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she was baptized by Sigri Syversdatter Kaalstad at home on 13 December 1832

KOLSTAD, Kari Olsdatter (I26245)

18782

She was Barbara Aspholm at the time of her father’s death in 1990.

She was the wife of Ron Lupergalo at the time of her sister Darlene’s death in 2003.

ERICKSON, Barbara Ann (I30486)

18783

She was Beatrice I Johnson on her son’s birth certificate.

CLARK, Beatrice I (I17760)

18784

She was Bendikt’s 2nd wife.

HÅKONSDATTER, Berit EI Anne (I26570)

18785

She was Bessie M on her birth record.

She was “Miss Bess Thompson” of Duluth in her mother’s obituary.

THOMPSON, Bessie Carol (I1980)

18786

She was blond, beautiful and 5 feet 8 in the late 1940s, the perfect profile for a brief career as a model. And even during her final days at a care center, Doris Tonsager still wore high heels and occasionally a leopard-print ensemble.

Tonsager, who died at age 77 last week of complications from dementia, went from model to 1950s-era Braniff Airlines stewardess to Army wife to antique-shop owner in Minnetonka. She was "very classy, I would say sophisticated," said her oldest daughter, Elizabeth Charron. Tonsager talked of meeting celebrities and movie stars during her days as a stewardess, including author Ernest Hemingway in Italy.

Charron said she remembered seeing pictures of her mother wearing her stewardess outfit - a hat and tight-fitting skirt - and also of the planes her mother would serve on. "I know they were old-looking and scary-looking and just didn't look very modern," Charron said of the propeller-driven aircraft. Her mother, who was born in Kansas City and moved to the Twin Cities for her airline job, was almost turned down for it because she was deemed too tall.

Tonsager was strong-willed, said Charron, and eventually turned to other careers, including real estate, and started a mail-order catalog featuring homemade curtains and bath accessories.

She would say, "This is what I'm going to do, by golly," her daughter said. Tonsager also opened the Windy Hills Farm antique store in Minnetonka, remodeling an old farmhouse near Clear Spring Road.

"We made the home into the [store]. They [Tonsager and her husband, James] remodeled the barn and we lived in the barn," said Charron. She said she remembers camera crews using the store as a backdrop when filming TV commercials for Granola Bars.

Tonsager was preceded in death by her husband and a son Patrick. She is survived by three children, Charron of Princeton, Minn.; John Tonsager of Maple Grove, and Mary Tonsager of Minneapolis.

Tonsager, Doris Jean, (Jones) Born in Kansas City MO, January 3rd, 1930 to Harold and Mary Jones. Left us peacefully on May 19th, after a long illness. Preceded in death by husband, James; son, Patrick; and brother, Harold. Survived by brother, Dave Jones & family; son, John Tonsager (Brenda); daughter, Elizabeth Charron (Zach); daughter, Mary Tonsager; grandchildren, Chris Tonsager, and Ryan Faricy. Doris was a woman of strong character, fun-loving nature, extremely talented, and had a generous heart. Others needs were always more important than her own. By the age of seventeen, she began a very interesting and fascinating life that included modeling, working for Braniff Airlines as a stewardess, meeting writers, movie stars and world travel. Right after her marriage, Doris and her husband Jim were stationed in Frankfurt Germany from 1957-1960, a country she dearly loved. Doris also owned and operated her own business' including real estate, and the Windy Hills Farm antique shop in Minnetonka. A great mother, her children will always be enlightened by her generous spirit and fun loving nature.

JONES, Doris Jeanne (I22319)

18787

She was born before her parents married. Her parents were Ole Vilhelmson Lund and Anne Endresdatter Baggethun. Anders Tollefson Baggethun was the responsible person of the parish for the illegitimate Anne.

The Vang migration records show that she left Vang for Voss in January of 1881 to get married.

Yvonne and her sources believe that Anna died after she and her children arrived in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, on May 12, 1890. Peter arrived in Quebec on Aug 10, 1889. Peter (and maybe Anna and the kids) went on to Aberdeen, South Dakota.

Called Anna Olson in her son Anton’s death certificate, the informant for which was her husband, and Anton’s father, Peter Hultgren of Clarissa.

ELLESTAD, Anne Olsdatter (I11826)

18788

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.

Kristiane Kristiansdatter (I26)

18789

She was born in Montevideo according to her death certificate. An Anderson source says that Elise was born in Yellow Medicine County. Yellow Medicine County is just across the river from Montevideo.

BERGH, Elise (I8159)

18790

She was born in New York according to information on her daughters in the 1880 census.

Unknown (I19420)