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20341

The Johnson Family Tree, among others on Ancestry, has his parents as Nils Aarlien Syverson (1842-1921) and Agnethe Monson (1844-1933). That is not true, as the 1880 census shows.

In the 1910 census, he is Ben Syverson, a farm laborer living with his family in Farmington Twp, La Crosse County, Wisconsin. He is farm laborer “working out.”

In his 1918 draft registration, he is Bernt Severson of Ettrick in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.

SYVERSON, Bernt (Ben) (I34351)

20342

The Johnsons’ only daughter, named Gwendolyn, is listed in the 1920 census as five months old.

In the 1930 census, the daughter named Gwendolyn is 6 years old and Maggie B is 10 years old.

The information presented here for Gwendoyn is from the Maurine Anderson Family Tree on Ancestry.com.

Gwen and Phillip had four children.

Her obit from the Provo newspaper, included in her Find A Grave entry, created by Connor:

Gwen Johnson Christensen passed away in Provo, Utah on April 16, 2007. She was born September 1, 1919, in Sigurd, Utah, to Joseph B. and Milda Dastrup Johnson. On June 19, 1941, she married Phillip V. Christensen in New Orleans, Louisiana. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Manti LDS Temple.

Gwen was born with a unquenchable thirst for knowledge and an ardent love of reading. She enjoyed school and took particular pleasure in drama. In grade school she recruited her friends to portray Tarzan and Jane from the treetops. In junior high school she wrote and produced her first play and continued to act, write and produce throughout high school. She worked her way through college and graduated from Brigham Young University with high honors. Completing a double major in English, Speech and Dramatic Arts, she also obtained a teaching degree. She met her husband-to-be, Phil, while they were both acting in plays.

As a young bride during World War II, Gwen worked in New Orleans at the Port of Embarkation. Since she had acted in plays all her life, she possessed a remarkable memory and was once investigated by a major in the Army as a spy because she had unintentionally memorized long numbers and secret codes. Imagine the major's surprise when he learned that the FBI already had a full dossier on Gwen since she was married to an FBI agent.

In her spare time, Gwen continued acting, presenting a three-act play in the French Quarter. After living and working in Indiana and New Jersey, Phil and Gwen were transferred to Los Angeles, California. They then moved to Utah so Phil could take over the family law business. By this time Gwen had begun a new role in life, that of a mother to a son and later three daughters.

People were Gwen's passion, and she loved serving others whether it was offering a needed shoulder to cry on or sponsoring families from a foreign country. As a member of The LDS Church, Gwen was Relief Society President many times, her first experience when she was in her early twenties. She completed a stake mission and two missions with her husband: one in Greece, where they served as international missionaries and one to Missouri, where they were Directors of the Independence Visitors' Center. She served as a temple worker in the Provo LDS Temple for many years and was active in the PTA all during her children's school years.

She was a wonderful, loving mother to one son, Bryce Christensen (wife Elizabeth), and three daughters; Mrs. Scott (Betty) Briggs, Mrs. William (Ann) Bunker and Mrs. Michael (Mary) Patterson. She was also loved and will be sorely missed by fifteen grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren. She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Dennis (Beth) Bradshaw and was preceded in death by a brother, Hugh Johnson.

JOHNSON, Gwendolyn (I4591)

20343

The Jorgenson Family Tree has his parents born in Aust-Agder.

JORGENSON, Jens Theodore (I37811)

20344

The July 25, 1908 edition of the Northfield News mentioned that a son was born to William and Sadie.

Shown as unnamed baby boy on his birth certificate and the first child born to his parents.

In the 1927 Minneapolis city directory, he is probably the Lloyd Ellingboe, student, residing at 513 Washington Avenue, S E.

In the 1928 directory, he was a student living at 406 17th Avenue, S E.

Lloyd was single and living at home at the time of the 1930 census. He was a deliveryman for a furniture store.

In the 1940 census, he and Lucille and Thomas lived in Crystal Falls, Michigan. He was a bookkeeper for the Iron County Road Commissioner, a job which earned him $1800 the year before. Lloyd had had two years of college, Lucille was a high school graduate.

In the 1950 census, he and Lucille and their two sons lived in Crystal Falls. He was an accountant at the office of the county road commissioner.

ELLINGBOE, Lloyd Wilhelm (I3331)

20345

The June, 1894, birth date in the 1900 census is impossible because the immigration records suggest that her mother didn’t arrive in the U.S. until August of 1894.

Not listed with her parents in the 1895 Minnesota state census.

Shown in the 1900 census but not in the 1905 state census or the 1910 federal census.

Anna would have been buried at the Dorris cemetery.

GUSTAD, Anna (I2292)

20346

The Kari Svendsdatter living with these parents in the 1865 census was 3 years old, suggesting she was born in 1863.

dwfrench1 confirms this with the dates shown here. He calls her Kari Svendsdatter Vaarum.

HEDALEN, Kari Svendsdatter (I12702)

20347

The Knickerbocker/Curtis Family Tree calls her Myrtle Ella Curtis, b. 28 Nov 1898 in Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa, and d. 26 Mar 1978. The SSDI has a Myrtle Meyer, b. 30 Nov 1898, d. Mar 1978, last residence in St. James, Watonwan County, Minnesota. The MHS death index has her middle name as Alvina.

In the 1940 census, the widow Myrtle Meyer lives in St. James, Minnesota, with her two children. They live in the same house in which they had lived in 1935. Myrtle is a janitoress in public restrooms. She is a high school graduate.

CURTIS, Myrtle Alvina (I20965)

20348

the Kuchenmeister Family Tree says he died in Republic, Ferry County, Washington

GJEVRE, Esadore Sylvester (I33029)

20349

The Laforêt/Laforest/Laforet family occupied, and claimed to own part of, Peche Island in the Detroit River between Detroit and Windsor. The Laforet family disputed Hiram Walker’s claim that the Laforets had voluntarily sold him their share of the island in the early 1880s.

In the 1910 census, she had had 15 children, 10 still living.

LAFOREST, Sophia Rose (I15328)

20350

The last name of Myron is the “mother’s maiden name” identified on Andrew’s and Edward’s death certificates. The farm name for her in the church book entry for her marriage is not intelligible; it seems to be something like Jacomastad. There is a Myren farm or set of farms in Verdal in Vinne.

Anne M. Baglo, 41, left Trondheim on 8 May 1886 aboard the Thingvalla line’s feeder ship to Christiania. Traveling with her was Anna E. Baglo, 13, Berntine Baglo, 11, Peder Baglo, 9, Erik Baglo, 5, and Julie Baglo, 4. The family’s destination was Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

She arrived in New York on May 28, 1886, aboard the S.S. Hekla which had sailed from Copenhagen. She was identified as Anne M. Baglo, 41, accompanied by her five children: Anne E., 11 and a half, Berntine, 11 and a half, Peder Edvard, 9, Erick, 5, and Julie, 4. This is the same boat that Johannes E. Bye, Anne’s brother-in-law, arrived on. The origin of the family was identified as “Throndhjem.”

In the 1900 census, the family lived at 405 Adelphia Avenue (?) in Fergus Falls. The family consisted of Anna, a 55 year old widow (born in Sept 1844), Anna, 30 (born Oct 1869) and single, P. Edward, 24, Andrew, 21, and Julius, 12. Anna the mother had had 6 children, 4 still living. Everyone was born in Norway except Julius who was born in Minnesota. Those born in Norway came to this country in 1886 and only P. Edward is shown as having been naturalized. Anna the mother owns her home free of a mortgage and it is shown to be a house and not a farm. P. Edward’s occupation is grocer. Andrew’s occupation is salesman at a grocery store.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, she “boards” at 411 Everett Avenue E with her son Edward.

In the 1903 Fergus Falls city directory, she lives at 411 Everett Avenue E with her son Andrew.

In the 1907 directory, she still lives at 411 Everett Avenue E.

In the 1909 directory, she lives at 402 Douglas Avenue E.

In the 1910, 1920, and 1930 censuses, she is living with her daughter and son in-law, Anna and Fred Torvik, in Fergus Falls. In 1910, she is a widow who had had 6 children, 3 still living.

In the 1911 directory, she lives at 402 Douglas Avenue E.

In the 1931 city directory, she lives at 715 Court Street.

“In her obituary, it stated that she had 6 children, of whom 3 were still alive. They were: Mrs. Fred Torvik, Fergus Falls, Edward Bye, merchant in Fergus Falls, and Andrew Bye of Dane Prairie.”

In the 1865 Norwegian census, she is most likely the Anne Pedersdatter, 21, unmarried, who is a servant on the “Rosvold store” farm in Stiklestad, Verdal. Another servant girl on that same farm is Else Pedersdatter, 22, who may be a sister or, more likely, a half-sister.

Living with Elling and Anne Marta in the 1875 Norwegian census was Anne Marta’s sister Ragnhild (b. 1836, “Logerende ernerer sig ved Vævning”).

Anne Bye died of pneumonia. Fred Torvik of 715 Court Street in Fergus Falls was the informant for her death certificate.

MYRON, Anne Martha Pedersdatter (Annie) (I1269)