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Birgit Nilsd. Brække, 1865. Born 14 Nov 1842. Died 30 Nov 1905. Imm. 1893= 16d-TCK-pg-49 =They had the following children:81 i. Henriette Olsd. Olsgaard82 ii. Bergith Olsd. Olsgaard83 iii. Peder Olsen Olsgaard84 iv. Jens Lauritz Olsgaard85 v. Henning Olsen Olsgaard86 vi. Sigried Olsd. Olsgaard74. Charlotte Jacobine Wilhelmine Kjerulf. Born 8 May 1843. Died 1933.She married Haldor Lagesen Westerbø. Born 1 Mar 1841. Died 1923.14th Generation= Jensine is “in” TCK =75. Jensine Henriette (Jetta) Kjerulf. Born 27 Feb 1861. Died 9 Oct = 17a-TCK-pg-49 =1933. Buried in Emmanuel Ch Cem., Abercrombie, ND, USA.Died of a stroke. Buried in Immanual Cemetary, Abercrombie, NDShe married Ole Eriksen Lovdokken, son of Eirik Tolleivson SlattenLovdokken & Engrid (Ingri) Olsdr. Farseth. Born 5 Jun 1857 inHallingdal, Norway. Died 8 Oct 1919. Buried in Emmanuel Ch Cem.,Abercrombie, ND, USA.PORTRAITS (A compilation of written and oral histories to be includedwith the genealogy charts for my children) -Jean Lovdokken IversonThis area of southeast North Dakota was not in the original LouisianaPurchase, its boundary, the Red River, ran north and did not draininto the Mississippi and Missouri River systems. It became part ofAmerica when the 49th parallel became the American-Canadian boundaryto the Rocky Mountains. In 1858 Fort Abercrombie was established asthe first military post in North Dakota. The Homestead Act of 1862,giving 160 acres away free to bona fide settlers, coupled with theinvention by John Deere in 1840 of the lighter, steel, breaking plowmade settlement of the prairie possible. The steel plow was strongenough to cut through the thick prairie turf and not become clogged.Plowing allowed the land to bring forth a harvest of grain and theplowed furrows kept prairie fires from periodically sweeping thecountry.To Silver Prairie came men from Norway with names of Iver, Knute,Christ, Tollef, Jacob, Stengrin, Thomas and three Ole's, one of themmy grandfather Ole Lovdokken.Ole Eriksen Lovdokken was born in Hallingdal, Norway June 5, 1857,the son of Erik Olsen Lovdokken and Anne Olsdatter. He marriedJensine Henriette Kjerulf and came with her to America May 22, 1883.First they settled around the Sheyenne River in Kindred, North Dakotawhere he did carpentry work and was a farm hand.Eight years later he dismantled his log house and moved it and hisfamily to Silver Prairie. On March 16, 1891 in the middle of asnowstorm the Lovdokken's young hired girl was sent with a team ofhorses to get her mother for midwifery duty. They did not return intime and my father Jens was delivered by his father Ole. He joinedthree brothers, Christ, Ulrik and Oscar. Another brother Jens haddied the year before at the age of 2 years.Soon after my father's birth, the family learned that their log cabinwas on the alternate section of land given to the Northern PacificRailroad and they had to move to the adjoining quarter of land whichwas their rightful homestead claim. Weeds grew up where the loghouse had stood and years later my father would tell the story thathis older brother would point to the patch of weeds and say "that'swhere you were born."A daughter Ida, born two years later, completed the Ole Lovdokken family.The flat, fertile Red River Valley land was a sharp contrast to themountainous farm land of Hallingdal, Norway - farming here was easierand more productive. Living on this treeless plain was not withoutits peril. My father related the story of the time his father hadgone to the Sheyenne River for a load of wood and a blizzard was infull furry by the time he was returning. My father's mother went outto the road with a lantern. It was the light of the lantern and thesound of her voice calling "Ole, Ole" that saved him from driving