Allan Odean ANDERSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2006-MN-028800

Notes:

Anderson, Ewald A. age 93 of Richfield, on October 16, 2006. Preceded in death by wife, Ardes Anderson; children, Allan Odean Anderson and Laurie Wallin. Survived by, children, Susan Risinger, Donna (Tim) McGrath, Robert (Maria) Anderson and Gary Anderson; step-child Joyce Townsend; 10 grandchildren and 1 ½ great-grandchildren. Funeral Service Friday, 2:00 pm at Hope Lutheran Church, 107 Western Ave., Sunburg, MN. Visitation Thursday 5-8 pm at Gill Brothers Funeral Chapel, 5801 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis, also 1 hour prior to service at church. Interment Spring Creek Cemetery.

Birth:
His death certificate said Kerkhoven

Ewald married Ardes Elaine SHELSTAD. Ardes (daughter of Oscar Iver SJELSTAD and Ruby Theoline HOLLEN) was born on 11 Jul 1929 in Swift County, Minnesota; died on 19 Sep 1988 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1929-28523
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1988-MN-024250

Notes:

Born Ardis.

Preceded her brother Raymond in death.

Birth:
as Sjelstad

Died:
as Ardes E Anderson

Notes:

According to his death certificate, his mother’s maiden name was Solberg.

He lived at Rt. 1, Murdock, when Milton James (child #3) was born.

He registered for the draft as on June 5, 1917, as Oscar Iver Shelstad, b. 30 Dec 1893 in Kerkhoven Twp. At that time he was still single. He was described as of medium height and build with brown eyes and brown hair. He was a farmer laborer, presumably working for his father.

In the 1920 census, he is listed with his parents, Lorents and Jennie Shelstad of Kerkhoven. He is shown as married.

In the 1930 census, he is indexed as Sfelstad and written as Sjelstad. The family lived in Kerkhoven Twp and consisted of Oscar E, 36, Ruby T, 32, Raymond O, 11, and Ardis E, 8 months. Living with them is a 23 year-old servant named Ida Elvehjem.

In the 1940 census, indexed as Sjelstads, Oscar and Ruby farm in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County. The farm they live on, which they own and is worth $900, is not the same place as they lived in 1935. Oscar and Ruby have eighth-grade educations. Their three children still live on the farm with their parents.

Died:
As Oscar Iver Sjelstad

Oscar married Ruby Theoline HOLLEN on 14 Nov 1917 in Swift County, Minnesota. Ruby (daughter of Thosten Evenson HOLLEN and Randi SÖNDROL) was born in Jul 1897 in Minnesota; died on 21 Jul 1949 in Swift County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Probably is the 7 year-old Teoline living with her father in the 1905 state census.

As Ruby T., 12, she is living with her father and siblings in Kerkhoven Twp in the 1910 census.

In the 1920 census, as Ruby Shelstad, married but with no husband listed, she is living with her father and two half-brothers, as well as her son, in Kerkhoven Twp.

Died:
as Mrs. Ruby Theoline Sjelstad

Notes:

Married:
as Oscar Sjelstad and Ruby Hollen

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1930-MN-015478
• Baptism: 2 Nov 1845, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He is not in either of Jim’s databases.

The records for the Norway Lake Lutheran churches in Kandiyohi County have this entry for him: “Tosten E. Hollen, born in Balders. Come to Goodhue County, 1866. Married with Guri H. Hande, born in Balders. Came to Rice County 1869; to Norway Lake 1875. Married again with Rangdi Flaten, born in Balders. Came to Norway Lake, 1895.”

As Thorsten Evenson, he and his family were living in Lake Johanna, Kerkhoven Twp, in the 1885 state census.

He was Tosten Hollen in the 1895 state census. He was apparently a widower at that point. Living with him in Kerkhoven Twp were: Even, 19, Halvor, 18, Christofer, 16, Anna, 14, Ole, 11, and Berthine, 8.

Not living with the children by his first wife in the 1900 census.

Spelled Halen in the 1905 state census, Hollen in the 1900 census.

In the 1910 census he is Tosten E. Hollen (indexed as Foston e Hollen), 64, divorced, living in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County. Living with him are his children Even T., 33, Berthine, 23, and Ruby T., 12. Tosten came to the U.S. in 1866. His brother, C E Hollen and family, lives next door.

In the 1930 census, he was a widower living with his son Ole, and Ole’s recent wife, in Kerkhoven Twp. Living next door was Tosten’s (apparent) brother, Even Hollen, and his wife Minda (born Minda Ovidia Solberg) and son.

Died as Tosten E. Hallen.

Birth:
Hoverstad 63

Thosten married Randi SÖNDROL on 23 Jun 1897 in Swift County, Minnesota, and was divorced. Randi (daughter of Torstein Olsson SÖNDROL and Ragndi Olsdotter ELLINGBØE) was born on 10 Jul 1854 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 12 Apr 1909 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1909-MN-015987
• Baptism: 8 Oct 1854, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is Randi Torsteinsdatter Syndrol, I7080, in Jim’s VS.

Her family farm name was called Sönderold in her birth record.

In the 1865 Norwegian census, she is 12 years old and living with her parents and siblings on Søndrohl, mitre, in Vang.

This Randi is the Rangdi Søndvol to whom Ove Ovesen Ellingbø refers in his 1896 letter to his mother. According to Trudy: “She first married Torstein Flaten from Bøaflatadn in Vang. They lived in Minneapolis until Torstein died in 1895. She took the children back to Norway for a few months and then went back to Minnesota, settling in Sunburg where she married Torstein Hollen, born in Hoverstad 63 in Vang. He was a widower with children. They had 2 children. She died in Minneapolis in 1909 and he died in Sunburg in 1930. I don't know if they stayed married or not.”

Called “Maude” in the 1885 state census.

In the 1895 Minnesota census, she (Randa) and her family lived at 1604 E. Lake Street in Minneapolis. Tosten, 47, was a “dairyman.”

In the 1900 federal census, she and her second husband, Thosten Hollen, and her and their children lived in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County. Randi came to the U.S. in 1869 and Thosten in 1866. Randi had had 10 children, 9 still living. The children from her first marriage that were living with her were Baldor, 14 (b. Feb 1886), Nordal, 12 (b. Jan 1888), and Walter, 9 (b. July 1890).

In the 1905 state census, Tosten and his and her children still lived in Kerkhoven. Rangdy, however, along with four of her children from her first marriage were living separately on a farm in Murdock, Kerkhoven Twp. Rangdy and her children are listed with the last name Flattan. Those children are: Baldor, 19, Nordahl, 17, Valtor, 14, and Meble, 12. They live next door to Ole and Sigre Ellestad (#1953 and #1956).

She is Ronda Flaten on her death certificate. In that certificate, she is identified as a widow living at 2011 2-1/2 Street in Minneapolis. She married at 19 and had 10 children, 8 of whom were still alive at her death. No informant is named on her death certificate. She died of pulmonary tuberculosis which she had had for “8 or 10 years.” Her father was Thosten Sondrol and her mother was unknown. She was buried at “Layman’s.”

Birth:
9 July 1855 on her death certificate

Notes:

Married:
#D-326, indexed as Thosten Evenson and Randgi Thompson