Brita Knutsdatter HOLIEN

Notes:

Birth:
Holien 18/

Family/Spouse: Gudmund Knutsen NORDSVEEN. Gudmund (son of Knut Gudmundsen NORDSVEEN and Ingeborg Bøyesdatter BÖE) was born on 18 Oct 1837 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 19 Sep 1920 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1948-MN-013881

Notes:

He attended St. Olaf Academy starting in the year 1889-1890 but did not graduate.

Shown as a merchant in the 1905 state census at which time he and his wife lived either with or next door to her parents and siblings in the village of Dennison. John had lived in the area for only a year and three months at that time.

In the 1910 and 1920 censuses, he and his family live in Dennison where he is a merchant in general merchandise. He is probably in partnership with his brother-in-law Austin.

He is listed in “The Valdris Book”, a history of the Valdris Samband published in 1920 (available on Google Books), as J E Norsving of Dennison. His father was G K Norsving. J E was a member of the Samband in 1909.

His obit was in the Faribault Daily News:

NORTHFIELD--Funeral services for John E. Norswing, 75, former prominent businessman in Dennison and Northfield, who passed away at the Lincoln Rest Home on Sunday, October 17, following an illness which has extended over eight years, will be held Thursday, October 21, at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Schumm at 1:30 o'clock and at St. John's Lutheran church at 2 p. m. The Rev. Ivar Ramseth will officiate. Interment will be made in Oaklawn cemetery. The pallbearers will be Martin Nelson, Knute Leidal, William Swarts, Andrew Nelson, Olaf Broin and George Hagen. Friends may call at the Anderson and Veaux Funeral Home until Thursday morning and at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Schumm until the hour of the service. John E. Norswing was born in Holden township, Goodhue county, on January 24, 1873, the son of Gudmund and Brita Holien Norswing. He spent his young lifetime at the farm home in Holden township and attended Albert Lea and St. Olaf academies. He operated a general merchandise store at Dennison from 1904 until 1923. At that time the Tri-County Oil Company was organized and he became manager and operated the Northfield station from 1926 to 1940 when his health began to fail. He made his home in the Dennison and Northfield communitites throughout his lifetime. On June 6, 1903, he was united in marriage to Miss Sigrid Austinson in Minneapolis. She passed away several years ago. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. John Schumm (Inez), Northfield, and Mrs. Floyd Leidal (Bernice) of Harrisburg, Pa., and one son, G. T. Norswing of New Richland. There are also three grandchildren and one brother, O. M. Norswing of Seattle, Wash., surviving.

John married Sigrid AUSTINSON on 4 Jun 1903 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Sigrid (daughter of Trond Øysteinsson BÖE ELLINGBØE and Marith Nilsdotter WANGENSTEEN STEILE) was born on 20 Jan 1875 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 3 Nov 1945 in Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1905-08752
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1981-MN-028598

Notes:

Of New Richland at the time of his father’s death.

In the birth record of his unnamed child, his name is shown as Gudmund Theolius Wangenstein Norswing.

Family/Spouse: Geneva Lenore LUND. Geneva was born on 26 Sep 1905; died on 7 Jul 1984 in Freeborn County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1907-08392
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1997-MN-000446

Notes:

St. Olaf, ‘29.

Og Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, at the time of her father’s death.

Bernice married Floyd Louis LEIDAL on 26 Oct 1940 in Rice County, Minnesota. Floyd (son of Knute LEIDAL) was born on 29 May 1904; died on 8 Mar 1985 in Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Oaklawn Cemetery, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1912-09420
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1968-MN-032165

Notes:

St. Olaf, ‘33.

Of Northfield at the time of her father’s death.

Inez married John Olaf SCHUMM on 16 Oct 1937 in Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]