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Elling Eielsen Sunve
Den første norske lutherske prest i Amerika Ellend (am.Elling) Eielsen Sunve (18.9.1804 i Voss - 10.1.1883 i Chicago, Cook County, Illinois) var sønn av skolemester og underlensmann Øyel Ingebrigtsen Sundve ( 1768 i Ytre Sundve, Voss- 1945) og Anna Ellendsdatter Sundsvaal (1775-1855).
Gift 1843 med Sigrid Hermosdatter Nilsen Tufte (2.11.1824 i -1904), datter av Hermo Nielsen Tufte (14.8.1798 i Hol eller Ål , Buskerud- 30.11.1883 i ) og Kari Tollefsdatter Halstensgaard (21.2.1801-24.2.1871).
Barn: Carine Eielsen (1851?–), Elias Eielsen (1853-), Severine Eielsen (1855-).
Elling Eielsen Sundve utvandret 1839 til Amerika. Han ble ordinert til prest i 1843.Han organiserte på Jefferson Prairie den 13. -14.1846 Den Evangelisk Lutherske kirke i Amerika (Ellings synode).
As early as 1839 Elling Eielsen, a pious (Lutheran) layman, came to conduct inspirational meetings among the Norwegians and in 1846 the first church body, known as Eielsen's Synod, was established at Jefferson Prairie, Wisconsin. http://www.naha.stolaf.edu/pubs/nas/volume14/vol14_9.htm
Despite the stone's spelling of "Eielson" it should be Eielsen. He was born in Voss, Norway. He built the first Norwegian Lutheran Church in America in 1841. He became the first Norwegian Lutheran pastor in America. Organized the first Norwegian Lutheran Synod at Jefferson Prairie, Wisconsin in 1846, calling it the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, also the "Eielsen Synod" or "Elling Synod" and serving as its first president from 1846-1883. Helped to found Lisbon Seminary, Lisbon, Ill.; Eielsen Syminary, Cambridge, Wis.; Hauge College and Eielsen Seminary, Chicago, Ill.
The following inscriptions are on the Tufte monument in the North Cape Lutheran Cemetery at North Cape, Wisconsin:
TO THE MEMORY OF HERMO NIELSEN TUFTE* 1798-1883 KARI T. TUFTE nee HALSTENSGAARD* 1801-1871 AND THEIR CHILDREN SIGRID H. TUFTE 1824-1904 - MARRIED 1843 - REV. ELLING EIELSEN 1804–1883 - 1ST NORW. LUTH. PASTOR IN AMERICA - BURIED IN GRACELAND CEM. CHICAGO ILL. BERGIT H. TUFTE 1829-1905 MARRIED 1854 - ONON B. DAHLE 1823–1905 - BURIED MT. HOREB WIS. NELS H. TUFTE* 1834–1899 MARRIED 1857 - BETSEY S. OYO* 1840–1920 JULIA H TUFTE* 1840–1928 - MARRIED 1859 - THOMAS ADLAND* 1831–1902THE ABOVE FAMILY UNIT HAS BEEN HISTORICALLY IDENTIFIED AS “THE FIRST NORSE IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA FROM HALLINGDAHL DISTRICT NORWAY.” THIS MIGRATING FAMILY REACHED THE YORKVILLE PRAIRIE SECTION OF OLD MUSKEGO NORWEGIAN SETTLEMENT IN RACINE COUNTY WISCONSIN TERRITORY IN MID 1841. WHEN AND WHERE RESIDENCE WAS ESTABLISHED BY ALL ON A FARM HOMESTEAD SINCE CALLED “TUFTE HERITAGE” LOCATED TWO (2) MILES SOUTHERLY OF THIS PLACE IN RAYMOND TOWNSHIP. OF THE TEN, THE SIX MARKED “*” WERE LAID TO REST IN THIS CEMETERY ON THE DATES INDICATED.
In the upper left corner of the stone is a sketch of a building and the words; “Homestead in Hallingdahl still in existence”
Se også
Eksterne lenker
Kilder
- Norsk lutherske prester i Amerika, 1843-1913. Norlie, Olaf Morgan, 1876-1962; Seehuus, Knut, 1859-
- Dåp 29.sept 1804;SAB, Voss Sokneprestembete, H/Haa: Ministerialbok nr. A 9, 1780-1810, s. 224
- Folketelling Vossestrand 1801
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- Ancestry.com; Pederson&Olson Family tree
- Ancestry.com; Kari Johnson family tree