The parish register birth entry gives her name as Johanna Nikolaisdatter. She came to America with her mother and sister Emma in May of 1888. They settled in Menomonie, Wisconsin with Johanna's father Nicolai, who had emigrated a year earlier. She married Ellis Peek Cheney on April 18, 1909 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. By 1920, they had settled in Saint Paul, Minnesota. They had eight children, Dorothy, Burton, Marvin, Kenneth, Boyd, Robert, John, and Ruth Beverly. She died of heart disease in Swedish Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The parish register birth entry gives her name as Johanna Nikolaisdatter. She came to America with her mother and sister Emma in May of 1888. They settled in Menomonie, Wisconsin with Johanna's father Nicolai, who had emigrated a year earlier. She married Ellis Peek Cheney on April 18, 1909 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. By 1920, they had settled in Saint Paul, Minnesota. They had eight children, Dorothy, Burton, Marvin, Kenneth, Boyd, Robert, John, and Ruth Beverly. She died of heart disease in Swedish Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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