Ingeborg maiden name was Ingeborg Hansdatter Kjönaas. It is Ingeborg that brought the Kjönaas to the family. Before their marriage Ole Evensen (changed to Evenson after arrival in the US) was known as Ole Evensen Sissejord. At the time Ole's and Ingeborg's son Even (Even changed his name to Edwin H. Oleson later in his life) was born Ole was working on the Askilt nord farm. When Ole and Ingeborg married a week later, he took the name of Kjönaas as his identifying name. Kjönaas isn't a farm name. Kjönaas was a known ridge and hill area in the southern part of the Bø, Municipality which was part of the Bratsberg Amt, which was part of Norway. Today this location name has gone though a number of changes. It's now known as Tjønnås, Midt Telemark, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway. Ole continued to work at the Askilt farm to at least the time of his son Hans's birth, but by the time of Margith's birth he was living at Kjönaas there isn't any mention of Ole and the Askilt farm. Even when he went back to work at the Askilt farm he continued to use the name of Kjønaas. I don't know if Ole moved in with Ingeborg their son Even who were probably living with her parents at Kjönaas or if they had their own home in Kjönaas. Ingeborg and Ole lived in Kjönaas till they immigrated to the US.

Ingeborg's death date and location is disputed. Two branches of her descendants say she died after the family arrived at Muskego. Thilda (Evenson) Boyum stated in a tape interview in 1978 that Ingeborg was her grandmother. Thilda's father Ole O. Evenson wasn't born until September 1844, a year after the family's arrival in the US. So, Ingeborg had to have died after Ole O. Evenson's birth. The Halvorson / Halverson branch of the family has a note that states she died in a cholera epidemic and is buried in one of the mass graves at the Norway Lutheran Cemetery. The Halvorson family lived on Ole's farm and cared for him for the rest of his life. They are the only branch of the family that didn't move away from the farm near South Bend, WI. One other person in another branch of the family thinks she died and was buried at sea on the passage to America. This idea is based on a note written on the back of a picture that this person said was supposed to be Ingeborg. I also know the history of photography and in the mid 1840's when Ingeborg died photography was a very new process and they weren't taking pictures of the average person at that time. When questioned the person that proposed this idea said she didn't have the picture but had only seen it. This conjecture came up in the 1970's and I think this is a totally false idea. This idea became accepted fact before the internet and other online resources. It was also way before Thilda's interview was recorded and most contact with the Halvorson had been lost. This relative I think is confusing another relative that did die on the crossing with Ingeborg. I only bring it up because this false information is out there and accepted as fact. Thilda is the closest living relative to comment on her Grandmother's life and I think she is probably correct in her statements. I feel Ingeborg died after Ole O.'s birth in September 1844 and she was buried at the Norway Lutheran Cemetery in one of the mass graves there. There were a number of epidemics that killed off over half to three quarters of the population of the Wind Lake area in the 1840's and 1850's. This is hard to prove as all of the early records of the church burned in a fire and there wasn't a County death record of her death.