She left home in Sweden on March 13, 1883, with her brother Swen Adolph Larsen. Her father Lars Magnus Jonsson was first married to Anna Maria Carl'sdotter on May 10, 1834. They had three children before she died in 1859. The children's names were Carl Johan (b.1835), Carolina(b. 1836), and Rheinhold(b.1840). Note that the youngest was 19 when the mother died. Lars Magnus Jensen remarried 11 months later, Feb 1860. Lars and Inga Sara had 5 more children, among whom was Christine Augusta Larsdotter(Larsen). When she was 19 and Swen was 21, they decided to go to America for the summer to visit their half-brother and half-sister. The half-sister was living in Lakewood, New York, as was her brother Rheinhold. Carolina (Aunt Lena) married Magnus Anderson, and had seven children. Her daughter Christina married Theodore Olson, b. Sweden, and had three sons and three daughters. Augusta was listed in the Jamestown City Directory for 1886 and for 1888 as a "Domestic". Sometime after 1888, she went to Chicago where she was living with a nephew and working in a "sweatshop" making overalls. She answered a "lonely hearts" advertisement in a newspaper and began cooresponding with Ole Ruud about 1890. Ultimately he sent her train fare to Coulee City, Washington, where he met her with a team and wagon, and drove the 42 miles west to Waterville. They were married in 1892, she was 28 and he was 45. Because they were late in marrying, my cousin Ellen Berg and I were the only grandchildren he saw. He died when I was less than 3 years old. The difference in their ages was 16 years, 3 months, and 5 days.