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From Eggedal, Norway to The Old Log Church southeast of Sunburg, Minnesota
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Video, photos and description submitted by Lowell Torkelson
Here is a little information of the names of my ancestors and which farm they came from in the Eggedal area of Norway.
Raghnild Jellum is from the Jellum farm. She married to Anders Skare.
Anders Skare is from the Skare farm. He married to Raghnild Jellum.
Kari Flaten is also from the Skare farm. She married Christian Pladson; Kari's parents were Ole Eriksen and Astrid Bergan - they were husmann on the Skare farm,
they immigrated to the Norway Lake area in Minnesota with their daughter and 6 other children and went by the names of Ole and Astri Skarhus in America.
Eli Bøleshagen is from the Bøleshagen farm. She immigrated to the Norway Lake area near Sunburg, Minnesota.
Eli had four sons: Lars Olson (killed in the Civil War), Torsten Hagen, Ole Medallen and Christian Pladson who married Kari Flaten. Eli's husband and four daughters remained
in Norway.
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