Family tree Stanley » Kaia Margrete Andersen (1864-????)

Données personnelles Kaia Margrete Andersen 

• Elle est née en l'an 1864.
• Un enfant de Hans Nicolai Andersen et Hulda Elizabeth Sorensen

Famille de Kaia Margrete Andersen

(1) Elle avait une relation avec O. E. Johnson.

Enfant(s):

1. (Ne pas publique)
2. (Ne pas publique)

(2) Elle avait une relation avec Nils Gjestvang.

Enfant(s):

1. Hulda Gjestvang  
2. Conrad Gjestvang  
3. Olynga Gjestvang  
4. Alpha Fredricka Gjestvang  
5. Rose Magdalena Gjestvang  

Notes par Kaia Margrete Andersen

" Nils suffered with tuberculosis for about three years and on May 8,

1892, he

died leaving his expectant wife, Kaia, with five other

small children.A cousin, I. Kessey, came to the rescue

by taking the family to his home whichwas small and

already overcrowded with children. My grandmother sorrowed

theloss of grandfather for months and when the youngest

child, Rose Magdalena, was born, the doctor feared she

would not live.

So I. Kessey, already burdened with

ten children of his own, felt he must do something. He

arranged homes for three of the little girls. They were

legally adopted by three differentfamilies. When grand-

mother aroused herself after months in bed, and letters

began to come back from Norway asking her to get ready

to come back because they would send for her and the

children, she had already signed away the rights to three

of the children. Kaia wrote back to Hans Gjestvang and

thanked him for the offer, but said she would stay in

America. The three girls who wereadopted out were Olynga,

Alpha Fredricka, and Rose Magdalena. Rose Magdalenawas

adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Hans T. Thompson of Forest City,

Iowa. Alpha Freclricka, my mother, was adopted by Mr. and

Mrs. Peter E. Dahl of Lake Mills,Iowa.

Mother does not remember very much about the rest

of the family from then on. However, my grandmother

married again to 0. B. Johnson and they had twochildren,

Marie and Nell. Alpha was seldom allowed to visit her

real mother and her other sisters. However, my real

grandmother, Kaia, gave her many little things that she

would not trust the others with. We have a pin belonging

to my grandfather with a crest on it. Mother did have

a ring to match the pin, but one day it needed fixing.

She took it to a jeweler in Ft. Dodge, Iowa,and when she

came back after pin, the jeweler said he didnt have

it. Although the pin is made of gold and it is broken

in one part, we have not taken itto a jeweler. Mother

has given the pin to me, and I treasure it too much to

lose it. We also have several other pieces of jewelry

and much embroidered linen from Norway that has come

from my mothers own relatives."

Prepared by Harriett Ann Nilsen (Atkins), St. Olaf

College, Northfield MN -1940

" Nils suffered with tuberculosis for about three years and on May 8,

1892, he

died leaving his expectant wife, Kaia, with five other

small children.A cousin, I. Kessey, came to the rescue

by taking the family to his home whichwas small and

already overcrowded with children. My grandmother sorrowed

theloss of grandfather for months and when the youngest

child, Rose Magdalena, was born, the doctor feared she

would not live.

So I. Kessey, already burdened with

ten children of his own, felt he must do something. He

arranged homes for three of the little girls. They were

legally adopted by three differentfamilies. When grand-

mother aroused herself after months in bed, and letters

began to come back from Norway asking her to get ready

to come back because they would send for her and the

children, she had already signed away the rights to three

of the children. Kaia wrote back to Hans Gjestvang and

thanked him for the offer, but said she would stay in

America. The three girls who wereadopted out were Olynga,

Alpha Fredricka, and Rose Magdalena. Rose Magdalenawas

adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Hans T. Thompson of Forest City,

Iowa. Alpha Freclricka, my mother, was adopted by Mr. and

Mrs. Peter E. Dahl of Lake Mills,Iowa.

Mother does not remember very much about the rest

of the family from then on. However, my grandmother

married again to 0. B. Johnson and they had twochildren,

Marie and Nell. Alpha was seldom allowed to visit her

real mother and her other sisters. However, my real

grandmother, Kaia, gave her many little things that she

would not trust the others with. We have a pin belonging

to my grandfather with a crest on it. Mother did have

a ring to match the pin, but one day it needed fixing.

She took it to a jeweler in Ft. Dodge, Iowa,and when she

came back after pin, the jeweler said he didnt have

it. Although the pin is made of gold and it is broken

in one part, we have not taken itto a jeweler. Mother

has given the pin to me, and I treasure it too much to

lose it. We also have several other pieces of jewelry

and much embroidered linen from Norway that has come

from my mothers own relatives."

Prepared by Harriett Ann Nilsen (Atkins), St. Olaf

College, Northfield MN -1940

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