Could we be cousins?
My personal research includes the following family lines (My great-grandparents):
- Carl Christen Jensen (1865 – 1937) and Dorthea Jacobsen (1856 – 1938)
Immigrated from Thisted Denmark in August 1888. They settled in Nebraska, initially in Howard County with family. In 1889 they purchased property in Horace, Greeley County, Nebraska where they lived for the rest of their lives.Carl C. and Dorthea married in 1883 in Denmark and were the parents of seven children, five who lived to adulthood:
Christine Madsine 1883 – 1976 (married Carl Daniel Jensen in 1906)
James Foged 186 – 1963 (married Lucy May Anderson in 1913)
Marion Lewis “Pete” 1888 – 1968 (married Gertrude Harris in 1914)
Jacob 1892 – 1968 (married Eleanor Lillian Wagner in 1920)
Mary (1894-1898)
Louise Irene 1896 – 1970 (married Albert Daudt in 1917) - Burton Jay Harris (1869 – 1937) and Jennie May Luse (1875 – 1959)
Burton and Jennie married in 1888 in Nebraska and were the parents of eight children, six who lived to adulthood:Maude Hazel 1889 – 1970 (married Clinton Bertram “Dick” Acker in 1907)
Earnest Harris 1890 – 1891
Cora “Myrtle” 1891 – 1891
Burton Adelbert Harris 1893 – 1960 (married Vesta Delores “Betty” Nation in 1918)
Gertrude Vera 1896 – 1987 (married Marion Lewis “Pete” Jensen in 1914)
Mabel Helen 1900 – 2000 (married Harry Meduna in 1922)
John Douglas “Jack” 1903 – 1967 (married Vera Linderkamp)
Guy Luse 1906 – 1968 (married Ann Laurie Heard) - Julius Augustus Frohman (1872 – 1938) and Mercie Belle Ogden Frohman (1878 – 1975)
Julius and Mercie married in South Dakota in 1898 and were the parents of five children:Floyd
Leland Earl 1900 – 1982 (married Opal Grotis in 1926)
Harold James 1905 – 1978 (married Evelyn Davis in 1927)
Mildred D. “Inez”
Ina Esther 1910 – 1998 (married Fred Ray Nelson in 1927) - Gilbert Rynaldo Davis (1871 – 1947) and Mary Winifred “Mayme” O’Connor Davis (1875 – 1929)
Gib and Mayme were married in Nebraska in 1896. They were the parents of nine children, seven who lived to adulthood:Leroy Harold 1898 – 1992 (married Johanna Eugenia Ackermann in 1926)
John Ellis Errol 1900 – 1993 (married Ethel Larson in 1943)
Wilma Marguerite 1901 – 1997 (married James Ray Westlake in 1925)
James Irving Davis 1903 – 1988 (married Bess Rose Rinker in 1929)
Jetty May 1905 – 1988 (married Leo Inglefield)
Evelyn Leona 1907 – 2004 (married Harold James Frohman in 1927)
Melvin Stanley 1908 – 1910
Neil Wyman 1910 – 1993 (married Gladys Emily Barnes in 1939)
Donald Robert “Bub” 1912 – 2008 (married Lucille Stansberry in 1935)
If you think we might share an ancestor, please contact me. I look forward to hearing from you. I’d enjoy the opportunity to collaborate on our ancestors’ research.
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