Andrea was the daughter of Even and Sigrid, nee Kallerud, Heg. The parents brought their family - Hans C., Ole, Andrea, and Sophie - to America in 1840, settling in the town of Norway in what is now Racine County, Wisconsin. The mother died in 1842. The rest of the Heg family is found in the 1850 census of Norway in dwelling 1795 under the name of Hayne. Andrea is age 15 in that census.
Andrea married Dr. Stephen O. Himoe sometime in the 1850s. They and their daughter, Evangeline, are found in the 1860 census of Bourbon County, Kansas Territory (p. 70, dwl. 817). In the 1870 and 1880 censuses, Andrea and her family - husband Stephen and children, Eva, Ernest, twins Elmer and Clarence, and daughter Nettie (Annetta) - are found in ward 1 of Lawrence, Kansas (p. 4, dwl. 31, in 1870, and p. 39, dwl. 298, in 1880).
Andrea died June 13, 1880 (per ancestry.com genealogy records). Stephen died in 1904.
Additional (lightly edited) from the Lawrence Daily Journal of June 22, 1880, p. 4:
In Memoriam
The following brief synopsis of the life of Mrs. S. O. Himoe has been prepared for us by a friend.
Mrs. S. O. Himoe, whose death from cancer occurred in this city Sunday, June 13, was forty-five years and five months.
She had been a resident of Kansas nearly twenty-three years, having settled with her husband in Bourbon county in July, 1857.
She came with the first party of northern immigrants that entered this country and experienced all the privations and discomforts of pioneer life. The border troubles of 1855 and 1856 had shifted their ground from northern to southern Kansas, and found a congenial soil in Linn and Bourbon counties. Between Hamilton, Brockett and Little on the one one hand, and Montgomery and Jennison on the other, raids and assassinations occurred nearly every week, ending with the cruel Trading Post massacre in the spring of 1858.
It required no little nerve for a young girl, far away from the home of her childhood, living in an isolated cabin on the prairie, to maintain the cheerful courage which she did during this gloomy period. Courage and cheerfulness were marked traits of her character and never left her when it became her lot to suffer reverses, which imposed restraints on her social tastes. (The goodness) of her heart was shown on every occasion and no one who needed her sympathy and aid failed to receive them. Even at the close of lingering and painful illness she was mindful of the comfort of her friends and attendants rather than her own.
Her whole life was industriously devoted to the careful training of her children, the cause of religion, temperance, and every good work; and she never wearied until she yielded to the fatal disease which held her in its destroying grasp. She has gone to her rest and to her reward.
She was the mother of five children, two girls and three boys, all of whom reside with their father in this city. The youngest child is about thirteen years of age.
Contributor: LjBJ at earthlink.net
Andrea married Dr. Stephen O. Himoe sometime in the 1850s. They and their daughter, Evangeline, are found in the 1860 census of Bourbon County, Kansas Territory (p. 70, dwl. 817). In the 1870 and 1880 censuses, Andrea and her family - husband Stephen and children, Eva, Ernest, twins Elmer and Clarence, and daughter Nettie (Annetta) - are found in ward 1 of Lawrence, Kansas (p. 4, dwl. 31, in 1870, and p. 39, dwl. 298, in 1880).
Andrea died June 13, 1880 (per ancestry.com genealogy records). Stephen died in 1904.
Additional (lightly edited) from the Lawrence Daily Journal of June 22, 1880, p. 4:
In Memoriam
The following brief synopsis of the life of Mrs. S. O. Himoe has been prepared for us by a friend.
Mrs. S. O. Himoe, whose death from cancer occurred in this city Sunday, June 13, was forty-five years and five months.
She had been a resident of Kansas nearly twenty-three years, having settled with her husband in Bourbon county in July, 1857.
She came with the first party of northern immigrants that entered this country and experienced all the privations and discomforts of pioneer life. The border troubles of 1855 and 1856 had shifted their ground from northern to southern Kansas, and found a congenial soil in Linn and Bourbon counties. Between Hamilton, Brockett and Little on the one one hand, and Montgomery and Jennison on the other, raids and assassinations occurred nearly every week, ending with the cruel Trading Post massacre in the spring of 1858.
It required no little nerve for a young girl, far away from the home of her childhood, living in an isolated cabin on the prairie, to maintain the cheerful courage which she did during this gloomy period. Courage and cheerfulness were marked traits of her character and never left her when it became her lot to suffer reverses, which imposed restraints on her social tastes. (The goodness) of her heart was shown on every occasion and no one who needed her sympathy and aid failed to receive them. Even at the close of lingering and painful illness she was mindful of the comfort of her friends and attendants rather than her own.
Her whole life was industriously devoted to the careful training of her children, the cause of religion, temperance, and every good work; and she never wearied until she yielded to the fatal disease which held her in its destroying grasp. She has gone to her rest and to her reward.
She was the mother of five children, two girls and three boys, all of whom reside with their father in this city. The youngest child is about thirteen years of age.
Contributor: LjBJ at earthlink.net
Andrea was the daughter of Even and Sigrid, nee Kallerud, Heg. The parents brought their family - Hans C., Ole, Andrea, and Sophie - to America in 1840, settling in the town of Norway in what is now Racine County, Wisconsin. The mother died in 1842. The rest of the Heg family is found in the 1850 census of Norway in dwelling 1795 under the name of Hayne. Andrea is age 15 in that census.
Andrea married Dr. Stephen O. Himoe sometime in the 1850s. They and their daughter, Evangeline, are found in the 1860 census of Bourbon County, Kansas Territory (p. 70, dwl. 817). In the 1870 and 1880 censuses, Andrea and her family - husband Stephen and children, Eva, Ernest, twins Elmer and Clarence, and daughter Nettie (Annetta) - are found in ward 1 of Lawrence, Kansas (p. 4, dwl. 31, in 1870, and p. 39, dwl. 298, in 1880).
Andrea died June 13, 1880 (per ancestry.com genealogy records). Stephen died in 1904.
Additional (lightly edited) from the Lawrence Daily Journal of June 22, 1880, p. 4:
In Memoriam
The following brief synopsis of the life of Mrs. S. O. Himoe has been prepared for us by a friend.
Mrs. S. O. Himoe, whose death from cancer occurred in this city Sunday, June 13, was forty-five years and five months.
She had been a resident of Kansas nearly twenty-three years, having settled with her husband in Bourbon county in July, 1857.
She came with the first party of northern immigrants that entered this country and experienced all the privations and discomforts of pioneer life. The border troubles of 1855 and 1856 had shifted their ground from northern to southern Kansas, and found a congenial soil in Linn and Bourbon counties. Between Hamilton, Brockett and Little on the one one hand, and Montgomery and Jennison on the other, raids and assassinations occurred nearly every week, ending with the cruel Trading Post massacre in the spring of 1858.
It required no little nerve for a young girl, far away from the home of her childhood, living in an isolated cabin on the prairie, to maintain the cheerful courage which she did during this gloomy period. Courage and cheerfulness were marked traits of her character and never left her when it became her lot to suffer reverses, which imposed restraints on her social tastes. (The goodness) of her heart was shown on every occasion and no one who needed her sympathy and aid failed to receive them. Even at the close of lingering and painful illness she was mindful of the comfort of her friends and attendants rather than her own.
Her whole life was industriously devoted to the careful training of her children, the cause of religion, temperance, and every good work; and she never wearied until she yielded to the fatal disease which held her in its destroying grasp. She has gone to her rest and to her reward.
She was the mother of five children, two girls and three boys, all of whom reside with their father in this city. The youngest child is about thirteen years of age.
Contributor: LjBJ at earthlink.net
Andrea married Dr. Stephen O. Himoe sometime in the 1850s. They and their daughter, Evangeline, are found in the 1860 census of Bourbon County, Kansas Territory (p. 70, dwl. 817). In the 1870 and 1880 censuses, Andrea and her family - husband Stephen and children, Eva, Ernest, twins Elmer and Clarence, and daughter Nettie (Annetta) - are found in ward 1 of Lawrence, Kansas (p. 4, dwl. 31, in 1870, and p. 39, dwl. 298, in 1880).
Andrea died June 13, 1880 (per ancestry.com genealogy records). Stephen died in 1904.
Additional (lightly edited) from the Lawrence Daily Journal of June 22, 1880, p. 4:
In Memoriam
The following brief synopsis of the life of Mrs. S. O. Himoe has been prepared for us by a friend.
Mrs. S. O. Himoe, whose death from cancer occurred in this city Sunday, June 13, was forty-five years and five months.
She had been a resident of Kansas nearly twenty-three years, having settled with her husband in Bourbon county in July, 1857.
She came with the first party of northern immigrants that entered this country and experienced all the privations and discomforts of pioneer life. The border troubles of 1855 and 1856 had shifted their ground from northern to southern Kansas, and found a congenial soil in Linn and Bourbon counties. Between Hamilton, Brockett and Little on the one one hand, and Montgomery and Jennison on the other, raids and assassinations occurred nearly every week, ending with the cruel Trading Post massacre in the spring of 1858.
It required no little nerve for a young girl, far away from the home of her childhood, living in an isolated cabin on the prairie, to maintain the cheerful courage which she did during this gloomy period. Courage and cheerfulness were marked traits of her character and never left her when it became her lot to suffer reverses, which imposed restraints on her social tastes. (The goodness) of her heart was shown on every occasion and no one who needed her sympathy and aid failed to receive them. Even at the close of lingering and painful illness she was mindful of the comfort of her friends and attendants rather than her own.
Her whole life was industriously devoted to the careful training of her children, the cause of religion, temperance, and every good work; and she never wearied until she yielded to the fatal disease which held her in its destroying grasp. She has gone to her rest and to her reward.
She was the mother of five children, two girls and three boys, all of whom reside with their father in this city. The youngest child is about thirteen years of age.
Contributor: LjBJ at earthlink.net
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