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16711

Redeemer Lutheran

Family: Kenneth Raymond MCBRIDE / Susan Elizabeth HARDEN (F26001)

16712

Redeemer Residence

HELLEKSON, Gordon Willis (I1664)

16713

Reedsville

TORRISON, Orin Arthur Mervin (I32060)

16714

Referred by Alison as Thomas Anderson Ellestad. Also referred to as Tomas Thompson. Shown in the 1865 census as Thomas Andersen. Buried as Thomas Thompson.

Apparently living with, and helping out on the farm of, his aunt Betsey and her husband Ole Forstrom in Eureka Township at the time of the 1880 census (June 5th).

Farming in Madison Township, Lac Qui Parle County, Minnesota, at the time of the 1900 census (June 1st). The family consisted of Thomas, 41 (born Nov 1858 in Norway), Randi, 33 (born Aug 1866 in Norway), Anna R., 8 (born Jan 1892 in Minnesota), Minnie B., 5 (born Nov 1894 in Minnesota), Elmer O., 4 (born Aug 1896 in Minnesota), Ingmar, 2 (born Feb 1898 in Minnesota), and Anton O., 2 months (born Mar 1900 in Minnesota). Randi had borne 8 children, 5 still living. She and Tom had been married for 12 years. She had come to this country in 1887, he in 1877. They owned the farm and it was mortgaged.

In the 1905 state census, the family was in Eagle Valley Twp where they had been for 3 years and 7 months. The family consisted of Thomas A Tompson, 45, Randi, 38, Anna, 12, Minnie, 10, Elmer, 8, Ingmar, 6, Anton, 5, Walter, 3, and Ruth 1.

Farming in Eagle Valley Twp, Todd County, in the 1910 census. This census shows Tom and Randi coming to the U.S. in 1891.

They (”T.A.” and “Arandi”) were still in Eagle Valley Twp in the 1920 census. Anton, Walter, Ruth, and Elmer were all still at home.

Tom Thompson and Randi were living in Eureka Twp, Dakota County, at the time of the 1930 census. See p. 9 of 14.

In the 1940 census, Thomas A and Randie Thompson were living in a rented residence in Castle Rock Twp, Dakota County, Minnesota. In 1935, they had lived in a different location in rural Dakota County. Thomas and Randie had been educated through the 4th grade.

Came to this country in 1877.

THOMPSON, Thomas Anderson (I1669)

16715

Referred to as an unnamed female on his birth certificate.

In the 1920 census, he appears to be the E. Ernest Christy, 17, “step-son”, living with Fred and Dollie Bungert in Omaha. E. Ernest was born in Minnesota to a father born in England and a mother in Minnesota.

In the 1930 census, he and his family lived at 3052 Minnehaha Avenue. Ernest was a fireman at a fruit canning business.

In the 1940 census, he and his family lived at 5608 36th Avenue S in a house he owned worth $1500. He had an eighth-grade education, Alta had three years of high school. Eugene was a stationary engineer for a hospital.

He died of a coronary occlusion complicated by purulant bronchial pneumonia. He was found on December 4th so he may have died earlier. His residence at the time of his death was 718 5th Avenue S.E. The informant for the information on his death certificate was Eugene R. Christy of Long Beach, California.

CHRISTY, Ernest Eugene (I4078)

16716

Referred to as Anna Olson Graff Snesrud on George’s gravestone or burial records.

The “Solor’s Lutheran Cemetery” was established in 1881 in Greenvale Twp, Dakota County. It was a 1 acre plot of land in Section 9, the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter. The cemetery was later abandoned and moved to Webster Twp, Rice County, about 6 miles west, to the location of the Solor Lutheran Church of Webster. It is not clear whether or not anyone is still buried at the Greenvale Twp location.

OLSON GRAFF, Anna Caroline (I6982)

16717

Referred to as Catherine Jorgens in the cemetery records for Richard R. Runkle. Her gravestone calls her “R. Catherine.”

Ruth Catherine Runkle, 81, of Grand Meadow, died Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at the Grand Meadow HealthCare Center where she lived.

She was born May 5, 1920, in Frankford Township, to John and Cora (Skogstad) Jorgens.

She graduated from Grand Meadow High School in 1936.

On March 15, 1939, she married Richard Runkle at the Bear Creek Lutheran Church. Together they farmed in the Bear Creek area.

She was an accordion player and was very active in her church. She enjoyed visiting, traveling, gardening and flowers.

Survivors include sons, David C. Runkle, Lakewood, Colo.; Steven P. (Diane) Runkle, Minnesota City; daughter, Marcheta (Richard) Allen, Grand Meadow; nine grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband in 1999, a great-grandchild, a daughter-in-law.

JORGENS, Ruth Catherine (I6990)

16718

Referred to as Henry Edward Little in his wife’s death certificate.

In the 1900 census, Henry and his family lived in Hibbing. Henry was a carpenter. They had been in the U.S. for two years.

Henry was a carpenter. He and his family lived in Hibbing in the 1910 census.

In the 1920 census, the children were still all at home and the family still lived in Hibbing. Henry was a policeman.

LITTLE, E Henry (I15222)

16719

Referred to as James in his brother Vernon’s obit.

HENDRICKSON, Marvin James (I16564)

16720

Referred to as Jimmy Albert in his sister Carol’s obituary.

GOODMAN, James A (I16586)