One side of the family descended from early arrivals from England. The other branch came later as migrants from Scandinavia. They all gathered in Jackson County. Then they scattered again.
Christine Sell was born in east-central Iowa on June 25, 1891. The story follows her from a farm in northeastern to northwestern Iowa, working as a domestic, and then marriage and motherhood. Tena's story is made richer by the many photographs she left us.
This is the story of Peter Thiesen's journey from a village in northern Germany to Iowa, then to Wisconsin, back to Iowa, and finally to a farm in southern Minnesota.
In December 1941, James Thiesen was 18 when the United States declared war on the Axis forces. He had graduated from high school the previous spring and was working on his parents and uncle's farm in Jackson County on the Minnesota-Iowa border. He might have thought this would be his life—working on the farm, getting married, and having a family. But the war inserted itself into the dream.
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