Mads Nielsen was a farmer and a dairyman. In the morning he would milk his cows then go to the Danish Creamery dairy in Fresno for his day job. Then he'd come home in the night and repeat. If he didn't have the money for gas, he would have to ride his bicycle. He relied on an old wind up alarm clock to get him up on time. One time when my grandfather, Donald Nielsen, was little, he disassembled the alarm clock to see how it ran. They couldn't afford to replace it and had to guess at the time so Mads could get to work on time.
Dinner couldn't be held until after the cows were milked. One Thanksgiving, your great great grandmother, Marie Laugesen Nielsen, was late coming into dinner. When the family went to check on her out in the barn they found that a cow had stepped on her and she couldn't push her off, leaving her trapped.
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