Ansedel för Jonas-Anton Zingmark

Levnadsbeskrivning

Född 1852-01-31.
Död 1919-09-05.

Jonas Anton Zingmark blev tillsammans med sin hustru ägare till Bodberget i Botsmark men utvandrade redan 1882 till U.S.A. Hans anhöriga där berättar följande: " He sailed third class. His wife and eldest son Jonas Arvid became very ill on the voyage to America. There was a very severe storm on the ocean.

He settled in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He obtained employment at the Sioux Falls rock quarries. The eldest son died at the age of eleven months and is buried somewhere where the city now stands.

Jonas Anton later obtained employment with the railroad. He then moved to Ramsey, South Dakota continuing his work on the railroad.

He told of the terrible snow blizzard of 1888, when he tied a twine from the house to the barn so that he could find his way back and forth. Many people lost there lives that winter as it was one of the most severe storms ever experienced in South Dakota. In the year 1889 Jonas moved to a farm north of Salem Mc Cook County, South Dakota. There he bought a farm of 160 acres. Jonas Anton farmed with oxen as was the custom on the prairie. And he always wore wooden shoes until one day he kicked a cow and his shoe broke in two, there after he wore leather shoes. He lived on this farm until his death."