May 23, 2012: Norra Ljunga, Åkaköp and Porsamålen
We visited the Norra Ljunga church (57.3747, 14.5906), home church of Erick Abrahamson (1821-1917), Daryl’s great great grandfather and Erick’s daughter, Helena Sofia Ericksson (1856-1889), who would become Daryl’s great grandmother Ring. Johan Larsson Ring moved his family to Norra Ljunga in 1863, when son Andrew was 13, and they lived there until their emigration in 1869. In 1875 Andrew married Helena Sofia after both groups had emigrated and moved to Stanton, Iowa.
The Norra Ljunga church is one of nine churches in the Njudung district built in the last half of the 1100’s from the same architectural plan in the Romanesque style. The church was built with 5-foot thick stone walls covered inside and out with plaster.