This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Quam, Quamme, Kvamme, Nelson, Thoreson, Stene, Aasen Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wIB.2ACI/222 Message Board Post: From the Willmar (MN) Weekly Tribune, May 1, 1918: Mrs. Johanna Quamme Mrs. Johanna Nelson Quamme, a territorial pioneer, passed away at the home of G. [S]tene in township of Lake Andrew at ten o'clock p.m. on April 25th at the age of [eig]hty-eight years, eight months and fifteen days. She has resided in this state for sixty-two years, forty of which were spent in this county. Mrs. Quamme was born at Lysne, [Lærdal], In[n]er Sogn, Norway on August 10, 1829. Her parents were Lars and Velgjer Thoreson. She was married to Johhannes Nelson Quamme of Borgund, Norway in 1852 and with her husband started out for America the next year but were delayed by illness in the city of Bergen so did not arrive in this country until the spring of 1854. They settled first at [Koshkonong], Wisconsin where they lived two years, having by that time accumulated enough money wherewith to buy a yoke of cattle, wagon and cow, leaving them $5.00 in cash. With this they started for the wilderness of Minnesota and arrived in Steele county the latter part of May 1856, settling on 160 acres of land in Havanna township, said county, living there through all the hardships and wants of the early pioneer and civil war times, twenty-two years. During this time, her five survi! ving children were born and grew up. They are Lewis Quam of Glyndon, Minnesota; Nels Quam of Willmar; Mrs. G. Stene of Lake Andrew township; Mrs. Christian Aasen of Alstown, Washington, and John Quam of Rhame, N.D. In the spring of 1878 she moved with her family to their farm in Lake Andrew township in this county, living there until her husband's death which occurred in 1894. Then she moved to her son Nels' home to make her home. The later years she has lived with her daughter, Mrs. G. Stene, where she passed from her earthly cares. She was an earnest, true and devout Christian, a faithful wife and loving mother. She is mourned by her five children, thirty-six grand children and twenty-six great grand children. (I have used brackets to correct some spelling and typographical errors)