Sondre Olsen REISHUS

   Another name for Sondre was Sondre Olsen REISHUUS.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: from Norway, 1843, America. ^{3 4} leaving Seljord, Telemark, Norway on 4 Apr 1843...

53. Sondre Olsen Reishuus, 23
of [? barn?]
54. Ingeborg Torjusdatter, 27


arriving in New York on the Lorena from Havre, France on July 17, 1843...

118 Sunder Olsen, Norwegin, 22, f [m], farmer, Weskonsin [WI]
119 Ingeber ", Norwegin, 22, m [f]
120 Ola ", Norwegin, 6m, m

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• Reference: Rushford Settlers, 1848, Fillmore County, MN. Even Reishus also claimed land near Rushford in summer of 1853. Sondre and Even Reishus had heard good reports about the Root River Valley from Sondre's cousin, Tobias Reishus, who had been stationed there as an army officer by the new settlement in Minnesota, Sondre and Even set out for the Root River Valley to inspect the land.

[...]

[History of Rushford: The First Decade, Volume 1, p46-47+]

• Notes: from America, returned to native land, Abt 1864, Flatdal, Seljord, Telemark, Norway. Sondre Reishus returned to his native Norway about 1864 in hope of receiving proper medical care and restoring his waning health.

[History of Rushford, Chapter 5, p180]

• Census: Sannes > District 296, 1880, Yellow Medicine County, MN. line 42

51 49 Sundre Reishus 60 Norway
Ingeborg 64 Norway

50 Reishus Edwin 28 MN Norway Norway
Carrie 26 CT CT CT
Walter 10/12 Aug MN
Reishus Julia 18 MN


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• Cemetery: Yellow Medicine Lutheran Cemetery West, Hanley Falls, 1886, Yellow Medicine County, MN.

Sondre married Ingeborg Torjusdatter NATERBE on 2 Apr 1843 in Seljord, Telemark, Norway.¹ (Ingeborg Torjusdatter NATERBE was born in 1816 in Norway and died in 1902 in Yellow Medicine County, MN.)