She has/had a relationship with Anders Olsen Husby.
Child(ren):
Elisabeth Johnsdatter
Elisabeth's group landed at Gill's Pier. She later told what a nasty experience Ellis Island had been. It was like being in a sheep pen, and people were treated like animals.
(Ellis Island was the reception center for immigrants in New York.)
At first Elisabeth was a serving girl, and then she married Anders Olsen Husby, presumably from Aure (Oksendal?).
Anders first worked in a logging camp, and then he homesteaded with his brother-in-law Ole in Sutton's Bay. Ole moved out when Anders and Elisabeth were married. Their first home was a log cabin with two rooms. They always planted a lilac bush in front of their home, and the lilacs, which stood before the home of Anders and Elisabeth, still stand where their cabin was, continuing to bloom after nearly 100 years. The house they later built was moved 20 miles back from the road on log rollers several years ago and rebuilt into a nice, contemporary house. When Esther, who told us this, was 6 years old, her father died and her brother Ole, then 21, took over the responsibility for the family.
Children: Ole, Minnie, Trena, Molly, Mary, Esther, twins Mandon and Leonard, and Molly. All except the last three were born in the log cabin.
The farm lies 2 miles south of Sutton's Bay.
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