Jens Gunderson was born in 1819 on the farm Hegland in former Finsland kommune, today part of Songdalen kommune, Norway. Finsland is some 40 km outside the town of Mandal. (Source: Church Book from Finsland)
He had been a sailor (for commercial lines I think) who then came to the United States in 1881, and settled in a very Norwegian area near Leland, Illinois, on a 40-acre farm on a road known locally as "Easy Street." His parents were Gunder Jensen Hegland & Joran Torgiesdatter. His children's last name (by Norwegian custom) were Jensen or Jensdatter. I think he had two sons, Gunder and Karl (Anglicized to Charles), and a daughter, Gurine. She ended up in a mental hospital in Iowa, and is not mentioned in his obituary.
He had been a sailor (for commercial lines I think) who then came to the United States in 1881, and settled in a very Norwegian area near Leland, Illinois, on a 40-acre farm on a road known locally as "Easy Street." His parents were Gunder Jensen Hegland & Joran Torgiesdatter. His children's last name (by Norwegian custom) were Jensen or Jensdatter. I think he had two sons, Gunder and Karl (Anglicized to Charles), and a daughter, Gurine. She ended up in a mental hospital in Iowa, and is not mentioned in his obituary.
Jens Gunderson was born in 1819 on the farm Hegland in former Finsland kommune, today part of Songdalen kommune, Norway. Finsland is some 40 km outside the town of Mandal. (Source: Church Book from Finsland)
He had been a sailor (for commercial lines I think) who then came to the United States in 1881, and settled in a very Norwegian area near Leland, Illinois, on a 40-acre farm on a road known locally as "Easy Street." His parents were Gunder Jensen Hegland & Joran Torgiesdatter. His children's last name (by Norwegian custom) were Jensen or Jensdatter. I think he had two sons, Gunder and Karl (Anglicized to Charles), and a daughter, Gurine. She ended up in a mental hospital in Iowa, and is not mentioned in his obituary.
He had been a sailor (for commercial lines I think) who then came to the United States in 1881, and settled in a very Norwegian area near Leland, Illinois, on a 40-acre farm on a road known locally as "Easy Street." His parents were Gunder Jensen Hegland & Joran Torgiesdatter. His children's last name (by Norwegian custom) were Jensen or Jensdatter. I think he had two sons, Gunder and Karl (Anglicized to Charles), and a daughter, Gurine. She ended up in a mental hospital in Iowa, and is not mentioned in his obituary.
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