[79] According to Ole Nattestad’s letter in Nordlyset for May eighteenth, 1848.

[80] As brought out by Nils A. Lie of Deerfield, Wisconsin.

[81] The Kendall Settlement.

[82] Aasland did not take anything for it, says Canute Orsland in letter of 1895 to R. B. Anderson; letter is printed on page 265 of First Chapter.

[83] Whose name appears as Torro Holgeson in The History of Rock County, Wisconsin, 1879, p. 780, to which work I am indebted for some of the facts recited above.

[84] They again have four children. Mr. Larson enlisted in the 42d Illinois Regiment, later transferred to the Mississippi Marine Brigade, was at the battle of Vicksburg, served faithfully and was honorably discharged.

[85] History of Rock County, p. 335.

[86] Avon, Spring Valley, Magnolia and Union being added in 1838.

[87] Röste later went back to Norway, however.

[88] Thus Ole Gulack Gravdal, son of Gullik Gravdal, married Juri Ödegaarden (given as Juri Gunale in The Rock County History) in 1855.