Velgjerd Torsteinsdatter NYSTUEN

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 13 Nov 1842, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Went by Ellen in the U.S. In the 1910 census, she had had four children, only two still living.

From the Dalby database:

Funeral services for Mrs. Velgjer Svien, who passed away at her home Saturday morning, January 24, were held in St. John's Lutheran church this afternoon at 2 p.m. with the pastor the Rev. B. R. Biorn officiating. Burial was made in the family lot beside the graves of her husband and four children. Pallbearers were six grand-nephews, Elmer, Clarence, Luther, George, Paul and Maurice Nystuen. Velgjer Nystuen Svien was born in Norway on October 10, 1842. After the death of her mother, Mr. Nystuen came to America with his family when Velgjer was 11 years of age. The trip from Norway to Quebec, Canada in 1854 took seven weeks aboard the slow sailing ship. The Nystuens first settled in Spring Prairie, Wis. and later moved to St. Ansgar, Iowa. It was there in 1860 that Velgjer married Andrew Svien. They moved to Goodhue county, Minnesota in 1865 where they were engaged in farming until 1876 when they moved to Northfield. She and her husband operated a hotel on Division Street. Mr. Svien also served as policeman. Mrs. Svien was a charter member of the Ladies Aid society of St. John's church and a long time member of the congregation. Mr. Svien passed away inn 1927. For several years she continued to reside at the home on Washington Street. She was cared for later in a rest home and at the time of her death was being cared for by her grandson and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. William Lockren. She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Hans Bergan, Lake Mills, Iowa; six grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren. A foster daughter, Mrs. H. E. Frazee (Susie) of Pelican Rapids, also survives.

and:

The state’s oldest resident, Mrs. Velgjer Svien, passed away Friday, Jan. 23,1953, at the age of 110 years, 3 months, and 13 days. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. B. R. Biorn at St. Johns Lutheran church Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 2 oclock. Gertrude Boe Overby was soloist and Mrs. H. J. Westwood was organist. Burial was beside her husband in Northfield cemetery.

Velgjer Nystuen was born at Valdres, Norway, Oct. 10, 1842. After the death of her mother which occurred when Velgjer was only eight, she came with her father and his other children to the United States in 1854. The trip across the ocean was made on a sailing vessel, taking eleven weeks. The familys first home was in Spring Prairie, Wis. After three years they moved to St. Ansgar, la., and it was here in 1860 that Velgjer was married to Andrew J. Svien. She was then 18 years of age. In 1865 Mr. and Mrs. Svien moved to a farm in Goodhue county, Minnesota. Northfield became their home in 1876 and for the remaining years of their lives. Mr. Svien died in 1926, and Mrs. Svien spent 77 years as a resident here. For a time Mr. and Mrs. Svien had a hotel on Division street in the building now occupied by the Berg and Son Upholstery business, but Mr. Svien is better remembered by the generations of his day as the town policeman, an affable man faithfully walking his beat. Mrs. Svien’s recipe for long life, “Don’t hurry,” she practiced indeed. She never allowed herself to be hurried or worried, taking each moment, as well as each day, as it came, and maintaining a serenity rarely found in this mechanized day of speed. She enjoyed remarkably good health and strength for her advanced years. On her 100th birthday she sat through an afternoon of festivities in her honor given by the ladies aid at St. John’s church, and she showed no weariness from the experience. She was a charter member of the ladies aid and a member of the church. That birthday was also marked by an interview with her on the radio, as well as another party given her at her home, at which about 100 relatives and friends came to greet her. On her 105th birthday another sizable celebration was held at her home. This too she enjoyed thoroughly, making frequent trips outside to pose for pictures. Until she was 98 Mrs. Svien lived alone and took care of her home and of herself. Her daughter Carrie, Mrs. Lervik, then came to live with her. The daughter passed away after a few years. Seven years ago a grandson, William Lockren, and Mrs. Lockren came to care for Mrs. Svien. She clung to the practice of ministering to her own needs until frailty prevented, and that was only about three years ago. The Sviens had two sons and two daughters: Carrie, John, Tom, and Anna, all of whom have died; also a foster daughter, Susie, Mrs. H. E. Frazee, who lives in Pelican Rapids. There are six grandchildren,10 great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Svien has one sister living, Mrs. Hans Bergan, Lake Mills, la. Mrs. Bergan is in her 90s. The pallbearers for Mrs. Svien were all grandnephews. They were all Nystuens, Elmer, Clarence, Luther, George, Paul, and Maurice. Mrs. Svien had seen in her life-time a panorama of marvelous changes—from sailing vessels to steamboats to aircraft; from prairie and woodland country to cities and paved highways; from covered wagons and horses to trains and automobiles. She had seen the wonders of science bring in the telephone, the electric light, the phonograph, the radio, and television. She had seen her country in the throes of five wars; The Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, and the present Korean conflict. She had lived in this country under 20 presidents. Franklin Pierce was president when she arrived in 1854. The Civil War was raging when she came with her husband to Goodhue county. And their arrival in Northfield was the same year the James-Younger raid invaded the city and met its Waterloo. Her life in the Midwest embraced the period of the development of this great area from its rudest beginnings.

Birth:
Nystuen 1/ husmannsplass

Velgjerd married Anders Johannessen SVIEN in 1860 in Iowa. Anders (son of Johannes J H SVIEN and Anna Andrisdatter LUNDE) was born on 11 Mar 1837 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1927 in Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anna SVIEN was born about 1870 in Minnesota; died in 1948.
2. Carin SVIEN was born about 1862.
3. John SVIEN was born about 1864.
4. Thomas SVIEN was born about 1867.
5. Susie A Peterson SVIEN was born on 13 Mar 1878 in Rice County, Minnesota; died on 28 Mar 1964 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Pelican Rapids, Otter Tail County, Minnesota.

Notes:

He is I8159 in Jim’s VS. Jim’s notes: Han var først innerst på Nystuen, så så kjøpte han Nundal i Årdal i 1846, men da kona Berit døde like etter, solgte han gården igjen i 1849 og flyttet tilbake til Nystuen. Der bodde han i Grønli til de flyttet til Amerika i 1854.

In the 1880 census, he was Tosten J Nystuen, a farmer in Silver Lake Twp, Worth County, Iowa. The household consisted of himself, age 72, Anna, 56, Ole T., 27, Gulbrand, 25, Anna, 21, Tosten, 19, Knudt, 18, Ole, 16, Beret, 14, and Guri, 12.

Birth:
Nystuen 1/

Torstein married Berit Iversdotter UVDAL (UPDAL) in 1837. Berit (daughter of Iver Trondsson /OPDAL UVDAL and Velgjerd Trondsdotter BREKKE) was born in 1815 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1848 in Årdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Uvdal 2/2 sygarden

Died:
Nundal 4/ vestre

Notes:

Birth:
Lunde 17/

Died:
Nystuen 1/

Jon married Berit Torsteinsdatter GRIHAMAR in 1797 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Berit (daughter of Torstein Olsen GRIHAMAR and Guri Olsdatter LEINE) was born in 1776 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1819 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Grihamar 4/

Died:
Nystuen 1/

Iver married Velgjerd Trondsdotter BREKKE in 1812 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Velgjerd (daughter of Trond Jonsen ELLINGBØ and Guri Ivarsdatter TUNE) was born in 1788/1789 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1815 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Housekeeper

Notes:

See pp. 65 and 302 Vang A.

Birth:
Brekke

Notes:

He is I1989 in Jim’s VS.

p. 38 of Vang A

Jim’s notes:

Han var født på Eltun, men flyttet til Lunde da han giftet seg med Anne i 1760 De flyttet til Nystuen o1783. da hadde det vært en lang sak om rettighetene til "fjellstøga". Anders Frøholm skriver om enka etter "støgomannen" Nils Oldre; Dordi Lassesdtr Ølgøgn (Hamre) (1743-1783): "Då Dordi vart enke (1777) fekk ho truleg vanskar med å greie fjellstøgopliktene. Futen ville i alle fall ha henne bort og ha Knut T Lunde til ny fjellstøgomann, og sa henne ut hausten 1778. Saka vart utsett seks gonger, men på tinget 6.7.1780 vart Dordi dømd til å flytte frå Nystøga første faredag og ryddiggjøre fjellstøga for Knut Lunde, mot at han ga henne den lova livauren på 4 tn. korn og føding av 3 kyr og 6 småkrøtter inn atura eller penger etter prisen i bygda. Ho meinte å ha rett til å bli sitjande sidan mannen hadde makebytt seg til Nystøga, men retten fann at fjellstøga var "et publique sted", dvs offentlig eigedom som mannen hadde for si levetid, og ikkje slik at at enka som på anna bygselsjord kunn e sitje ut si levetid. Futen hadde levert ei klage på henne frå 18.12.1778 for dårlig stell for dei reisande og vedlikehald av staden. Buet etter Dordi hausten 1784 var verd brutto knapt 137 rd, men gjelda var på heile 248 rd! Ved skiftet gjorde futen krav på vederlag frå buet for at veg-visarstengene på fjellet var nedbrotne og klaga over "skogens ruin", men avingane meinte de i ikkje hadde hogd meir enn dei trong sjølve, og Knut Lunde sa at stengene vart brotne ned kvar vinter det var eit årvisst forfall. På den andre sida ville ikkje Knut betale for husa, som han meinte høyrde fjellstoga til, medan arvingane hevda at støgomennene, mann etter mann, hadde innløyst husa av føremannen. det var for mykje snø til at det kunne halde takst over fjellsteng ene då retten vart satt 9. juli.

Birth:
Eltun 13/ Øvre

Died:
Nystuen 1/

Knut married Anne Andrisdatter ELLINGBØ. Anne (daughter of Andris Torsteinson KVÅLE and Unknown) was born in 1724 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1803 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is I2492 in Jim’s VS.

Jim’s notes:

Anne var først på Lunde 17/, men da Andris døde giftet hun seg med Knut Eltun på Nystuen og flyttet dit. Da Knut døde i 1799 var hun fortsatt på Nystuen til o1801, så flyttet hun til Lunde igjen og døde der hos datteren Gunnvor. Anne og Knut hadd e også datteren Anne Nystuen (1763-1797) gift med Ola G Uvdal han flyttet til Høverstad etter at Anne døde. Det er ikke helt sikkert at hun er datter til denne Andrisen, men det er stor sannsynlighet for det. Men dette bør undersøkes nærmere.

Birth:
Ellingbø 34/2 Sygarden

Died:
Nystuen 1/

Notes:

Birth:
Grihamar 4/

Died:
Grihamar 4/

Torstein married Guri Olsdatter LEINE. Guri (daughter of Ola Nilsson LEINE and Berit Knutsdatter JEVNE) was born in 1744 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1804 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Leine 56/1 Sørre

Died:
Grihamar 4/

Notes:

Birth:
Uvdal 2/1 Nordigarde

Trond married Berit Einarsdatter HEEN in 1787 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Berit (daughter of Einar Kristoffersen HEEN and Ingebjørg Knutsdatter EINANG) was born in 1761 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1806 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Heen 71/1 Øvre

Notes:

Born in Bøkkadn 33/3 av Ellingbø. Died in Brekke 16/ i Øye in 1820.

Han overtok Brekke 16/ da broren Andris fikk Ellingbø 33/3 Bøkko. Skjøtet er datert 12.2.1765, men han overtok gåren i 1753. Han betalte 224 rd for gården.

Trond married Guri Ivarsdatter TUNE in 1763 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Guri (daughter of Ivar Andrisen TUNE and Anne Torsteinsdatter GÅSEDELEN) was born in 1744 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1825 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Housekeeper

Notes:

See p. 302 Vang A.

Born in Tune 36/2 nørre, Nordigarden. Died in Brekke 16/ i Øye.

De hadde tre sønner som het Trond, antakelig døde de to eldste tidlig. De hadde også 2 døtre som het Ingebjørg, en sønn som het Trond som døde ugift i 1812 og en sønn Andris som døde i krigen i 1808.