Wallace Edmund GRONSETH

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2003-MN-027061

Notes:

Died:
SSDI last residence

Family/Spouse: Merle. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1922-MN-014514

Notes:

He died of a thombosis (stroke or, less likely, heart attack). His father was the informant for his death certificate.

When he registered for the draft in June of 1917, he and his wife and daughter were living in Willard, Montana. He was a farmer on his own farm.

Birth:
his 1917 draft registration said Murdock, Minnesota

Gilbert married Marie Josephine (Josie) SKANSBERG on 19 Apr 1916 in Swift County, Minnesota. Marie was born on 5 Sep 1894 in Minnesota; died on 18 May 1957 in Swift County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her father was Anton Skansberg, still alive in the 1930 census.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1931-MN-015061

Notes:

He was a member of Trønderlag of America in 1913. This was (and still is) the bygdelag for emigrants and their descendants from the Trøndelag region of Norway. John Grønseth, of Murdock, Minnesota and from Stjørdalen, was listed in the Trønderlaget’s 1913 yearbook. In that yearbook, John is shown as having emigrated to the U.S. in 1879.

He was John G. Gronseth of Murdock at the time of his son Gilbert’s death.

John married Anna ELLINGBOE on 11 Mar 1892 in Swift County, Minnesota. Anna (daughter of Even Jørgensson ELLINGBOE and Berith Olsdatter TUNEIGA) was born on 19 Apr 1873 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 5 Oct 1942 in Kerkhoven, Swift County, Minnesota; was buried on 8 Oct 1942 in Spring Creek Cemetery, Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1942-MN-015600
• Baptism: 18 May 1873, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 7 Oct 1888, Minnesota

Notes:

Sponsors at her baptism included Anne Jørgensdatter Ellingbö, Berit Trondsdatter Thune, Anders Asbjornson Kvale, and Ove Ovesen Ellingbö (#3231).

She died from a stroke. The informant for her death certificate was Mrs. Johan Lee of Murdock.

Birth:
Jørnplassen under Ellingboe 33/1

Confirmation:
“American Lutheran”, Kandiyohi, Minnesota

Lunder married Gurine DAHL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1911-MN-013906
• Baptism: 26 Jan 1840, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He was one of the two “best men” for Ove Ellingboe (#3231) in his wedding to Betsey in 1874.

In the 1875 Norwegian census, he and his wife and daughter lived on Pladsen with his father, mother, and uncle.

Farming in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County, at the time of the 1880 and 1900 censuses. Came to this country with his wife (and daughter) in 1876.

Even is listed in the Vang out-migration records as departing for America in 1876. Even and Berith are shown as arriving in New York on May 22, 1876, aboard the S.S. Idaho from Liverpool and Queenstown. Daughter Anna is not listed on the manifest.

Of Ellingbö according to his marriage entry in the parish record and according to the entry for Anne’s birth.

Land records show that the Benson land office issued Even a 160 acre homestead on 10 Sep 1883. The land description was:

Swift County
Section 20
Township 122-N
Range 37-W
5th PM

In the 1910 census, he is a farmer in Kerkhoven Twp. The household consists of Even G., 70, Beret, 61, George, 32, Olaf, 29, and Theodore, 20. George is a carpenter, the other two boys are farm laborers.

An article in the August 16th edition of the Willmar newspaper calls him Evan E Ellingboe, “about 75,” and one of the earliest settlers of the county.

Died:
indexed as Evan G. Edinghoe

Even married Berith Olsdatter TUNEIGA on 18 Jun 1872 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Berith (daughter of Ole Tomasson THUNE and Maren Thronsdatter TWEDT) was born on 1 Dec 1849 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 1 Jun 1927 in Kerkhoven, Swift County, Minnesota; was buried on 4 Jun 1927 in Spring Creek Cemetery, Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1927-MN-014825
• Baptism: 6 Jan 1850, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is Berit Olsdatter Tuneiga, I8655, in Jim’s Elllingboe tree. She is I22264 in Jim’s VS.

In the 1900 census she is shown as having had 6 children, 5 still living. Those numbers are 6 and 6 in the 1910 census.

Of one of the Thune farms according to her marriage record in the parish record.

In the 1920 census, she is a widow living with her son Olaf in Kerkhoven Twp.

She lived on Route 3, Murdock, at death. She died of a stroke. Her daughter, Mrs. R. O. Gronseth of Route 3, Murdock, was the informant for her death certificate.

Birth:
as Berith Olsdatter Thuneijet