Thursday, September 10, 2015

The chicken ranch




My maternal great-grandmother, Ingrid Oline Burkum Forthun, in 1925. Lena was the daughter of Norwegian immigrants (her father fought in the Civil War). Born in Wisconsin, Lena married a Norwegian immigrant in the Dakota Territory, bore six children, and homesteaded as a widow in western North Dakota. She was visiting her daughter's chicken ranch in Arkansas at the time of this photograph.

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