Roger, sorry it took so long to find out where Sille was buried.
here is a fragment of a letter from my great grandfather Rev. Johan Linnevold to his parents after visiting Sille in the old folks home in Stoughton WI that reads as follow-
"That old peoples home is certainly in many respects better than a soldiers home or a poor house, but I should just the same not consider having my own parents brought there. Mrs. Ruh asked if Sille had problems getting around, is cross, cries or anything like that, if so it will be hard for her. Among so many old there will be other difficult people and such people should not be there. It is not my intention to advise against Sille to go to Stoughton. If she does not thrive there, maybe she can get her money back and come home. Better still and to be waited on at the home she could not get in any family but that hospitality and arrangement gives little notion from me and I believe others feel the same. it comes to me that Ingeman could have done better to stay in the business rather than be a traveling man. I'm sure he'll become tired of traveling every day. One can get dyspepsia from eating hotel food and he probably will have little time for that. Lovingly, Johan."
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