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Note: {geni:about_me} Tellingsår: 1865 Kommune: Herad
Kommunenummer: 1039
Navn på bosted: Havigen
Antall personer registrert på bostedet: 11
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Navn Familie-stilling Sivil-stand Yrke Fødselsår Fødested Etnisitet
Gabriel Gabrielsen e Gaardeier 1793 Herreds Prgj.
Gabriel R. Gabrielsen hans Søn g bruger Gaarden 1825 Herreds Prgj.
Sevrine Nilsdatter hans Kone g 1835 Herreds Prgj.
Petrine G Gabrielsdatter deres Datter ug 1858 Herreds Prgj.
Nils A. Gabrielsen deres Søn ug 1860 Herreds Prgj.
Gabriel S Gabrielsen deres Søn ug 1865 Herreds Prgj.
Nicoline Gabrielsdatter deres Datter ug 1863 Herreds Prgj.
Petrine was born October 13, 1858 at Havig Spind and Christened October 24,1858 at Spind.
Thomas Edward Thompson was born in Norway in 1879. It is believed his father died at sea before his brother, Tarral Theodore, was born. After their father's death, their mother, Petrine Gesine (Gabrielsen) Thompson immigrated to America. During the voyage she met a childhood friend, also from Norway, Bernt Sakarias Johnson. Gesine and Bernt Johnson were married in Whitehall, Michigan, on November 8, 1885.
Edward and Theodore Thompson were left behind in Norway with their grandmother until Gesine could send for them. The two boys arrived in America in approximately 1887, joining the Johnson family in Whitehall. Shortly thereafter the family moved "up north" and settled on South Manitou Island.
Buried in Lutheran Cemetery, Frankfort, Michigan
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Cemetery: Crystal Lake Township Cemetery - East
Name: Gesine & Brent S Johnson
Date Of Photograph: September 2004
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Gesine Johnson b. 1858 - d. 1894
Brent S. Johnson b. 1858 - d. 1939
Mother of Tom & Theo Thompson
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Note: Monday march 20,1939 the silent messenger of deatrh claimed Brent S. Johnson. one of Frankfort's and Benzie county's citizens. Mr Johnson was born September 3, 1858 in Farsoud, Norway. When a lad of fourteen years the call of th
Note: e sea became too strong to resist and he ran away from home and secured work on an ocean going schooner. For many years thereafter he sailed the seven seas. He was framiliar with every port in the old world. His life was and unusually colorful one and his experiences which he loved to relate were many and thrilling. Twice he was shipwrecked on the ocean. Once off the coast of Newfoundland when the schooner loaded with corn, floundered and with the other members of the crew were adrift for nine days. Their only food during this time was some corn which they had salvaged.
About 1880 Brent came to America and settled in Chicago to continue his sailing activities on Lake Michigan. In 1884 he married Mrs. Gesene Thompson, a childhood friend from Norway and they moved to Whitehall, Michigan and from there to South Manitou Island. She had two children by a prior marriage George and Theoador Thompson. Gesene and Brent had seven children while living on South Manitou Island. She died and left Brent to rear the children which he did giving his unfailing devotion.
Mr. Johnson continued to maintain his home on South Manatiou for more than fifty years, but the call of the waves always sang in his heart. He loved the sea and almost his last utterance was "I am Shipwrecked on the Great Sea."
For about thirty years he sailed the Great Lakes and in his later years when most men are getting ready to retire he fitted out a boat and carried on a splendid fishing business. In his busy life he never could find a time to quit. No man on Lake Michigan was more widely known and respected than him. He was a man of sterling integrity and high purpose. A practical christian --one of God's good men.
After a brief Illness of four days death came as he would have wished it , quietly and calmly. He leaves to mourn his departure his wife, Mrs Alvina Johnson fo frankfort to whom he was married some 20 years ago; A stepson, Theodore Thompson of Manistee, Michigan; Commander Sig Johnson of Berkly, California; Geroge Johnson of Kalmazoo, MI; Mrs. Nels A. Nelson of Frankfort,Mi; Mrs. W. C. Picker of Detroit, Mi and Mrs. Geroge Robertson of Big Rapids. Internment was at the Lutheran Cemetery in Frankfort, Mi.
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