This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Johnson/Jonson/Jørgensen, Madzson/Madison, Anderson, Lisecki Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YKB.2ACE/175.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Rhea, So glad you posted back! I have asked about Falster and Douglas Co. Minnesota of the older JOHNSON clan here in Monroe County, Missouri and those names are not familiar to them but then we know very little along that line. One of Louse/Peter's daughters, Annie JOHNSON who married a LISECKI did later move from Monroe County to Bird Island, Minnesota but we don't know if she ever made connection with her father that we are searching for. My fathernlaw and his brother went with grandparents Andrew (son of Louse/Peter) and Emily JOHNSON to Minnesota to visit this daughter Annie in the 1940s. Running information by them can sometimes spark memories from their childhood so I continue to do that. They are fascinated that I have made connection with you and interested to know how you connect to the Danish JOHNSON family. About other Monroe Co. Danish folks --- We do know that there was a Danish man named Chester ANDERSON who lived on a nearby Monroe County farm but I have not looked into him at all yet. There was also living next door to the Louse/Maria JONSON and son Andrew household in 1880 census (Audrain Co. very near our spot in Monroe Co.) a household with Danish born John MADZSON and wife Maria and brother Hans MADZSON. Buried next to Louse's wife Maria/Mary E. is Andrew MADISON suspected to be her father. An uncle named John (unknown but we think MADISON) raised Andrew JONSON after his mother Maria/Mary died in 1888 and his father Louse/Peter left for Minnesota. From all of this I suspect Maria/Mary was a MADZSON/MADISON. Peter/Louse and Maria/Mary JOHNSON and children did move from their 1880 Audrain farm to a farm that borders the one I am writing from in Monroe Co., but it is all pretty close together. It is fascinating to be able to visit the very farms they lived on. If we make connection on all of this, I'll be sure and send you pictures of the farms and the stones in the neighborhood cememtery. My kids and I transcribed that cemetery and it is online n! ow, there very well may be more Danish immigrants buried there than what we know of so you may want to take a look to see if you see anyone familiar. It is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mo/audrain/audrain.htm and is called Antioch Cemetery. Graves are in both Audrain and Monroe Counties at this cemetery as it is right on the line. A very small town called Rowena is nearby and seems to be a focal point of the JOHNSON/MADISON clan but Monroe Co. addresses are Paris, MO and Audrain Co. addresses depending on the year could be Rowena or Thompson, MO. The graves of Mary E./Maria Johnson (Louse/Peter's wife) and Andrew Madison (suspected father of Mary E.) that I spoke of above are in that cemetery. Andrew Madison was Danish born and died in Audrain Co. of poison or so says his death record. Do you have records of Peter JOHNSON coming from Denmark to U.S. and was he accompanied by a wife and infant? I have searched and searched for this and without having better idea of the names it is difficult. Do you have any MADZSON/MADISON or ANDERSON connections? What were Peter JOHNSON's brothers names? Peter/Louse may have named some of his son's after his brothers but they were all fairly common names as you saw in my previous post. If my reasoning on the MADISON/JOHNSON connection is correct Louse/Peter named his first son Andrew after his father-n-law and one addtional son, John, after the brother-n-law that was a neighbor and later raised his son, Andrew. I don't know about Monroe Co. Missouri Danes being more civilized, LOL. But then I don't know much about Minn. Danes. The Danes here were farmers and some of their descendents (my husband and children) still are in the same spot. Emily, wife of Andrew (Louse/Peter's son) in her later years lived with son and daughternlaw in the very bedroom that my daughter now sleeps in. My father-n-law still owns the farm that Andrew JOHNSON farmed, but neither one of the Louse/Peter farms are still in the family. The Danish Johnson clan here seem to have been very inventive! The Johnson men were (and still are) constantly inventing new contraptions to make farm work easier. And many in the family are very gifted in mathematics and design/engineering as far as those contraptions. All the Johnson clan here seem to adore the water and it has always made me wonder if they came from somewhere in Denmark that was close to water. Looking forward to our joint investigation, wherever it leads, Rhonda