Carl Clarence (Charly) ANDERSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1934-MN-020308
• Occupation: Farmer, Esp. Tobacco
• Baptism: 23 Jun 1867, Næs, Hedmark, Norway

Notes:

In the parish birth record as Karl. In the bygdebøk as Karl.

His obituary says that he emigrated to the U.S. at the age of 6 months.

Charley and Anna were married in a Lutheran ceremony in La Crosse witnessed by Bertha Bowe and Ole Anderson. Charley’s occupation is shown as laborer in his marriage record.

Charly and Anna spent six years in LaCrosse after Cora was born. Cora remembered it being near the Catholic church and the hospitals. Charly worked in a grocery store and a saloon. When Cora was six, the family moved out to live on the Bowe farm with the Bowes who were in declining health.

Charly lived the last eight years of his life with Maurice and Cora.

Death certificate 1934-MN-020308 was issued in Hennepin County for “Charles C. Anderson” with a date of death of May 22, 1934.

The 1900 census enumerator, Charles Engelstad, visited the Andersons on June 11th at their rented home at 715 South 11th Street in the 17th ward. The entry indicates “Charles Anderson” as the head of family, age 32, born in May of 1867 or 1868 (the exact year is illegible). Charles is indicated as being able to read, write, and speak English, having the occupation of “harvester”, having been unemployed for 8 months of the previous year, and having emigrated to the United States in 1869. He is shown to have been born in Norway.

The Anderson residence was, indeed, near a Catholic hospital and nunnery. In fact, 715 South 11th Street was across the street from St. Francis Hospital and just down the street from the Santa Rosa de Viterbo convent. In 2003, there was no building at 715 South 11th Street, just a parking lot.

From the 1893-94 La Crosse city directory, we learn that Charles Anderson was a clerk for Will & Bros., grocers at 622 South 8th St. Charlie was still living at home at 603 South 8th Street. The Will & Bros. building was gone by the time of the 1906 Sanborn Fire Insurance map of La Crosse. In the 1901-02 city directory, a George Will runs a grocery and saloon and resides at 622 South 9th. All of this is consistent with Cora’s recollection of the Wills.

In the 1895-96 city directory, Charley is still living at home but is now a bar keeper for John M. Kolb. In the 1897 directory, Charley works for George Dagendish, stone cutter, and now resides at 1026 South 10th Street. In the 1900 city directory, Carl C Anderson is a teamster for C L C L Co and resides at 813 Market. In the 1901-02 directory, Charley and his family are living at the 715 South 11th Street residence and Charley is a teamster for the C L Colman Lumber Co. Shortly thereafter, Charley and his family moved to the Bowe farm south of Viroqua.

In the 1934 Minneapolis city directory, he is presumably the Chas C Anderson with the notation “died May 22 ‘34 age 67.”

Died at Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis where he had been for four days. His residence at the time of death was 4230 Minnehaha Avenue. The cause of his death was coronary thrombosis. His death certificate, information provided by Cora, said that he had been a farmer for 12 years and that he had last been a farmer in 1924.

His obit, in the Star on May 23rd, said he had been a resident of Minneapolis for seven years. His funeral was to be at the “Folsom church near Viroqua.”

Birth:
born in Hoelstadstua according to the bygdebøk and in his birth record

Christened:
As Karl Olsen

Carl married Anna Clausdatter BOWE on 24 Aug 1895 in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. Anna (daughter of Claus Sjursen BØE (BOWE) and Kari Andersdatter MAREIM) was born on 22 Aug 1863 in Hafslo, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway; was christened on 18 Oct 1863 in Hafslo, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway; died on 14 Feb 1926 in Viroqua, Vernon County, Wisconsin; was buried on 16 Feb 1926 in North Kickapoo Lutheran Church Cemetery, Franklin Twp, Vernon County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Vol 05, p. 0120, LAC-B-00013

1. Cora Christena ANDERSON was born on 7 Mar 1896 in La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin; died on 19 Dec 1995 in Bloomington, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 22 Dec 1995 in Sunset Memorial Park, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Dairy farmer in the U.S., Jordarbejder in Norway
• Baptism: 13 Jul 1834, Næs, Hedmark, Norway
• Confirmation: 6 Oct 1850, Næs, Hedmark, Norway

Notes:

His name in Norway was Ole Andersen Aflangerud.

In a book that Kristiane had, Ole’s middle initial is C.

His birth record is for, simply, Ole Anderssen. Among the people whose names are identifiable as baptismal sponsors: Magrethe Ericksdatter Heggen, Amünd Anderssen Lünds, Karie Ericksdatter, unmarried, Sÿver Erickssen Engesoüg, and Sÿver Pedersson whose farm name may be Gagnamdan.

There is a comment that I am unable to translate in his confirmation record.

Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as Ole Andersen, born in 1834 and living in or on the Orderholdt domicile in Næs, Hedmark, in the Helgeøen school district. Ole’s occupation in Jordarbejder (farm worker or field laborer). The household doesn’t have much, only 10 units of potatoes. Included in the household is Ole Anderssen, 32, born in Næs, Kristiane Kristiansdatter, 28, his wife, born in Toten vestre, and “his daughter” Anne Marie Olsdatter, 12, born in Næs.

The bygdebøk says “Ole Andersen Fløttum, f. 1834, var jordarbeider og bodde her i 1865.”

Ole (33) and Christiana (29) supposedly, according to Cora, emigrated to the US from Norway in October of 1867 with one child, Carl (6 months). This conflicts with the 1900 census entry for Charlie which indicated the year of immigration as 1869. In Kristiane’s obituaries, she is claimed to have come to the U.S. in 1870. Could not find the emigration entry for them in the parish record.

A declaration for an Ole Anderson to become a citizen was declared in La Crosse County and so recorded on October 31, 1865. The hearing, order, and filing of his citizenship was on June 12, 1872. Another entry for an Ole Anderson, perhaps more likely to be our Ole, was a declaration on February 3, 1874, and the hearing, order, and filing on October 30, 1878.

In the 1870 census, the Andersons were living in the 2nd ward in LaCrosse. The family is Ole, 37, Christiana, 32, Carl, 3, and daughter Jennie, 5 months. Ole’s occupation is shown as “laborer.” Jennie is shown as born in Wisconsin, the others in Norway.

In the 1880 census, shown as living in 3rd ward, LaCrosse, occupation “peddler”, age 47. Wife, Christina, age 42, “keeping house.” Sons Carl, age 13, and Ole, age 6. Only Ole was born in Wisconsin. The other three are shown as born in Norway, and everyone’s parents are shown as born in Norway.

Lived at 609 South 8th Street in LaCrosse. {No, 603 S. 8th Street; 609 was next door.} “He bought the big lot on [the] corner [and] built [the] house in front on [the] street [and] built [the] barn for his cows on [the] back of [the] lot, next to [the] alley [, and] took his cows to graze on [the] farm [a] short ways from his house outside town."

Cora says that she, Ron, and I saw the place when we drove down to LaCrosse in the mid-1960s. At the time, she recalls, the house had been moved to the side and a new one built in front. The old house had had a big part torn off of it and so wasn't as large as it had been in Cora's day. She also recalled the lot being bigger than the one we saw.

{Cora’s recollections may not be correct. The house as I saw it in 2004 looked to be the same size and shape as the one drawn in the La Crosse fire insurance maps for the late 1800s or early 1900s.}

From the Wisconsin Deaths database on Ancestry.com:

Wisconsin Vital Records Death Index.
Name: Ole Anderson
Death Date: 25 Nov 1898
County: La Crosse
Volume: 02
Page: 0234
Reel: 044
Image: 0448
Index Volume: -
Sequence #: 006676

In the 1884 La Crosse city directory, he is Ole Anderson, milkman, res 603 S 8th. Ole is shown as “retired” in the 1890 city directory but as a laborer in the 1893-4 city directory. He is shown as “retired” again in the 1895-96 city directory and in the 1897 city directory.

His death and burial are recorded in the records of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in La Crosse. Incorrectly shown as age 56 at death.

Died:
Vol 02, p. 0234, Reel 44, image 0448

Buried:
Sec 45, Lot R11, Gravesite G24

Ole married Kristiane Kristiansdatter on 14 Apr 1863 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway. Kristiane (daughter of Christian Christiansen SKOGSTAD and Karen Olsdatter) was born on 23 Mar 1838 in Vestre Toten, Oppland, Norway; died on 12 Apr 1906 in La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin; was buried on 15 Apr 1906 in Oak Grove Cemetery, La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Apr 1838, Vestre Toten, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 3 Oct 1852, Vestre Toten, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She was born Christiana according to the birth record in the church book. Her birth farm seems to be Fjeldstadhagen. Her confirmation record (as 14-1/2 year-old Christiane Christiansdatter, residence farm name starts with Gr) shows her birth farm as Fjelstad.

Her farm name in the marriage record seems to be Ianmark. She was 25 years old.

Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as Kristiane Kristiansdatter, born in 1838 in Toten vestre. Sources that say that she was born in Aflangrud are incorrect. She is shown as born in Vestre Toten in the entry in the Ness parish record for her marriage to Ole.

Supposedly a singer in Oslo.

According to Cora, "not a well person as she had asthma."

Cora says, "she was very well liked, had a lot of friends, belonged to the Norwegian Lutheran Church in LaCrosse. Her funeral was so big [and] had so many flowers. I haven't seen so many flowers at a funeral (until Maurice's). In those days they had special built carriages for choirs, etc. It impressed me so I will never forget it."

An article in the April 13th La Crosse newspaper called her Christina Anderson. She died in the afternoon at her home, 603 South Eighth Street, “after long suffering with bronchial asthma.” The article said that she came to La Crosse in 1870.

According to the article in the La Crosse Chronicle on Saturday, April 14, 1906, the funeral (for “Christine Anderson”) was held on Sunday, April 15, 1906, “at 2 o’clock from the residence, 603 South Eighth Street and at 2:30 o’clock from the Norwegian Lutheran church, corner West Avenue and Ferry streets. The Rev. R. Anderson will officiate and interment will be made in Oak Grove cemetery. {This church was St. Paul’s Norwegian Lutheran Church, identified in the city directory as being at the corner of West Avenue and Division Street.}

“Carl Anderson, a son, of Viroqua, and Carl Skogstad, a brother, of Grand Meadow, Minn., are in the city and will remain to attend the funeral.”

The Friday edition of the La Crosse Chronicle referred to her as Mrs. Christina Anderson and mentions that her son Ole C. is living in La Crosse (“of this city”).

From the La Crosse city directories of the time, as well as the 1906 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, the church on the NW corner of West and Ferry was called (and still is called) the English Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity. The nearest church to the Andersons that was identified as a Norwegian Lutheran Church was on the SE corner of 6th and Division. The nearest church to the Andersons was then a German Methodist church (it’s still standing but its denomination has changed) a block away at Ferry and 7th.

Christiana had relatives in Grand Meadow, MN, by the name of Jorgens and Skogstad. Cora met some of them at her grandmother's funeral. The cemetery records list her as Christiana (Skogstad) Anderson.

Census enumerator Charles Engelstad visited Christiana and Ole on June 5th, 1900, when the two were living on 9th street (or 8th street: it is the last entry for 9th street) (but Cora said it was a corner lot) in the 17th ward of the city of La Crosse. In the census form, Christiana’s and Ole’s birthdates are confirmed as March, 1838, and January, 1874, respectively. Ole is shown as single with “printer” as his occupation. He is shown as having been unemployed zero months in the past year. Ole is shown as having been born in Wisconsin; Christiana as having been born in Norway. Both could read, write, and speak English. Christiana is shown as owning her house, free and clear without mortgage. The census enumerator apparently started to write “37” for years married for Christiana before, apparently, realizing that Christiana was a widow. Christiana’s year of immigration is confirmed on the census form as 1867 and “32” is indicated for her as her number of years in the United States.

Most interestingly, Christiana is shown as having had had six children, only two living.

In the 1900 city directory, she is Mrs Christiana Anderson, widow of Ole, living at 604 S 8th Street. Listed in the 1901-02 and 1905-06 La Crosse city directories as “Mrs. Christina, widow of Ole.” The 1907 city directory points out that “Anderson, Christian” died on April 12, 1906.

In the 1905 Wisconsin state census, she is living in the 17th ward of La Crosse, not far from her son Ole and his family. Also nearby, apparently, is the St. Anna Orphan House. She is shown as Christina, 67, a widow, and her occupation appeares to be “landlady.”

From the Wisconsin Deaths database:

Wisconsin Vital Records Death Index.
Name: Christina Anderson
Death Date: 12 Apr 1906
County: La Crosse
Volume: 03
Page: 0385
Reel: 045
Image: 1374
Index Volume: -
Sequence #: 005491

otftoo calls her Christianna Krogstad.

Baptism:
as Christiana Christensen in IGI

Died:
died in the afternoon according to newspaper records, of bronchial asthma Vol 03 p.0385 Reel 45 image 1374

Buried:
Sec 45, Lot R4, Gravesite G25

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Husmann (according to death entry in church book)

Notes:

A source says that he was born June 1796 in Nes as Anders Eriksen, son of Erik Nielsen (20 Jan 1754 to 12 Jun 1812 in Nes) and Lisbeth Andersen (1760 to 26 Jun 1834 in Nes).

Not listed in the Næs census of 1865.

The bygdebøk says: “Arvingene etter Anders Eriksen solgte eiendommen i 1856.” (The heirs of Anders Eriksen sold the property in 1856.)

The ThruLines connection to the Froslees has Anders Eriksen’s mother being Anne Arnesdatter (1772-1811) and Anne Arnesdatter’s father as being Anders Nielsen (1773-1806). The latter is the common ancestor with the Froslees if we believe this alternative theory of Anders Eriksen’s parentage.

Birth:
Date may be June 1st.

Died:
Anders Eriksen Flyttum, age 46.

Anders married Johanne Johnsdatter on 4 Jan 1822 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway. Johanne (daughter of Jon Jensen and Kari Stephensdatter) was born on 1 Mar 1795 in Odevold, Næs, Hedmark, Norway; was christened in Jun 1796 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway; died before 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

One of the FamilySearch sources shows her as “Johanne Johnsen (Fjeld).”

Not listed in the Næs census of 1865.

Notes:

Married:
Anders was 24, Johane was 27.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Land, Oppland, Norway
• Baptism: 17 May 1812, Fluberg, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 8 Oct 1826, Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

A Christian Christiansson, son of Christian Amunssen and Beste Sÿversdatter, and born 30 Apr 1812, was confirmed in Land on 8 Oct 1826. His farm of residence appears to be Nebÿsjo.

The Land, Oppland, parish record seems to show a Christian Christiansen marrying a Karen Olsdatter on 10 Nov 1836 (in Fleebergs?). He was from Norbye and she was from Nordreng. He was 25, she was 24. His father was Kristian Amundsen, hers was Ole Knudsen.

The 1865 census for Land shows a Kristian Kristianssen, Husmd md Jord, on the Skougstad farm in 0536 Søndre Land. His household consists of himself, 54, his wife Karen Olsdatter, 54, their unmarried sons Andreas, 22, Bernt, 20, and Karl, 12, and, supposedly, their (probably one of their son’s) daughter Agnete Kristiansdatter, 3. Everyone had been born in Lands.

Regarding that Agnete, there seem to be no good matches in the birth record. The best:

Agnete, b. 24 May 1862, bapt. 8 Jun, to the married couple Andreas Christiansen and Martea Eriksdatter Røes…

Agnethe, b. 29 Jun 1862, bapt. 27 Jul, to the married couple Christian Christiansen and Helena Simensdatter Lomødalsj…

The first Agnete, called Agnete Ødegaarden, was baptized 30 Sept 1877 in Fluberg.
The latter Agnete was confirmed 7 Oct 1877 in Søndre Land, Hov.

Christian married Karen Olsdatter on 10 Nov 1836 in Land, Oppland, Norway. Karen (daughter of Ole Knudsson and Anne Tostensdatter) was born on 24 Jun 1812 in Land, Oppland, Norway; died on 20 Jan 1900 in Land, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway; was buried on 6 Feb 1900 in Land, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 8 Oct 1826, Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

A Karen Olsdatter, daughter of Ole Knudsson and Anne Tostensdatter, and born 24 Jun 1812, was confirmed in Land 8 Oct 1826. Her residence farm appears to be Masvoldssjo or Marvoldssjo. The Land birth records for this date are unavailable on Digitalarkivet.

Birth:
Karvoldie

Notes:

Married:
Fluberg

Notes:

His farm name is not clear in Anders’s birth record.

In the 1801 Norwegian census, the family was living on the Aflangerud farm in Næss parish, Hedmarken. The household consisted of Erich Jensen, 34, Gaardbruger (farmer), his first and only wife Anne Arnesdatter, 28, their children: Magrethe, 9, Jens, 8, Anders, 4, and Tore, 1, Erich’s father, the widower Jens Erichsen, 63, a servant, a foster daughter, and two husmann families.

ThruLines includes siblings of Anders Eriksen as Margrethe Eriksdatter (1792-1868), Kari Eriksdatter (1802-?), and Karen Eriksdatter (1819-1894).

Erich married Anne Arnesdatter PINKERUD. Anne (daughter of Arne Nielsen and Kari Ottersdatter) was born about 1773 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway; died in Aug 1811 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Watchmaker

Notes:

Odevol?

In the 1801 census, he was Jon Jensen, 32, watchmaker and laborer, on Kircheihle in Næss og Ballishoel in Næss. The farm was owned by Gulbrand Hendrichsen. Jon’s wife was Karen Steffensdatter, 31, and it was the first marriage for both. Their children, were Johane Jonsdatter, 6, Steffen Jonsen, 4, and Ane Jonsdatter, 2. Besides Jon and the owner, there were two huusmand families on the farm.

Some sources (e.g., skatzer1) call him John Johansen.

Some sources call him Joen Jensen Fjeld.

Died:
Fjeld on Helgøya

Jon married Kari Stephensdatter. Kari was born about 1770 in Norway; died on 14 Oct 1823 in Helgøya, Næs, Hedmark, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A 20 year-old Christian Amundsen was a tjenestefolk on the Septon farm in Flubergs in the 1801 census of Lands.

The Jeff Bluske Family Tree calls him Kristian Amundsen Granumseie.

Birth:
jbluske says 1 oct 1780

Died:
jbluske

Christian married Berte Sÿversdatter on 6 Jun 1806 in Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway. Berte was born about 1775. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A 26 year-old Berte Syversdatter was an unmarried servant girl on the Hougner farm in Hougner in the 1801 census of Lands.

The Jeff Bluske Family Tree has her born 19 Dec 1798 on Norbye in Land (Nerby in Fluberg in Søndre Land) and dying 11 Nov 1882 in the same location.

Ole married Anne Tostensdatter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]