Jared Lewis Abrahamson

Gayle married Karen Ann Coughlin [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: MRIN-1379.

James married Wilma Schneider. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: MRIN-1379.

Joseph married Theressa Dahl [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: MRIN-520.

Jesse married Olava Hoghaug. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: MRIN-520.

Notes:

!SO: D-005, D-036, D-042, MRIN-517.
NOTES: The name is listed various ways on these documents. MRIN-517 states
that it was Lars Christian Pedersen Dahl in Norway and that Pedersen was
dropped when he came to America and took the name, DAHL.
The obituary attached to MRIN-517 lists, Lars Christian Dahl.
BURIAL: Hitterdal East Cemetery.
NOTES: D-042 lists him as cook in Norse army, farmer, sunday school teacher.
NOTES: D-042 says Lars and Anna were reared in Oxendal. AT age 16 Lars
emigrated to America and worked for his relatives (D-013 indicates
he worked for Nils Dahl) in Southern Minnesota, attending school and
learning English. After 8 years he returned to Norway and worked on his
father's farm for 3 years. He then returned to America. After spending
2 years he returned to Norway, taking over the estate upon the death of
his father. Lars sold the estate, married, and together with his wife
and his mother, returned once again to America (June 1908) and settled in
Minneapolis, MN, where he worked for a time as a streetcar conductor.
But city life did not appeal to Lars and Anna (who spoke no English)
and they moved to Cottonwood, MN to be among relatives in a Norse
community. They farmed there for 7 years. Their desire to own their
own home in a christian community of their own nationality prompted
their move to their farm near Hitterdal, MN where they lived out their
lives. Son, Olaf, goes on to relate that the average life of his
paternal ancestors was between 75 and 94 years; his maternal side lived
between 70 and 87 years of age. His ancestors were blonde, fair
complexioned, and had grey or blue eyes. Olaf goes on to relate that
his father's ancestors were were of a listless nature with not much
enthusiasm for betterment of surrounding conditions, rather quiet and
prefer to hear rather than speak. His mother's ancestry was more
concerned with finding ways to make things different and better, were
often a bit outspoken, were outgoing, sociable and had a happy nature.
Olaf notes that both sides of his ancestry were interested in reading,
there were teachers, an author and also one who wrote a mathematics
textbook. His parents and grandparents were christian examples and
taught their children reverence for the bible and prayer. All of the
ancestors had been born a raised in rural valleys between the mountains
in Norway. The male ancestry of both Lars and Anna had derived from
Oxendal where farming is carried on on a small scale. All the tillable
land was used for agriculture while the mountain slopes were used for
raising hay and for pasturing cattle and sheep. Wood cut from the
mountainsides had to be transported (as did the hay) to the valley below.
Fishing was not commercialized but was carried on a a source of food.
Oxendal had had a religious awakening at one time and the community had
their own pastor and the children were thoroughly instructed in the
catechism and, at public school, in church history. Travel to the
nearest town, Flekkefjord, a distance of about 30 miles, was by boat.
Life was meager and not without hardship and many left to come to
America to seek their fortune. They found work in the lumber camps of
northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. However, most of the older ones
returned later to Norway to be with their families.

Lars married Tori Eliasdatter Oksendal on 22 Dec 1906. Tori was born on 7 Jun 1885 in Øksendal, Bakken Sogn, Vest Agder, Norway; died on 8 Jun 1970 in Velva, McHenry, North Dakota, United States; was buried in Hitterdal, Clay, Minnesota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SO: D-042, MRIN-517 (and attached obituary). Lists name, Thora Oxendahl.
BURIAL: Hitterdal East Cemetery.