Ida Mathilda CARLSON

1873 - 1964  (90 years)

• Name	Ida Mathilda CARLSON
  Birth	24 Sep 1873	Berghem, Kånna, Kronobergs län, Sweden
  Gender	Female
  MN Death Cert Checked	Y
  Minnesota Death Certificate	1964-MN-023798
  Death	2 Apr 1964	Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
  	“Id died at 4:15 this afternoon.”
  Burial	4 Apr 1964	Crystal Lake Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
  	Estate settlement papers; confirmed by death certificate
  Notes	Her death certificate says, erroneously, that her year of birth was 1870. Emigrated in 1881 according to the 1930 census. May 16, 1881, according to Jan Webb. The portion of the family leaving Sweden at that time were Emma, Josephine, Charlie, Ida, and Hedda Sofia. Carl Oscar and Johan Alfred stayed behind in Sweden. The oldest, John, emigrated the year before. An Ida Carlsson, “barn”, b. ca 1872 in Sweden, bound for New York, emigrated from Sweden according to EmiHamn on 1 September 1881, departing from Köpenhamn, bound for New York. She was apparently the 14 year-old Ida living with Frank and Emelie in Cannon Falls in the 1885 census. Terry says that Gus’s family remembered Ida as coming from St. Louis County. The Duluth/Superior directory does record an Ida M Carlson, “ironer”, working at 1808 Broadway in Superior in 1891/92 and “boarding” at “John avenue between 1st and 2nd.” Terry says that one of Gus’s nieces (most likely grand-nieces) said that Ida was not liked by the family. She was not well educated and I suppose the German Deiters family were like the Germans here in Canada who look down on people not of German descent. This niece also said that Ida had vistors from California whose young son was a child movie star and they had much money as well. She did not remember the last name but the lady from California was called Mildred and had a fancy car and well dressed friends when they came to visit Ida in Minneapolis at her house. According to Cora, Ida was a sturdy woman who was able to climb poles and string wire when her husband started an electric company in North Dakota. According to Jan Webb: My brother was told that Ida and August Dieters came up to Naicam/ Spalding once. I guess it was in the depression and they really wanted to have children. They had made some enquiries at that visit to try to adopt some children in town but I guess were unsuccessful at that time. Ida and Gus moved into their home on the west side of Lake Nokomis after 1930. At the time of the 1930 census, they were renting at 3407 Lyndale Avenue. DHC said that Ide and Gus had two servants at the Lake Nokomis house. Gus and Ide may have lived on Park Avenue before the Lake Nokomis house. In the fall of 1938, Ide had a lake cottage, apparently on Lake Minnetonka. That is probably the house described in this article which appeared in the Star on 3 Sep 1943: Fire Razes ‘Tonka Home Knowlton Residence Destroyed Fire roared through the old David Knowlton residence on Sunrise Point, Tonka Bay, late yesterday, burning to the ground in less than an hour despite efforts of the Excelsior fire department. The Richard A. Peterson home next door was damaged by the flames. The Knowlton residence was a landmark of the Lake Minnetonka area and was one of the first built on Sunrise Point. It was a two-story frame dwelling with five bedrooms. Damage to the Peterson home, which is of concrete construction, was confined to window frames and woodwork near the windows. A group of children discovered the fire and turned in the alarm. Present owner of the Knowlton residence, A. H. Deiters, 5244 W. Lake Nokomis Parkway, who used it largely for weekends, was not at home at the time, nor were the Petersons. In the 1940 census (indexed as Beiters), Ida and August live at 5240 Lake Nokomis Parkway, the same house in which they had lived in 1935. The house was worth $10000. Gus had had a 7th grade education, Ida a 6th grade education. Living with them was a live-in servant named Elvie Manville, age 27. DHC claimed, in an interview in which his memory was suspect, that he remembered visiting Ide and Gus in North Dakota. If so, he would have been less than six years old. Ida sued Gus for her maiden name back in the late 1940s. At the same time, or near that time, Ida sued Gus for divorce, a story which made the Minneapolis newspaper (the first page of one of the sections). The Minneapolis Star had this article in its 22 Sep 1947 edition, front page: Wed 55 Years, Divorce Asked Charging the associates with other women and has even bought automobiles for them, Mrs. Ida M. Deiters, 74, filed suit for divorce today against her husband, August Henry Deiters, 81. The have been married 55 years and live at 5244 W. Lake Nokomis Parkway. Mrs. Deiters also charges in her complaint that she was unable to keep women employes in their large house because of her husband’s attitude toward them. She adds that while he was free in spending money on other women, he was not lavish with her. Deiters is worth “several hundred thousand dollars” and has an income of $6,000 a year, she claims. Deiters’ answer has not been filed. The Minneapolis Tribune had this article in its 27 Sep 1947 edition: Wife, 74, Is Denied Alimony, Court Costs A request by Mrs. Ida M. Deiters, 74, 5244 W. Lake Nokomis Parkway, for temporary alimony and payment of court costs, was denied Friday, by District Judge William A. Anderson. Mrs. Deiters has filed suit for divorce from August Henry Deiters, 81, her husband for 55 years. Deiters filed an affidavit pointing out he now provides his wife a monthly income of $250. Deiters also stated in the affidavit that he has given his wife $10 a week for “her housekeeping services.” Hospitalized for apparent surgery in late March of 1953 according to Cora’s diary. Although she died in April of 1964, her estate was not settled until October of 1966. Terry says that some of the Oscar Johnson kinfolk in Saskatchewan, Canada, said they were contacted by lawyers from Minnesota offering money from her estate but they never replied. She enjoyed building "playhouses" around Minneapolis. They all had the same floor plan. (One is on the southeast corner of 86th Street and Portland Avenue in Bloomington. I remember visiting there when I was very little.) She also built one on 43rd (40th?) Avenue and 42nd or 43rd Street that had air conditioning. Bill and Viv bought that house when they came back from Wilmington in the early 1940's. She bought or built another house at Oakland and 45th or 46th which she gave to her niece Eva Carlson Smith. In a later interview, when his memory was suspect, DHC said that there were two houses at “44st and 40th”, one had an air conditioner. He also said in that interview that Bill and Viv were at 43rd and 43rd near Hiawatha School. Ide also had a house near/at 98th and Nicollet in Bloomington. Ida had an advertisement in the Tribune on 8 Nov 1941 attempting to sell her _two_ houses near 98th Street and Nicollet. She called them “two 5-rm mod. houses, ea has 1 acre land.” In an ad in the Tribune on 25 Feb 1940, she advertised a “fresh milk cow and calf” and “1full blooded Poland China boar.” The animals were available at “Valley View Ranch” at 98th and Nicollet. She built the house at 4321 43rd Ave. S. in 1932 according to a building permit announcement in the 18 Jun 1932 edition of the Tribune (and 17 Jun 1932 in the Star). The house was to be a 1 story stucco dwelling and garage built by the owner. The cost of the project was to be $3,000. The lot was “L 9, B 3, Thorpe Bros Minn Ad.” I remember going with Elaine and Cora to visit Id and Gus at their home on Lake Nokomis when I was very young - young enough to spend most of my time crawling behind the sofa. I remember a floor lamp that lit up at the base. Gus and Id were very old at that time. Ida’s obituary appeared in the Friday, April 3rd edition of the Minneapolis Tribune. Funeral services for Ida M. Deiters, 93, 5244 West Lake Nokomis Parkway, who died Thursday will be held at 2:30 PM Saturday at the Barney Anderson-Leland Mortuary, Chicago at 37th, with burial in Crystal Lake Cemetery. Survivors include her husband, August H. The body will be at the mortuary from 7 PM today. Another death announcement in that same paper said that she was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene. Mrs. H.S. Munn was the informant for her death certificate. She knew nothing other than that Ide had been born in Smoland. Ida died at home, 5244 West Lake Nokomis Parkway, of coronary insufficiency. The probate of Ide’s will was initiated by Eva Munn through the law offices of Cronin, Mitchell & Spooner in Minneapolis. The first hearing for the probate was held on May 13, 1964. The First National Bank of Minneapolis was named the executor. The probate judge was Melvin A. Peterson and the Probate Number for the case was 103669. We don’t know how all of the initial, and largest, disbursements from Ida’s estate were made. We do, however, have the record of the final disbursements of what was left of her estate. This final resolution of Ida Mathilda Deiters’ will was completed January 30, 1967, with those final disbursements (which totaled about $20,000) handled by the First National Bank of Minneapolis. After taking off half for August H. Deiters, the will provided distributions of the remainder as follows: One-fourteenth to Eva Munn One-fourteenth to Mamie Carson One-fourteenth to Melvin Smith One-fourteenth to Josephine Peterson, deceased One-fourteenth to Darlene Sicora One-fourteenth to Robert Smith One-fourteenth to Donald Smith One-fourteenth to Vivian Carson Kincaid One-fourteenth to Dorothy Carson Casad One-fourteenth to Ted Eberts One-fourteenth to Donald H. Carlson One-fourteenth to Duane Dawson One-fourteenth to Daryl Dawson One-fourteenth to Vivian Marsh This proportion of distribution may not have been the same for the initial disbursements from the estate and disbursements were made to heirs other than the 14 receiving a share of the final distribution. We don’t know who Josephine Peterson was but apparently she died between the time that Ide finalized her will and January 30, 1967. All of the people listed were blood relatives so we must assume that Josephine Peterson was too. Perhaps Josephine Peterson was a descendant of John or Oscar. The families of Ide’s siblings benefited as follows, at least by the proportions in the final disbursement: Alfred Carlson: 2 shares Charles Smith: 8 shares Josephine Smith: 1 share Sandy Fogelquist: 2 shares Unknown: 1 share (Josephine Peterson)
  Person ID	I18	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2019

  
  

  Father	Salomon CARLSSON,   b. 6 Sep 1839, Annerstad, Kronobergs län, Sweden d. 23 Dec 1876, Kånna, Småland, Kronobergs län, Sweden (Age 37 years)
  Mother	Emelie/Emmeli Wilhelmina (Emma) LUNDBERG,   b. 20 Oct 1843, Rydö, Torup, Småland, Hallands län, Sweden d. 19 May 1903, Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	13 Jul 1867	Annerstad, Kronobergs län, Sweden
  Family ID	F9	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	August Henry (Gus) DEITERS,   b. 26 Mar 1866, Minnesota d. 11 Nov 1969, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Age 103 years)
  Marriage	13 Apr 1892	Hennepin County, Minnesota
  	as August Deiters and Ida Carlson
  Photos		Ida and Gus in California, 1919 Id on the left, Gus in the back. This is a postcard. In, apparently, Id's handwriting in pencil on the back is the following (her spelling): March 17, 1919. Der Sister and Brother. We have moved to Long Beach. We where in swimming yesterday and today. We all went down wading and got our pants wet. We where Rope Rider Last night and I don't know with we will be tonight. We are going to take Pichers in swimming in the oshen tomorrow. We will send you some pickers in our swimming shirtz... {illegible}... and tell you all when we get home. We intent to start for home last of next week. It will take us about 10 days after we leave here. Love to all Id. We don't know who the other woman and the young girl are.
  Family ID	F14	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 May 2010

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Ida Deiters with the Lundbergs in Canada Taken in Saskatchewan in the early 1920s when Ida Deiters visited her Canadian cousins. Ida is 2nd from the right and we don't know who the dark-haired young woman on the far right is. The others, from the left, are Nannie Lundberg Quaid, about 44; Hannah Lundberg, about 68; Charley Lundberg, about 72; and Belle Jestin, about 27. This photograph was processed by Osborn's of Dickinson, North Dakota, which is where Ida and Gus were living at the time.
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