Carsten Petersen Family Second Home
- WHAT: A picture of the Carsten Petersen family second home.
- WHEN: Circa 1879
- WHERE: Platte Center, Nebraska – west of
- SOURCE: Carolyn Petersen
Grandpa & Grandma home place
Ema is the baby on Grandma’s lap.
Born 8-28-1878
(appears to be Grandma Petersen’s penmanship)Anna 10-27-1874
Mathilda 6-11-1876
Emma 8-28-1878
- WHO:
- “Grandma” ,”Grandma Petersen” is Margaret (Holman) Petersen
- “Grandpa” is Carsten Petersen, Sr.
- “Emma” is Emma Petersen.
- “Anna” is Anna Catherine Petersen
- “Mathilda” is Mathilda Petersen
- WHEN: Circa 1879 – Assuming that Emma is less than a year old.
- WHERE: Platte Center, Nebraska – west of
- SOURCE: Carolyn Petersen
- NOTES: My guess is that the two girls to the left of Margaret (Holman) Petersen are her two oldest daughters, left to right Mathilda and Anna.
- My guess is that one of the two men on the left of the picture is Carsten Petersen, Sr. who was thirty years old at the time this picture was taken.
- I do not have a guess as to who the other gentleman is nor do I have a guess as to who the woman and the two boys on the right of Margaret (Holman) Petersen are.
- Carolyn Petersen shared these photographs on September 20, 2014. They are photocopies of a photocopy of genealogy records that she received from a distant relative.
In the 1880 US Census, there were three people living with the Carsten Pertersen, Sr. family:
A male boarder age 23 and two servants – a male age 13 and a female age 10. Possibly these are several of the unidentified people in the picture.
Carsten Petersen Farmyard
- WHAT: Carsten Petersen, Sr. Farmyard
- WHEN: Circa 1910 – Carolyn Petersen says that her father, Melvin Petersen, learned to walk in the house that replaced the house shown above, so this picture was taken before 1917.
- WHERE: Lost Creek Township on Section 9, four miles west and one-half mile north of Platte Center, Nebraska.
- SOURCE: Carolyn Petersen
- NOTES: Carolyn Petersen shared this century old picture of the Carsten Petersen, Sr. farmyard. On the left side of the picture, one can barely see the farmhouse. This appears to be the same house as in the “Second Home” picture, but with an addition. According to Carolyn Petersen, this house was replace with a new house and the old house was used to store chicken feed and eventually was incorporated into a shed.
A satellite view of the farmyard as it now looks:
The Former Carsten Petersen House and Farmyard
A 2005 picture of the former Carsten Petersen house and farmyard is shown below.
- WHAT: Carsten Petersen House
- WHEN: 2005
- WHERE: four miles west and one-half mile north of Platte Center, Nebraska.
- SOURCE: Carolyn Petersen
- NOTES: Carsten Petersen, Sr. was Carolyn Petersen’s great-grandfather. Her grandfather, Carsten Petersen, Jr. inherited the property and then passed it on to his son, Carolyn’s father, Melvin Petersen. The house was sold in 2005.
Checking Cattle
Raising cattle for market was and still is a major farming