This is the wooded area surrounding the home
I love this. I always wanted a forest to run through when I was little...and maybe still a bit now. =)
The drive way. I just love how old-fashioned it is.
This is the house that is there now. It was not there when Lars Peter Oveson lived here.
This barn was built where the old barn most likely was.
That's a lake in the background and the trees surrounding the lake are so old that they're the same ones from 1852, when he was born.
This barn is also built where the old one was, however it was built/rebuilt in 1930
This lake wasn't quite here, it was much smaller. Just a pond when he was here.
It was quite cold.
It was so peaceful and beautiful.
The couple that lives here now came home and told us that this is where the original house was located. Also that there is someone is related to the Mormons that used to live here! I might have living relatives in Denmark. The couple is going to talk to him again and get in touch to let us know if we're family or not. It's possible another Mormon family bought the house after the Oveson's left.
The man says he can remember his grandmother standing in this doorway. It was the entrance through the laundry room to the house.
This is the stream where he was baptized.
It was somewhere along here, his property is the left where the trees are.
There is a story that Lars or Ove, his brother, were having troubles walking and once he was baptized he crawled out and was able to walk just fine!
This church has records of the Oveson family births. Unfortunately there was a baptism going on so we couldn't talk to the priest or anyone.
There is also a book about the family and what the house used to look like. We're going to try to get a hold of it and if it's for sale, I will definitely buy it.
