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Sophie (Dalager)Ogdahl writes to her sister Julia (Dalager) Chilson
The following is a letter written by Sophia after their 40th wedding anniversary in 1930. It is written to her cousin Julia Dalager Chilson in Webster, S.D. The Sophia mentioned in the letter is Julia Chilson’s sister.
Dearest cousin Julia,
Received your fine letter and big gift. (Tusini Tak). Julia it is entirely too big a gift. May God bless you and all your dear ones? Greet Andrew and family.
Oh! It would have been grand if you and Andrew could have been with us. It was the first time since I got married and moved away that all my sisters and Karl have been gathered.
We have so much to be thankful to God for. I got married as a child who lost my mother. Had no one to go to. But God had given us strength and given us so many nice children and there have been dark day, sickness. But always every cloud has had a silver lining and now letters, gifts, from nearly every state from friends and relatives so all we can say, “May God bless them all and may we all meet in Heaven.”
I presume you knew Mr. & Mrs. Rudy Dalager went to Norway some years ago. They live in California. I think his address is 783 E. Clairmont St., Pasadena, Calif.
How nice you could visit Sophia’s children. She left a grand family didn’t she?
Say when you go up north next year come and visit us. We love to have you.
Thanking you again for this big gift and greet Herman (Julia’s husband) and the Peters (Julia’s daughter’s family).And so I shall close with a tight hug and a big kiss to our darling cousin Julia.
Lovingly Theo and Sophia
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