Ole Andreas ELLINGBÖ

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 1 Nov 1874, Faribault County, Minnesota

Notes:

Birth and baptism at or near Bricelyn, Minnesota.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 31 Oct 1847, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

In the 1880 census, he and his family were farmers in the north half of McCook County, South Dakota. Living next to or with them was Andrew’s parents and sister. One of two boarders on Andrew’s farm was the future husband of Andrew’s sister, Lewis Larson.

Must have died before his brother Henry because he is not listed in Henry’s obit.

He seems to be the Anders Olsen Ellingbö, “b. 6 Mar 1847,” who was confirmed on Trinity Sunday, June 5th, 1863, at the Little Washington Prairie church in or near Decorah, Iowa.

In the record in the church book for his marriage to Ingeborg, no ages are shown for either the groom or the bride nor are the names of Anders’s parents shown. Andrew lived in Worth County, Ingeborg/Emma lived in Faribault County.

Anders married Ingeborg (Emma) Larsdatter UNDERDAHL on 30 May 1873 in Faribault County, Minnesota. Ingeborg was born on 25 Jan 1856 in Norway; died in 1901 in Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Extensive family tree information in the Howard/Messing family tree on Ancestry.com. Although this tree has the family in Spokane County as of the 1890s, they are not listed in the 1900 census.

Her parents were Lars Olsen Underdahl and Kari Olsdatter.

Her marriage to Anders was a double wedding ceremony, the other couple being Ingeborg’s brother Hans Underdal and Hilden Gulliksdatter.

Notes:

Married:
in Bricelyn as Anders Olsen Ellingbö and Ingeborg Larssdatter Underdal.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1806, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
• Baptism: 28 Sep 1806, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Vang C, p. 331.

Jim calls this person Ole Trondsen Ellingbøe, I5827, in his Ellingboe tree.

Jim calls this person Ola Trondsen Tørstad (Bunde) (Ellingbøe), I1856, in his VS.

The researcher finneylinda on Ancestry calls him Ole Thompson Ellingbo.

Listed right before Ole Evensen (#3683) in the Vang churchbook birth records.

On 6 Jan 1838 Ole Tronson Torstad, 32, married Ingebor Andersdatter Ellingboe, 23, in Vang. His father was Tron Olssen Torstad and her father was Anders E. Ellingboe.

He is called Ole Thronsen Torstad in the birth records of all of his children except Ingeborg. For her he is called Ole Thronsen Tvedt. He is called Ole Thronsen Torstad in his family’s emigration record.

The Vang church book shows that Ole, 53, and Ingeborg, 45, emigrated from Vang with their children in March of 1858. The children leaving with them are: Marith, 18, Sigrid, 16, Anders, 11, Randi, 8, Endre, 4, and Ingeborg, 3/4. (Sigrid must have changed her mind or else the scribe got confused. Sigrid did not emigrate. Nor did Marith.)

In his letter to Norway in 1866 (see Jim Ellingboe’s site), Ole offered to pay for Helge Olsson’s (#6218) passage to America by guaranteeing any loan that Helge had to secure. Helge never emigrated. In the letter, Ole Thronsen signed his name Ole Throndsen Ellingböe.

In the 1870 census, he, as Ole Thompson, and his family are farming in Silver Lake Twp, Worth County, Iowa. Ole’s real estate is worth $1500 and his personal property $860. The family consists of, Ole, 68, Isabel Thompson, 57, Andrew Thompson, 22, Rachel Iverson, 19, Nels Iverson, 22, Henry Thompson, 16, Isabel Thompson, 13, and Nels Anderson, 9. Everyone had been born in Norway.

Ole’s agricultural holdings are recorded in the 1870 census’s “non-population” schedule. He owns a total of 115 acres, 30 of which are “improved.” The cash value of his farm is $1500 and, for its implements, $200. He has four horses, 2 “milch” cows, 1 other cattle, 9 sheep, and two swine, the total value of which is $550. For the year ending June 1, 1870, he produced 259 bushels of spring wheat, 100 bushels of Indian corn, 80 bushels of oats, 35 lbs. of wool, 50 bushels of Irish potatoes, 100 lbs. of butter, 30 tons of hay, and 8 gallons of molasses. The value of animals slaughtered or sold for slaughter was $40 and the total estimated value of all farm production was $480. This value was neither particularly high nor particularly low when compared to other farms on the same page of the Silver Lake Twp census schedule.

Katherine locates Ole and Ingebor Thompson in Rock County in the 1875 Minnesota state census. The family lives in Martin Twp, not far from the farm of Nels and Randa Iverson. Ole, 73, and Ingebor, 64, are living with Henry Thompson, 21, Viljir, a 19 year-old female, and Belle Thompson, 17.

In the 1880 census, Ole, 87, and Isabelle, 67, are living in McCook County, South Dakota, with their daughter Isabelle, 22, and next to or with their son Andrew and his family.

In the 1885 Minnesota state census, he is probably the 84 year-old Ole Thompson living with or next door to H O Thompson in Nunda Twp, Freeborn County.

The following was originally prepared by Katherine and can be found at Find A Grave:

Ole Thurston Trondsen & his wife Engeborg Andersdatter both lived at Vang in Valdres, Norway. He worked as a farm hand and at the carpenter trade in this area.

In the month of June 1858, Ole and his family sailed from Christiana (Oslo) to America. The children who made the trip were Anders (Andrew), Henry, Rachael and Engeborg. A daughter Mary remained in Norway. Their sail ship furnished its passengers only with water and no fires for cooking were permitted, so all food had to be cooked or prepared before boarding and was eaten cold. When they arrived at Milwaukee, WI, via Quebec, the St Lawrence river and the Great Lakes, their food and money was all gone and the parents had to work at anything and for what they could get to sustain the family. The entire family walked by stages to Calmer, Iowa, working for food as they journeyed.

At Calmer, Ole found steady work and here they remained until in 1869, when the family moved by oxcart to Worth County Iowa, near the Minnesota line and northwest of the present village of Northwood, Iowa. Ole took up a claim on government land. It is near that farm that the Silver Lake Lutheran Church is located and the family were probably charter members of the original church.

The children in the family decided that they needed a more Americanized name so they called themselves "Thompson" from their fathers "Trondsen", while Ole took the name Ellingboe from the estate in Norway from which he came. This was often done by Norwegian immigrants on the premises that it helped identify them with others from the same area and also added some importance to the bearer of the name.

About 1874, the family moved on to Rock County (Hills), Minnesota, in the southwestern part of the state. Here Ole bought a farm and remained until his death. Henry Thompson remained in Iowa where he became a prosperous farmer with lands and elegant farm home near Northwood, Iowa.

Ole was over six feet tall and a large boned powerful man. He had curly dark brown hair and blue eyes. He was an easy going, pleasant and always helpful individual. 

Birth:
The (very incorrect) date on his gravestone is 16 Aug 1799. Jim has him born on Bunde 97/1, Høre parish.

Died:
Find A Grave has his death location as Hills, Rock County, Minnesota

Buried:
as Ole T. Ellingboe

Ole married Ingeborg Andersdatter ELLINGBOE on 6 Jan 1838 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ingeborg (daughter of Andris Eivinsson ELLINGBØ and Dordi Endresdatter HOLIEN) was born on 24 Apr 1814 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 17 Mar 1905 in Hills, Rock County, Minnesota; was buried on 21 Mar 1905 in Silver Lake Lutheran Church Cemetery, Silver Lake Twp, Worth County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 1 May 1814, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 10 Aug 1828, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

There are many erroneous statements of her birthdate. One source says 11 Sep 1812, her obit said that she was born April 24, 1812, and her gravestone says April 22, 1813.

In the 1885 Minnesota state census, she is probably the 74 year-old Isabell Thompson living with her husband Ole with or next door to H O Thompson in Nunda Twp, Freeborn County.

According to the 1900 census she had had 9 children, 6 still living. In that census, she was an 86 year-old widow living with her son Henry and his family in Nunda Twp, Freeborn County, Minnesota.

Worth County is the Iowa county adjacent to Minnesota’s Freeborn County.

From the Hills Crescent, courtesy of Katherine:

March 23, 1905
Mrs. Ingeborg Thompson, mother of Mrs. Nels Iverson, died at the home of her daughter, southeast of town, Thursday, March 17, 1905, of old age. Mrs. Thompson was born in Norway April 24th, 1812 and was therefore nearly 93 years of age. She was not well known here outside the circle of her immediate relatives, having come here from Albert Lea only about two years ago. Mr. & Mrs. Iverson left Lester Saturday morning with the remains for Albert Lea where interment will take place. **(buried Silver Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Worth Co., IA)

The following was originally prepared by Katherine and can be found at Find A Grave:

Engeborg was the youngest of eleven children. She was a strong willed person and probably instigated the family migration to America. She was a tall thin woman with auburn or reddish hair and blue eyes. Lee G. Larson (Lewis Larson's son) remembers that when she was over 90 years old, she smoked a pipe and wore a white cap. Lewis Larson (son-in-law) once commented that Engeborg was quite forceful and sometimes petulant in manner.

Rachel Thompson married Nels Iverson and after Ole's death, Engeborg lived with the Iversons near Hills, Minnesota, until her death. Engeborg and Andrew Thompson went to South Dakota, where they both took up claims near the village of Montrose. Here Engeborg married Lewis "Lars" Hanson Larson; and Andrew, after losing his wife and two young daughters (interred at Montrose cemetery) moved to Spokane, Washington, remarried and raised a new family.

Birth:
Jim has her born at Ellingbø 33/1 Nigarden. The incorrect cemetery record says her birthdate was 22 April 1813.

Died:
per Katherine

Buried:
burial record says death date was May 17th; “buried with Thompson”

Notes:

Married:
as Ole Throndsen Tørstad and Ingeborg Andrisdatter Ellingbøe.

Notes:

Called Thron Olsen (something) Böe in Ole’s birth record.

Jim calls him Trond Olsen Tune, I23775, in his VS.

Birth:
Tune 36/1 Midtre

Died:
Tørstad 105/1 Midtre Niestøgun Høre

Trond married Marith Håvardsdatter BØE. Marith (daughter of Håvard Knutsen BØE and Gjartrud Torsteinsdatter LAJORD) was born in 1784 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is I14070 in Jim’s VS. Jim’s notes for her: De var mange steder i Vang, på Veflen 99/ , på Ner-Helle 107/5-8, Marken av Berge 101/5. På det siste stedet var de fra 1812 til 1818, derfra flyttet de til Bunde 97/1 hvor de var til 1829.

Birth:
Bøe 43/1 Nerre

Notes:

He is the 14 year-old Anders Evensen, son of Even and Ingeborg, living on Ellingboe in the 1801 census.

Birth:
Ellingbø 33/1 Nigarden

Andris married Dordi Endresdatter HOLIEN. Dordi (daughter of Endre Knutsen HOLIEN and Sigrid Torsteinsdatter KJERSTEIN) was born about 1786 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 15 Dec 1875 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is probably the 15 year-old Dordi Endresdatter living with her parents on the Haalien farm in the 1801 census.

In the 1865 census, she is the wife of Torsteen Trondsen, b. 1785, Føderaadsmand on Ellingbø nordre.

Birth:
Holien 18/