Ingeborg Isabell Thompson was born in Vang in Valders, Norway. Her parents were Ole Thurston & Engeborg Andersdatter Trondsen (changed last name to Ellingboe after arrival in the USA). Ingeborg was about one year old when her parents migrated to America in June 1858 and she was with them on their westward trek across Wisconsin to Calmer, Iowa. The family lived there during the civil war. Ahe told her children about the Union soldiers passing through on their way south.
When Ingeborg was about 12 (1869) the family moved to Worth County, Iowa, and she later recalled fishing in the nearby lakes (Silver Lake being one) and playing with the Winnebago Indian children. When she was about 17, the family moved to Rock County, Minnesota, where she found work with the family of a lumber man named Roderick and with them she later moved to the new town of Sioux Falls, SD, where work had begun on the railroad to link that town with the east. She was governess to the Roderick children.
At age 23, Ingeborg took up a claim next to one of her brother Andrew about 2 miles southeast of Montrose, SD. This place was was about 1-1/2 miles north of the claim of her future husband. Ingeborg, having had schooling in America, did much in helping Lars with his education. Besides mothering 9 children, she spent long hard hours keeping house, gardening, raising chickens and at times even helping with the farm work by moving or driving the horses pulling the reaper.
Despite low prices on farm produce, grasshoppers and sometimes serious droughts, the couple prospered. There principal source of income was from sale of livestock. By leasing grazing land on the nearby hills they would run up to 150 cattle and they also raised sheep and hogs.
Ingeborg was about 5'-8" tall and was always slim. She had reddish brown hair and blue eyes. Cause of death was cancer of the digestive organs. She was always quiet, tolerant and mild mannered to all except on rare occasions in defense of her children, all of whom were born at home without aid of a medical doctor and only a midwife to attend. While Lars was given to outburst of sometimes violent temper she always remained calm and although she permitted him, as head of the family, to think that his was the final say in family and business matters, there was no doubt that her subtle influence was ever present. She doctored and nursed her own children to healthy adulthood and still found time to spend many days and nights watching over and nursing ailing neighbors. Both Lars and Ingeborg were of the Lutheran faith and with the nearest church about 8 miles distant, the father often held christian services at home while they lived on the farm. All the children were baptized and confirmed as Lutherans.
When Ingeborg was about 12 (1869) the family moved to Worth County, Iowa, and she later recalled fishing in the nearby lakes (Silver Lake being one) and playing with the Winnebago Indian children. When she was about 17, the family moved to Rock County, Minnesota, where she found work with the family of a lumber man named Roderick and with them she later moved to the new town of Sioux Falls, SD, where work had begun on the railroad to link that town with the east. She was governess to the Roderick children.
At age 23, Ingeborg took up a claim next to one of her brother Andrew about 2 miles southeast of Montrose, SD. This place was was about 1-1/2 miles north of the claim of her future husband. Ingeborg, having had schooling in America, did much in helping Lars with his education. Besides mothering 9 children, she spent long hard hours keeping house, gardening, raising chickens and at times even helping with the farm work by moving or driving the horses pulling the reaper.
Despite low prices on farm produce, grasshoppers and sometimes serious droughts, the couple prospered. There principal source of income was from sale of livestock. By leasing grazing land on the nearby hills they would run up to 150 cattle and they also raised sheep and hogs.
Ingeborg was about 5'-8" tall and was always slim. She had reddish brown hair and blue eyes. Cause of death was cancer of the digestive organs. She was always quiet, tolerant and mild mannered to all except on rare occasions in defense of her children, all of whom were born at home without aid of a medical doctor and only a midwife to attend. While Lars was given to outburst of sometimes violent temper she always remained calm and although she permitted him, as head of the family, to think that his was the final say in family and business matters, there was no doubt that her subtle influence was ever present. She doctored and nursed her own children to healthy adulthood and still found time to spend many days and nights watching over and nursing ailing neighbors. Both Lars and Ingeborg were of the Lutheran faith and with the nearest church about 8 miles distant, the father often held christian services at home while they lived on the farm. All the children were baptized and confirmed as Lutherans.
Ingeborg Isabell Thompson was born in Vang in Valders, Norway. Her parents were Ole Thurston & Engeborg Andersdatter Trondsen (changed last name to Ellingboe after arrival in the USA). Ingeborg was about one year old when her parents migrated to America in June 1858 and she was with them on their westward trek across Wisconsin to Calmer, Iowa. The family lived there during the civil war. Ahe told her children about the Union soldiers passing through on their way south.
When Ingeborg was about 12 (1869) the family moved to Worth County, Iowa, and she later recalled fishing in the nearby lakes (Silver Lake being one) and playing with the Winnebago Indian children. When she was about 17, the family moved to Rock County, Minnesota, where she found work with the family of a lumber man named Roderick and with them she later moved to the new town of Sioux Falls, SD, where work had begun on the railroad to link that town with the east. She was governess to the Roderick children.
At age 23, Ingeborg took up a claim next to one of her brother Andrew about 2 miles southeast of Montrose, SD. This place was was about 1-1/2 miles north of the claim of her future husband. Ingeborg, having had schooling in America, did much in helping Lars with his education. Besides mothering 9 children, she spent long hard hours keeping house, gardening, raising chickens and at times even helping with the farm work by moving or driving the horses pulling the reaper.
Despite low prices on farm produce, grasshoppers and sometimes serious droughts, the couple prospered. There principal source of income was from sale of livestock. By leasing grazing land on the nearby hills they would run up to 150 cattle and they also raised sheep and hogs.
Ingeborg was about 5'-8" tall and was always slim. She had reddish brown hair and blue eyes. Cause of death was cancer of the digestive organs. She was always quiet, tolerant and mild mannered to all except on rare occasions in defense of her children, all of whom were born at home without aid of a medical doctor and only a midwife to attend. While Lars was given to outburst of sometimes violent temper she always remained calm and although she permitted him, as head of the family, to think that his was the final say in family and business matters, there was no doubt that her subtle influence was ever present. She doctored and nursed her own children to healthy adulthood and still found time to spend many days and nights watching over and nursing ailing neighbors. Both Lars and Ingeborg were of the Lutheran faith and with the nearest church about 8 miles distant, the father often held christian services at home while they lived on the farm. All the children were baptized and confirmed as Lutherans.
When Ingeborg was about 12 (1869) the family moved to Worth County, Iowa, and she later recalled fishing in the nearby lakes (Silver Lake being one) and playing with the Winnebago Indian children. When she was about 17, the family moved to Rock County, Minnesota, where she found work with the family of a lumber man named Roderick and with them she later moved to the new town of Sioux Falls, SD, where work had begun on the railroad to link that town with the east. She was governess to the Roderick children.
At age 23, Ingeborg took up a claim next to one of her brother Andrew about 2 miles southeast of Montrose, SD. This place was was about 1-1/2 miles north of the claim of her future husband. Ingeborg, having had schooling in America, did much in helping Lars with his education. Besides mothering 9 children, she spent long hard hours keeping house, gardening, raising chickens and at times even helping with the farm work by moving or driving the horses pulling the reaper.
Despite low prices on farm produce, grasshoppers and sometimes serious droughts, the couple prospered. There principal source of income was from sale of livestock. By leasing grazing land on the nearby hills they would run up to 150 cattle and they also raised sheep and hogs.
Ingeborg was about 5'-8" tall and was always slim. She had reddish brown hair and blue eyes. Cause of death was cancer of the digestive organs. She was always quiet, tolerant and mild mannered to all except on rare occasions in defense of her children, all of whom were born at home without aid of a medical doctor and only a midwife to attend. While Lars was given to outburst of sometimes violent temper she always remained calm and although she permitted him, as head of the family, to think that his was the final say in family and business matters, there was no doubt that her subtle influence was ever present. She doctored and nursed her own children to healthy adulthood and still found time to spend many days and nights watching over and nursing ailing neighbors. Both Lars and Ingeborg were of the Lutheran faith and with the nearest church about 8 miles distant, the father often held christian services at home while they lived on the farm. All the children were baptized and confirmed as Lutherans.
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