Anna Tobine Larsen <I>Øglende</I> Spafford

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Anna Tobine Larsen Øglende Spafford

Birth
Stavanger, Stavanger kommune, Rogaland fylke, Norway
Death
17 Apr 1923 (aged 81)
Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel
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Norwegian-American who settled in Jerusalem, where she and her husband Horatio Spafford, a lawyer and follower of the great evangelist Dwight Moody, were central in establishing the American Colony there in 1881. She was a survivor of the sinking of the french passenger steamer "Ville du Havre" in 1873. Her daughters Anna "Annie" (born June 11, 1862), Margaret Lee "Maggie" (born May 31, 1864), Elizabeth "Bessie" (born June 19, 1868), and Tanetta (born July 24, 1871) were lost in the wreck. Afterwards Anna gave birth to three more children, incl. Grace Spafford Whiting (ca. 1881 - ?).

Emigration listings dated 1 May 1846 in church book from Stavanger.
Parents with five children
See emigration(No. 7, right side):
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/1669/363

(Contributor: Torkel(48106268) - 16May2022)
Norwegian-American who settled in Jerusalem, where she and her husband Horatio Spafford, a lawyer and follower of the great evangelist Dwight Moody, were central in establishing the American Colony there in 1881. She was a survivor of the sinking of the french passenger steamer "Ville du Havre" in 1873. Her daughters Anna "Annie" (born June 11, 1862), Margaret Lee "Maggie" (born May 31, 1864), Elizabeth "Bessie" (born June 19, 1868), and Tanetta (born July 24, 1871) were lost in the wreck. Afterwards Anna gave birth to three more children, incl. Grace Spafford Whiting (ca. 1881 - ?).

Emigration listings dated 1 May 1846 in church book from Stavanger.
Parents with five children
See emigration(No. 7, right side):
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/1669/363

(Contributor: Torkel(48106268) - 16May2022)

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