Nels Leo
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Got lucky.
And so they just went away.
Yeah.
My great-grandfather came from Sweden, went to Vermont, worked in a granite mine.
I'm sure that was just lovely work.
And then they moved to Chicago and worked in a furniture factory.
And I actually have a...
really cool china cabinet with it's the curved glass on the sides oh cool yeah front the main door is curved glass in the front and there's like lion's paw teeth or teeth feet yeah and uh evidently he'd worked on the feet i think yeah i still have that that's cool furniture is cool then they moved out to jamaica and rented a farm and
No, I think he knew what he was doing at that point.
I think he already had a brother out here, if I remember right.
Oh.
Yeah.
So, and then just grew from there.
Not yet.
They rented farms for quite a while, and I think the farm where I live will be here shortly.
Yeah.
Before.
Yeah, that's nuts.
Before the Civil War.
Wow.