Helge Andrisson LUNDE,   b. 24 Jun 1810, Lunde 17/2, Øvre d. 8 Dec 1859, Uvdal 2/2 Sygardé (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Berit Trondsdtr ØYE,   b. 10 Sep 1826, Øye 14/3, Sørre d. 9 Aug 1902, Uvdal 2/2 Sygardé (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	1844
  Family ID	F2420	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nils Nilson MYRE,   b. 20 Apr 1847, Myre 47/2 d. 4 Jun 1930, Lyons County, Minnesota MN, USA (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	7 Mar 1871	Vang Twshp, Dennison Goodhue Co USA   [1]
  Children	1. Nels Nilssen MYHRE,   b. 9 Dec 1871, Lyons County, Minnesota MN, USA d. 9 Dec 1871, Lyons County, Minnesota MN, USA (Age 0 years) + 2. Ingre Nilsdtr MYHRE,   b. 6 Feb 1873, Lyons County, Minnesota MN, USA d. 14 Mar 1958, USA (Age 85 years) + 3. Nels Nilsson MYHRE,   b. 20 Nov 1874, Lyons County, Minnesota MN, USA d. 15 Dec 1946, USA (Age 72 years)   4. Berit Nilsdtr MYHRE,   b. 19 Dec 1876, Lyons County, Minnesota MN, USA d. 26 Feb 1896, Lyons County, Minnesota MN, USA (Age 19 years) + 5. John Nilsen MYHRE,   b. 22 Jan 1881, Lyons County, Minnesota MN, USA d. 10 Jan 1968, Minneota Manor Minnesota, USA (Age 86 years)   6. Bessie MYHRE,   b. 20 Sep 1883, Lyons County, Minnesota MN, USA d. 3 Jun 1963 (Age 79 years) + 7. Emma MYHRE,   b. 26 May 1886, Lyons County, Minnesota MN, USA d. 20 Jul 1954, USA (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F3550	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2007

  
  

• Sources

  [S219] Opdahl.