Gayle Ruth Mendenhall

Notes:

!SO: MRIN-555.
BIRTH: St. Barnabas Hospital.
DEATH: St. Barnabas Hospital.
BURIAL: Lakewood Cemetery.

Harold married Sharlotte Lillian Anderson [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: MRIN-555.

Paul married Minnie Hess. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: MRIN-555.

Notes:

SO: D-006, D-025

Sigurdur married Lillian Dahl in 1895. Lillian (daughter of Nils Tobias Dahl and Tori Haaversdatter Ovedal) was born on 6 Jun 1875 in Cottonwood, Lyon, Minnesota, United States; died on 2 Dec 1939; was buried in Minneota, Lyon, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: D-006, MRIN-555.
PROBLEM: D-025 lists bd APR 1872 and b. place as Blue Earth Co, MN. Amy Van Hining lists b. Dec 16, 1875.
BURIAL: Hope Lutheran Cemetery.

Notes:

!SO: D-031, D-014 b. place. D-023 d. place.
D-031 lists name Nils Tobias Dahl (Nils Tobias Pedersen Oksendal)
EMMIGATION: D-031 from Norway to America in 1851.
PROBLEM: D-022 lists name as Neils (nils) Tobias Dahl.
D-024 spells name Niels Tobias Dahl.
D-025 lists b. place as Oxendal, Bakke, Vest-Agder, Norway.
D-029C spells name, Nels.
D-014 list bp as Oksendal, Bakkesogn, Norway.
NOTES: Extractions from "CHRONICLES OF A MINNESOTA PIONEER" (D-012) by
Tilla Regina Dahl Deen-1734, daughter of Nils Dahl-1293.
She spells her father's name, Niels Tobias Dahl. (also D-013 & D-014)
And spells her mother's name, Tori Hoverson.
"When father came to America he was the only member of his family to
come. Later two of his brothers with their families came to our
Dunn County home. As all homesteads near there had been taken,
the brothers moved on to Blue Earth County, Minnesota." She is
referring to Hans P. Dahl-482 and Tonnes A. Dahl-1294 who
emmigrated in 1867 and 1868 respectively. " The villiage of
Pemberton is located on land homsteaded by my uncle Tonnes Dahl."
Nils came from Norway at the age of 20. As soon as he was of age
he homesteaded a farm in Coon Prairie, Wisc. and lived there until
May 1865 when he moved to Dunn County, Wisc. The villiage of
Colfax is on the farmland they owned there. In May 1870 he moved
his family by covered wagon to Blue Earth County, Minn. where he
lived for 3 years. D-012, by daughter Tilla, describes her
memories of growing up and life on the homestead in Cottonwood,
Minn. Nils sold the farm about 1878, soon after baby Herman died
from chickenpox, and moved to Minneota, Minnesota in August, 1879.
Nils had bought a farm a mile east of town and the children
attended school in Minneota. "The school year 1948 was the first
one in the history of Minneota when the public schools of the
villiage had no member of the Dahl family among its pupils". (D-012
p.12)
D-014 describes the emmigration of Niels Dahl and the early years
in America. Niels left Norway April 26, 1851, crossing the
Atlantic in a small ship, (the passengers had to furnish their
own provisions on the ship) landing in New York eight weeks later.
From New York they travelled up the Hudson on a horse drawn canal
boat (which was merely an open barge with no shelter from the
weather) to Albany, and through the canal to Buffalo, N.Y. where
they boarded a small sailboat and landed at Milwaukee, Wisc.
There they bought ox teams and drove across the sparsely settled
state to Vernon County, arriving in August. They settled on
homesteads on Coon Prairie, near what is now Westby, Wisconsin.
Niels was the only member of his family to come at that time.
Tori came a year later with her family, via the same route,
and arrived in Coon Prairie about September 1852. She was 14
years old. Tori remained in Milwaukee for 2 years wih friends so
she could go to school, learn English and the American way of
housekeeping, finally arriving in Coon Prairie by ox drawn wagon.
After marriage Niels and Tori lived on the land he had
homesteaded as soon as he had become of age, until May 1863 when
they moved to Dunn County, Wisc. The village of Colfax is on the
farm they owned there. The moved to Minnesota and back to Wisc.,
then to Blue Earth Co., Minn again for about three years and
then in 1873 homesteaded in Lyon Co., Minnesota on the west side
Cottonwood Lake. After 7 years, in Aug. 1879, they moved
again and bought a farm in Eidsvold Township. They lived one mile
east of Minneota until Feb 22, 1897 when they moved to Minneota
where they lived until their death
D-025 says, Niels Tobias Dahl is the way it is listed on his
tombstone.
BAPTISM: Bakke Church in Norway, also confirmed there. D-014.
MARRIAGE: County from D-023.
OCCUPATION: Farmer
NOTES: D-023 lists year of emigration from Norway to Wisconsin as 1851.
LR: D-006 lists Minneota, MN.

Nils married Tori Haaversdatter Ovedal on 3 Jun 1857 in Coon Prairie, Vernon, Wisconsin, United States. Tori was born on 9 Oct 1837 in Oftedal, Bakke, Vest Agder, Norway; died on 9 Jul 1919 in Minneota, Lyon, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: D-031. (D-031 lists name Tori Haaversdatter Ovedal (Tori Hoverson). Amy Van Hining lists Tori Haversdatter Aavedal.
EMMIGRATION: D-031 lists she came from Norway to America in 1852.
PROBLEM: D-006 lists name as Tori (Hoverson) Haaversdatter; b. place as
Aavendal, Bakkesogn, Norway..
D-022 lists name as Tori Hoverson.
D-014 lists name as Tori Haaversdatter Aavedal; b. place as Aavedal.
"When the family came to the United States, the double 'a' in
Haaverson was probably dropped and the girls assumed the surname,
Hoverson, as well as the boys. (S. D. Abbott)"
D-014 lists the names and b. and d. dates of her 5 brothers and 3
sisters and names her father, Haaver Haaverson Sansmark.
BAPTISM: in the Bakke Church in Norway. Also confirmed there. D-014.
NOTES: D-023 (ancestry chart) shows one more generation of her ancestry. Lists
parents as Haaver Aavedahl Sandsmark (1806-1881) and Karen T.
Frederiksdatter Oftedahl (this listing is not certain). Jeanne Jaeger
Horsey of Seattle, WA has information for this line.
D-025 lists b. place as Oftetal, Bakke, Vest-Agder, Norway.