Carrie Hengesteg

HENGESTEG

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 3/11/2005 at 08:39:27

Carrie C. Hengesteg came to America in 1854, lived four years in Wisconsin, and then came to Worth County and located on section 29, in Hartland township, where she still resides. She has 400 acres of good land. Mrs. Hengesteg is a native of Norway, born in 1824. she married Nels Anderson in 1846, in Norway. He died in Worth county in 1876. They had four children - Christian, Anna, now Mrs. John H. Johnson; Andrew N. and Eliza. The family are members of the Norwegian Lutheran church.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, Page 774.