Karen Gundersdatter (Karen Auran)
b. May 28, 1858 - Holden Parish, Telemark, Norway
parents - Anne Nilsdatter and Gunder Gullickson Sannes
imm. 1884 (emigration records states 1883; and that list also shows a Elisha Nilsdatter
Sannes and a Aaste Nilsdatter Sannes - perhaps relations?) going to Chicago, Illinois for 2
years, then to Galesburg, North Dakota
m. 1887 in Galesburg to Andrew Auran (born in 1859 in Stordalen, Trondhjeim, Norway);
homesteaded in 1900 in Brander Township. They had 6 children who lived in this area.
d. March 6, 1944 of erysipelas and old age; buried in Betania Cemetery, Brander Township