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Pcssie Joll nsten
Ogallele,Bebraska.
Mr end 2rs Jens i:Allesen....Kystore Nebraska...
An Jens killaeen leas bors at Rothville ,Missouri3Osnuary,E, -78.
Ooring to Zeith county in 1889.ae ceme with her nurents Mr end .,rs
B.G.MatheYs.ao eettled on a horesterd,rorth ast of 11.eyetone.
The Mathews'etill ovn their Horestead .The reilnoad rune through
it now rJrce they chnnped it for the 2r1 -County eroject.
I fourd it quite a chtnpe ehel I first came here,ever though I
we crly eleven yeurs old. I used to po over the hill trd lye
dErn /rid cry for ths timber "hich we bud left at home.
Our 2ort Office wfs Opellala,and re hod to cross the river by
means of fording ever, time we came to pet even our milord vhel
we wtnted our groceries,"hat few we -could get in Ogallale,ee had to
teko the lumber waron and a trarsand if the rater was l'Aph we
*a,
Imd to tie the wac-or box to the running peers,to keep it from flo t
fair sway.
One- time Jens end I went across Vh, river to visit Feltz's
end while we were there the river dame up,and it worried re so I
redly did not enjoy myself that day.
My first school wts south erst of Opal a1a,about 6 or 7 miles
117 :joreer was ry first ,uperintendent,He wee the best Buperinteedelt
I everhad.
I boarded at J.X.Allane. I only had a half mile to relk,but had
to cerry water to drork.11y last echo .1 wns est of the id kartin
bridge,en1 CPet rrr The old Tom rlurrer 'lace.
After being married to :1r Jens 6illseen They went into the stock
reieing and feeding huriress.ee Lept bui ding ui untill we had one
of the lerpeet individutl reeding plents in the U.b.A:Thie plant is
lust eeet eg Keystore,Besides the numerous feed yrde,there is on
elevetor,ecales
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Ine Toerr
reflcnce, nouse•
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.-age 2 Bessie Jollensten,
Ogallala,rebn.ska.
And Mrs Jens 3illasen,i.eystone nebraska.
The ns nlso Ynyr anch in Cherry County.
Jens 81::asen was born Oct 12,1869 or a farm near Andrup a rrovince
of Jutland,Denmark. Ar Sinn:Jen lived ith His rarents Morton and Maren
(Anderson)jillnsen ,until 1888. In 1688 He set sail for Hull LnPaand
From therr lie went to ClasFrow,i-mbrrkinq on the ....merican Line lie landed
next in khiltdelphla. :his voyage took him 17. drys.
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Hrvinm F brother vt Vorth rlatte He immedintoly rent theresrrocure4+
ing r nosition rith the John Bratt Cattle comcany,where he worked for five
years.
In 1893 He boupilt 160 acres at :.eystone,Nebraska,with a little Boddie
on it in v-hich 1.e lived for four yerrs. In 1897 He built a nice frame house
His wTter syster rnE wAoplied ya nuturl ..pring,both for the how:e
and the corrals.
Lr Lillnren WFP vrrried to ,asyme ...athews,dcughter of B.G.—athews
"Oiho hrd been ioneers of —eith Count slice 1689. Mr imathews WEL:, slim a
eivil 1. veteran. :ar lathevs just L'asscd avay Oeptember 1939.
The Mathe s were natives of Kentuck nne i2sourisreeptctively.
20 Union there vere three children Lorn ,Dorrisiiirdis and _lorton
billrsen. r1). rrrried.
Mr Sil:Fser vos hrouri-A up in the Luthern faith,and wtsalr ver;i
rue-, intPreFtrd in the gererta vellftre of 11-e co-und1y in which He 1:ved.