Mabel Elaine EVERSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1930-06504
• Baptism: 19 Aug 1930, Cedar Lake Lutheran Church, Farm Island Twp, Aitkin County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 27 Aug 1944, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

Carlson, Elaine M. 90, died at her home in Eagan, Minnesota, on June 25, 2020.

She was born on February 27, 1930, at the old Miners' Hospital in Crosby, Minnesota, as the first child of John and Mabel Landstrom Everson of Deerwood. Elaine attended the one-room Cedar Brook country school and attended ninth grade at Aitkin High School. In 1944 she moved to her aunt and uncle's home in suburban Chicago and graduated from Maine Township High School in Park Ridge, Illinois, in 1947. That same year she married Donald Carlson of Minneapolis.

She and her husband raised their family in east Bloomington and she and Don moved to Eagan in 2005. She was a devoted mother and wife, an excellent bridge player, and the greater Everson family's worrier-in-chief. She will be dearly missed by all who knew her and loved her.

Elaine is survived by her two children, Don (Mary) Carlson of Green Bay and Cheryl (Kevin) Fautch of Eagan, three grandchildren, Eric (Chris Hynes) Carlson of Portland, Oregon, Lindsay (Scott) Wing of Chicago, and Krista (Bobby) Bloch of Apple Valley, and two great-grandchildren, Logan and Preston Bloch. Elaine is also survived by her sister Judy Redfield, her brother Bill (Edna) Everson, and her close Everson cousins Ronald Everson, David Everson, Jerry Everson, Jackie Higby, Jean Haselhuhn, and David Graham, and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband in 2011 and by her brothers Andy Everson and Bob Everson and her sister Joanne Davis.

The family would like to thank Laura Nees, Elaine's cousin's daughter, who provided excellent care to Elaine during her final days.

In lieu of flowers, the family encourages donations to the charitable organization of their choice. Private burial at Sunset Memorial Park. Celebration of Life to be held later.

Birth:
6:25 AM, Miners’ Hospital

Baptism:
by Pastor Ole Dahle, founding pastor of the Cedar Lake church at Dorris. Baptismal sponsors were George Everson and Eva Gustad.

Confirmation:
Elaine’s memorized Bible verse was John 11: 25-26. Pastor George Boyer may have served two churches at one time: Immanuel and St. John’s in Aitkin.

Mabel married Donald Herbert CARLSON on 8 Nov 1947 in Aitkin County, Minnesota. Donald (son of Maurice Edward CARLSON and Cora Christena ANDERSON) was born on 13 Jul 1924 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; died on 15 Mar 2011 in Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota; was buried on 18 Mar 2011 in Sunset Memorial Park, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
8:30 PM, St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, George M. Boyer presiding. Was to have been at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Iron Hub but storm prevented it. Vivian Marsh and Ronald Everson were the official witnesses.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1982-MN-011116
• Occupation: Driller
• Social Security Number: 475-09-6876 issued in MN before 1951
• Confirmation: 15 Jun 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

John, Mabel, and baby Elaine were living with Andrew and Annie at the time of the 1930 census. According to Jack Davis, John Everson purchased the Deerwood property in 1928.

One of the first meetings of John Everson and Maurice Carlson is recorded in the December 5, 1938, edition of the Brainerd newspaper: “Mr. Carlson of Minneapolis was looking over property here which he purchased recently. He spent the night at the John Everson home.”

The 1937-38 and 1939-40 Brainerd city directories, which include other communities in Crow Wing County, John E is shown as owning land in section 14 of Deerwood Twp and his address is Deerwood 1. John’s land is specifically shown as owned, although his father’s entries do not show ownership. This may mean that John’s is owned free and clear. Same in the 1942-43 directory. Same in the 1949 directory.

In the 1940 census, John and Mabel and their three children lived in Deewood Twp. Mabel was a high school graduate, John had an eighth-grade education. John was a farmer. Living with the Eversons, as a lodger, was Alaine Smith, age 22, a public school teacher.

Hospitalized with a “major operation” at the Community Hospital in February of 1949. Joanne believes that it may have been his appendix.



John says on the back of a postcard of Sonora, Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, that “was here in 1929.” John was in Tucson in that year, as well as Nogales. He was in Calderwood, Tennessee, in 1930-31. There is a picture notated with “Rudy and I” taken on the Potomac River in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He was in Amberg, Wisconsin, in 1925. He was in Orville, Ohio, on 3-6-1926 and Payter or Paytes, Virginia, in July of 1927. John was in Gouverneur, NY, in December, 1927.

In his letter to Iver dated 18 October 1929, John said that he was buying the Olson farm. Also, he had spent $100 on medicine and hospital for Mabel, who was with him in Mexico at that time.

John and Albin worked in Alaska on the Alaska Highway in the early 1940s.

In their letters to Harold in January of 1945, both Ron Everson and George mention that John is out of work but expects to get a job soon.

In the 1950 census, he and his family live in Deerwood. He is an ore drill operator for iron ore exploration.

John enjoyed traveling but Mabel didn’t. John went to Florida to Bill’s and to Arizona with Jerry Redfield.

The informant for his death certificate was his wife Mabel. John was a driller of water wells. He died “instantly” from ventricular arhythmia brought on by valvular heart disease with congestive heart failure.

John’s funeral was at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Iron Hub. Casket bearers were Jack Davis, John Davis, Jeff Davis, Jerry Redfield, Gerald Everson, and David Everson.

Birth:
Born in Everson home on west side of Cedar Lake. Not in MHS birth index.

Buried:
funeral at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub

John married Mabel Amanda LANDSTROM on 24 Jan 1929 in Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Mabel (daughter of Gustaf Jakob LANDSTRÖM and Klara Andersdotter WALLBÄCK) was born on 4 Jan 1909 in Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 18 Oct 1999 in Crosby, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 21 Oct 1999 in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1909-06029
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1999-MN-028538
• Occupation: Homemaker, Nurse
• Social Security Number: 469-40-2683, issued in Minnesota in 1954
• Baptism: 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 15 Jun 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

The October 25, 1944, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that Mrs. John Everson was re-elected secretary-treasurer of the Deerwood Farm Bureau.

Mabel, her brother Carl, and their mother attended Gladys Bergstrom’s funeral in Duluth in 1946.

In May of 1953, Mabel was elected to the Deerwood school board. She and Kenneth Burns were unopposed. Mabel got 22 out of the 23 votes cast.

She apparently had hip surgery in late 1997 or very early 1998.

Mabel’s obituary, as it appeared in the Crosby-Ironton Courier on Wednesday, October 20th:

Services planned for Mabel Everson, 90

Mabel Amanda Everson, 90, Crosby, died Monday, Oct. 18, 1999, at the Cuyuna Regional Care Center in Crosby.

She was born Jan. 4, 1909 in Deerwood Township to Gustav and Clara (Anderson) Landstrom. She married John E. Everson on January 24, 1929 in Aitkin. They settled on a farm outside of Deerwood and she worked at the Brainerd State Hospital. Upon retirement she received a letter from Gov. Wendell R. Anderson thanking her for many years of service and outstanding employment record.

She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, William and Edna Everson, Naples, FL, Robert and Cheryl Everson, New Berlin, WI; three daughters and sons-in-law, Elaine and Don Carlson, Bloomington, Joanne and Jack Davis, Hastings, Judy and Jerry Redfield, Shakopee; one brother, Carl Landstrom, Crosby; 13 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John; one son, John Andrew Everson; and two sisters, Naomi Everson and Helga Landstrom.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Thursday, October 21, 1999 at Salem Lutheran Church, Deerwood, with Rev. Jim Walth officiating. Friends may call one hour before services at the church. Burial will be in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery in Deerwood.

Memorials are preferred to the Alzheimer’s Association or the donor’s choice.

Arrangements are with Koop Funeral Home in Crosby.

[Carl was living in Brainerd at the time of Mabel’s death. Mabel said that she was married in Brainerd, not Aitkin.]

Not listed in the index of Minnesota births.

Minnesota Death Certificate 1999-MN-028538. Mother’s maiden name noted as Anderson.

She graduated from Crosby-Ironton high school on June 3, 1927, as Mabel A. Landstrom. The class celebrated its 50th reunion at the Deerwood Legion Club on July 16, 1977. Mabel was on the committee in charge of arrangements.

From a history of the Miners Hospital in Crosby:

Mabel Landstrom Everson remembers the early Miners Hospital

(a 1972 interview with Maryon Aulie)

"In those days, Dr. Shannon did most of the deliveries of babies. I would get the mothers and the room ready for the delivery. They had their babies right in the same room. There was no delivery room. We would bring a basket in for the baby. After the baby was born, we would take the basket into the X-ray room which we used for a nursery. We would carry the baby in to the mother to nurse but she didn’t keep the baby in the same room with her. The mothers stayed in the hospital eight to ten days. One time, when the nurses were gone on vacation, I was there alone when Dr. Shannon brought in a girl for delivery and I had to help. After the baby was born, Dr. Shannon said, ‘Oh, there’s another one!’ My first time helping with twins.

"We started work at 7:00 am and worked 12 hour shifts, either the day shift or the night shift. I can’t remember too many days off. We took temperatures first thing in the morning - we had a thermometer in a little jar of alcohol - and then we carried breakfast trays. The trays came up from the kitchen on the dumb waiter. Margaret Kellerman was the cook. She lived right there at the hospital with her little boy, Crone. I lived at the hospital too, up on the third floor. I shared a room with Fran Stark and Mabel Hasskamp who was a nurse’s aide too. We got our room and board plus $25 a month. After I had worked there two years, I got raised to $45 a month. But then I quit and got married.

"When you walked in the front of the hospital, Dr. Smith and Dr. Shannon each had an office, one on each side of the hall. There was a roll-top desk in Dr. Smith’s office and some cupboards that held all the medicines and instruments. They had jars of pills and jars of powders; sometime they would mix together the different types of powders into a prescription for a sick child. Dr. Smith kept all the patients’ records on a big spindle on his desk. The walls [of the rooms] were plastered, with hardwood floors. A stairway went up to the second floor where the patients’ rooms and the operating room was. One was a kitchen and two extra patients’ rooms. There was room for about 14 or 15 patients."

Of her own experience as a patient at the age of 12, Everson recalled: "My father just drove me up to the hospital and gave me a quarter and let me off. I went in all by myself and told them I came to get my tonsils out. They were really big ones. That night I got to walk uptown and spend part of my quarter for some peppermints. I almost lost my way coming back to the hospital but everyone trusted that I could take care of myself. The next morning, Dr. Shannon came in and put the ether over my nose and I remember fighting real hard. Then, after I woke up, I vomited and vomited all day. I stayed there two days and two nights. A tonsillectomy cost $15 in those days, including room and board. A baby delivery cost $45, including room and board. If you were a miner or a miner’s child, you didn’t pay anything because it was all in the mining contract. I remember the rivalry between the Miners Hospital and the other hospital on 1st Street called the Cuyuna Range Hospital owned by Drs. Hallenback and Pengilly. They each tried to get the most patients.

"Mabel Hasskamp worked there even after I did. After I got married, Dr. Smith delivered my babies at Miners Hospital. I remember when I had my first baby girl, Mrs. Smith came to see me and brought her little boy, Baxter, along. He (the little boy) wanted to know the baby’s name. He wanted me to name her Elaine. That was his favorite name. He grew up and married an Elaine."

... and from another interview, probably in the same publication:

My thoughts drift back ten years further to the 1920s, to Mabel Landstrom Everson’s account of going to work for Doctors Smith and Shannon right after graduation from high school. "I had what you might call ‘on the job training’ and got broken into working right away. By the second day, they showed me how to mix a hypo with the syringe and the powder and draw up the solution, all the sterile methods used. I worked with the charge nurse who was Lydia Halden from Aitkin and also a nurse named Barbara Friedstrom who used to come from Brainerd for special duty. We worked to take care of five or six patients, gave baths, and helped in the operating room too. They did tonsillectomies and appendectomies and gall bladders in those days. Dr. Shannon gave the anesthesia and Dr. Smith did the tonsillectomies."

Mabel’s Minnesota Practical Nurse License was No. 17728 and was valid through March 15, 1972, and perhaps later.

She made her claim on Social Security on 4 Oct 1973 through the Bemidji field office.

Birth:
“Reported by O. C. Coffin and officially filed in Book B, p. 119”

Died:
died at 5:30 PM

Buried:
Funeral at Salem Lutheran Church, Deerwood. Pallbearers William Everson,Robert Everson, Jerry Everson, David Everson, John Davis, and Donald R. Carlson.

Notes:

Married:
by Judge Kinder

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1942-MN-003253
• Occupation: Carpenter, Farmer
• Baptism: 12 May 1856, Kvernes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
• Confirmation: 22 Oct 1871, Kvernes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Notes:

Born as Anders. According to the naming convention, he should have been named after his mother’s father and so should have been named Arne or Arndt.

He is shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as Anders Iversen, born in 1856 in Qværnæs.

An Anders J Gustad, age 27, born 1856, arrived in New York City in 1883 on the State of Pennsylvania. His “calling” was “Sawmill.” Departure had been from Liverpool with stops at Glasgow and Larne.

The following is a Works Progress Administration (WPA) interview of Andrew, by Mildred Monson, in October of 1936 (some of this is incorrect and/or not consistent with John’s recollection):

Mr. Everson first settled in Farm Island Township on May 8, 1893, just across Cedar Lake from his present location. Here he settled in 1900.

He was born in Norway in 1855, coming to the United States at the age of twenty-seven -- settling in Duluth. There, in 1892, he married Miss Anna Bye. “Going on forty-five years next March, since we were married.”

Miss Bye was Norwegian, coming to the United States with her parents at the age of eleven and settling in Fergus Falls. She worked out some, but mostly stayed home, helping her parents.

Mr. Everson has always followed the carpenter trade which he learned in the old country. Ten years ago, he gave it up as he was getting along in years. Now, this fall, he intends seeing that all his Jersey cattle are sold. He is now too old for such active work -- although one son lives at home with the Eversons. He always has owned farms in Aitkin and Crow Wing County. And on these he has grown berries and bees as well as his choice dark Jerseys.

Mr. Everson will be eighty-one in the spring. The children are as follows:

Iver ... of West Virginia.
Harold .. of West Virginia.
George .. at home.
Albin .. on a farm near by. Married and has three boys.
John .. on a farm near by. Married and has two children.
Lillian... Mrs. George Graham of Chicago. Has one daughter.

We have a letter from Anna to her husband Andrew dated July 30, 1906 from Cedar Lake. At this time, Andrew was working in Deer River.

Andrew returned to Norway in late 1889. By 1890 he was a contractor in Duluth but lost everything in "the Panic" (the depression of 1893) when his partner skipped town with their money. At that time he moved to Cedar Lake with only his gold watch and wrote to the Gustads asking them to come to the U.S. too.

Andrew was apparently in some financial trouble as early as 1890. In a Summons dated August 19, 1890, he was named as a defendant in a district court complaint in which Bardwell, Robinson, and Co. asked for foreclosure of a mechanic’s lien. Other defendants were Thomas J. Davis, Samuel Christenson, and A. H. Thompson.

Andrew Everson's business was called Everson & Christenson according to the 1890-91 Duluth Directory. Everson & Christenson are referred to as "contractors" with " 321 Stenson block" as the location of the business. Andrew Everson's partner was Samuel Christenson. Ten men are listed as "laborer" or "carpenter", employees of Everson & Christenson: Sigard Christenson, Ever Everson, John Everson, Andrew S Ford, Joseph Lapine, Andrew Olson, Stephen Rhoades, Peter Roberts, Asa J Sprague, Josiah S Wilson ("foreman"). Andrew Everson's address is listed as "rooms, Stenson block" and "Boards 401 E 3d." Samuel Christenson lived at "101 E. 5th" with Sigard shown as boarding at that address.

If Andrew was recorded in the 1885 Minnesota state census he is most likely the 29 year-old “Andrew Arveson” in Duluth who appears to be a lodger with the J. M. Carlson family.

According to the Duluth city directories, there were no Eversons, Iversons, Byes, or Orfalds in Duluth in 1883-1884. The 1885-86 directory lists an Andrew Iverson, carpenter, boarding at “ns Third 3 w of Ninth Ave. E.” There is no Sam Christenson in that directory. Still no Byes or Orfalds. The 1886 Duluth city directory has an Andrew Everson, carpenter, for Watterworth & Fee, boarding at 303 E 3rd. There is no Sam Christenson in that directory. The 1889-90 directory lists Andrew Iverson, carpenter, who rooms at “216 E 2nd.” Still no Byes or Orfalds. The 1890-1891 directory lists him as Everson Andrew (Everson & Christenson), rms Stenson blk. There is a separate entry for Everson & Christenson (Andrew Everson, Samuel Christenson), contractors, Stenson blk.

The 1891-1892 city directory lists Andrew Everson, of Everson & Christenson, boarding at 401 E 3rd. The address of the firm is still 321 Stenson block.

In the 1892-1893 city directory, Andrew lives with his brother Ever at “n s Main 3 e of Pacific, W.P.” Everson & Christenson are still listed as 321 Stenson blk.

In the 1893-1894 directory, Andrew still lives with Ever although now their address is listed as “n s Main 2 e of Pacific av.” They are carpenters but there is no mention of Everson & Christenson.

The 1894-1895 Duluth city directory has an entry of Everson, Andrew, as “moved to Grand Marie, Minn.” And, for Samuel Christensen, “moved to St. Paul, Minn.”

From Minnesota Naturalization Records Index, 1854-1957:

Anders I. Gustad, Aitkin County, Reel 5, Code 21, Volume LP2G, Page 5
Anders J. Gustad, Aitkin County, Reel 6, Code 22, Volume LP3G, Page 11
Anders J. Gustad, Duluth, Reel 4, Code 4, Volume D, Page 488
Andrew I. Gustad, Aitkin County, Reel 5, Code 21, Volume LP2G, Page 6
Andrew I. Gustad, Aitkin County, Reel 2, Code 7, Volume 1, Page 450, Final Papers, 1886-1902, Numbers 1-624
Andrew J. Gustad, Aitkin County, Reel 6, Code 22, Volume LP3G, Page 12
Edward Gustad, Aitkin County, Reel 2, Code 7, Volume 1, Page 263, Final Papers, 1886-1902, Numbers 1-624
Edward Gustad, Aitkin County, Reel 1, Code 1, Volume 1, Page 240, Declaration, 1884-1906, Numbers 1-448

The census forms show that Andrew’s property was mortgaged in 1900 and 1910 but not in 1920.

From the December 25, 1942, edition of the Deerwood Enterprise newspaper:

Cedar Lake Pioneer Laid to Final Rest

Funeral Services for Andrew Everson at Dorris

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon for Andrew Everson, pioneer settler of Cedar Lake. Rev. Anker Dahle officiated at the Dorris church and interment was made in the Dorris cemetery. Iver Everson, the son, arrived from the Panama Canal Zone.

Minnesota death certificate #1942-MN-003253 issued in Crow Wing County.

The Eversons in the 1900 census were visited by the census-taker (a Harry Patterson or Peterson) on June 7th of 1900. They were in the Crow Wing County, Deerwood Township, census so that means that by the summer of 1900 they were living on the west end of Cedar Lake. If they were still on the east side, they would have been in the Aitkin County census. Their immediate neighbors, if we go by who was listed on the form immediately before and after their entry, were a Swedish family named Peterson and a Finnish family named Wickstrom.

Here's what the census form shows:

Iverson, Andrew, born Feb 1855, age 45, married for 8 years, came to the US in 1892, been in the US for 8 years, occupation: farmer, can read, speak, and write English, owns his farm (although it's mortgaged).

Annie, wife, born Sep 1872, age 27, married for 8 years, came to US in 1882, been in the US for 18 years, can read, speak, and write English, mother of four children, all of whom are still living.

Iver, son, born Mar 1893, age 7, born in Minnesota, shown as not having attended school.

Astra (?), daughter, born Sep 1895, age 4, born in Minnesota.

Harald, son, born Apr 1896, age 4, born in Minnesota.

George, son, born June 1898, age 1, born in Minnesota.

Interestingly, Andrew is counted twice in the 1900 census. He is also shown as living with Ever and Ed Gustad in a house Andrew owns (??) in Aitkin Township, Aitkin County. Apparently the three were living together while working on a construction job. Each of them is shown as “carpenter.” Andrew is shown as having emigrated in 1883, Ever in 1885, and Ed in 1891. All three are shown as married.

Andrew gave his occupation as “farmer” on Albin’s birth certificate.

In the 1905 state census, the family was in Deerwood as Iversen. The household consisted of Andrew 50, Anne, 35, Ivar, 9, Marg, 5, Georg, 4, John, 2, Louise, 1, and Hural, 7 (Albin got missed). Andrew and Anne had been in the state for 20 years and 8 months and in the present enumeration district for 11 years. The 20 years and 8 months would put both of them arriving in Minnesota in late 1884.

From a letter dated May 30, 1906, from Deer River Lumber Co. of Deer River to John Hofer of Bovey (who was apparently acting as an agent for Andrew): “We can use the man you recommend at the wages he asks, $4/day. The work will last all summer and perhaps longer as the company is planning to build twelve or fifteen houses and make other improvements around the plant. Please have Mr. Everson advise us when we may expect him and accept our thanks for the trouble you have gone to in this matter.

In June of 1906, Andrew received a letter from N. J. Holden, contractor and builder, of Aitkin. This letter had been addressed to Andrew Everson of Bovey and had many postmarks, including Deer River, indicating its travels due to the address error. This letter was probably related to the job in Deer River.

For the 1910 census, the census-taker's name was Joseph Bergfalk and he visited the Eversons on the 27th or 28th of April, 1910.

Everson, Andrew, age 54, married for 18 years. Year of immigration still looks like 1892. Able to speak English. Occupation carpenter. General nature of industry or business in which this person works: "House." Working on own account. Not out of work as of April 15th. Zero weeks out of work in 1909. Able to read and write English. Owns home but it is (still) mortgaged. Property is now considered a "house" rather than a farm.

Annie G., age 38, married for 18 years. Mother of 7 children, 6 still living. Year of immigration 1882. Able to speak English. Able to read and write English.

Iver O. (or D.?), age 17, no occupation. Able to speak English. Not out of work as of April 15th. Zero weeks out of work in 1910. Able to read and write English. Has not attended school in period since Sept. 1, 1909.

Harald, age 13. Able to speak English. Able to read and write English. Has attended school in period since Sept. 1, 1909.

George A., age 10. Able to speak English. Able to read and write English. Has attended school since Sept. 1, 1909.

Albin, age 8. (same)

John E., age 7.

Lillian M., age 5. Has not attended school.

[George should have been shown as 11.]

In May of 1916, Andrew received a letter from Peterson Brothers of Deerwood.

In July of 1917, Andrew received a letter from Duluth Creamery & Produce Co. clearing up the misplacing of an empty milk can of Andrew’s. They had confused Deerwood and Aitkin and had sent the empty can to the wrong station.

For the Eversons, in the 1920 census, the census-taker was Sophia R. Ness and she visited the Eversons on the 3d, 4th, or 5th of February.

Everson, Andrew, owns home, no mortgage, age 63, year of immigration looks like "Un", and column is blank for year of naturalization. Occupation is general farmer.

Annie, age 48. Year of immigration appears to be 1881. The entry for the year of naturalization is illegible.

Iver, age 26, occupation is fireman on railroad.

Harold, age 23, occupation is drilling, industry is exploration.

George, age 21, occupation is farm laborer at home although listed as a wage worker like his two older brothers.

Albin, age 18, occupation is farm laborer at home, working on own account.

John, age 17, same. John and Albin are both indicated to have not attended school at any time since Sept. 1, 1919.

Lillian, age 15. No occupation. Has attended school since Sept. 1, 1919.

The 1930 census was taken on April 2nd by enumerator Arthur H. Mattson. One neighbor was John L. Peterson, the other was Henry A. Hamdorf.

Everson, Andrew, owns home, home has a radio set, age 74. Married at age 36. Emigrated in 1883; a naturalized citizen. Employed, owner, not a veteran.

Anna, age 58, married at age 30. Emigrated in 1883 or 1893; a naturalized citizen.

Harold, age 33, single, laborer on farm, employed, not a veteran.

George, age 30, single, farmer on farm, employed, not a veteran.

Albin, age 28, single, laborer on farm, employed, not a veteran. {Naomi was 6 months pregnant and living at home at the time, also shown as single!}

John E., age 27, married at age 26, operator of drill iron ore, employed, not a veteran.

Mabel A., daughter-in-law, age 21, married at age 20.

Mabel E., grand-daughter, age 1/12 (hard to read).

DeAnn says, regarding Andrew’s funeral: “Elaine, Joanne, Ronnie and Dave had to sing Rock of Ages, and another song at the funeral. None were musically talented. Grandma Anna Bye Everson insisted.” Elaine remembers singing The Old Rugged Cross.

The 1937-38 Brainerd city directory, which includes other communities in Crow Wing County, Andrew is listed as having land, but not owning it, in Section 36 of Deerwood Twp and his mailing address is Aitkin 3. In the 1939-40 directory, he is just shown as living in Deerwood Twp. Same in 1942-43: he lives in Deerwood Twp but doesn’t own it and no section number is given so he has the same status as a renter (e.g., Albin).

In the 1940 census, Andrew, 84, Annie, 68, Harold, 43. and George, 41, live in Deerwood Twp. Harold is absent but listed with the family. The census enumerator was Andrew and Annie’s daughter-in-law, Naomi J Everson.

The Andrew Everson property was sold to "Mr. S. R. Prindle" for $27,000 in 1967. The siblings' shares were $4372.63 but George got double (he got Iver's share) and Lil's share was split between her two children.

His son Harold was the informant for Andrew’s death certificate. Harold didn’t know the name of Andrew’s mother and identified Andrew’s father as Iver Everson. The death certificate says that Andrew was buried on December 19th. However, that may be the date on which his body was released for burial. The funeral may have been delayed a couple of days for Iver to arrive from Panama. Andrew died from pneumonia, which he had had for four days, brought on by influenza, which he had had for 17 days.

His naturalization record may be the ones under Anders/Andrew I/J Gustad from Aitkin County and St. Louis County:

Reel 5
Volume LP2G
Code 21
Pages 5 and 6

Reel 2
Volume 1
Code 7
Page 450

There are also two for Anders J Gustad:

Aitkin County
Reel 6
Volume LP3G
Code 22
Pages 11 and 12

St. Louis County
Reel 4
Volume D
Code 4
Page 488

According to David, Andrew told his sons that they weren’t men until they could handle hard liquor. “They never succeeded but they never stopped trying.”

According to David, someone told him that there were other Everson cousins that he didn’t know of.

Buried:
per Dec 25, 1942, edition of Deerwood Enterprise

Anders married Anna Gustava (Annie) Martinusdatter BYE on 4 Mar 1892 in Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin. Anna (daughter of Martinus Eliassen BYE and Olianna Johannesdatter JOHNSON) was born on 29 Sep 1871 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 22 Mar 1949 in Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 26 Mar 1949 in Dorris Cemetery, Cedar Lake, Farm Island Twp, Aitkin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1949-MN-003383
• Baptism: 26 Dec 1871, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 3 Oct 1886, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

Oleanna Johannesdatter, 43, and her four children (Jon Martinussen, 11, Marie Martinussdatter, 7, Anna Martinussdatter, 9, and Hans Martinussen, 5) left Norway on 5 April 1882 on the feeder ship Tasso to Hull, England. Their destination was Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Lived for awhile in Fergus Falls, later in Duluth. After marriage, she and Andrew lived in Duluth for a year or two, then moved to Cedar Lake.

Edna Cartwright, Anna's sister's daughter, said in a 1970 letter that her mother remembered Anna as a beautiful young girl. Edna herself remembered Anna as a lovely person whom she loved almost as much as her own mother. Edna said that she wished Anna could have had an easier life.

Died at the home of her son (Albin) where she had been for a week following two weeks of hospitalization at St. Joseph's Hospital, Brainerd.

In addition to, presumably, all of her living children, the following people attended Anna’s funeral according to a newspaper account: Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Graham and family, Oak Park, Ill.; Mrs. Marie Orfold and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Orfold, Biwabik; Mr. Conrad Skogen, Duluth; Mr. and Mrs. Knute Johnson and family, St. Louis Park; and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Carlson, Minneapolis.

David believes that there may have been some hard feelings in the family or among the siblings regarding the inheritance from Martinus after his death in 1932. All or most of it went to Hans Peter and little or nothing to Anna or Marie.

Anna rarely, perhaps never, got back to Fergus Falls to visit her father or brothers after she left for Duluth.

Anne’s letter to her husband, addressed to him in Deer River, Minnesota:
(translated from the Norwegian)

Cedar Lake, July 30th, 1906

Dear Andrew,

I received a letter from you on the 26th. You asked about the haying but I have already written two letters to you since we were through with the haying and with this letter it will be the 3rd. You must not be getting all the letters I write you.

We finished the haying on the 18th of July. We filled the hay barn and also made a big stack. There came a little rain on the last load but that didn’t hurt anything.

Mrs. Holem and Mrs. Rud visited me yesterday and last Thursday I was to a Ladies Aid at Mrs. Rom.

The pigs have grown a lot since you were home. We have so many flowers blooming. We had bad luck with our gander. He fell on his head in a deep bucket with water in and he drowned. Now the goose goes around here alone.

We are all well and hope that you are fine also. There aren’t many berries this year. We find only enough to eat.

Next year if we are all well and you work away from home I want to go with you. I am tired of being so alone in the wilds. Also it will be better schooling for the children. Greetings from all the boys, Astrid, and Lillie.

Write as soon as you can so we will hear how everything is with you.

Best of everything to my dear husband.

Your Annie

One of her granddaughters recalls remembers Annie as “incredibly sweet and kind.” In her last years, Annie’s legs were ulcerated and wrapped. “She would let me sit on her lap over my mother’s protests. She would frequently instruct me ‘Go get my handbag’ and she would fish out a quarter - great wealth back then!”

Death Certificate ID# 1949-MN-003383   
Date of Death: 03/22/1949
County of Death: CROW WING  

The August 21, 1947, edition of the Brainerd Daily Dispatch, probably referring to August 14, 1947, records: “Mr. and Mrs. Henry Norton of Chicago, Mrs. Arthur Cartwright and Mrs. J.B. Orfold of Biwabik visited with Mrs. Anne Everson and John Everson on Thursday.”

She died of cardiac failure. Her son Albin, of Aitkin, was the informant for her death certificate. Albin knew that Anna’s father was Martin Bye but he did not know the name of Anna’s mother.

She died intestate. The probate hearing was to be May 24, 1949, according to a notice in the edition of the Brainerd newspaper. Albin Everson, petitioner, asked that Naomi Everson be appointed “administratrix.” The probate judge was L. B. Kinder, the same judge who married John and Mabel.
 

Birth:
parish birth record found by Mark

Confirmation:
perhaps First English Lutheran Church

Died:
Her death certificate says that she died in Rabbit Lake Twp but usually lived in Deerwood Twp

Buried:
Her funeral was from the Seavey Funeral Home, not the Dorris church.

Notes:

Married:
Some sources incorrectly say 18 Feb in Duluth. This date and location are from the ELCA records and from Wisconsin County Marriages, the latter as Andrew Everson and Anna M. Bye. Ever Everson and Ed Gustad were witnesses. Andrew correctly recalled to the WPA interviewer in 1936 that he and Annie were married in March of 1892. The church records also indicate Zion Lutheran.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1928-MN-003223
• Occupation: Farmer
• Baptism: 17 Sep 1865, Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden

Notes:

Gustaf Jacob is how it’s spelled in the födelsbok.

Or Gustave Jacob, the spelling used on his wedding invitation.

A 16 year-old Gustav Landström arrived at Ellis Island on 10 Oct 1881 on the Mosel.

Emigrated to the US from Sweden May 27, 1884, at the age of 18. EmiHamn shows him emigrating 5 Jun 1884, departing Malmö, destination New York. Emigranten Populär shows him leaving Göteborg, destination Duluth, on 8 Jun 1898. Gust was traveling with his sister Johanna. The pair are shown in the St. Albans border crossings as arriving at the port of Quebec on June 22nd aboard the S.S. Lake Superior which had left Liverpool on June 11th.

He apparently spent some time in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, after arriving in the U.S. in the 1880s.

He may be the August Landstrom, laborer, “boarding” at 537 Garfield Avenue in Duluth in that city’s 1890-91 city directory.

In the 1891-1892 Duluth city directory, he is Gustave Landstrum, bridgebuilder for F T Harrington, who boards at 707 Garfield Avenue.

In the 1892-1893 Duluth city directory, he is Gustav J Landstrom, laborer, who boards at 121 Park Avenue.

He is not listed in the 1893-1894 Duluth city directory.

In the 1894-1895 Duluth city directory, he is Gustav J Landstrom, car operator for the Duluth Steam Railway, who rooms at 2531 West 2nd.

He is not listed in the 1895-1896 Duluth city directory. There is, however, in the 1896 Superior city directory, a Gustav Landstrom, laborer, living at 1807 Butler. There is an Adolph Landstrom, carpenter, residing at the same address.

In the 1896-1897 and in the 1897-1898 Duluth city directories, he is Gustav Landstrom, car operator for the Duluth Steam Railway, who rooms at 2609 Huron.

In the 1898-1899 Duluth city directory, he may be the Gustaf Landstrom, laborer, boarding at 2018 West 4th. That is the last Duluth city directory in which he is listed.

Settled in Crow Wing County in 1897. The 1900 census shows Gust as having a mortgage on his land in 1900 but the 1910 census shows that the land is owned free and clear.

“In recounting the early settlers of Deerwood Township, one must also remember G.J. Landstrom and A. Johnson. They purchased railroad land in section 35 on Shirt Lake where they helped each other build log homes and barns. In the 1890s, they returned to Sweden to bring their families to the new land. Mr. Landstrom’s son, Carl, recalled helping his father clear the land of stumps, which were mixed hardwoods with some pine. The Landstrom family farm at one time had one of the highest testing dairy herds [the milk testing high in butterfat content] in Crow Wing County, although their place became known as Landstrom's Berry Farm.”

The Landstrom land consisted apparently of 120 acres of the NW corner (all but the SW corner of the NW corner) of Section 34 on the west end of Shirt Lake in Deerwood township. (The 1913 Crow Wing County plat book says the Landstrom property was in Section 35.)

“The Landstroms were members of the Swedish Baptist Church organized June 1, 1884. In November of 1903, one acre of ground on the south shore of Hamlet Lake was donated by John Heglund and a church was built on this lovely site overlooking the lake. This Hamlet Lake Baptist Church was used for 45 years by the congregation.”

Minnesota death certificate #1928-MN-003223 issued in Crow Wing County for LANDSTROM, GUST JACOB for death date 10/28/1928.

Obituary from the Crosby Courier:

Gust J. Landstrom Passes Away Sunday

Gust J. Landstrom of Deerwood township, passed away at his home on Shirt Lake Sunday, Oct. 28 after suffering from a heart ailment for several months.

Mr. Landstrom was born in Normaldling, Vesterbatten, Sweden, on Oct. 10, 1865. At the age of seventeen years, he came to America, settling in Minnesota near Duluth. In 1898 he came to Deerwood, buying his farmstead at Shirt Lake.

He is survived by his wife, Clara Landstrom, two daughters, Naomi and Mabel, and a son, Carl. One daughter, Helga, passed away in March, 1927.

The funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 31 at 1:00 p.m. from the home and 2:00 p.m. from the Hamlet Lake Baptist church. He is deeply mourned by his family, relatives, and friends.

In the 1900 census, “Gustaf” is 34 (born Sept 1865) shown as living with his 33 year-old sister "Johanna" (born Feb 1867). This must be Katrina Johanna whom we know came over to the US in 1898 (as is confirmed on the census form). She is indicated as having an occupation but the handwriting of the census-taker is illegible. It may be "housekeeper." She is shown as being able to read and write but not able to speak English. Gust emigrated in 1884, Johanna in 1898.

In the 1905 state census, he (as August), 40, and Clara, 26, are carefully entered, and indexed, as Landström. He had been in Minnesota for 17 years and 8 months and in the present enumeration district for 7 years and 1 month. She had been in Minnesota for 3 years and 2 months and in the present enumeration district for 3 years.

In the 1910 census, Gust and Clara are indicated as having been married 6 years at the time of the census-taker's visit on May 2, 3, or 4. This would indicate that they were married between June of 1903 and May of 1904. They immigrated in 1884 and 1902, respectively. Clara's occupation is indicated as "Farm Laborer."

In the May 30, 1912, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune, is an article describing the formation of The Hamlet and Shirt Lake Telephone Company. The officers are Alfred Johnson, president, Alfred W. Heglund, vice-president, F. V. Berglund, secretary, and Gust J. Landstrom, treasurer.

The Landstroms in the 1920 census:

Landstrom, Gustav J., owns property, no mortgage, age 54. Year of immigration looks like 1884. Year of naturalization is illegible. Occupation is farmer, general.

Clara, age 41, year of immigration 1902. Year of naturalization is illegible.

Helga, age 14, attended school.

Nomie J., age 13, attended school.

Mable A., age 10, attended school.

Carl S., age 8, attended school.

The 1930 Census was taken about April 2nd by Arthur Mattson. By this time, Gust had died.

Clara, head, owner, radio set in the household, age 52, widowed, married at age 27. Emigrated in 1902; a naturalized citizen. Occupation is farmer on farm.

Naomi J., daughter, age 23, single {!}. Occupation is teacher in rural school.

Carl E., son, age 18, single. Occupation is laborer on farm.

He died of chronic endocarditis and myocarditis which he had had for 2 years. A complicating factor was senility. His doctor was Baxter A Smith of Crosby. The informant for his death certificate was his wife Clara who didn’t know Gustaf’s mother’s name and thought that Gustaf’s father was named Ole Landstrom.

Birth:
his obit and Mabel’s birthday date book show October 10th

Gustaf married Klara Andersdotter WALLBÄCK on 5 Nov 1904 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Klara (daughter of Anders JONASSON and Kajsa JANSDOTTER) was born on 19 Jan 1878 in Olsäter, Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden; died on 18 Nov 1959 in Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 22 Nov 1959 in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1959-MN-003667

Notes:

Just “Klara” in the födelsbok. That entry shows her mother as Maria Jansdotter, age 40.

According to the clerical survey, may have been confirmed June 26, 1892.

Listed as “Clara Walbuck” on Mabel’s birth certificate. (Some of Klara's siblings took the name Wallbäck.) The name on her transportation contract was Klara Andersson.

Obituary says, incorrectly, that she was born January 19, 1877, as does her death certificate. Nevertheless, the household examination for the family in the 1876-1880 period shows 1878. She also claimed to be 24 on her transportation contract which supports the 1878 date for her birth.

She and Gust had engraved wedding invitations:

The pleasure of your company is requested at
the marriage of
Miss Clara Walbeck
to
Gustave Jacob Landstrom
at 1911 West First Street, Duluth, on
Saturday evening, October 5, 1904,
at 8 o’clock.

The 1937-38 Brainerd city directory, which includes other communities in Crow Wing County, Mrs. Clara Landstrom is shown as living on land in Deerwood Twp that she does not own. In the 1939-40 directory, she is shown as the owner of land in section 35 of Deerwood Twp. Same in the 1942-43 directory. In the 1949 directory, her land seems to be in Carl’s name but still may be with a mortgage.

In the 1940 census, Carl and Clara live on their farm in Deerwood Twp in the same house in which they had lived in 1935. Clara had an eighth-grade education.

The entire obit, from the November 25, 1959, Crosby Courier:

Services for Mrs. Landstrom

“Mrs. Clara Landstrom, a pioneer resident of Deerwood township, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Albin Everson, on Wednesday of last week.

“Born in Sweden on Jan. 19, 1877, Mrs. Landstrom had been a resident of the Deerwood area since 1903. Her husband, Gust, preceded her in death in October of 1928.

“In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Albin Everson, she is survived by another daughter, Mrs. John Everson, and a son, Carl, all of Deerwood township. Ten grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren also survive.

“Funeral services for Mrs. Landstrom were held from the Koop Funeral Home in Crosby on Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. The Rev. Ewald Eisele of the Deerwood Baptist church officiated and burial was in Scandia cemetery in Deerwood.”

Emigrated to the U.S. from Varmland, Sweden, August 23, 1902, at age 24 (perhaps with her 18 year old brother, Gustaf Ludvig). The transportation contract was executed through J. Oscar Reis, who was apparently a transportation agent for the Cunard Lines in Gothenburg. The contract, for 228 Kronor, was to take Klara Andersson from Gothenburg to Duluth via Hull or Grimsby, Liverpool, and either Boston or New York. The contract says that the embarkation date from Gothenburg was August 27, 1902. Passenger list records show that Klara, as K Anderson, arrived in Boston on September 17, 1902, aboard the S.S. Ivernia which had sailed from Liverpool on September 2nd. The manifest for the Ivernia shows that her ultimate destination was Duluth where she would meet her brother, Edward Wallbak, of 208 Eater Street. Ron has the immigration inspection card that she was given in Sweden which showed that she had been vaccinated and which also shows that she was #28 on the ship’s manifest and that her contract ticket was 32006.

She seems to have been living at 1944 W 1st Street at the time of her marriage.

It appears that she was not married to Gust Landstrom at this time. According to the 1910 census, taken in early May of 1910, Gust and Klara had been married for 6 years. In that census, Klara is shown as having emigrated in 1902 and as having had 3 children, all living.

Mildred Monson interviewed Clara in August of 1936, perhaps for a newspaper. The report of that interview, with corrected spellings and punctuation, is as follows:

“The Landstroms came to Shirt Lake, District #20, in the late 1800’s, building a two-room home. Later they built a large frame house, barn, and granary and machine shed, garage, and a nice large hen-house.

“They raise berries on the flat below their building locations, overlooking the lake. It really is a beautifully laid out home. They’ve recently planted Chinese elms as the old box elders do not stand up through the years as well.

“In 1902, they were married. They were the parents of four children, all living now, save the oldest girl, Helga.

“Naomi ---- Mrs. Albin Everson of Cedar Lake, Crow Wing Co. She has three children. Her husband is a farmer.

“Mabel ---- Mrs. John Everson of Deerwood, Rt. 1. Farmer, formerly diamond drill setter.

“Carl ---- at home, farming.

“Mrs. Landstrom was born in 1870, coming to the United States at twenty-two, with her two brothers, now of Duluth. There she worked for two years, cooking for the Colonel Grover family. (Colonel Grover is in the Swedish consular office.) There she had many liberties and was treated very well, enjoying her stay in Duluth.

“But since, owing to her husband’s ill health and ultimate death, Mrs. Landstrom has worked exceedingly hard -- outdoors daytimes and indoors, night. But she always seems to have won out, being of that slender, smiling, plucky type of woman.

“Mr. Landstrom died at the age of sixty-three of heart trouble and rheumatism. ‘During his later years he had to sometimes lay off for a year at a time; but then he would go back to work, trying to make up for lost time, and would overdo.’

“Mrs. Landstrom and her son carry on berry farming and dairying and raising poultry, etc. From the wonderful east hill on which they built their home, one can look out across Shirt Lake over a fine neighborhood, and up across the way to the Alfred Johnson home.”

Klara sent quite a bit of money back home. According to receipts for an international money orders, somebody, most likely Klara, sent money back to Sweden as follows:

$ 7 to someone in Munkebol, Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 17 November 1902.

$ 5 to someone in Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 5 December 1903.

$10 to someone in Blia, Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 28 March 1904.

$ 5 to someone in Munkebol, Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 6 October 1904.

$10 to someone in Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 6 October 1904.

There were probably other transmittals; these are the ones for which, for some reason, the receipts were saved. It’s probably significant that the sending back of money may have ended after Klara’s marriage.

Clara, Carl, and Mabel attended Gladys Bergstrom’s funeral in Duluth in 1946.

Her son was the informant for her death certificate. Clara died from pneumonia, myocarditis, and artersclerosis. She spent the last 6 days of her life at the home of her daughter Naomi in Rabbit Lake.

Klara only spoke Swedish. David says that he never could understand her but Ron, who spent more time at the Landstrom farm, could.

Notes:

Married:
as Gustave J Landstrom and Clara Walbeck

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Dec 1823, Kvernes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
• Confirmation: Aug 1840, Kvernes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Notes:

By implication, he must have had an older brother Ole, perhaps with a different mother, who died after he was born.

Drowned in the sea off Norway while fishing. According to the entry in the parish register, entered at the end of 1858, he was 30 years old. It seems as if three others may also have died at sea with him. According to Magnar, he drowned in the Bremsnes Fjord.

He was also shown as 30 years old for his marriage entry in the parish register.

He was 16-3/4 years old when he was confirmed in August, 1840, in Qvernas and Bremsnes. This would suggest that he was born in late 1823. The confirmation record says that he was vaccinated on October 23, 1826. His father is Halvor Olsen and his mother may be Elin, maybe Christiansdatter.

His birth record confirms that his parents were Halvor Olsen Gustad and Christiana Iversdatter.

Birth:
Kvernes in Kvernes

Iver married Ane Arntsdatter VINJE on 13 Oct 1853 in Kvernes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. Ane (daughter of Arne Andersen VINJE and Eli Olsdatter) was born on 6 Nov 1828 in Grytten, Møre og Romsdal, Norway; died on 7 Aug 1914 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 9 Aug 1914 in Dorris Cemetery, Cedar Lake, Farm Island Twp, Aitkin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1914-MN-003173
• Baptism: 7 Jan 1829, Grytten, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
• Confirmation: 20 Oct 1843, Grytten, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Notes:

She was shown as Ane Arnesdatter Vinje, age 25, of Grytten, when she married.

In the 1865 census, shown as Ane Arndtsdatter, born in 1830 in Gryttens.

In the Grytten records, an Anne Arnesdatter Vinje was confirmed October 20, 1843. This Anne was born 6 Nov 1828. This Anne was born of Arne Anderssen and Eli Olsdatter in Tiva (or Fiva?).

In the IGI, through FamilySearch.com, as the mother of Anders Iversen, she is shown as Ane Arnesdatter.

Called Ane Arneson in the marriage record of Andrew and Annie.

Emigrated to the U.S. in 1894 according to the 1900 census.

In the 1895 state census, the newly-arrived Erick and Anna were living with their son Edvard and wife as well as the Rasmussens and the Eversons in Farm Island Twp.

In the 1900 census, Annie (69, born in January of 1831) and Erick (70, born in April of 1830) were living with son Edward and next door to son Ever in Farm Island township in Aitkin County. They are shown as having been married for 40 years. Annie is shown as having borne 7 children, 5 still living. (The dead ones must have been daughters Ellen and Anna.) In the 1900 census, Annie is shown as being unable to read or write or to speak English. Erick can’t read or write either but can speak English. Erick is shown as “fisherman.” Also living with Edward Gustad at the time of the 1900 census is a 25 year old man named Charles Gustad and shown as “brother.” Perhaps this was Elise Gustad’s brother and the indication of Gustad as his last name is in error.

In the 1905 state census, the Gustads are in Farm Island, living next door to the Mackamans. The household consists of Edd, 39, Elisa, 39, Margett, 7, Agnes, 9 months, Erick, 76, and Anna, 76. Ed is a carpenter. He had been in the state for 14 years and in the present enumeration district for 12 years. For Elisa, Erick, and Anna those numbers are 11 and 11.

Annie and Erick are still living with son Edward and family at the time of the 1910 census in April but they have now moved to Rabbit Lake Twp in Crow Wing County. Anna is shown as having been married for 48 years which would put their marriage in 1861 or early 1862 instead of the 1860 suggested in the 1900 census. In the 1910 census, both Erick and Anna are shown as being able to read and write but they speak Norwegian and not English. In this census, Anna is also shown as having had 7 children, 5 still living.

Her death certificate gave the cause of death as senile debility.

Birth:
Born and baptized in Tiva or Fiva, Grytten sub-parish of Grytten parish. The 1875 census has her place of birth as “Rø Sogn Næsset Prgj.” That is the birthplace of Erik Ingebrigtsen. The census enumerator, or the scribe, got the two locations mixed up.

Died:
her death certificate shows her date of birth as November 6, 1829

Notes:

Married:
4 October according to the record of her marriage to Eric Flaahammer.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1932-MN-010908
• Occupation: Flour mill worker in the U.S., Skomager (shoemaker) in Norway, Tjener at the time of John’s birth
• Baptism: 10 Oct 1847, Vinne, Verdal (Vårdalen), Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 4 Oct 1863, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Or Mortinus Eliasen.

Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as Martinus Eliassen, living with his parents and four younger siblings. Dee Austring says that in this census Martinus was shown as “19 yo skomager” and was living at Storøren gård #265, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway.

Martinus was living in Byvald, Verdal, and Oleanna in Maritvoldvald, Verdal (Vårdalen), at the time of John’s birth. At the time of their marriage, those locations were called Baglovald and Marithvoldvald. Both were living in Maritvoldvald at the time of Hans Peter’s birth.

In the 1875 Norwegian census the family was living on Maritvoldvald with Oleanna’s mother. Martin’s occupation appears to be telegraph operator and farmer.

Martin and Oleanna emigrated to the US from Norway in the early 1880s with all four children. Martin arrived first in 1880 and the rest of the family followed two years later. The family settled in Fergus Falls. The family is listed in the 1885 Minnesota state census as living in Fergus Falls. Martin’s brother Elling is living with them. Martin is 37, Oleana is 48, Johan is 15, Anna is 13, Maria is 11, and Hans is 9.

The girls (and, apparently, Hans) later moved to Duluth, probably after their mother died. Martin remarried after Oleanna's death, according to Edna Cartwright and confirmed in the obituary in the Fergus Falls newspaper. John Everson said that his mother and Marie had a half-sister born in the U.S.

Martin Bye’s obituary said that he arrived in Fergus Falls on May 9, 1880. “Shortly after his arrival, he was employed by H. G. Page in the Red River Mill, and later worked as a miller in the Big A Mill for many years. After retiring from the milling business, he went into business and conducted a store where the Tobacco Mart is now located. Always honest and upright in his business dealings, he gained the respect and good will of all.”

The Red River Mill was built in 1872 and was located on the site of the present Con Agra Montana Inc. on Stanton west of Union Bridge. The old mill burned on March 18, 1915. A story in the Fergus Falls newspaper in 1972 described how Martin’s sons, “John and Hans Bye”, noticed smoke and alerted the night duty men at the mill. One elevator was saved but the total loss was “near $75,000.”

Reportedly survived by 18 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren but these numbers must include the Wold stepchildren.

Living with the family of his brother-in-law, Theodore Johnson, a butcher, in Fergus Falls at the time of the 1880 census. Shown as “Martinus E. Bye”, age 32, married, laborer.

In the 1885 state census, the whole family is in Fergus Falls. Living with them is 34 year-old Elling Bye.

Couldn’t find him in the 1895 state census.

Living alone as a clothing merchant at the time of the 1900 census.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, Martin and Sophie live at 123 Bancroft Ave W. Martin is in business with his son (J M Bye & Co.). Boarding with them is Alfred Bye, a student.

In the 1903 Fergus Falls city directory, Martin and Sophie still live at 123 Bancroft Avenue W. He had no occupation.

In the 1905 census he is Martin Bye, 58, living at 123 Bancroft Avenue West in Fergus Falls with Mrs. Carin S., 49, and her two children, Harold S., 17, and Alma O., 13. No one has an occupation. Although Martin and Carin are each shown to have been in Minnesota for 20 years, Martin is shown to have been in the present enumeration district for only 5 years. This may refer to Martin’s moving into Carin’s home on Bancroft Avenue five years before.

In the 1907 directory, he and Sophie live at 123 Bancroft.

In the 1909 directory, he is a farmer, still living with Sophie at 123 Bancroft.

Martin was living with his 2nd wife and her two children at 123 Remington in Fergus Falls at the time of the 1910 census. The house is owned by Carin. Martin’s occupation is peddler of notions.

He was not listed in the 1920 census. The house at 123 Bancroft is owned by a recently-immigrated family from Denmark.

He was living with his son Hans at the time of the 1930 census.

In the 1931 Fergus Falls city directory, Martin lived with Hans and Mary at 126 Channing Avenue W.

Minnesota death certificate 1932-MN-010908 issued in Otter Tail County for “M. E. Bye.”

According to a researcher who posted a family tree on Ancestry.com, Martin was born in Storøren gård #265, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway.

Naturalization records:

Martinius E Bye
Otter Tail County
Reel 1
Volume B
Code 3
Page 231

and

Martinus Bye
Otter Tail County
Reel 6
Volume J
Code 18
Page 307

Birth:
On Baglovald according to Sven Tore

Confirmation:
Stikelstad

Died:
“died Tuesday noon at the home of his son, H. P. Bye....”

Buried:
funeral at 2 PM, Bethlehem Lutheran Church

Martinus married Olianna Johannesdatter JOHNSON on 18 Nov 1870 in Vinne, Verdal (Vårdalen), Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Olianna (daughter of Johannes Hansen ØREN and Gürü Halvorsdatter NESS) was born on 27 Jan 1836 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; was christened on 20 Mar 1836 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 26 Oct 1890 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 28 Oct 1890 in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Mar 1836, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 10 Jun 1850

Notes:

Also spelled Oleanna (the way it’s spelled in her birth record). Called herself Olianna Bye in calling cards that she used in Fergus Falls.

Last name in Norway is also Martitvoldvald. Could not find her in the 1865 census. There was a 27 year-old Olianna Johansdatter who lived on Mikvoldvald and was the wife of the husmand Jørgen Andersen. That couple had two children.

She had 3 siblings living in Fergus Falls.

Oleanna Johannesdatter, 43, and her four children (Jon Martinussen, 11, Marie Martinussdatter, 7, Anna Martinussdatter, 9, and Hans Martinussen, 5) left Norway on 5 April 1882 on the feeder ship Tasso to Hull, England. Their destination was Fergus Falls, Minnesota. They are not listed among the emigrants in the Stiklestad church book.

Birth:
Øhr farm. Her gravestone in Oak Grove Cemetery has her birth date as 12 Dec 1835 (repeated in the Dalby Database), a date which is patently correct.

Died:
month and day from Dalby database

Buried:
she has a stone that says “Mother” near Martin’s at Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Bonde (farmer) in 1870, Hemmansegare (owning farmer) in 1890
• Baptism: 20 Jun 1830, Västerbottens län, Sweden

Notes:

Johannes in his birth record in the church book.

Johan Larsson and Sara Lindström apparently inherited the Lindström farm. At the time of the 1890 Swedish census, Johan and Sara and their children Lars, Henrik, and Katarina were residing in Mjösjö, in the parish of Nordmaling, in the county of Västerbotten.

In the 1880-1890 period, the family resided in Mo in Nordmaling.

In 1870, their residence was referred to in the census as Mo. They lived there at least for the period of the 1863-1872 Household Examination.

At the time of the 1870 census, the family had a maid residing with them named Lovisa Knutsdr, born in 1845.

Birth:
Lögdeå; 1890 residence: Mjösjö, Västerbotten county

Died:
Mo

Johan married Sara Katrina LINDSTRÖM on 17 Jun 1855 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden. Sara (daughter of Henrik Johan LINDSTRÖM and Anna Maria NILSDOTTER) was born on 30 Jun 1828 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden; died on 17 Oct 1893 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Cathrina. Or Landström.

In the parish marriage records, her father, Bonde Henrik Lindström of Mo was present at the wedding.

The June 30 birthdate is from the Household Examination. A letter from a family member in Sweden gives her birthdate as 5 February 1828. Could not find her in the Nordmalings birth records for either 1828 date. The marriage record does not give birthdates.

Birth:
Sofia Öman says 11 Jun 1828 in Gideå Lemusjö

Notes:

Married:
as Drängen Johan Larsson of Logdeä and Bondesdotter Sara Cathrina Lindström of Mo

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Brukare
• Baptism: 18 Sep 1834, Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden

Notes:

Called Anders Jonsson in the birth records for Klara and Jan Edvard.

The parish birth record implies his home town is Klings...{something}. This is probably Olsäter Klingermyren.

The family lived in Olsäter. In the 1861-1865 Household Examination the family resided in Wallsätra, Olsäter. In the 1886-1890 Household Examination and in the 1891-1895 Household Examination the family’s residence was called Olsäter Wästbergsäjen.

Still alive at the time of the 1890 Swedish census. At that time, the family (all but Britta who had moved out by then) resided in Olsäter in the parish of Öfre Ulleruds in the county of Värmland. No mention is made of the Wallbäck surname in the 1890 census listing.

Birth:
Residence in 1890: Olsäter, Värmland county

Died:
Still alive in the 1891-1895 Household Examination

Anders married Kajsa JANSDOTTER on 26 Dec 1860 in Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden. Kajsa (daughter of Jan JANSSON and Brita ELOFSDOTTER) was born on 9 Feb 1837; died on 30 Jan 1923 in Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not connected to her parents in Emily Schlosser’s family tree.

Kajsa is called Maria Jansdotter in Klara’s birth record.

Her February 9, 1837, birth is not recorded in the parish birth record for Övre Ullerud. The 9 Feb 1837 birthdate is confirmed by the entries in the Household Examinations. Her marriage record with Anders indicates that they both were from Olsäter.

She was not listed in Olsäter in the 1840-1844 Household Examination. She is listed on the same page (p. 204) as Anders’s family in Olsäter in the 1845-1852 Household Examination for Övre Ulleruds as well as p. 367 for her parents in N. Ås. She is shown as “flicka” Cajsa Jansdotter in the Olsäter 1845-1852 Household Examination. Under the Inflyttad column is “p. 367-51” which suggests she arrived on the scene in 1851. In another column is “Adm 52 3/10” which would be consistent with her arriving in Olsäter in 1851 or 1852. The N. Ås entry for her in the 1845-1852 Household Exam suggests that Cajsa left N. Ås in 1851.

She is also listed on the same page (p. 222) as Anders in the 1850-1860 Household Examination. She is still a “flicka” although she was promoted to “piga” in the decade.

All children but Britta were listed as still living at home (Olsäter, Öfre Ulleruds, Värmland county) in the 1890 Swedish census. Brita is living with her husband and child in Elfsbacka.

In the 1900 census, only Klara, Jan, and Gustaf are living with Kajsa in Olsäter. Anders has died and Britta and Anders Johan have married and moved away from home as probably has Lotta. Kajsa is shown with the occupation of Inhyseshjon which means lodger or tenant. This may be the status of a widow of a tenant farmer. In various references, including the death letter from Lotta in 1923 and Naomi’s notes, Kajsa’s and Klara’s home is referred to “Edvard i Knoten.”

Gust’s death certificate refers to her as Karin Wallbeck.

Birth:
Residence in 1890: Olsäter, Värmland county

Died:
as Kajsa Jonsson, born Jansson

Notes:

Married:
Marriage #21, Banns on November 18th