John Thompson & Jonas Nelson didn't fight the South during the Civil War. It was called Minnesota Indian Uprising also known as A War Within A War

Our towns
From the Sioux Falls Argus Leader 25 years ago.

1857 Minnesota territory

The Coat of Arms changed as new kings of Norway came into rule.

Norway

Ole Eggen Delemoe Pederson 1851
COW-POX INFECTION-CERTIFICATE
If you were vacinated for cow-pox, you were imunated for chicken-pox also.

1854 trip from Norway

Sioux Indians 1865

South central Minnehaha County 1870's

The town of Morefield

Minnehaha county

Sverdrup Coat of Arms

1870 Delemoe citizenship paper

John Thompson

Union Canton Norwegian flag

1870 census of Minnehaha county

1879 Hardanger Norway. In America we called them "RED RIVER CARTS".

Same picture but a different source saying the date and place aren't the same.

2000 stamp coming to America

C&NW Dakota
The ads that brought them here!

C&NW Dakota map

J. Nelson family

1877 Syttende Mai Swedish Norway flag

John Nelson

Anne Nelson

Necoline Augusta Nelson

J. M. Nelson

Lily Berthine Nelson

Torger & Kristi Kirkeby cir 1875
Married 6-11-1853
Torger b. 9-21-1831 d. 4-1-1908
Kriski b. 6-16-1824 d. 2-19-1902
They setteled here in 1873

1875 Moe tax reciept

Henrick & Marit Fersdahl, Parents to Kristi Fersdahl Brekke

Ole Peterson aka Pederson or Moe, 1877 citizenship papers

1877 Delemoe taxes

Sod City

This picture was made into a Norwegian stamp

Stamp was almost a true copy of the picture to the left.

Nidaros

Thompsons

Log house by Pioneer Cemetery. Bailey's History of Minnehaha County says 3/4 mile north of John Thompson's home.