Seattle Times, 9 October 1940, page 13.

In 1940 the eighty-seven year old wife of my cousin Willm Ehmen flew from Moline, Illinois, to Seattle, Washington. When she was returning home, news of her flight made the local newspapers. She had an interesting take on using the new form of travel.

“Following the same route taken sixty-one years ago by prairie schooner, Mrs. Tjede Ehmen, 87 years old, a visitor in Seattle the past five months, departed today by United Air Lines Mainliner for Moline, Ill.

Mrs. Ehmen, widow of the Rev. T. M. Ehmen, who died in 1890, was to fly directly over the town of Gothenburg, Neb., where Mr. and Mrs. Ehmen homesteaded in early days after travelling by ox-drawn wagon from Gilden [actually Golden], Ill.

I only wish my husband could have flown instead of taking the back-breaking route he followed,” Mrs. Ehmen said. “There’s not the danger in the air there was in the old days fording a stream in a covered wagon.

In Seattle, Mrs. Ehen has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. William Blankman, 4334 Woodlawn Ave., since flying here in May.”

Tjede returned to Seattle again to visit her daughter. That’s where she died in 1942.

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