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Submitted: 9/30/11 • Approved: 9/30/11 • Last Updated: 8/13/15 • R133806-G0-S3
1854 - 1935
Lars Nelson Romereim was born in Romarheim, Norway. He moved as a young man to Minnesota, where he worked as a shoemaker during the day and a fiddler at night. He mar¬ried Anna Romereim in 1871 at Newberg, Minn. Anna was also born in Romarheim, Norway. They moved with her fami¬ly in a caravan of prairie schooners to Lincoln County in 1873. The first summer after settling their claims, they lived in their wagons. Their first homes were of sod, as it was a three-day journey to get lumber to build homes. Lars and Anna lived with Anna's family at Nurey. On Aug. 6, 1878, Lars filed a Timber Culture Claim for 160 acres in Norway Township. In the following years he broke the land and planted over 9,000 trees (cottonwood and willow). Lars and Anna raised ten children to adulthood (two children died as young children): Christine (Mrs. Jerimah Johnson), Ludwig, Mollie (Mrs. Olaf Lorenson), Hannah, Elizabeth, Agnes (Mrs. Oscar Olson), Nels, Berta (Mrs. Roy Graham), Gilbert, and Esther (Mrs. Dewey Dahl). After Lars passed away, Nels bought the family farm from his mother Anna.
Contributed on 9/30/11 by revilo
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