Baby Girl FLOM

Notes:

From Find A Grave. Not listed in MHS Death Index nor in Minnesota Births.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1917-10861
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1983-MN-029775

Kenneth married Helen Magdalene THOMPSON on 26 Aug 1950 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Helen (daughter of Johannes Anderson THOMPSON and Gyda Magdalene (Minnie) BENSON) was born on 13 Jul 1914 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; died on 18 Nov 2002 in Bloomington, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried in Holden Lutheran Cemetery, Kenyon, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1914-42639
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2002-MN-041645

Notes:

In the 1940 census, she lived at home and worked as a power machine operator for a clothing manufacturer.

Flom Helen M. (Thompson), 88, of Kenyon, died Monday, Nov. 18 at Martin Luther Manor in Bloomington. She was born July 13, 1914 in Mpls to Johan & Minnie (Benson) Thompson. On Aug. 26, 1950, she married Kenneth O. Flom of Kenyon. She entered Martin Luther Manor in 1991. Survived by daughters, Muriel (Tom) Hogan of Edina and Karen (Ron) Lee of Plymouth; and grandchildren, Alicia and Brice Hogan, Brianne and Kara Lee. Her parents, husband, infant daughter and sister, Evelyn Peterson preceded her in death. Service Saturday, 11 AM at Holden Lutheran Church, rural Kenyon.

Notes:

He was a farmer in Holden Twp, Goodhue County.

Martin married Ida DALBOTTEN about 1905. Ida was born on 31 Dec 1879 in Minnesota; died on 19 Dec 1956 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried in Holden Lutheran Cemetery, Kenyon, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1964-MN-008242
• Occupation: Street car conductor, teamster, machinist helper, painter

Notes:

Also known as Johnnie Thompson.

Appears to be listed as “Johanna”, a female, in the 1880 census.

In the 1910 census, he is John A. Thompson, a 32 year-old single street car conductor, living with his sister and brother-in-law, Mary and Adolph Willson in Minneapolis.

In the 1920 census, on January 14, 1920, he is John A. Thompson, living at 3740 30th Ave. (This is the house that Minnie’s parents lived in in the 1910 census.) (ED #219, image 35 of 40, Ward 12).

In the 1930 census, he is Johan A. The family is still living at 3740 30th Avenue in south Minneapolis in a house worth $4500 that they own. The household does not have a radio. Johan is a machinist helper at the steam railroad shops.

In the 1940 census, he is Johan. He and Gyda and their daughters live at 3740 30th Avenue in south Minneapolis. He is a painter.

He lived in Minneapolis at the time of his brother Jon’s death.

Died as Johan A.

He died at home of a heart attack. He lived at 6820 16th Avenue South in Richfield when he died. He was a painter and a widower. His wife was Minnie. His daughter Evelyn was the informant for his death certificate.

Died:
at home

Johannes married Gyda Magdalene (Minnie) BENSON on 26 Oct 1910 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Gyda (daughter of Haakon BENSON and Lina Andrine Olsdatter) was born in 1877 in Norway; died on 20 Dec 1949 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1949-MN-024153

Notes:

Apparently emigrated in 1885 and was naturalized as a citizen in 1891.

In the 1910 census, she is living with her parents and brother at 3740 30th Avenue in Minneapolis. She was born in 1880 and arrived in the U.S. with her family in 1886.

Her death was noticed in the Minneapolis newspapers on December 27th and December 28th as Minnie B. Thompson. There was no obituary. She was 72 and lived at 3740 30th Avenue S.

Birth:
date according to Jan Arne

Died:
as Minnie Benson Thompson

Notes:

Married:
as Johmes Thompson and Gyda Benson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1911-MN-012785
• Occupation: Gaardbr og Selveier
• Confirmation: 27 Jul 1845, Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He is Andris Thomassen Høyne, I33654, in Jim’s VS.

Buried as Andrew Thompson. Shown as Anders Thomasson Ellestad, age 26, in the Vestre Slidre parish record for his marriage to Randi Eriksdatter, age 22.

Referred to by Alison as Anders Tomason Ellestad. Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as Anders Thomasen, living on the domicile of Høine in Vestre Slidre. Anders is the Gaardr og Selveier and he has 1 horse, 6 cattle, 8 sheep, 1 pig, 2 barley, and 4 potatoes. Living with him and Rangdi are their children Berit, Thomas, Erik, and Knud, as well as Anders’s parents Thomas and Berit and Anders’s sister Anne, age 22.

The FamilySearch entry is for Andris Tomasson, born in 1830 in Hoine III, Vestre Slidre, Oppland, Norway.

Rose confirmed that Anders got the family farm in Norway, apparently because Knut had left Norway earlier. Nevertheless, Andrew eventually decided that owning that farm in Norway was less attractive than owning a farm in Minnesota, especially with the letters he must have been getting from Knut and Peter. Peter paid for Anders and his family to come to the U.S.

Linda says Andrew and Randi lived in Webster, the township in Rice County next to New Market.

According to Alison, Andrew and his wife and family emigrated to the U.S. in 1877. According to Rose, they took the train to Farmington. Someone was not there to meet them so they had to sleep in a horse barn.

Alison, citing the Scott County deed, describes their farm as the north half of the southeast quarter of section 34, New Market Township, as of 1 Mar 1878. The family is recorded as landing in New York, aboard the Brittanic (from Liverpool via Queenstown), on June 11, 1877: Anders Ellestad, 46, Rangdi Ellestad, 43, Berit Ellestad, 18, Tomas Ellestad, 16, Erick Ellestad, 13, Knut Ellestad, 11, Marit Ellestad, 9, John Ellestad, 7, Iver Ellestad, 4, Olga Ellestad, 3, and Ingeborg Ellestad, 1. Everyone in the family is shown as being from Germany.

According to Evey: “My great-grandfather Thompson settled in the Webster, Minnesota area which is quite close to the New Market/Lakeville area where the Ellingboes still have their homestead.”

Census taker Peter J. Baetes or Baeten visited the “Andrew Thomson” farm in New Market township, Scott County, on June 22, 1880. The record is shown as image 17 of 20, page 160A. Andrew is shown in the 1880 census as “Andrew Thomson,” age 50, a farmer. His wife is shown as 47 year-old Randy. Children at home are 21 year-old Thom Thomson, 19 year-old Erick Thomson, 17 year-old Knut Thomson, 14 year-old Mary Thomson, 12 year-old John Thomson, 5 year-old “Ingebor” Thomson (female), and 2 year-old Johanna Thomson (female).

The listing of the youngest child as a female appears to have been in error.

In the 1900 census (June 17th), Andrew Thompson and family were living in New Market Township. The household consisted of Andrew, 69 (born Sept 1830), Randie, 66 (born April 1834), Knut A., 34 (born May 1866), Belle, 25 (born May 1875), William Carel, grandson, 10 (born Feb 1890), and George, grandson, 11 (born Aug 1888). The two boys are shown as “at school.” The boys were born in Minnesota; their father was born in Sweden. Knut A. is shown as married, Belle is single. The four oldest are shown as coming to this country from Norway in 1877. Randie and Andrew had been married 42 years. Randie had had 10 children, 8 still living. Andrew owned his farm with a mortgage. Knut was shown as a naturalized citizen, Andrew was still an alien. Andrew cannot speak English. The children were apparently Mary’s and apparently visiting because they seem to have been recorded earlier at their parents’ home in Minneapolis.

Both Andrew and Randy were still on the farm at the time of the 1910 census, living with their single son Knut who is shown as head of the household.

Minnesota Death CertID# 1911-MN-012785 as Andrew E.

Birth:
birth date in his confirmation entry in parish record; Jim says born on Høyne 26/1

Died:
“sleuosis of cardia old age”

Buried:
230 EA 32

Anders married Rangdi Eriksdatter KVÅLE on 2 Jun 1857 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Rangdi (daughter of Erik Iverson QVALE and Ingeborg Jonsdatter ONSTAD) was born on 23 Apr 1834 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; was christened on 8 Jun 1834 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 25 Jan 1925 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 29 Jan 1925 in East Christiania Lutheran Cemetery, Eureka Twp, Dakota County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1925-MN-017772
• Confirmation: 15 Jul 1849, Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is incorrectly shown as Ragndi Eriksdatter Kvåle, I8781, in Jim’s VS. Jim’s Ellingboe tree does not show the parents of Erik Anderson Ellestad, the man he shows in that tree as Rose’s father.

However, the marriage record shows her as Randi Eriksdatter, age 22 of Qvale, daughter of Erik Iversen.

Rose said that Rangdi “didn’t take” to Rose because she, Rose, “didn’t look like them.” That may be why Ann was sent to replace Rose in the later 19-oughts. Apparently, however, Rose stayed to help on Andrew’s and Rangdi’s farm for a year and a half (1907-1908) and then Ann came for another year and a half. It was while Rose was helping out on the farm that she met Ole Ellingboe. She “worked another summer” and then, presumably, married Ole.

Also known as Randi (on her death certificate) or Rande. Buried as Randi Thompson.

In the 1920 census, she is living in Minneapolis at 1406 E. 22nd Street with her daughter Mary Willson and family. She is shown as 88 years old and having come to this country in 1877, naturalized as a citizen in 1885.

Spent her last years at 3338 Oakland Avenue S., Minneapolis, in the home of her daughter, Mary Willson.

Evey has a formal family photograph taken, probably, in the ‘teens that contains Rangdi with children Betsy, John, Johan, Mary, Erick, Knute, Belle, and Thomas.

Died:
apoplexy and artheroslerosis

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 22 Oct 1865, Eidsvold, Akershus, Viken County, Norway

Notes:

Born Haakon Berntsen in Gullverket in the eastern part of Eidsvoll, Norway, according to his father’s great-great-grandson who still lives on the home farm.

In his confirmation record, his parents appear to be Bernt Karpen Halvorssen and Gurine Magdalene somebody.

In the 1895 state census, he and his family lived at 3322 Longfellow, on the 2nd floor of a two-family residence in south Minneapolis. The household consisted of Heckon, 46, Lena, 51, Ole, 22, Bennie, 19, Fred, 17, Minnie, 18, and Harry, 12. Heckon and Ole were painters, Bennie was a caller for a railroad. They had been in the state for 10 years and in the local enumeration district for 9 years.

In the 1900 census, indexed as A Benson, the census enumerator obviously had difficulty understanding what to write down for the family, who lived at 3127 18-1/2 Avenue in south Minneapolis. The household consisted of H, b. May 1850, a painter; Lena, b. Jun 1846; Ole, b. Dec 1872, also a painter; B.M., son, b. Sept 1875, a caller for the C M & SP railroad; M.J. a daughter, b. Mar 1877; F.C., a son, b. Dec 1878, a painter; and H.M., b. Aug 1883, a high school student. Everyone had been born in Norway.

In the 1905 state census, the family lived at 2612 E 34th Street in south Minneapolis. The household consisted of Hokan, 54, Lenna, 60, and for some reason the rest of the family was not listed. Ensuing pages in the enumeration start off with different families.

In the 1905 Minneapolis city directory, he is a painter and resides at 2612 E 24th Street.

In the 1910 census he was a painter. He and his family lived at 3740 30th Avenue in south Minneapolis.

He died at City Hospital, cause of death was a railroad accident. He was “run down” by a Soo Line passenger train on the evening of September 28th at the crossing at 8th Street and 17th Avenue. He was living with her daughter and her family at 3740 30th Avenue S. Both of his legs were crushed and had to be amputated.

Birth:
per confirmation record

Haakon married Lina Andrine Olsdatter about 1875 in Norway. Lina was born on 3 Jan 1844 in Eidsvold, Akershus, Viken County, Norway; died on 21 Oct 1913 in Minnesota; was buried in Layman’s Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1900 census, she had had 6 children, 5 still alive.

In the 1910 census, she had had 6 children, 4 still alive.

Birth:
1843 according to Jan Arne

Buried:
probably Layman’s in Minneapolis