Ingeborg Olsdatter THOMPSON

1857 - 1936  (78 years)

• Name	Ingeborg Olsdatter THOMPSON
  Birth	16 Jun 1857	Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  	Tvedt farm
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	27 Sep 1857	Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  Confirmation	3 Nov 1872	Worth County, Iowa
  	First Lutheran in Northwood, confirmed as Ingeborg Olsdatter Ellingbö
  Death	1 Jun 1936	Minnehaha County, South Dakota
  Burial	Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Colton, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
  Notes	Called Isabell Thompson in the 1870 census. Called Belle Thompson, age 17, in the 1875 Minnesota state census when the family lived in Martin Twp, Rock County. Called Isabell Larson in the 1900 census. Called Ingeborg Larson in the 1910 and 1920 censuses. Called Isabelle Larson in the 1930 census. In the 1880 census, she is living with her parents in McCook County, South Dakota, next to, probably contiguously with, the Andrew Thompson family. One of the boarders on Andrew’s farm is Lewis Larson, 25, her future husband. Shown in the 1910 census as having had 9 children, all 9 still living. Katherine has this life story of Ingeborg (originally posted by Shirl2sg): Ingeborg (Isabelle) Thomson was born in Vang in Valders, Norway July 18, 1857. Her parents were Ole Thurston Trondsen and Ingeborg Anders daughter.  Her parents are interred in cemetery of the Silver Lake Lutheran church about 4 miles east of Emmons, Minnesota. Ingeborg was about one year old when her parents migrated to America and she was with them on their westward trek across Wisconsin to Calmer, Iowa. The family lived there during the Civil War and she told her children about the Union soldiers passing through on their way south. When Ingeborg was about twelve (1869) the family moved to Worth County, Iowa, and she later recalled fishing in nearby lakes (Silver Lake being one) and playing with the Winnebago Indian children, that tribe being nearby. When she was about seventeen the family moved on 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, South Dakota, where work had begun on a railroad to link that town with the east. She was governess to the Roderick children. At the age of twenty-three Ingeborg took up a claim next to one of her brothers, Andrew, about two miles southeast of the present village of Montrose, South Dakota. This place was about one and one-half 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 nine children she spent long hard hours at keeping house, gardening, raising chickens and at times even helping with the farm work by mowing or driving the horses pulling the reaper. Despite low prices on farm produce, grasshoppers and sometimes serious droughts, the couple prospered. Their 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. Lars’s health began to fail about 1904 and the doctors could not diagnose his ailment so, in September, 1909, the couple and younger children moved to Colton a village about twenty-one miles east of Montrose. Lars seemed to overcome his ailment and finally died when he was almost ninety-three years old. He was proceeded in death by Ingeborg by about twelve years. She was then seventy-nine. Ingeborg was about 5 ft 8-1/2 in tall and was always slim. She had reddish brown hair and blue eyes. Cause of death - cancer of digestive organs. She was always quiet, tolerant and mild mannered to all except in 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 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 of that denomination about eight 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. Katherine has this obit for Ingeborg (originally posted by Shirl2sg): Obituary 1936 LAST RITES HELD FOR PIONEER COLTON WOMAN Colton, S.D. June 6 Funeral services were held at the First Lutheran Church here for Mrs. L. H. Larson who died after a long illness. Mrs. Larson was born in 1857 at Vang, Valders, Norway. She came to the United States with her parents in 1858. They settled in Worth County, Iowa, and later moved to the vicinity of Hills, Minn. She came to South Dakota in 1877 and was married to L. H. Larson the same year. They homesteaded three miles south of Montrose and lived there until 1909 when they moved to Colton, where they have lived since that time. She is survived by her husband, nine children, Mrs. Iver Iverson and Mrs. Oscar Severson of Montrose, Mrs. Robert Heihn, Mrs. Frank Sherlock and Mrs. Oscar Thue all of Stanton, N.D.; Mrs. S. M. Walker of near Colton, Henry of Forestburg, Lloyd of Brookings and Lee of Fort Worth, Texas. She is also survived by 43 grandchildren.
  Person ID	I12855	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2015

  
  

  Father	Ole Thronsen TØRSTAD,   b. 1806, Norway d. 8 Oct 1886, Iowa (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Ingeborg Andersdatter ELLINGBOE,   b. 24 Apr 1814, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 17 Mar 1905, Hills, Rock County, Minnesota (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	6 Jan 1838	Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  Family ID	F8977	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lars H LARSON,   b. 1855, Norway d. 4 Sep 1948, Minnehaha County, South Dakota (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	29 Mar 1881	Yankton, Dakota Territory
  Children	1. Ida LARSON,   b. Jan 1882, South Dakota   2. Agnes M LARSON,   b. 19 Jun 1883, South Dakota d. Feb 1973, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota (Age 89 years)   3. Laura LARSON,   b. Aug 1885, South Dakota   4. Hannah O LARSON,   b. Jul 1887, South Dakota d. 25 Jul 1959, Los Angeles County, California (Age 72 years)   5. Maggie J LARSON,   b. Oct 1889, South Dakota   6. Henry O LARSON,   b. Mar 1892, South Dakota   7. Alma Belle LARSON,   b. Jan 1894, South Dakota   8. Lloyd Albert LARSON,   b. 19 Jun 1896, McCook County, South Dakota d. 18 Aug 1962 (Age 66 years)   9. Lee Guy LARSON,   b. 13 Nov 1899, McCook County, South Dakota d. 24 Jul 1980, Tarrant County, Texas (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F9625	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2012