of Buena Vista County, Iowa · documented from the public record
The family in the record
Torkel Torkelson 1830 – 1908
Torkel Torkelson⚭ Enger T. Smith
childrenLudwig Anthony Torkelson · Lena Marie Torkelson · Isabella Torkelson · Christina Torkelson · Julius Torkelson
Their story
What the record says
Pioneer settler of Lee Township, Buena Vista County.
Family lived under dread of Indian outbreak in early years.
Reached age of seventy-eight.
Died February 6, 1908.
Wife Enger T. (Smith) Torkelson.
Five children.
Some passages give wife's name via son Julius as Enger T. (Smith).
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