Annabel Lenore KLANN

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 23 May 1915, Wisconsin

Notes:

Annie Bell in the 1930 census.

She changed her last name to Schoen in her Social Security records in April of 1960.

Baptism:
Valders Lutheran

Family/Spouse: SCHOEN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1920 census, he and his family farm in the Town of Cato in Manitowoc County. His mother Anna lives with them and retains ownership of the farm.

Robert married Belinda Rosetta BERGE in 1912 in Valders, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Belinda (daughter of Anton Olsen BERGE and Oline GIGSTAD) was born on 12 Aug 1888 in Wisconsin; died on 12 Sep 1981 in Wisconsin; was buried in Valders Cemetery, Valders, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was living at home in the 1910 census, not in the 1920 census.

In the 1930 census, she is a 41 year-old widow living in the village of Valders with her two daughters. She works as a clerk in a general store. She owns the house that they live in.

In the 1940 census, she lives in Milwaukee. She is a seamstress for a furrier.

She married Elmer Bremer in 1960.

Died:
as Belinda Bremer

Notes:

Anton O. Berge, 94, of rural Valders, died Tuesday evening at Manitowoc Memorial Hospital after an illness of 10 days.
Mr. Berge was born in the Town of Liberty, Manitowoc County, on April 10, 1864, a son of Ole and Berit Weblin Berge, and was married to Olena Gistad at Valders Evangelical Lutheran Church Oct. 5, 1887. She passed away Feb. 7, 1954. He farmed in the Town of Liberty all his life and served as clerk of Sunnycrest School. He was a charter member of the Valders church.

Mr. Berge leaves seven sons, Oscar, of Addison, Ill., Albert, of Rt. 2, Reedsville, Norman, of Manitowoc, Orrin, of Cleveland, Harold, of Milwaukee, Walter, of Valders, and Oley, on the homestead farm; six daughters, Mrs. Belinda Klann and Mrs. Ruth Bleck, both of Valders, Mrs. John Reinertson, Riverside, Ill., Mrs. Kenneth Johnston, Manitowoc, Mrs. Marvin Berge, Dekalb, Ill., and Mrs. Harold Gram, Chicago; 33 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; a brother, Andrew, Valders; and a sister, Mrs. Mollie Finkelson, Manitowoc. Funeral services will be held at Valders Evangelical Lutheran Church at 1:30 p.m. Friday. The Rev. Jerry Moe will conduct the services, and burial will be in the church cemetery.

Friends may call at the Berge Funeral Home in Valders from 4 p.m. Thursday until noon Friday.

In the 1900 census, the family had a 20 year-old house servant named Emma Severson and an 18 year-old farm laborer named Frank Wagner.

Anton married Oline GIGSTAD about 1887. Oline (daughter of Ole Knudsen GIGSTAD and Ragnild Olsdatter RANUM) was born on 4 May 1867 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin; died on 7 Feb 1954 in Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Jul 1867, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin

Notes:

Or Gigstadt.

In the 1900 census, she had had 8 children, all still living. In the 1910 census, she had had 12 children, all still living.

Mrs. Anton O. Berge, 86, of Rt. 1, Valders, mother of 13 children, died Sunday following a lingering illness.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Valders Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Rev. A. B. Holland will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.

She was born Olena Gigstadt in the town of Liberty in 1867 and in 1887 was married to Anton Berge. They located on the homestead farm, a mile and a half south of Valders. In October, 1952, the couple observed their 65th wedding anniversary. In 1935 her husband was honored at the University of Wisconsin, with four others in the state, in recognition of leadership given to agriculture and homemaking.

In recent years the couple lived in retirement on the homestead farm now operated by a son, Oley. Mrs. Berge was a member of the Ladies Aid Society of the Lutheran congregation. Surviving are her husband; seven sons, Oscar of Elmhurst, Ill., Albert of Rt. 1., Valders, Walter of Valders, Norman of Manitowoc, Orrin of Sheboygan, Harold of Milwaukee and Oley on the home farm; six daughters, Mrs. Belinda Klann of Liberty, Mrs. J. B. Reinertson of Riverside, Ill., Mrs. Ruth Bleck of Valders, Mrs. Kenneth Johnston of Manitowoc, Mrs. M. L. Berge of Elgin, Ill., and Mrs. Harold Gramm of Chicago; 34 grand-children and 29 great grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Berge Funeral home, Valders, after Wednesday noon. The casket will be moved to the church at 11 a.

Baptism:
Valders and Jerpen

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 21 Jul 1832, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He is I9633 in Jim’s VS. Jim’s notes: Han dro sammen med flere søsken til "Valdres" i Wisconsin. Iver and Gulbrand probably described their many trials in letters home, but 18 year-old Ole Olsen was undaunted, following them to America the very next hear, 1850. Ole bought land that adjoined Gulbrand's, making it possible for them to live together on Gulbrand's farmstead.

Ole arrived in New York, aboard the Omen, which had sailed from Bergen, on 15 Jul 1850.

He served in the Civil War as a private in the E Company of the 19th Wisconsin Infantry mustered in Green Bay on 30 Sep 1864. His grandson Albert requested a military upright marble headstone for Ole in 1941.

In the 1880 census, he and his family lived in the Town of Liberty. His household was O.O., 48, Berete, 49, Antone, 16, Malla, 13, Anna, 11, Emma, 9, Andrew, 6, and Gustaff, 1.

There were several other Berges born in Norway listed on the same 1880 census page:

Ivar (and Sarah), 56
O.S. (and Mary), 64
Gulbran (and Mary), 52
Iver G., unmarried, uncle of Gulbran, 85

In the 1900 census, Ole and Beret and Emma and Gustan lived on their farm in Liberty.

In the 1910 census, Ole is still head of household and Beret is still alive with him but their son Andrew and his wife live with them on the home farm.

Birth:
Berge 22/4. Jim’s VS incorrectly has his birth year as 1822.

Ola married Berit Andersdatter VEFLEN about 1857. Berit (daughter of Andris Knutson VEFLEN (KVIE) and Marit Torsteinsdatter RØYNE) was born on 7 Sep 1831 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1921 in Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Nov 1831, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Her birth year was shown incorrectly as 1830 in the 1900 census. That census showed her as having had 10 children, 6 still living. Those numbers were 9 and 6 in the 1910 census.

The 1900 and 1910 censuses also show her having come to the U.S. in 1855.

In the 1920 census, she is living with her son Andrew and family in Liberty.

Birth:
Veflen 98/2 Nørre, Høre

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Birth:
Gigstad i Skrautvaal

Ole married Ragnild Olsdatter RANUM. Ragnild was born on 4 Jan 1822 in Nord-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 20 Apr 1907 in Liberty Twp, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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