This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rindahl Holter Raaen Roen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wIB.2ACI/233.2.2 Message Board Post: Uffdah! The source: "Fifty Years in America" by Nils Ronning (text on Ancestry.com). There are probably excerpts, at least, on free Internet sites. Some quotes: "K. C. Holter was born December 19, 1851, at Nannestad, Romerike, Norway, and came to America at the age of mine together with his parents and six brothers and sisters. They finally settled in Fillmore county, Minnesota. Three years later the whole family was attacked by typhoid and the father died, leaving a poor widow and ten children, none of them twenty years old. " "Mother Holter was a woman with indomitable will power. With a team of oxen she brought the whole family through rain and slush, first to Pope county, Minnesota..........." Doing a search on either Ronning or K.C. will bring a lot of hits, as their published works are widely attributed. Ronning says Holter was one of the first Norwegian Lutheran ministers to "champion the cause of temperence". That puts him in common with a number of pictures saved in my Rindahl album (which includes a letter from Andrew Volstead). A mystery I hope to solve is why Ole Johanessen Rindahl's trunk has the date "1854" painted on it. It appears that his name was painted over another name, but can't make it out. The date of Ole J.'s immigration, 1869, is painted on the back side along with shipping line and destination.