{"id":10,"date":"2010-04-22T19:27:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terisblog.norsky.net\/2010\/04\/22\/lutheran-pioneers\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T19:27:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T17:27:21","slug":"lutheran-pioneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Lutheran Pioneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been researching in Norway&#8217;s digital archives recently. The Lutheran parish books of Norway contain nearly everyone&#8217;s life records. When Norwegian families came to America, they remained faithful Lutherans. I wondered about the church in its early days in Sheridan Co., Montana, where my Bentsen family settled. I found that the first pastor to the congregations there, S. J. Fretheim, had written a memoir of his experiences. Amazingly, the St. Olaf College Library lent it to me via inter-library loan. A slim, fragile volume, <em>A Little Reminder of Pioneer Days of the Lutheran Church in the Plentywood Parish Montana 1910-1919<\/em> is chock-full of photos of the early churches and farms. Now I have a much better picture in my mind of my family&#8217;s life and hardships during the early days after they immigrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been researching in Norway&#8217;s digital archives recently. The Lutheran parish books of Norway contain nearly everyone&#8217;s life records. When Norwegian families came to America, they remained faithful Lutherans. I wondered about the church in its early days in Sheridan Co., Montana, where my Bentsen family settled. I found that the first pastor to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}