Isabelle THOMPSON

1857 - 1936  (78 years)

• Name	Isabelle THOMPSON  [1]
  Birth	16 Jun 1857	Vang i Valdres, Oppland Fylke, Norway   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	27 Sep 1857	Vang i Valdres, Oppland Fylke, Norway   [1]
  Death	Jun 1936	Colton, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, USA   [2]
  Notes	In her baptism record, her father has the surname Tvedt. Lars (Lewie) Larson was born in Oslo, Norway and came by boat to the U.S.A. at the age of 19 years. He worked his way west and came to S.D. where he later filed for a homestead dated March 25, 1885, signed by Grover Cleveland, President, a Southeast Quarter of Section 3, Township 102, North Range 3 and other land, containing 160 acres. This is in Greenland Township. At this time they had to live on the land for five years before they could file a claim for it. He built a sod shanty in which he lived for years. In 1881 [sic] he married Isabell Thompson who lived 1 ½ miles north. She also came form Thronheim [sic], Norway. She learned to walk aboard ship on the five weeks across the ocean. They bought two horses and a wagon and drove to Sioux Falls to buy lumber to build their first wooden house. It was a two room shack, one they lived in, the other was to store and preserve their grains. That little shack was in use until about 10 years ago. They used dried buffalo chips for fuel and a lot of meals were cooked out-of-doors in open kettle over a fire built in a hole in the ground with a "Y" stick on each end and a pole across on which the kettle hung. They went through all the hardships of the early settlers, like floods, drought, storms, priairie fires, etc. When the Vermillion River flooded, Larson made a boat and rowed to the other side to milk the cows and then rowed home with the milk. Their first child, Ida, was born January 1, 1882. She was one of the first white babies born in this area. When she was a year old, her parents had to fight a big prairie fire. To keep the baby entertained while they were busy, they swept off the big flat rock used for a doorstep and poured sugar on it and showed baby how to lick it up. They were then free to run with gunny sacks to the river and fight the fire with wet sacks. Lars walked to Sioux Falls for supplies and walked hoe again. The necessity of his trips depended on how often Indians came begging food. They had a large family of six girls and three boys. Ida, Agnes, Maggie, Hanna, Laura, Alma, Henry, Lloyd and Lee. They lived on the farm until 1908 then bought a house in Colton and retired there. Isabell passed away in 1935 and Lars in 1948. Only two children survive, Alma and Lee. In 1908 their oldest daughter, Ida, and her husband, Iver Iverson, moved onto the Larson homestead and lived there for 24 years. Ten children were born to this union. Six boys and four girls; Nathen of Tacoma, Wash.; Ernest of Montrose, S.D.; Inez, deceased at eight months; Irene Anderson of Montrose; Lawrence of Flandreau, S.D.; Lewis of Solway, Minn.; Mable Thompson of Hartford, S.D.; Floyd, deceased at ten years of age; Ivan, killed in an auto accident at the age of 21 years; Verda Ellsaesser of Liberal, Kan. Ida and Iver Iverson had thirty-five grandchildren. Additional information about this story Description Date 1878 ? to 1948 Location From Norway to Colton, SD Attached to * Belle "Ingeborg" Thompson (1857 - 1936) [1, 3]
  Person ID	I9797	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2012

  
  

  Family ID

  F1986

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• Photos » Slide Show		Lars and Ingeborg Thompson
  		Isabelle (Ingeborg) Thompson
  		Lars Larson Family

  
  

  Documents

  "Ole Throndsen Ellingbøe's 1866 Letter from Iowa" James Ellingboe, Budstikken, May 2011, pages 12-15. Many persons mentioned in this letter are described in footnotes and linked to this letter.

  
  

• Sources

  [S125] Vang Church Books, (Records found in original books at Hamar State Archives, LDS microfilm, or Digital Archives.), Ministerialbok nr. 6 (1846-1864), F?dte og d?pte 1857, p. 50, #77. (Reliability: 3). [S310] KatherineHoward26, Howard/Messing public tree, (Ancestry.com). [S310] KatherineHoward26, Howard/Messing public tree, (Ancestry.com), From Larson - Iverson Montrose Memories Book RenaeSLP added this to the Howard/Messing public tree on Ancestry.Com 10 Jan 2010 shirl2sg originally submitted this to the Howard/Messing tree on 21 Sep 2008 (Reliability: 3).