KAREN MARIE "Mary" DOROTHEA NELSON
(née ANDERSON)
Born: October 21, 1867 Tastrup, Hyllinge, Soro, Denmark
Died: November 24, 1956 Geneva, Freeborn County, MN
Buried: Geneva Community Cemetery, Geneva, Freeborn County, MN
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Albert J.
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Marian K.
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Sena Annetta
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Ella Dorothy
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Anna S.
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Selma Lenore
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Martha Luverne
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Robert T.
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Leah Irene
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Notes:Mary started school when she was eight years old. The summer
she was eleven she was hired out to help with the little chores she
could perform. The next spring she went to work in the small village
of Salteby. Her father died when she was thirteen. When she was
thirteen and a half, she had to leave school as a result of a law which
permitted children to be kept out of school if they were forced to work
for a living. She stayed in the village of Salteby until she was sixteen.
Her wages were increased to the amount of 60 kroner a year. At that time
it amounted to approximately $16.
Mary was brought to the United States by her older brother Andrew
in the spring of 1884. She travelled with a group to Blooming Prairie
where she became sick with scarlet fever. After recovering, she got a
job as a maid for a woman in Owatonna. She later left this job and
worked for Dr. Twilford and his family in Geneva. A few years later
she married and settled on the home farm south of Geneva.
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