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- Han reiste til Amerika med sin nye kone og sønnen fra første ekteskap. Med dem reiste også Gjertrud Endresdtatter, datteren til søsteren Anne og Endre Lien. Clarin "Skip" Anderson skriver: LARS CHRISTOPHERSON LOCKREM GENEALOGY Lars Christopherson Løkreim (10-Apr-1802, Vang, Valdres-19-Aug-1882, Warsaw Twp., Goodhue Co., MN; bur. Vang Cem., Holden Twp., Goodhue Co., MN), tailor and spelemann, m. 1X Anne Øysteinsdtr Løkreim (Berge?), (1806 - 1850). One child: Christopher (3-Nov-1830, Vang, Valdres - 29-Dec-1906, Vang, Goodhue Co., MN; bur. Vang Cem.), also tailor and spelemann. (see below)
Lars Christopherson Løkreim m. 2X Anna Knutsdtr Remme(29-Dec-1823, Vang, Valdres -21-May-1903, Goodhue Co., MN). Apparently no children were born to this union.
Lars (1802), w. Anna (1823), and son Christopher (1830) checked out of Vang parish on March 26, 1857, and immigrated together(May 3, 1857) on the vessel Olaf, first to Decorah, IA, for 3 months, then on to Goodhue Co., MN. With them was Lars's ne ice Gertrude Endresdtr, who was the daughter of Anne Christophersdtr [Løkreim] (1810 - 1861) (the only living sibling who did not immigrate) and husband Endre Olsen Lien/Dalsødegaarden. Lars's family settled in the Vang settlement in Warsaw Twp. , Goodhue Co., in the rolling hills between the settlements Sogn and Dennison (near Hwys. 56 and 246), not far from where Lars's brothers Iver and Gullick were homesteading in Northfield Twp., Rice Co. Iver Christopherson Lockrem's son Christophe r married Gertrude Endresdtr. The Lockrem brothers' sister, widow Gertrude Tviet, also immigrated in 1864 and settled in Warsaw Twp. Lars Lockrem's family was active in the development of Vang Lutheran Church.
||Christopher Larson Lockrem m. Berit [Bertha] Andersdtr Høverstad (June 9, 1837 - May 21, 1883; bur. Holden Cem.). Children: |||Lars (May-3-1863 - Dec-28-1935; bur. Cannon Falls Cem., Cannon Falls Twp., Goodhue Co., MN) m. (Nov-16-1892) Gertrude Nilsdtr Dalbotten(Mar-12-1867 - 1956; bur. Cannon Falls Cem.). Lived at Cannon Falls, MN, where they had a gravestone business . Among children: ||||Carl Lars (1895 - 1919; bur. Cannon Falls Cem.) ||||Nels Leonard (Oct-12-1896 - Apr-7-1967; bur. Cannon Falls Cem; WWI vet) m. Lila N. Bakken, daughter of Knute and Signe Jacobsen Bakken (1906 - 1976; bur. Cannon Falls) Amg. children: |||||Lyndon (b. 1933), m. Delores, live Inver Grove Heights, MN Children: ||||||Diane (b. 1958), live Waconia, MN |||||||Jessica (b. ca. 1981) ||||||Carl (b. 1975) ||||||Marie (b. 1975) |||Anders [Andrew] (Aug-12-1864 - Jan-5-1898) m. (Feb-17-1891) Dena, daughter of Finkel Thoreson (Sept-20-1867 - Jan-9-1959; bur. Vang Cem) |||Christopher (Dec-30-1865 - ?) |||Torger (Nov-28-1867 - ?; conf. 1882) |||Andreas (Dec-15-1869 - ?; in Harvey, N.D. 1936) |||Berit (Jan-27-1872 - bur. Apr-2-1872) |||Berit [Bertha] (June-21-1873 - May-26-1931; bur. Vang Cem., unmarried |||Anne (Dec-1-1875 - Sun. bef. Feb-4-1948; bur. Vang Cem.) m. (Sept-15-1917) Anton Remmen (Aug-29-1875 - Dec-1957; bur. Vang Cem.) |||Øystein [Austin] (July-13-1878 - Apr-30-1950; bur. Vang Cem.) m. (Aug-20-1921, Sioux City, IA) Malvina Estrem, daughter of Knute and Berit Soine Estrem (Apr-24-1896 - Feb-10-1931; bur. Vang Cem.) Among children: ||||Austin C. (d. infancy 1922; bur. Vang Cem.) ||||Carl Marvin (Jan-15-1928 - Dec-21-1956; bur. Vang Cem.) m. (Mar-19-1949) Mildred Johnson (1928 - ?; bur. Red Rose Cem, Waterford Twp., Dakota Co., MN). (Mildred m. 2X Edwin James Harkness, 1914 - Nov-28-1985) Among children: |||||Daniel Marvin (July-21-1947 - Mar-6-1992; bur. Vang Cem) m. (Mar-8-1969) Sue Marie Kelsey |||||Douglas M. (Feb-18-1954 - Nov-4-1972; bur. Vang Cem.) ||||Laurence Christopher (Dec-8-1930 - May-1949; bur. Vang Cem.) ||||Gladys (Sept-13-1924 - July-4-1988; bur. Vang Cem.) m. Alva King (July-2-1917), owned old Lockrem homestead (Hwys. 56 & 246) |||Caroline (Aug-12-1880 - Aug-13-1882)
Sources: Utflyttere fra Valdres Holden Church Records John Dalby Database Forrest Brown, Archivist for the Norwegian-American Historical Association Lyndon Lockrem Anders Frøholm: Vang i Valdres
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