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ANTON ANDERSEN
NYBROTEN was born in 1862 to Anders "Andrew" Anderson
Smedmoen and Anna Syversdatter Nybroten on the Nybroten farm
in Holera, South Aurdal, Valdres province, Oppland, Norway
in 1862. In March 1884 he immigrated to the United States
and settled as a farmer in Adams township, Green County, Wisconsin.
He married Dorothea
"Dora" Bratrud on January 24, 1894 in Green County,
Wisconsin.
They had at least
eleven children: CLARA A. (Roy Walden), OLGA "GENEVA"
(Otto Rystad), CASPER A. (Stella M. Johnson), BURNETTE (twin),
UNKNOWN (twin), OSCAR S. (Stella M. Walden), BORGHILD O.,
MAGNHILD "MUGS", DAGNY "AGNES" (John G.
Foesch), VICTOR E. (Thora Haugerud), and ANTON B., plus several
other embraced family members who were loved and raised in
their home.
On January 15,
1927, Anton passed on. His wife Dorothea died in 1970. They
are buried together in Adams Cemetery, Green County, Wisconsin.
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