Thursday, April 15, 1920 - The Phonograph - St. Paul, Howard County, Nebraska
RESPECTED AND HONORED PIONEER GONE
Jacob Eriksen Answers Final Call After Long and Eventful Life Here
Forty-eight years of continuous life on the original pioneer homestead in Howard county is an accomplishment which will be equaled by a few, - though extremely few - of our other oldest settlers. But it is a record absolutely unique, to have been the head of a family of eighteen children, reared to exemplary manhood and womanhood, fourteen of whom survive the father's death at a ripe old age, and are justly rated among our best people. Such, however, is the valued contribution rendered to humanity by Mr. Jacob Eriksen, whose earthly carer closed Easter Sunday.
Jacob Eriksen was born on the Isle of Amager, adjoining Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1943 (sic - actually 1842). He early went to sea, which eventually led him to America in the Great Lakes shipping. In 1868 he quit the sea and located in Chicago, where he learned the cigar-makers' trade. The same year he married Margrethe Hansen, who later became one of the old settlers of Dannebrog (sic - she never made it to Nebraska, she died in Illinois, Cecilia was the one who came with him to Dannebrog). She sickened and died a few months later and afterwards Mr. Eriksen married Cecilia Sorensen the twin sister of Larke Sorensen, who with Lars Hannibal were the first two settlers in Dannebrog colony. Christen Sorensen of Nysted and Hans Sorensen of Kelso are the two surviving members of the Sorensen family. In 1871, Mr. Eriksen filed homestead entry on the south half of the north-west quarter of section 32 township 14, range 11, adjoining the claims of his brothers-in-law, the Sorensen brothers. His family was settled there, and his brothers-in-law attended to the development of the homestead, while Mr. Eriksen, during the first few years, worked at his trade occasionally in Omaha to finance matters until the homestead became productive. Mrs. Ericksen died in May 1887, about three months after the decease of her twin brother Larke Sorensen This union had been blessed with ten sons and one daughter.
The following year Mr. Eriksen married Marie Frandsen, to them were born one son and six daughters. Mr. Eriksen died in a sanitarium at Lincoln on Easter Sunday, April 4, where he had gone for treatment to alleviate the maladies of old age.
Jacob Eriksen assumed his full load of the pioneer's burdens and heroically strenuous life. But he thrived under the hardships, and it really seemed that the rigors of seafaring life in early youth, followed by the rigors of half a century of prairie farming combined to preserve in him an abounding vitality which became exempt from the common weaknesses of the flesh until in the very late sunset of life. Perhaps his remarkable happy temperament had much to do with that. He was a consistent and never-failing optimist, who invariably saw a silver lining to the blackest clouds. This writer's boyhood was spent in his neighborhood and many a time Jacob Eriksen's philosophy of cheer cured me of a bad case of blues. He never lost faith in the supremacy of good, he never doubted that agriculture is the noblest of all callings, he never lost faith in the sterling character of that splendid family of children which he had fathered and reared. And now at his passing his faith is triumphantly justified. What more can a man do for his community and his fellow men?
But how rapidly the pioneers pass! Just like the veterans of the Civil War. Jacob Eriksen was one of the seventy adult male pioneers who settled in Dannebrog colony during 1871-72-73. Now there remains only Niels Nielsn, Ole Nielsen, Martin Nielsen, Niels Ebbe Jensen, Hans Nielsen, Carl L. Petersen, Peter M. Hannibal, Christen Sorensen, Niels Steffensen, Henry Boesen, Mads Anderson, Christian Andersen, Adolf and Carl Mogensen, Paul Nielsen, and Soren Miller - just sixteen. The great majority have died here, where their life mission was performed, and even those few who removed elsewhere are probably all dead by this time.
Memorial services for Mr. Eriksen were conducted at the home Saturday afternoon, April 10, by Rev. J. Chr. Pederen, in the presence of a very large assemblage who had gathered to offer the final tribute of honor to the memory of the venerable pioneer. Six of the sons bore the casket, and the remains were laid at rest by the side of the wife of his pioneer years and those four children who had gone before. In the beautiful little cemetery at Nysted.
The surviving children are: William, of Boelus; Walter, of Elba; Lewis, on the home place; Edward, of Boelus; Fred, of Boelus; August, of Cairo; Alfred of Pendale, Wyoming; Jacob, Jr of Grand Island; Mrs. Anna Jensen (sic - Jessen) of Grand Island; Mrs. Cecilia Shaughnessy, of Grand Island; Mrs. Nora Jespersen, of Omaha; Mrs. Agnes Stange, of Cairo; Miss Marie, of San Francisco, California; Miss Esther, at home.
All of these fourteen children, together with their families, incuding twelve grandchildren, were present at the funeral, and joined with the widowed wife and mother in the last tender rites of loving memorial for the husband, father and grandfather, a family tribute so complete and beautiful as scarcely to be equalied on any occasion. Peter Ebbesen.
obit courtesy of Lenise Cook (#47504439)
RESPECTED AND HONORED PIONEER GONE
Jacob Eriksen Answers Final Call After Long and Eventful Life Here
Forty-eight years of continuous life on the original pioneer homestead in Howard county is an accomplishment which will be equaled by a few, - though extremely few - of our other oldest settlers. But it is a record absolutely unique, to have been the head of a family of eighteen children, reared to exemplary manhood and womanhood, fourteen of whom survive the father's death at a ripe old age, and are justly rated among our best people. Such, however, is the valued contribution rendered to humanity by Mr. Jacob Eriksen, whose earthly carer closed Easter Sunday.
Jacob Eriksen was born on the Isle of Amager, adjoining Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1943 (sic - actually 1842). He early went to sea, which eventually led him to America in the Great Lakes shipping. In 1868 he quit the sea and located in Chicago, where he learned the cigar-makers' trade. The same year he married Margrethe Hansen, who later became one of the old settlers of Dannebrog (sic - she never made it to Nebraska, she died in Illinois, Cecilia was the one who came with him to Dannebrog). She sickened and died a few months later and afterwards Mr. Eriksen married Cecilia Sorensen the twin sister of Larke Sorensen, who with Lars Hannibal were the first two settlers in Dannebrog colony. Christen Sorensen of Nysted and Hans Sorensen of Kelso are the two surviving members of the Sorensen family. In 1871, Mr. Eriksen filed homestead entry on the south half of the north-west quarter of section 32 township 14, range 11, adjoining the claims of his brothers-in-law, the Sorensen brothers. His family was settled there, and his brothers-in-law attended to the development of the homestead, while Mr. Eriksen, during the first few years, worked at his trade occasionally in Omaha to finance matters until the homestead became productive. Mrs. Ericksen died in May 1887, about three months after the decease of her twin brother Larke Sorensen This union had been blessed with ten sons and one daughter.
The following year Mr. Eriksen married Marie Frandsen, to them were born one son and six daughters. Mr. Eriksen died in a sanitarium at Lincoln on Easter Sunday, April 4, where he had gone for treatment to alleviate the maladies of old age.
Jacob Eriksen assumed his full load of the pioneer's burdens and heroically strenuous life. But he thrived under the hardships, and it really seemed that the rigors of seafaring life in early youth, followed by the rigors of half a century of prairie farming combined to preserve in him an abounding vitality which became exempt from the common weaknesses of the flesh until in the very late sunset of life. Perhaps his remarkable happy temperament had much to do with that. He was a consistent and never-failing optimist, who invariably saw a silver lining to the blackest clouds. This writer's boyhood was spent in his neighborhood and many a time Jacob Eriksen's philosophy of cheer cured me of a bad case of blues. He never lost faith in the supremacy of good, he never doubted that agriculture is the noblest of all callings, he never lost faith in the sterling character of that splendid family of children which he had fathered and reared. And now at his passing his faith is triumphantly justified. What more can a man do for his community and his fellow men?
But how rapidly the pioneers pass! Just like the veterans of the Civil War. Jacob Eriksen was one of the seventy adult male pioneers who settled in Dannebrog colony during 1871-72-73. Now there remains only Niels Nielsn, Ole Nielsen, Martin Nielsen, Niels Ebbe Jensen, Hans Nielsen, Carl L. Petersen, Peter M. Hannibal, Christen Sorensen, Niels Steffensen, Henry Boesen, Mads Anderson, Christian Andersen, Adolf and Carl Mogensen, Paul Nielsen, and Soren Miller - just sixteen. The great majority have died here, where their life mission was performed, and even those few who removed elsewhere are probably all dead by this time.
Memorial services for Mr. Eriksen were conducted at the home Saturday afternoon, April 10, by Rev. J. Chr. Pederen, in the presence of a very large assemblage who had gathered to offer the final tribute of honor to the memory of the venerable pioneer. Six of the sons bore the casket, and the remains were laid at rest by the side of the wife of his pioneer years and those four children who had gone before. In the beautiful little cemetery at Nysted.
The surviving children are: William, of Boelus; Walter, of Elba; Lewis, on the home place; Edward, of Boelus; Fred, of Boelus; August, of Cairo; Alfred of Pendale, Wyoming; Jacob, Jr of Grand Island; Mrs. Anna Jensen (sic - Jessen) of Grand Island; Mrs. Cecilia Shaughnessy, of Grand Island; Mrs. Nora Jespersen, of Omaha; Mrs. Agnes Stange, of Cairo; Miss Marie, of San Francisco, California; Miss Esther, at home.
All of these fourteen children, together with their families, incuding twelve grandchildren, were present at the funeral, and joined with the widowed wife and mother in the last tender rites of loving memorial for the husband, father and grandfather, a family tribute so complete and beautiful as scarcely to be equalied on any occasion. Peter Ebbesen.
obit courtesy of Lenise Cook (#47504439)
Thursday, April 15, 1920 - The Phonograph - St. Paul, Howard County, Nebraska
RESPECTED AND HONORED PIONEER GONE
Jacob Eriksen Answers Final Call After Long and Eventful Life Here
Forty-eight years of continuous life on the original pioneer homestead in Howard county is an accomplishment which will be equaled by a few, - though extremely few - of our other oldest settlers. But it is a record absolutely unique, to have been the head of a family of eighteen children, reared to exemplary manhood and womanhood, fourteen of whom survive the father's death at a ripe old age, and are justly rated among our best people. Such, however, is the valued contribution rendered to humanity by Mr. Jacob Eriksen, whose earthly carer closed Easter Sunday.
Jacob Eriksen was born on the Isle of Amager, adjoining Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1943 (sic - actually 1842). He early went to sea, which eventually led him to America in the Great Lakes shipping. In 1868 he quit the sea and located in Chicago, where he learned the cigar-makers' trade. The same year he married Margrethe Hansen, who later became one of the old settlers of Dannebrog (sic - she never made it to Nebraska, she died in Illinois, Cecilia was the one who came with him to Dannebrog). She sickened and died a few months later and afterwards Mr. Eriksen married Cecilia Sorensen the twin sister of Larke Sorensen, who with Lars Hannibal were the first two settlers in Dannebrog colony. Christen Sorensen of Nysted and Hans Sorensen of Kelso are the two surviving members of the Sorensen family. In 1871, Mr. Eriksen filed homestead entry on the south half of the north-west quarter of section 32 township 14, range 11, adjoining the claims of his brothers-in-law, the Sorensen brothers. His family was settled there, and his brothers-in-law attended to the development of the homestead, while Mr. Eriksen, during the first few years, worked at his trade occasionally in Omaha to finance matters until the homestead became productive. Mrs. Ericksen died in May 1887, about three months after the decease of her twin brother Larke Sorensen This union had been blessed with ten sons and one daughter.
The following year Mr. Eriksen married Marie Frandsen, to them were born one son and six daughters. Mr. Eriksen died in a sanitarium at Lincoln on Easter Sunday, April 4, where he had gone for treatment to alleviate the maladies of old age.
Jacob Eriksen assumed his full load of the pioneer's burdens and heroically strenuous life. But he thrived under the hardships, and it really seemed that the rigors of seafaring life in early youth, followed by the rigors of half a century of prairie farming combined to preserve in him an abounding vitality which became exempt from the common weaknesses of the flesh until in the very late sunset of life. Perhaps his remarkable happy temperament had much to do with that. He was a consistent and never-failing optimist, who invariably saw a silver lining to the blackest clouds. This writer's boyhood was spent in his neighborhood and many a time Jacob Eriksen's philosophy of cheer cured me of a bad case of blues. He never lost faith in the supremacy of good, he never doubted that agriculture is the noblest of all callings, he never lost faith in the sterling character of that splendid family of children which he had fathered and reared. And now at his passing his faith is triumphantly justified. What more can a man do for his community and his fellow men?
But how rapidly the pioneers pass! Just like the veterans of the Civil War. Jacob Eriksen was one of the seventy adult male pioneers who settled in Dannebrog colony during 1871-72-73. Now there remains only Niels Nielsn, Ole Nielsen, Martin Nielsen, Niels Ebbe Jensen, Hans Nielsen, Carl L. Petersen, Peter M. Hannibal, Christen Sorensen, Niels Steffensen, Henry Boesen, Mads Anderson, Christian Andersen, Adolf and Carl Mogensen, Paul Nielsen, and Soren Miller - just sixteen. The great majority have died here, where their life mission was performed, and even those few who removed elsewhere are probably all dead by this time.
Memorial services for Mr. Eriksen were conducted at the home Saturday afternoon, April 10, by Rev. J. Chr. Pederen, in the presence of a very large assemblage who had gathered to offer the final tribute of honor to the memory of the venerable pioneer. Six of the sons bore the casket, and the remains were laid at rest by the side of the wife of his pioneer years and those four children who had gone before. In the beautiful little cemetery at Nysted.
The surviving children are: William, of Boelus; Walter, of Elba; Lewis, on the home place; Edward, of Boelus; Fred, of Boelus; August, of Cairo; Alfred of Pendale, Wyoming; Jacob, Jr of Grand Island; Mrs. Anna Jensen (sic - Jessen) of Grand Island; Mrs. Cecilia Shaughnessy, of Grand Island; Mrs. Nora Jespersen, of Omaha; Mrs. Agnes Stange, of Cairo; Miss Marie, of San Francisco, California; Miss Esther, at home.
All of these fourteen children, together with their families, incuding twelve grandchildren, were present at the funeral, and joined with the widowed wife and mother in the last tender rites of loving memorial for the husband, father and grandfather, a family tribute so complete and beautiful as scarcely to be equalied on any occasion. Peter Ebbesen.
obit courtesy of Lenise Cook (#47504439)
RESPECTED AND HONORED PIONEER GONE
Jacob Eriksen Answers Final Call After Long and Eventful Life Here
Forty-eight years of continuous life on the original pioneer homestead in Howard county is an accomplishment which will be equaled by a few, - though extremely few - of our other oldest settlers. But it is a record absolutely unique, to have been the head of a family of eighteen children, reared to exemplary manhood and womanhood, fourteen of whom survive the father's death at a ripe old age, and are justly rated among our best people. Such, however, is the valued contribution rendered to humanity by Mr. Jacob Eriksen, whose earthly carer closed Easter Sunday.
Jacob Eriksen was born on the Isle of Amager, adjoining Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1943 (sic - actually 1842). He early went to sea, which eventually led him to America in the Great Lakes shipping. In 1868 he quit the sea and located in Chicago, where he learned the cigar-makers' trade. The same year he married Margrethe Hansen, who later became one of the old settlers of Dannebrog (sic - she never made it to Nebraska, she died in Illinois, Cecilia was the one who came with him to Dannebrog). She sickened and died a few months later and afterwards Mr. Eriksen married Cecilia Sorensen the twin sister of Larke Sorensen, who with Lars Hannibal were the first two settlers in Dannebrog colony. Christen Sorensen of Nysted and Hans Sorensen of Kelso are the two surviving members of the Sorensen family. In 1871, Mr. Eriksen filed homestead entry on the south half of the north-west quarter of section 32 township 14, range 11, adjoining the claims of his brothers-in-law, the Sorensen brothers. His family was settled there, and his brothers-in-law attended to the development of the homestead, while Mr. Eriksen, during the first few years, worked at his trade occasionally in Omaha to finance matters until the homestead became productive. Mrs. Ericksen died in May 1887, about three months after the decease of her twin brother Larke Sorensen This union had been blessed with ten sons and one daughter.
The following year Mr. Eriksen married Marie Frandsen, to them were born one son and six daughters. Mr. Eriksen died in a sanitarium at Lincoln on Easter Sunday, April 4, where he had gone for treatment to alleviate the maladies of old age.
Jacob Eriksen assumed his full load of the pioneer's burdens and heroically strenuous life. But he thrived under the hardships, and it really seemed that the rigors of seafaring life in early youth, followed by the rigors of half a century of prairie farming combined to preserve in him an abounding vitality which became exempt from the common weaknesses of the flesh until in the very late sunset of life. Perhaps his remarkable happy temperament had much to do with that. He was a consistent and never-failing optimist, who invariably saw a silver lining to the blackest clouds. This writer's boyhood was spent in his neighborhood and many a time Jacob Eriksen's philosophy of cheer cured me of a bad case of blues. He never lost faith in the supremacy of good, he never doubted that agriculture is the noblest of all callings, he never lost faith in the sterling character of that splendid family of children which he had fathered and reared. And now at his passing his faith is triumphantly justified. What more can a man do for his community and his fellow men?
But how rapidly the pioneers pass! Just like the veterans of the Civil War. Jacob Eriksen was one of the seventy adult male pioneers who settled in Dannebrog colony during 1871-72-73. Now there remains only Niels Nielsn, Ole Nielsen, Martin Nielsen, Niels Ebbe Jensen, Hans Nielsen, Carl L. Petersen, Peter M. Hannibal, Christen Sorensen, Niels Steffensen, Henry Boesen, Mads Anderson, Christian Andersen, Adolf and Carl Mogensen, Paul Nielsen, and Soren Miller - just sixteen. The great majority have died here, where their life mission was performed, and even those few who removed elsewhere are probably all dead by this time.
Memorial services for Mr. Eriksen were conducted at the home Saturday afternoon, April 10, by Rev. J. Chr. Pederen, in the presence of a very large assemblage who had gathered to offer the final tribute of honor to the memory of the venerable pioneer. Six of the sons bore the casket, and the remains were laid at rest by the side of the wife of his pioneer years and those four children who had gone before. In the beautiful little cemetery at Nysted.
The surviving children are: William, of Boelus; Walter, of Elba; Lewis, on the home place; Edward, of Boelus; Fred, of Boelus; August, of Cairo; Alfred of Pendale, Wyoming; Jacob, Jr of Grand Island; Mrs. Anna Jensen (sic - Jessen) of Grand Island; Mrs. Cecilia Shaughnessy, of Grand Island; Mrs. Nora Jespersen, of Omaha; Mrs. Agnes Stange, of Cairo; Miss Marie, of San Francisco, California; Miss Esther, at home.
All of these fourteen children, together with their families, incuding twelve grandchildren, were present at the funeral, and joined with the widowed wife and mother in the last tender rites of loving memorial for the husband, father and grandfather, a family tribute so complete and beautiful as scarcely to be equalied on any occasion. Peter Ebbesen.
obit courtesy of Lenise Cook (#47504439)
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