Nils Tobias Omdal was born in 1879 in the hamlet of Omdal in Norway
Nils Tobias Omdal was born in 1879 in the hamlet of Omdal in Norway. He married Sina Marie Nesvåg who was born in 1881 in the hamlet of Nesvåg in Norway. These are ancestral villages by the look of it since they have the family names attached to them. They immigrated with their three young children in 1911 on the Empress of Ireland from Liverpool to Montreal. They soon moved to the Seattle area. Their son Sigve Magnus Omdal was only nine months old at the time. They would have three more children. Most of the family remains in the greater Seattle area still.
Ole Johnsen was born in Norway in 1842. He immigrated to Iowa in his youth and fought in the American Civil War in the 18th Regiment of the Iowa Infantry Company A. Soon after the war he married and moved to Freeman of Freeborn County, Minnesota. There he would have 9 children and work the farm. One of his sons Andrew Johnson would eventually move to Washington State. Unfortunately, Andrew’s wife would die while giving birth to his only daughter Florence Mariam Johnson. His wife was Florence Knoell and she had a grandmother Philippine Bena Zimmermann that was born in Bavaria in 1832. Philippine moved to Wisconsin and had 8 children with her husband Valentin Johann Knoell. I have been able to find many pictures of this large family plus many images of their gravestones.
Melchior Jossi was born in 1879 in the Germanic portion of Switzerland. In 1907, he immigrated to Oregon and soon after married fellow Swiss compatriot Marguerite Brugger. They had a son Henry who would marry a second-generation Norwegian immigrant Evelyn Johanna Elde. Her family moved to Chinook, Washington during the Great Depression. She worked for the Kaiser Shipyards in Portland, Oregon during World War II.
Her father Sivert Elde and her mother Elida Solhein had immigrated sometime in the 1890s to farmland in Montana. Their story is quite abbreviated since the connections to Norway are not known. They moved a lot within Montana but by 1940 were in Washington State with their daughter.