source: Douglas Filholm

Data Ellis Island Passenger Arrivals:First Name: Tscherning
Last Name: Andersen
Ethnicity:
Last Place of Residence: Vendsyssel
Date of Arrival: June 05, 1904
Age at Arrival: 25y Gender: M Marital Status: S
Ship of Travel: St. Paul
Port of Departure: Southampton
Manifest Line Number: 0030

Tscherning Filholm was born in Vrensted, Denmark in 1879. He was the oldest of ten children and was christened, Christian Fredrick Tscherning Andersen, the family name which was later changed to Filholm, the name of the farm on which they lived.

Jens passed away on Memorial Day 1980 and lay at rest in the Greenwood Cemetary in Brookings.Esther married Ralph Quineey a native of Kansas. They farmed in Brookings County and raised an adopted son, Donald, who has two children and lives at Trosky, Minnesota. Ralph died Oct.2, 1972 and Esther died Apr. 25, 1979. They rest in the Fairview Cemetary at White, S.D..

Of the ten children in the Filholm family only two, Tscherning and his brother George came to America.