Lars Hanson LARSON

Abt 1856 - 1948  (~ 92 years)

• Name	Lars Hanson LARSON
  Birth	Abt 1856	Norway   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1948  [1]
  Notes	Notes from the Howard/Messing public tree on Ancestry.com: Lars (Lewis) (Louis) Hanson Larson Born October 29, 1855, Died September 4, 1948 Ingeborg (Isabell) Thompson Born July 18, 1857, Died June 1, 1936 Both interred in the Larson family plot at city cemetery, Colton, South Dakota, as are also their daughters Agnes and Laura with husbands, Robert Heihn and Oscar Severson, respectively and also Lloyd and his wife June. Lar Hanson Larson was born on October 29, 1855, on the Selle farm of the fremming Estate near the village of Mena in the Eidavold Parish in Norway. This is about six miles north of Christiana (0slo), Norway. His father was Hans F. Larson and his mother Ingeborg Marie, the daughter of Anders Roise. The (Roise), came from the name of the estate (Roistua), on which they lived. At the age of four Lars went to live with his Aunt Martha Marie __________, a widow who had a farm who had a farm in the Hurdale Parish. At the age of nine he returned to live with his parents. It is of interest to note that years later, about, 1925, Lars received a small bequest from proceeds from his aunt's estate. He attended school in Norway two days each week for eleven months and that was his formal education but when he reached adult hood he could read and write both in English and Norwegian self taught and with help from wife after marriage. Also he could handle ordinary math such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. All this despite long hard hours or work for farmers in the logging and lumber, and handling his own farm. F&I In the spring of 1866, Lars with his parents and family sailed from Norway to America. The family lived 1869 near Arena, (Iowa County) county ), Wisconsin. When they moved Osseo, Wisconsin, Lars worked among farmers in area and also in logging camps and a porter (saw)mill at Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Lars read about opportunities to obtain free government land in the Dakotas Territory so with a friend, Ova Moe, they left for the west on April 31, 1878. They both took up land claims three and one-fourth miles of the present village of Montrose. They each had a team of horses and covered wagons in which they camped on their journey and while building sod houses an their homesteads. They hunted and trapped fur-bearing animals for their pelt to sell and they burned lime in kilns, which they hauled to Sioux Falls for cash to buy needed provisions. For their meat needs there were plenty of deer, antelope, ducks, and prairie hens to be had, with also fish from the Vermilion River, which ran through the Larson claim. The battle of Little BigHorn had been fought two years(1876) before their arrival in Dakota and the Indians were supposed to be confined to the Sioux reservation which than included all of the territory west of the Missouri River, but they still wandered about on their trails to and from the Big Sioux River area, which they loved as a hunting and fishing ground. Their trips often brought them close to where Lars and his Partner had settled and they had to keep a close lookout for their livestock which the Indians would sometimes take to replace their vanished buffalo herds. Lars partner Ova Moe became tired of farm life and sold his 160-acre claim to Lars. Later Lars bought the claim of his brother-in-law Andrew Thompson, acquired the 160 acres of his wife's claim and bought more land until he owned in all about 1000 acres of the Vermilion River Valley and adjoining hills. During the year 1879 and 1880 grasshoppers destroyed most of the crops the settlers had planted. The winter of 1860 - 1881 was very severe and with their meager fuel supplies exhausted them 'd" settlers burned the ties and telegraph poles of the railroad tracks then being laid. On March 29, 1881, Lars married Ingeborg Thompson at Yankton, South Dakota the territorial capitol of the Dakotas. The trip from Montrose, to Yankton, a distance of ninety-five miles, was made by horse drawn wagon, overland, and the couple was accompanied by the bride's brother Andrew Thompson. From this union came the following children. NAME BORN DIED BURIED Ida (Iverson) 1/1/1882 2/2/1962 Montrose, S.D. Agnes (Robert Heihn) 6/9/1884 2/22/1973 Colton, S.D. Laura (Oscar Severson) 8/30/1886 1/25/1967 Colton, S.D. Hanna (Frank Sherlock) 7/24/1888 7/25/1959 Long Beach, CA Maggie (Sig Walker) 11/9/1890 1/10/1962 Long Beach, CA Henry Oden 3/9/1892 2/1/1946 Woonsocket S.D. Alma (Oscar Thue) 1/16/1894 Lloyd Albert 3/19/1896 8/18/1962 Colton, S.D. Lee Guy 11/13/1899 Ingeborg (Isabrill) Thomson was born in Vang in Valders, Norway July 18, 1857. Her parents were Ole Thurston Trondsen and Ingeborg Anders daughter. Her parents are interred in cemetery of the Silver Lake Lutheran church about 4 miles east of Emmons, Minnesota. Ingeborg was about one year old when her parents migrated to America and she was with them on their westward trek across Wisconsin to Calmer, Iowa. The family lived there during the civil war and she told her children about the Union soldiers passing through on their way south. When Ingeborg was about twelve (1869) the family moved to Worth County, Iowa, and she later recalled fishing in nearby lakes (Silver Lake being one) and playing with the Winnebago Indian children that tribe being nearby. When she was about seventeen the family moved on to Rock County, Minnesota, where she found work with the family of a lumber man named Roderick and with them she later moved to the new town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where work had begun on a railroad to link that town with the east. She was governess to the Roderick children. At the age of twenty-three Ingeborg took up a claim next to one of her brother Andrew about two miles southeast of the present village of Montrose, South Dakota. This place was about one and one-half miles north of the claim of her future husband. Ingeborg, having had schooling in America, did much in helping Lars with his education besides mothering nine children she spent long hard hours at, keeping house, gardening raising chickens and at times even helping with the farm work by mowing or driving the horses pulling the reaper. Despite low prices on farm produce, grasshoppers and sometimes serious droughts, the couple prospered. Their principal source of income was from sale of livestock. By leasing grazing land on the nearby hills they would run up to 150 cattle and they also raised sheep, and hogs. Lars health began to fail about 1904 and the doctors could not diagnose his ailment, so in September, 1909, the couple and younger children moved to Colton a village about, twenty-one miles east of Montrose, Lars seemed to overcome his ailment and finally died when he was almost ninety-three years old. He was proceeded in death by Ingeborg by about twelve years, She was then seventy-nine. Lars was survived at his death by forty grandchildren, sixty-four great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild. Lars was about. 5-10-1/2 tall 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 Larson - Iverson Montrose Memories Book Lars (Lewie) Larson was born in Osla, 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, Predisent aSoutheast Quarter of Sectiojn 3, Township 102, North jRange 3 and other land, containing 160 acres. This is in Greenland Township. Ath 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 Sious 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 Juanuary 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]
  Person ID	I9844	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2011

  
  

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  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

  [S310] KatherineHoward26, Howard/Messing public tree, (Ancestry.com).