I'm guessing that maybe those girls' mother(s) was from this family in Redwood County, MN. http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/searc h_census.asp 1880 Census Place Underwood, Redwood, Minnesota Family History Library Film 1254631 NA Film Number T9-0631 Page Number 51A Henry TERHELL Self M Male W 47 HANOVER Farmer HANOVER HANOVER Anna TERHELL Wife M Female W 51 ULMBERG Keeping House ULMBERG ULMBERG Tiny TERHELL Dau M Female W 20 ULMBERG HANOVER ULMBERG Henry TERHELL Son S Male W 16 IL HANOVER ULMBERG Lena TERHELL Dau S Female W 15 IL HANOVER ULMBERG Charles TERHELL Son S Male W 11 MN HANOVER ULMBERG Anna TERHELL Dau S Female W 7 MN HANOVER ULMBERG -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Korbanka [mailto:akorbanka@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 2:43 PM To: MINNESOTA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MINNESOTA] TERHELL, ALEXANDER, PETERSEN Dear list! I´m searching for the parents of Bertha Katherine ALEXANDER, born 18.01.1888, dead 13.06.1964 in Redwood. Her mothers maiden name was TERHELL. It´s the same with Anna Adeline PETERSEN, born 06.02.1881, dead 11.11.1966 in Blue Earth. Her mothers maiden name was TERHEL, too. I have no additional information. I´m from Germany and searching for my ancestors TERHELL in America. I`m sure, that Bertha and Anna belongs to my family, but I don`t know, at what place. Does anyone have additional information? Greetings from Germany, Andrea ==== MINNESOTA Mailing List ==== "It is not the length of life, but depth of life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx

I found that entry in 1880 also. I also found a Bertha Alexander in the 1920 census, married to David O. Alexander. Mother b. Minnesota, father Germany, mother Illinois which may be one of the Terhell's that were born in Illinois from the 1880 census. I then checked the birth records for one of the children listed in the 1920 census belonging to the Alexanders and found a Catherine D which is about the age of the Katherine D listed on the census. On the birth record it lists the mother's name as Thorgerson or Thargerson. I tried going back to the census at that point to find a Bertha Thorgerson and can't find one. There are also some Simonet or Simmonet's associated with the Terhell name. Kathy Hines <khines1@qwest.net> wrote: I'm guessing that maybe those girls' mother(s) was from this family in Redwood County, MN. http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/searc h_census.asp 1880 Census Place Underwood, Redwood, Minnesota Family History Library Film 1254631 NA Film Number T9-0631 Page Number 51A Henry TERHELL Self M Male W 47 HANOVER Farmer HANOVER HANOVER Anna TERHELL Wife M Female W 51 ULMBERG Keeping House ULMBERG ULMBERG Tiny TERHELL Dau M Female W 20 ULMBERG HANOVER ULMBERG Henry TERHELL Son S Male W 16 IL HANOVER ULMBERG Lena TERHELL Dau S Female W 15 IL HANOVER ULMBERG Charles TERHELL Son S Male W 11 MN HANOVER ULMBERG Anna TERHELL Dau S Female W 7 MN HANOVER ULMBERG -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Korbanka [mailto:akorbanka@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 2:43 PM To: MINNESOTA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MINNESOTA] TERHELL, ALEXANDER, PETERSEN Dear list! I´m searching for the parents of Bertha Katherine ALEXANDER, born 18.01.1888, dead 13.06.1964 in Redwood. Her mothers maiden name was TERHELL. It´s the same with Anna Adeline PETERSEN, born 06.02.1881, dead 11.11.1966 in Blue Earth. Her mothers maiden name was TERHEL, too. I have no additional information. I´m from Germany and searching for my ancestors TERHELL in America. I`m sure, that Bertha and Anna belongs to my family, but I don`t know, at what place. Does anyone have additional information? Greetings from Germany, Andrea ==== MINNESOTA Mailing List ==== "It is not the length of life, but depth of life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx ==== MINNESOTA Mailing List ==== To view completed census transcriptions online, go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/census/inv/index.html ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx Charlotte in sunny So. CA