When Gjertrud Lassesen Or Johnson was born on 28 August 1852, in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, her father, Lasse Johansen, was 28 and her mother, Sigrid Andersdotter Echren, was 33. She married Claus Clausen Ronnei on 2 October 1872, in Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Hamlin Township, Lac qui Parle, Minnesota, United States in 1895 and Madison, Lac qui Parle, Minnesota, United States in 1920. She died in 1928, at the age of 76.
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