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21651

Went by Blanche.

Former Justice of the Peace.

HARMON, Laura Blanche (I28253)

21652

Went by Clarence.

JOHNSON, Ralph Clarence (I9664)

21653

Went by Ellen in the U.S. In the 1910 census, she had had four children, only two still living.

From the Dalby database:

Funeral services for Mrs. Velgjer Svien, who passed away at her home Saturday morning, January 24, were held in St. John's Lutheran church this afternoon at 2 p.m. with the pastor the Rev. B. R. Biorn officiating. Burial was made in the family lot beside the graves of her husband and four children. Pallbearers were six grand-nephews, Elmer, Clarence, Luther, George, Paul and Maurice Nystuen. Velgjer Nystuen Svien was born in Norway on October 10, 1842. After the death of her mother, Mr. Nystuen came to America with his family when Velgjer was 11 years of age. The trip from Norway to Quebec, Canada in 1854 took seven weeks aboard the slow sailing ship. The Nystuens first settled in Spring Prairie, Wis. and later moved to St. Ansgar, Iowa. It was there in 1860 that Velgjer married Andrew Svien. They moved to Goodhue county, Minnesota in 1865 where they were engaged in farming until 1876 when they moved to Northfield. She and her husband operated a hotel on Division Street. Mr. Svien also served as policeman. Mrs. Svien was a charter member of the Ladies Aid society of St. John's church and a long time member of the congregation. Mr. Svien passed away inn 1927. For several years she continued to reside at the home on Washington Street. She was cared for later in a rest home and at the time of her death was being cared for by her grandson and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. William Lockren. She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Hans Bergan, Lake Mills, Iowa; six grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren. A foster daughter, Mrs. H. E. Frazee (Susie) of Pelican Rapids, also survives.

and:

The state’s oldest resident, Mrs. Velgjer Svien, passed away Friday, Jan. 23,1953, at the age of 110 years, 3 months, and 13 days. Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. B. R. Biorn at St. Johns Lutheran church Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 2 oclock. Gertrude Boe Overby was soloist and Mrs. H. J. Westwood was organist. Burial was beside her husband in Northfield cemetery.

Velgjer Nystuen was born at Valdres, Norway, Oct. 10, 1842. After the death of her mother which occurred when Velgjer was only eight, she came with her father and his other children to the United States in 1854. The trip across the ocean was made on a sailing vessel, taking eleven weeks. The familys first home was in Spring Prairie, Wis. After three years they moved to St. Ansgar, la., and it was here in 1860 that Velgjer was married to Andrew J. Svien. She was then 18 years of age. In 1865 Mr. and Mrs. Svien moved to a farm in Goodhue county, Minnesota. Northfield became their home in 1876 and for the remaining years of their lives. Mr. Svien died in 1926, and Mrs. Svien spent 77 years as a resident here. For a time Mr. and Mrs. Svien had a hotel on Division street in the building now occupied by the Berg and Son Upholstery business, but Mr. Svien is better remembered by the generations of his day as the town policeman, an affable man faithfully walking his beat. Mrs. Svien’s recipe for long life, “Don’t hurry,” she practiced indeed. She never allowed herself to be hurried or worried, taking each moment, as well as each day, as it came, and maintaining a serenity rarely found in this mechanized day of speed. She enjoyed remarkably good health and strength for her advanced years. On her 100th birthday she sat through an afternoon of festivities in her honor given by the ladies aid at St. John’s church, and she showed no weariness from the experience. She was a charter member of the ladies aid and a member of the church. That birthday was also marked by an interview with her on the radio, as well as another party given her at her home, at which about 100 relatives and friends came to greet her. On her 105th birthday another sizable celebration was held at her home. This too she enjoyed thoroughly, making frequent trips outside to pose for pictures. Until she was 98 Mrs. Svien lived alone and took care of her home and of herself. Her daughter Carrie, Mrs. Lervik, then came to live with her. The daughter passed away after a few years. Seven years ago a grandson, William Lockren, and Mrs. Lockren came to care for Mrs. Svien. She clung to the practice of ministering to her own needs until frailty prevented, and that was only about three years ago. The Sviens had two sons and two daughters: Carrie, John, Tom, and Anna, all of whom have died; also a foster daughter, Susie, Mrs. H. E. Frazee, who lives in Pelican Rapids. There are six grandchildren,10 great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Svien has one sister living, Mrs. Hans Bergan, Lake Mills, la. Mrs. Bergan is in her 90s. The pallbearers for Mrs. Svien were all grandnephews. They were all Nystuens, Elmer, Clarence, Luther, George, Paul, and Maurice. Mrs. Svien had seen in her life-time a panorama of marvelous changes—from sailing vessels to steamboats to aircraft; from prairie and woodland country to cities and paved highways; from covered wagons and horses to trains and automobiles. She had seen the wonders of science bring in the telephone, the electric light, the phonograph, the radio, and television. She had seen her country in the throes of five wars; The Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, and the present Korean conflict. She had lived in this country under 20 presidents. Franklin Pierce was president when she arrived in 1854. The Civil War was raging when she came with her husband to Goodhue county. And their arrival in Northfield was the same year the James-Younger raid invaded the city and met its Waterloo. Her life in the Midwest embraced the period of the development of this great area from its rudest beginnings.

NYSTUEN, Velgjerd Torsteinsdatter (I25847)

21654

Went by Elmer.

He had very, very curly hair.

Mother’s maiden name Syse.

Farming in North Fork Twp, Stearns County, Minnesota, in the 1910 and 1930 (as Elmer) censuses. They weren’t there, and couldn’t be found anywhere else, in the 1920 census. They were in Canada at that time.

He and his wife and two youngest sons crossed into the U.S. from Canada at Noyes, Minnesota, in 1924: Elmer in March and Tilda, Russell, and Orville in April. Tilda states that her father-in-law is George Ellingboe. Elmer’s destination is Belgrade, Minnesota, and he states that his father is George Churchbridge of Churchbridge, Saskatchewan. The two boys were supposedly born in Saskatchewan according to the border crossing record.

Inez’s obit said that the family homesteaded near Churchbridge for about ten years.

He declared bankruptcy in December of 1927 in Stearns County.

In the 1940 census, he was Robert E Ellingboe, a farmer in North Fork Twp, Stearns County. Their farm was rented and everyone was living in the same house in which he or she had lived in 1935. Robert and Tilda had 8th grade educations, Inez had a 6th grade education, Dennis and Edmund had 8th grade educations, Orville and Russell were high school graduates.

His wife Thilda was the informant for his death certificate. He died of a heart attack.

ELLINGBOE, Robert Elmer (I10770)

21655

Went by Ethel.

DONAHUE, Florence Ethel (I38794)

21656

Went by Gilbert Nilsen Haugen in the U.S. That’s what he’s called in the Jasmann Family Tree.

Obit information from Find A Grave and Dennis C. Olson:

Gilbert Haugen, the son of Gilbert G. Haugen (from death certificate) and Anna Thasa Haugen, was born in Norway, May 21, 1849 (from death certificate) and came at a very young age with his parents to America. He married Ingeborg Isabel Estrem at Decorah, Iowa, on December 30, 1878. The names appearing on the church records for that marriage were Gilbert Nelson and Isabel Anderson.

Shortly after their marriage they moved to Boone County, Nebraska, where seven of their nine children were born. One baby died and was buried on the prairie and also a son Gustav Martinus died. During the time they lived in Nebraska they used the name Nilsen or Nelson.

It is not known exactly when the family moved to Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, area but they were living there at least from 1893 to the middle of 1895. Their youngest son Knute was born while they made their home there.

After his death Ingeborg stayed on the farm and made her home with her son Talmer.

Sometime during the late 1890's the family moved to Minnesota and in 1898 settled in Webster township of Rice County, Minnesota. It was apparently during this time that they began to use the Haugen name.

Gilbert died November 19, 1915 in Webster township, Rice County, Minnesota from heart problems.

He leaves to mourn his death six children, namely, Talmar Haugen at home, Gust Haugen on a neighboring farm, Knute Haugen, Northfield, Mrs. Paul Overby, Binford, N.D., Mrs. Albert Thorpe, Minneapolis. Two brothers-in-law, Christ Estrem, Petersburg, Neb., Andrew Estrem, Decorah, Iowa, and several grandchildren.

Preceding him in death were; an infant buried on the farm in Nebraska; Gustav Martinus born December 16, 1879, died March 5, 1893 buried at Closter, Nebraska; and Albert born November 9, 1885, died July 28, 1908 buried at Binford, North Dakota.

HERMUNDSTAD, Gulbrand Gulbrandsen (I28605)

21657

Went by Jewell, her middle name.

Myrtle Jewell (Toso) Johnson Edwards Grimm died Saturday, March 30, 2002, at her home in Kenai. She was 86. Mrs. Grimm was born at home April 18, 1915, in Isabel Township, Benson County, North Dakota. In 1934, she married Roy O. Johnson, her high school sweetheart. On Jan. 1, 1953, she married Archie E. Grimm in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. They moved to Ephrata, where Archie was the State Farm Insurance agent for Grant County. She was the administrative assistant for the agency. She was active in the Business and Professional Women, Toast Mistress International, Sons of Norway and Trinity Lutheran Church until she moved to Kenai in 1999, where she took up residence with her son.

TOSO, Myrtle Jewell (I9693)

21658

Went by Kelly.

EVANSON, Carroll (I27386)

21659

Went by Kenneth.

In the 1900 census, he was a farmer in Ashton Twp, Monona County, Iowa.

In the 1910 and 1920 censuses, he was a farmer in Lake Twp, Monona County, Iowa.

James Kenneth Olson was born, October 7, 1872 and died April 7, 1939, at the age of 66 years. He was the oldest son born to Mr. and Mrs. John P. Olson pioneer residents of Fairview Township and co-founder of the Albaton Lutheran Church.

Kenneth was confirmed in this church in the year 1889.

Mr. Olson married in October 1892 to Martha Maria Solon who preceded him in death in December 1903. To this union were born four children, James Newel of Whiting; Mrs. Martin Yackel of St Paul, Minn., Mrs. Harold Hall of Sioux City, Iowa and Mrs. Ted Napier of Fonda, Iowa.

On January 24, 1906 he was united in marriage to Mrs. Carrie E. Zurcher and five children were born to this union, Mrs. Malcolm Patrick, Denver, Colorado, Mrs. J.J. Weiner, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Mrs. Dudley Delashmutt, Onawa, Iowa, Elsie Vivian and James Kenneth, Jr., Elsie Vivian and James Kenneth Jr, preceding their father in death.

Also surviving are 28 grandchildren and step-grandchildren, one great-grandchild and two step-daughters, Mrs. Raymond Hughes of Huron, South Dakota and Mrs. Leo G. Keller, Sioux City, Iowa and John T. Zurcher, deceased. Three sisters, Mrs. Julia Olson, Sloan, Mrs. Stella Allison of California and Mrs. Ed Haakison of St. Paul, Minnesota and five brothers, George E. of Sloan, Will H. of Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, Gus A. of Whiting, Len S of California and John S of Sloan, and many friends who mourn his loss. He will be remembered as a man who enjoyed life to its fullest extent.

Mr. Olson was a resident of Monona County his entire life, the greater part of which was spent on his farm six miles west of Whiting. Except for a few years when he and Frank Jennewein were partners in the oil business in Whiting. It is indeed a strange coincidence that these two pioneers should both be called by death so close together.

Mr. Olson also served his community in various capacities of public office.

Interment was made in Albaton Cemetery.

OLSON, James Kenneth (I26311)

21660

Went by Laird.

GUY, John Robert Laird (I11802)