Magnhild Aleksandra KARLSEN

1896 - 1980  (84 years)

• Name	Magnhild Aleksandra KARLSEN
  Birth	13 Jun 1896	Beieren, Nordland, Norway
  	12 Jun in the 1910 Norwegian census; it’s 13 June in the church book
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	2 Aug 1896	Beieren, Nordland, Norway
  Death	17 Sep 1980	Shelby, Toole County, Montana
  Burial	Lakeview Cemetery, Valier, Pondera County, Montana
  	as Magnhild Karlsen Zagotta on the gravestone she shares with Joseph Zagotta
  Notes	The St. Albans border crossing records show her as Magnhild Carlson, crossing the border and entering the U.S. at Sault Ste. Marie on August 12, 1914, arriving from Halifax, N.S., where she had debarked from the Mauretania on August 7th. She was headed for Clinton, Minnesota, where she would meet her brother Mads Karlsen, the person who had paid for her passage. Her father was Johan Karlsen of Hegholt, Buaren, Norway. She was 28 years old and was born in Bliaren, Norway. She had never been in the U.S. and was moving to the U.S. permanently. Her occupation is domestic and she is shown as married. She can read and write. She was 5 ft., 6 inches tall. The Mauretania’s ship’s manifest agrees with the St. Albans record but has her age as 18 and says that her father lives in Hegholt, Bliaren. The Mauretania had sailed from Liverpool on August 1, 1914. Her marriage certificate for her marriage to Orvis says that she was the daughter of John Carlson, no mother’s name shown. The witnesses to her marriage to Orvis were Mary Peterson and Maten Carlson (perhaps her brother Mads). She was 20 years, 9 months, and 19 days of age at the time the marriage license for her marriage to Orvis was issued. That day was 3 Apr 1917. Orvis’s age was said to be 23 years, 9 months, and 21 days. That would imply that Orvis’s birth date was 13 June 1893 and that Magnhild’s birth date was 15 Jun 1896. Her obit was in the Great Falls Tribune’s 18 Sep 1980 edition. She came to the U.S. in 1914 and married Earl L Orvis in 1916. After he died in 1935, she married Joe Zagotta in 1941. She had a daughter Jona (Mrs. Bill) Munyon of Lewistown, Montana. In the 1940 census, she and her son Earl lived in Shelby. She was 42 and was born in Norway. Five years earlier, she and Earl had lived in Valier. Joe Zagotta’s obit calls her Magnhild Orvis Pederson and says that they married in 1940. Magnhild’s daughter was called Mrs. Ronald Nelson in a brief notice in the Conrad Independent Observer in its 5 Dec 1957 edition. Her death notice in the Great Falls Tribune on 18 Sep 1980 called her Margaret Zagotta and said that she had died at a local hospital.
  Person ID	I29527	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	18 Jul 2023

  
  

  Father	Johan Lauritz KARLSEN,   b. 19 Mar 1855, Bodø, Nordland, Norway
  Mother	Anne Antonethe Nomaren Olsdatter,   b. 22 Dec 1858, Lødingen parish, Tysfjord local parish, Nordland, Norway
  Family ID	F20517	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Earl Lester ORVIS,   b. Abt 13 Jun 1893, Colorado d. 29 Jan 1935, Valier, Pondera County, Montana (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	8 Apr 1917	Shelby, Toole County, Montana
  	as Magnhild Carlson and Earl Lester Orvis by William Pippy, a minister for the M.E. Church
  Children	1. Jona Adeline ORVIS,   b. 9 Dec 1917, Shelby, Toole County, Montana d. 19 Mar 2012, Fergus County, Montana (Age 94 years)   2. Earl (Bud) Eugene ORVIS,   b. 17 Mar 1926, Pondera County, Montana d. 23 Oct 1977, Liberty County, Montana (Age 51 years)
  Family ID	F20518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2019

  
  

  Family 2	Joseph ZAGOTTA,   b. 30 Jul 1910, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois d. 4 Feb 1997, Toole County, Montana (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	30 Aug 1941	Shelby, Toole County, Montana
  Family ID	F20522	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2019