Ingeborg Ommunds-datter Hougkom was born July 23, 1831 to Ommund and Tori Hougkom (sometimes spelled Haughkom) near Oftedal, Bakke, Norway. She married Eiel Tobias Oftedahl on October 26, 1853, and they farmed successfully for a number of years.
Because of having more children than their farm could support, they decided to journey to America, the land of the dreams of many Norwegians at the time. In the spring of 1868, they set sail from Stavanger, and in a little over five weeks they landed in Quebec, Canada. From there, they traveled by freight train to LaCrosse, Wisconsin where they had friends living.
They homesteaded in Vernon County (Coon Valley) a little northwest of Viroqua. They built a log cabin on their little farm which is still in use today. It has been refurbished and moved to Chaseburg, Wisconsin.
Ingeborg had five children born in Norway, and three in Wisconsin.
Ingeborg died May 26, 1909, and is buried in the Bethel Lutheran Church Cemetery, across County Road B from the church. This, at the time, was the Norwegian Synod Lutheran Chruch, and the building is now gone. Bethel, at the time was called United Lutheran Church. This info from the 1896 plat.
Because of having more children than their farm could support, they decided to journey to America, the land of the dreams of many Norwegians at the time. In the spring of 1868, they set sail from Stavanger, and in a little over five weeks they landed in Quebec, Canada. From there, they traveled by freight train to LaCrosse, Wisconsin where they had friends living.
They homesteaded in Vernon County (Coon Valley) a little northwest of Viroqua. They built a log cabin on their little farm which is still in use today. It has been refurbished and moved to Chaseburg, Wisconsin.
Ingeborg had five children born in Norway, and three in Wisconsin.
Ingeborg died May 26, 1909, and is buried in the Bethel Lutheran Church Cemetery, across County Road B from the church. This, at the time, was the Norwegian Synod Lutheran Chruch, and the building is now gone. Bethel, at the time was called United Lutheran Church. This info from the 1896 plat.
Ingeborg Ommunds-datter Hougkom was born July 23, 1831 to Ommund and Tori Hougkom (sometimes spelled Haughkom) near Oftedal, Bakke, Norway. She married Eiel Tobias Oftedahl on October 26, 1853, and they farmed successfully for a number of years.
Because of having more children than their farm could support, they decided to journey to America, the land of the dreams of many Norwegians at the time. In the spring of 1868, they set sail from Stavanger, and in a little over five weeks they landed in Quebec, Canada. From there, they traveled by freight train to LaCrosse, Wisconsin where they had friends living.
They homesteaded in Vernon County (Coon Valley) a little northwest of Viroqua. They built a log cabin on their little farm which is still in use today. It has been refurbished and moved to Chaseburg, Wisconsin.
Ingeborg had five children born in Norway, and three in Wisconsin.
Ingeborg died May 26, 1909, and is buried in the Bethel Lutheran Church Cemetery, across County Road B from the church. This, at the time, was the Norwegian Synod Lutheran Chruch, and the building is now gone. Bethel, at the time was called United Lutheran Church. This info from the 1896 plat.
Because of having more children than their farm could support, they decided to journey to America, the land of the dreams of many Norwegians at the time. In the spring of 1868, they set sail from Stavanger, and in a little over five weeks they landed in Quebec, Canada. From there, they traveled by freight train to LaCrosse, Wisconsin where they had friends living.
They homesteaded in Vernon County (Coon Valley) a little northwest of Viroqua. They built a log cabin on their little farm which is still in use today. It has been refurbished and moved to Chaseburg, Wisconsin.
Ingeborg had five children born in Norway, and three in Wisconsin.
Ingeborg died May 26, 1909, and is buried in the Bethel Lutheran Church Cemetery, across County Road B from the church. This, at the time, was the Norwegian Synod Lutheran Chruch, and the building is now gone. Bethel, at the time was called United Lutheran Church. This info from the 1896 plat.
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