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Visitor: Lorna L. Hemm
Reference: From another genealogy resource - can't remember
Location: Elkton, Oregon
Contact: llhemm@teleport.com
Date: Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 00:23:28 (EDT)
Comments: You have a great home page. I am researching the following
family names: Thompson (Norway-Minnesota-California); Hemm
(Germany-Missouri-California); Williams, Gottschalk, Kraus, Syfritt.
Just getting started and don't know all the protocol. My great
grandfather, Peter Hillestad Thompson was born in Norway in 1839.
His father apparently drowned at sea and Peter and his two brothers
immigrated to America. Where they landed and when is unknown but
Peter and one brother fought for the North in the Civil War. Peter
married Ragnhild Oldedatter Spilde who was born in Hardonger, Norway
and immigrated with her mother and sister, Elizabeth to the US.
Peter and Ragnhild Rachel had eleven children (four of whom died
while very young)--my grandfather was the second child and was born
in Harmony, Minnesota on Jan. 25, 1871. Other Thompsons born to the
family were Caroline, Blanche Marie, Thomas Christian, Hannah
Amelia, Henry Louis, Peter Robert and Clara Elizabeth. I am
researching the Thompson/Spilde family. My grandfather on my
father's side, George Paul Hemm, was a physician in St. Louis,
Missouri in the early 1900's. My father was born in St. Louis in
1909. I am just beginning, but am sharing this information in the
hope that someone else may be able to share information on my family
roots.
Looking through the Ęttarbok for Granvin my great great grandmother had sisters named Ragnhild and Elisabeth that emigrated to America. These were the only pair of sisters with those names to do so that are listed. It's possible that we're related and that Anna's parent(s) emigrated to MN and are buried there??
I sent an email to the addess listed, but it came back undeliverable.
Harmony, MN is about 180 miles west of Lodi, WI. Carrie Spilde Crothers took a trip to Lodi in the late 1920's. The article that Percy wrote mentions visiting her many cousins in the Lodi area, but does not mention anything about relatives in MN. http://www.geocities.com/crothershouse/percytrip.html