Her parents were the unmarried couple Knud Tostensen Mÿhre of Hurum and Ingbeorg Knudsdatter Søndrol. Her baptismal sponsors were Guri Iversdatter, Ane Tostensdatter, Iver Torkelsen, Anders Johnsen, and Tosten Knudsen. There is no reference to Remme in her birth record.
Her brief obit in the Rice County Journal said that she came to the U.S. with her husband and stepson in 1857.