Per and Anne Imislund started out their married life at Anne's Imislund Farm Village, 3 miles northeast of Hamar, Norway. Then they moved northwest along Lake Mjosa to the newly developing town of Lillehammer. Per Imislund was a tanner by trade, and their house was in the very center of town.

In Lillehammer, Per & Anne Imislund had four children :

- 1858 Karen Imislund

- 1860 Herbert P. Imislund

- 1862 Marcus Palmer Imislund

- 1864 Anton Imislund

In Spring 1867, the Imislund family left Lillehammer to emigrate to Wisconsin, USA. At the time, the family consisted of :

- Father Per, age 36

- Mother Anne, 37

- Karen, age 9

- Herbert, age 7

- Marcus, age 5

- Anton, age 3

- Karen Imislund, age 27 -- Anne's unmarried sister

The family sailed from Oslo for America, taking about two months or more to cross the Atlantic, having to bring along all their own food.

They first went to southwestern Wisconsin -- Vernon County : to the area between the two large towns of Viroqua and LaCrosse, and near the hamlets of Westby and Coon Valley.

On April 25, 1868 in that area, Anne's sister Karen Imislund married Peder Nelson of Gudbrandsdal, Norway. (This info sourse : Bio of Carl Thompson, son in law of Peder Nelson & Karen Imislund.)

Sometime between 1867-1869, Per Imislund and Peder Nelson applied for and were granted homestead rights to two adjoining pieces of land. These homesteads were in an area newly being lived in by white people : In a valley in northern Trempeleau County, Wisconsin -- northeast of the town of Strum.

In 1869, the two Imislund sisters and their families travelled to their new homesteads located on a road now called Williams Road.

In that same year of 1869, on that same road -- but northwest over the wooded hillcrest down into Romundstad Valley -- Ole J. Romundstad had also just claimed his homestead. At that time, Ole J's homestead was the closest one to the Imislunds' and Nelsons' homesteads. When Peder & Anne Imislund saw smoke coming from Ole J's chimney, they were so glad to know they had neighbors.

But Father Per Imislund only got to be in the New World of America for 12 years. ...

In 1879 -- 10 years after arriving in the Strum area -- Father Per, age 48, fell thru the floor of his barn (possibly thru the hay mow opening ?). He never recovered from this trauma, and died soon after.

Per Imislund left to mourn these family members :

- Wife Anne, age 49

- Karen, age 21

- Herbert, age 19

- Marcus, age 17

- Anton, age 15

Nine years later, in 1888, the family's youngest son -- Anton Imislund, age 24 -- married and lived in Eau Claire.

The following year, 1889, the family's oldest son -- Herbert Imislund, age 29 -- left Strum for Montana. He made a new life there, and married in 1901.

In 1892, Marcus' sister, Karen, age 34, married Anders Romundstad from over the wooded hill to the northwest in Romundstad Valley. Anders Romundstad was one of the group of 7 Romundstad cousins from the Rindal, Norway area who in 1869 founded the 6 farms of Romundstad Valley.

These three Imislund siblings' departures from the family farm left only Marcus Imislund as the sole offspring to live on and work their parents' farm.

Sometime in the 1890's -- possibly when Marcus married -- Mother Anne Imislund, in her 60's, moved from the Imislund farm to northwest over the wooded hill down into Romundstad Valley to live with her daughter, Karen Imislund Romundstad and her family. There, Mother Anne Imislund lived the rest of her life until her death in 1916. Bestemor Anne was very beloved by her granddaughters, Nora and Mildred Romundstad.

In the early-mid-1890's, Marcus Imislund married a girl from the Strum area : Matilda Anderson, age __, b. 1876. Until 1905, Marcus and Matilda lived on and worked Marcus' parents' original farm. There, from 1895-1904, they had the first 7 -- of their eventual 11 -- children.

In 1905, Marcus Imislund sold his parents' farm. Then Marcus and Matilda Imislund, with their 6 surviving children moved from the Strum, Wisconsin area to the Stanwood, Washington area.

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For the 36 years of 1869-1905, the Imislund Farm was lived on and farmed by Imislund family members. From 1905, this farm was owned by Tobias M. Olson of Strum, who had married a girl from Romundstad Valley : Mary Romundstad, daughter of "Big Ole" Romundstad and Marit Storholt.

Since that year of 1905, no one has lived on this farm, and the land has been used for pasture and hay. Tobias Olson passed the land to his son, Edwin Olson. Them Ed Olson passed the land to his nephew, Harlan Isom.