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• Residence: Blue Earth, Fairbault MN, USA
• Emigration: 21 Apr 1854, USA

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Faren er Per Hallvardsen Hovland og moren Gunhild Eriksdtr Hola. Ola var først gift med Anne Olsdtr Hatleberg fra Lærdal

Name and place of birth from sons death record as recorded in theFaribault county records. Also found in Ardal bygdeboker page 151 (1) Ole b. 1817 g.m. 1844 Anna Olsdotter Hatleberg f. 1824. Ola Persson Hovland og kona Anna hadde 3 born: Brita f. 1844 Guri f.1848, Peder f. 1852. Heile familien reiste til Am. 21.4.1854.

Ola married Anna Olsdtr HATLEBERG in 1844 in Årdal Kirke, Sogn Og Fjordane. Anna (daughter of Ola Kristensen HILLESTAD and Brita Hallvardsdtr ASPERHEIM) was born in 1824 in Hatleberg 57/1, Borgund; died on 7 Jul 1854 in Spring Prairie, Columbia Co., WI., USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ola married Marit Einarsdtr HERMUNDSTAD on 29 Dec 1855 in Spring Prairie, Columbia Co., WI., USA. Marit (daughter of Einar Gullikson HERMUNDSTAD and Marit Andrisdtr SVIEN) was born on 31 May 1817 in Hermundstad 5/2; died on 2 Dec 1908 in Bush Creek, Fairbault MN, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Choice, Fillmore County, MN USA
• Emigration: 21 Apr 1854, USA

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I have been searching far and wide to learn something about Bretta (AuntBetsy, as our relatives know her). She was 10 years old when her father and mother, younger sister and brother decided to emigrate to Amerika. She was born in 1844 and the y came in 1855. She grew up in the mountains, and fjords, and lived in an area where her family and theirf amilies before her lived for generations. They packed everything they could take with them, left everything else behind, boarded a smal l boat,went to a port, (probably Bergen) and boarded a big ship and started across the big ocean to lands unknown. The ships at that time were sailing ships, it was before steam ships, and the voyage took about 9 to12 weeks. They arrived in Ne w York, carried all their possessions to find transportation inland. They probably took a train (if they had money) to a barge on the Erie Canal, took boat to Milwaukee, . and then probably walked to Dane County, Father, Mother, sister Guri, ba bybrother Peter, and herself. They were probably very short of money, and very short of food. She was a little girl and she did not understand the language, the weather was different, and the scenery was different and the familiar mountains an d fjords were gone forever.

After more research I will learn more about the family. But today we can only suppose, they meet a relative in Dane County. In two months Bretta's mother died of Cholera (the story that I heard from a historianat the Spring Prairie Lutheran Chu rch).

By the time Breta was 11 years old, her father married a woman with an 11year old son and they lived together as a family. She had been the head of the household, taking care of her sister, Guri, and her little brother, Peter.

In the next 6 or 7 years or so, she had 2 more brothers and a new babysister. About the time Breta was 17 or 18 years old, the family decided to move furthur west to a wild and unsettled land, Faribault County Minnesota.

I do not know if Breta moved with her family to Faribault County or not. I only know that she married a Peter Johnson from Huska farm Norway andt hat they had a farm in Choice, Minnesota. It is in Norway Township, Fillmore County. Joe Kallesta d said she had 16 children. At this time I only have the names of some of the children. I do think that one daughter spent some time visiting in Frost area because Joe talked about Dina Derling and her children. He also talked about Bell an d Charley Bleed and the fact that her husband was a Minnepolis Policeman and so was one of her sons.

Breta spent her elderly years with her daughter Emma (Forsberg). I talkedt o Emma's daughter, Lorraine Davis and she said that her mother and grandmother (Breta) talked Norwegian and she could not understand what they said so she knew very littl e about her grandmother. She did not know that her grandmother had all this family that us Hovlands turned outto be.

I have been told that Ener, Ole, Anne, and Martin thought of Breta and Guri as their aunts, I suppose because they were so much older.

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• Emigration: 21 Apr 1854, Wisconsin, USA

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Gunnhild was born in Norway same as Breta and emigrated with her parents when she was 7 years old. Her mother died shortly after they arrived in Wisconsin.

She was known as Guri most of her life. I did find her in the Wisconsin1860 Federal Census as Julia Peterson with her family. Julia was the Americanized name for Guri. She was listed this way in the 1865 Minnesota State cenus. But my grandmoth er, Josephine Hovland Dorr, called her "Aunt Guri."

They lived in Erskine (Polk County) Minnesota. Guri and Benjamin had no children of their own. They adopted a baby boy. His name was Edward Rustvold. Aunt Guri was his biological aunt. So he was a direct decent of Hovlands.

Eddie grew up and married Randa Emily Dorr. She was called Emily. Shewas Carl Dorr's sister. Carl Dorr was married to Josephine Hovland andare my grandparents.

Eddie and Emily had 3 children, Genevieve, Ellen, and Burton. Emily diedat a young age of pneumonia. Eddie found himself a widower with 3 youngchildren. Guri helped raised the children.

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• Emigration: 21 Apr 1854, Wisconsin, USA

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Peter was born in Aardal, Norway on the Hagen hussman plas underHovland. He was 2 years old when his family emigrated to Amerika. He lost his mother when he was 2 years old. He had a new mother and step-brother by the time he was 3 years old.

I found Peter with his family in the 1860 Wisconsin Federal Census and he was 8 years old. I did not find him in the 1865 Minnesota Census. I found the family in Brush Creek, Faribault Co, and the family names were correct, but Peter was no t among them. He would have been 12 years old and I do not believe that he was working on another farm. The area was not populated enough and no one had any extra money to hire hands.

We have not found any furthur record of him at this time. I have asked the Spring Prairie Lutheran church historian if she would search the church records for any record of his communion or his dealth.

He could have died after they came to Faribault County, but I have found no record yet of this either.

If anyone knows anything about Peter, I hope that I hear from you.

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• Residence: Emerald, Faribault, MN., USA

Ener married Maria (Mary) OLSON on 25 Sep 1877. Maria was born in Ølen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Han var gift med en som het Johanna

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• Residence: Brush Creek, Faribault, MN., USA

Notes:

Hun giftet seg i 1882 med Iver Amundsen i South Blue Earth Church i Brush Creek MN.

Notes:

Han var gift med Marie Halverson

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Birth record as recorded in the Faribault county records: NAME: Josephine Eliza Hovland MONTH: Oct. DAY: 25 YEAR: 1892 SEX: Female COLOR: White PLACE OF BIRTH: Town of Emerald FATHER: Ener P. Hovland MOTHER: Mary Hovland FATHERS BIRTH PLACE: Wisconsin MOTHERS BIRTH PLACE: Wisconsin FATHERS AGE: 35 MOTHERS AGE: 36

Marriage record as recorded in the Faribault county records: Filed under women: Filed under men: NAME: Hoveland Josephine Elisa Dorr, Carl Edwin MONTH: Jan Jan DATE: 9 9 YEAR: 1918 1918 BOOK: N N PAGE: 48 48 SPOUSE:Carl Edwin Darr Josephine Elise Hovland