The family spent a year in Arkansas shortly before Bertha married Harry.The hoops for the covered wagon were donated to the Tama Co. HistoricalSociety.
She had one brother Jens Peterson in America
He was born Sept 2 1857 Saby Denmark died August 2,1934 Flagler Colorado. There is some decreptency on his birth date but I am going with what he put on his marriage license and on early census's
He married Susan Brockway 10/12/1893 in Toledo His obit says Ohio but the marriage license is filed in Tama Co Ia. She was born May 30,1868 in Hancock, Mass. She died Sept22,1938 in Colorado. They moved to Flagler Colorado in 1910. The children were all born at Toledo Iowa. According to the 1895 Census Christian Jensen 22 yrs old was living with them.Holgers sister Johanne Marie had a son Christian born in1872. A number ofthe cousins came to America in 1891
Jens had 5 children
Charley died at 1 yr and is buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery Toledo, Iowa
Shirley Richmond ,Codell Kan
Nettie Stone Flagler Co
Gertude Petersen Flagler
William Petersen Flagler