Josephine Louise ELLINGBOE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 19 Dec 1886, Vang Lutheran Church, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Dec 1859, Dane County, Wisconsin
• Confirmation: 10 May 1874, West Koshkonong Church, Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin

Notes:

In the 1880 census, Thomas was living with his brothers Austin and Andrew in Shely Twp, Polk County, Minnesota.

May be the Thomas Ellingboe who attended, but did not graduate from, the St. Olaf Academy in 1886-1887.

Birth and death dates may be 29 Dec 1859 to 9 Oct 1889.

Birth:
This date from his baptismal record. It’s 29 Dec 1859 according to his church burial record.

Baptism:
West Koshkonong

Confirmation:
as Tosten Ellingboe

Died:
Anna’s death certificate said “widowed 46 years”

Buried:
as Thosten Johnson Ellingböe

Thosten married Anna SOINE on 3 Nov 1881 in Holden Twp, Goodhue County, Minnesota. Anna (daughter of Lars Christopherson SOINE and Anna Tomasdatter ELLESTAD) was born on 25 Aug 1857 in Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin; died on 11 Sep 1935 in Rice County, Minnesota; was buried on 13 Sep 1935 in Oaklawn Cemetery, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1935-MN-013429

Notes:

Widowed spouse of Thomas G. Ellingboe according to entries in the Northfield city directory. She appears in the 1899, 1903, 1921, and 1926 city directories. Her maiden name of Soine comes from her daughter’s death certificate.

In the 1895 census she is a widow living with her daughter Mabel in Northfield.

In the 1900 census she is a widow dressmaker living with her daughter in Northfield. In that census, she is shown as born in Minnesota.

In the 1902 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, she is Anna T Ellingboe, widow of Thomas G, a dressmaker living and working at 105 E 5th.

In the 1915 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, she is Anna M Ellingboe, widow of Thomas, residing at 429½ Division.

She was living with the Federmans in the 1920 and 1930 censuses.

In the 1929 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, she is Anna Ellingboe, the widow of Thomas, residing at 411 Washington in Northfield.

She died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Buried:
Funeral through St. John’s.

Notes:

Married:
Minnesota Marriages in FS; as Tosten J Ellingbo and Anne Larsdatter Svins or Svine. Or in Vang Church in Dennison.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer

Notes:

Jon's family of 6 emigrated to Stoughton, WI, in the spring of 1850, then later moved to Northfield, Minnesota. Information found in the emigration list of 1850 (State Archives, Hamar, Norway): 9 March 1850... John Østeinsen Ellingbøe, 36, Margretta Øysteinsd., 31, Ambjor, 11, Ingeborg, 7, Ingerid, 4, and John, 1/2 .

According to Jim, Jon was from N. Bø; his mother was from Ellingbø (Bøkko). On 1 March 1830, when Jon was 15, his grandfather Andris (presumably, Jim means Jon’s grandfather Jon Andrisson) sold him Bøkko for 600 spd. with the provision that Andris could farm it as long as he was able. Andris died 16 days later. Jon's father farmed it for him for about 10 years until Jon took over and his father become a pensioner on the farm. Jon also gave a pension to Ivar Helgesson and his wife. See pp. 580-581 Ref. 1 for information to 1850. Some post-emigration information provided by John W. Ellingboe, Lloyd W. Ellingboe, William L. Ellingboe. Other information from census records, obituaries, etc. See photographs of cabinet painted with names of Jon and his wife. The cabinet was exhibited in the lobby of the Grindaheim Hotel by Marit and Helge Ellingboe. When the hotel was sold, the cabinet was moved to the nearby new house of Leif Solemsli, Jr.

In the 1870 census he and his family live in Stoughton, Dunkirk Twp, Dane County. The family consists of John Ostenson, 55, Margaret, 52, John, 20, Austin, 18, Andrew, 12, Thomas, 9, and Mathius, 8.

Living in Dunkirk, Dane County at the time of the 1880 census as John Austinson, 65. Living with his wife Margaret, 61, and sons Andrew, 22, and Matthew, 18.

In the 1900 census, he is an 85 year-old widower living as a boarder with the Andrew Morgan family in Pleasant Springs, Dane County, Wisconsin. He is still a farm laborer and is shown as having come to the U.S. in 1850.

An article in the Wisconsin State Journal, 6 Sep 1902, says that he came to the U.S. “over 50 years ago, settled two-and-a-half miles east of Stoughton, lived there 19 years, then went to Minnesota. He returned to Dane County 8 years ago last December and since that time has been living with a granddaughter, Mrs. Knud Soine, near McFarland.” … “He was the father of Mrs. J. O. Cold and Matt Ellingbo, of Stoughton. There are three other sons: John Ellingbo of Northfield, Minnesota, Andrew O. and Austin Ellingbo, of Milton, North Dakota, and four dead children (one son and three daughters), two of whom are buried here.”

The article goes on to say: “Mr. Ellingbo landed here following the period of hostilities between Black Hawk and the whites and years before the red men had wholly vanished. He was one of those brave farmers who transformed the woods and the prairies into beautiful homesteads, before the days of the telegraph and railroad.”

Died:
church book says 3 Sep, WHS Genealogy Index says 4 Sep, obit says 8 a.m. September 4th

Buried:
as John Ellingbo

John married Margrete Øysteinsdatter BØE on 30 Oct 1838 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Margrete (daughter of Øystein Torsteinsson BØE and Ingebjørg Knutsdatter NEFSTAD) was born on 9 Apr 1819 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 25 Dec 1891 in Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Oakdale Cemetery, Crookston, Polk County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is called Margaret Boe on Andreas’s death certificate. Other sources call her Margrethe Ostensdatter Boe. The Wisconsin Deaths and Burials database on FamilySearch calls her Margaret Soiney.

In her marriage record in the Vang church book, she is Margrethe Ostensdatter Söndre Böe. Her father was Osten Tostensen.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1917-MN-004721

Notes:

Traci’s tree refers to him as Lars Kristofferson Soine.

“Alias Lars Christopherson.” That’s what he was called in the 1880 census.

In the 1885 state census, he was Lars O. Støine of Warsaw Twp, Goodhue County. The household consists of Lars, 55, Anna, 57, Tom, 24, Gertrude, 19, Berit, 16, Christina, 9, Martha 7, “T.A.”, 25, Anna Austin, 27, Mabel A., 3, and Anna Maria, 20. From this and other information we can infer that “Anna Austin” is Lars’s oldest daughter, T.A. is her husband, Tom Austinson, and Mabel A. is Maybel Amanda Ellingboe.

As Lars Christopherson Soine, he is listed as one of the initial contributors to the start-up of St. Olaf College.

He was a farmer in Warsaw Twp in 1870.

in the 1900 census, Lars, Anna, and their single daughter Christina were living in Warsaw, Goodhue County, next door to their son and brother, Thomas Soine and his family. Lars is shown to have come to this country in 1853, Anna in 1856.

In the 1910 census, Lars and Anne are living with their son Tom and his family on Tom’s farm in Warsaw.

He is listed in “The Valdris Book”, a history of the Valdris Samband published in 1920 (available on Google Books) but his entry specifically says he was not a member of the Samband.

Shown as Lars A. on his death certificate.

From one of Lars’s descendants: "Lars Christophersen Soine was born on 14 June 1830 in Vang, Valdres Norway. He came to America with his parents in 1853, he was 23 years old. He went by the name Lars O Christophersen. He worked in the logging camps in Wisconsin. He rode the logs down the river to keep them from jumbling. Several times he was thrown, by the force of the swift current and the jerking logs, into the water. In 1856 he married Anna Ellestad. Three of their nine children were born in Wisconsin. In the early 1860's Lars and Anna went moved to Goodhue County in Minnesota where they rented a farm for a few years. Then they purchased 160 acres in Warsaw township in Goodhue County. At this time he returned to using the name Lars Soine. Lars and Anna lived in a small house on their land until 1884 when they built a 12 room house for two families. He planned this house for two families so that he would have a place of his own in their old age. Lars and Anna lived in four rooms, tworooms downstairs (12x14 and 14x16) and two rooms upstairs. Their son, Thomas, and his family of 12 lived in seven of the rooms, four big rooms downstairs and three upstairs. The room above the kitchen was used as a store room for both families. Both families used the same stairs and hallway to the second floor.Each family had their own cellar and stairs. The pump was on the porch between the two kitchens. (Don't you think many oldfolks would love this arrangement nowadays instead of the old folks home?) (Denne ideen hare nok Lars hatt med segfra Vang, han har nok tenkt på kårstuene der, da han bygde detstore huset.) These two families lived in Harmony for 24½ years. In 1916 Anna and Lars celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Anna died that fall at the age of 83 and Lars died the following April, 1917." (This is a transcript of a handwritten remembrance of one of Lars O Soine's grandchildren). Lars was a 'charter member' of the 'Valdres Laget' of Goodhue county.

Lars married Anna Tomasdatter ELLESTAD about 1856. Anna (daughter of Tomas Knudson TØRSTAD and Berit Johannesdatter ELLESTAD) was born on 4 Sep 1833 in Lomen, Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 6 Nov 1916 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1916-MN-004884
• Baptism: 8 Oct 1833, Lomen, Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

In the 1900 census, she is claimed to have had 10 children, 8 still living. Those numbers are 10 and 7 in the 1910 census.

Shown as Anna E. on her death certificate.

Buried:
252 HN 4 N

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer

Notes:

Øystein farmed Nigarden, N. Bø, from ca. 1810-1830, then sold farm to eldest son Aslak 2 Nov 1830 for 400 spd. and pension, moved to Bøkkadn (N. Ellingbø), to which his wife had rights. He farmed Bøkko from 1830-1840 with the help of his son Jon, who was the owner from 1830 (age 15) and who took over farming in 1840, giving them a pension that consisted of 2 barrels of barley, 2 cows, 1 heifer, 4 goats and sheep, the southern most storehouse, the use of a 1 mål parcel of land on North Klokkarhaug, lower part, with right to cultivate 1 mål of it, and the pasture land Neståkerreina. Jon's whole family emigrated in the spring of 1850. Trond Ø. Bø Ellingbø emigrated to Minnesota in 1853. Trond Ivarsson Uvdal took over Bøkko 1850, but emigrated to America in the spring of 1862. Øystein and his wife moved back to N. Bø in ca. 1865. The farm was divided into three subfarms, two under Bagetun and one under Nordigarden Ellingbø. In 1867 and 1868 (when Trond Øysteinsson returned to Vang) the farm was divided into four parts (See Vang A, p. 582), the main part being Bøkko (#33/3). Trond Ivarsson sold Bøkko to Knut Ivarsson Eltun for 500 spd. on 25 April 1868. It is said that it was Embrik and Helge Ellingbø who bought Bøkko from Trond and sold a half part to Knut, and that Jon Endresson and Torstein (son of Helge) took over each of the remaining half parts.

See pp. 479 and 580 Vang A.

Consistent with the above, Østen Aslaksson, 82, and Ambjør Johnsdatter, 79, were the only inhabitants listed for Ellingbø nordre (farm #19) in the 1865 Norwegian census. In that census, there were four Ellingbø farms in Vang: two called nordre (19 and 20), and two called søndre (21 and 22).

Died:
GNR. 24/1 Nigarden (Nedre Bø)

Øystein married Ambjørg Jonsdotter ELLINGBØE in 1806 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ambjørg (daughter of Jon Andrisson ELLINGBØE and Ingrid Tomasdotter HAUGEN (KVÅLE)) was born in 1785 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1881 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Housekeeper

Notes:

Born in Ellingbø 33/3. She had “rights” to 33/3 Bøkkadn which is why she and her husband Øystein were able to move there in 1830.

See p. 479 Vang A.

Died:
GNR. 24/1 Nigarden (Nedre Bø)

Øystein married Ingebjørg Knutsdatter NEFSTAD. Ingebjørg (daughter of Knut Jonsen RØN and Margreta Knutsdotter NORDLAND (MYRE, HØRE)) was born in 1785 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in Jan 1880 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shown as Christopher Larssen Heen on Lars’s birth record in the Vang church book. Traci’s tree refers to him as Kristoffer L Haenseiga.

In Jim’s Valdres Slekt tree, he is Christopher Larsen Heenseiga Søyne, #I11511.

Jim’s notes: For a time he was a postman. Born on Hensbakka and took over as a tenant farmer from his father until 1833, when he became a tenant farmer on Øvre Søyne. from 1833-1848. Left for America in 1853 with wife and five children on the "Olave Kyrre." In the church book emigrant list, his name was "Soyne," but he used the surname "Hen" or "Heen" after immigration. Included in his household in the emigration list was a servant, Marit Håvardsdatter Lajord ( his wife’s niece, #23240), whom he married after his first wife's death. {Which would not seem to be possible unless there was a fair amount of time between his wife’s death and his death which are supposedly in the same year.}

Traci’s tree has him dying in Michigan in 1853. This makes sense from the notes for Sigurd.

Christopher Larssen Söine, 52, and his wife Anne Syversdatter, 49, emigrated from Vang on 12 March 1853 with their children Lars, 23, Anne, 20, Marith, 17, Syver, 11, and Ole, 10. Apparently traveling with them was a Marith something (maybe Klausdatter) Lajord, 23.

Christopher married Anne Sjugurdsdatter LAJORD on 1 Apr 1830 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Anne (daughter of Sjugurd Madsson LAJORD and Anne Madsdatter MYHRE) was born in 1805 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1853 in Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Anna Syversdatter.

Greg Fearon says that she died in Michigan of diphtheria with her husband and their daughter Marith.

Birth:
Lajord 51/3 Berget

Notes:

Called Thomas Knutsen Tørstad, I12971, in Jim’s VS.

The FamilySearch entry is for Tomas Knutson, born in 1795 in Torstad II, Vang, Oppland, Norway.

In the 1865 census, shown as Thomas Knudsen, born in 1794 in Wangs, living with son Anders at Høine. His occupation is shown as “Føderaadsmd.”

The bygdebok says he moved to 26/3 Høyne or Sør-Ellestad in Vestre Slidre.

He married his first cousin.

Birth:
shown as age 23 when he got married

Tomas married Berit Johannesdatter ELLESTAD on 1 Aug 1819 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Berit (daughter of Johannes Anderson ELLESTAD and Beret Amundsdatter LOMEN) was born on 30 Jul 1796 in Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died after 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shown in the 1865 census as Berit Thomasdatter born in 1794 in Vestre Slidre. Living with her husband on the Høine farm with her son Anders.

In his VS, Jim also shows her incorrectly as Berit Thomasdatter. She was definitely Berit Johannesdatter in her marriage record.

Shown as age 24 when she got married.

She married her first cousin.

Birth:
Lommen