[318] Into this county the settlement extended to and about Ashippun and Toland.
[319] Many of those who came with Capt. Gasman this time went to Heart Prairie.
[320] Holand De norske Settlementers Historie, page 170, to which I am indebted chiefly for this roll of immigrants to Nashota, etc., in 1843.
[321] Halvorson died in the spring of 1908 as the last of the original Norwegian settlers at Toland; he was born in 1818, married in 1848 Kirsten Aandrud, who survives him.
[322] Through John Lia’s influence this then came to be the destination of the earliest emigrants from Gudbrandsdalen between 1846–49.
[323] Walworth County contributed some of the number; thus Ole Sögal, the first Norwegian settler at Heart Prairie, was one of those who went to Waushara County.
[324] By way of comparison the number of English services to Norwegian as far as statistics are available were in the following localities: Morris, Ill., 13 of 67, Blue Mounds, Dane Co., Wis., 0 of 22; Leland, Ill., 14 of 28; Stoughton, Wis., 35 of 80; Long Prairie, 7 of 25; Koshkonong, 0 of 75; “Muskego,” 41 of 112.
[325] Some of the children have moved away, to Minnesota and Washington.
[326] Matthew J. Ingebretson of Gratiot, Wis., who came to Wiota with his parents in 1848, has kindly aided me with many of the facts on immigration to Wiota in 1847–50.
[327] John Larsen Lillebæk was one of her sons.