Photos from: South of the Border: "Agnethe Forseth: a homesteader's letters from Grandview"




This is the wedding photo of Kristian and Agnethe Olson who married in Norway, where he died in 1903. Agnethe emigrated to America with four children and filed a homestead claim in 1910 in the Grandview are. She raised her family there and died in 1955, a few months short of her 100th birthday. She wrote 70+ letters about her life in America. The letters were made available for this story by Toni Brown Dafoe, a great granddaughter of Mrs. Forseth.



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