Gunhild Amundsdatter BØ

Notes:

She is I172 in Jim’s VS. Jim incorrectly calls her Gunhild Andrisdatter.

Birth:
Bø 25/ Uppigarden

Family/Spouse: Kristoffer Olsen BERGE. Kristoffer (son of Ola Kristofferson KVÅLE and Guro Knutsdatter) was born in 1718 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1777. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Berge 22/3 Slettadn

Died:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Family/Spouse: Torstein Kristofferson KVÅLE. Torstein (son of Christopher Torsteinsen KVÅLE and Guri Bjørnsdatter KATTEVØL) was born in 1743 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1799 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is Ingebjørg Kristoffersdatter Berge, I174, in Jim’s VS.

Birth:
Berge 22/3 Slettadn

Ingebjørg married Arnfinn Håvardson BERGE in 1767. Arnfinn (son of Håvard Gudbrandson SKOGSTAD and Ingrid Arnfinnsdatter BERGE) was born in 1736 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1799. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Berge in Vang, not the Berge in Høre.

Vang A, p. 439.

Birth:
Berge 22/3 Slettadn; sommerfam says 1763

Died:
sommerfam

Ola married Dorte Torsteinsdatter BØE in 1788. Dorte (daughter of Torstein Torsteinson BØE and Gjartrud Øysteinsdatter) was born in 1772 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1835 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Berge i Høre

Died:
Berge i Høre

Family/Spouse: Thron Anderson ELLINGBØE. Thron (son of Andris Jonsson ELLINGBØE and Ambjørg Simensdatter SØYNE) was born on 13 Jul 1766 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 8 Mar 1843 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang A, p. 690.

Birth:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Family/Spouse: Berit Knutsdatter BØE. Berit (daughter of Knut Håkonsen BØE and Sigrid Håvardsdatter KASA) was born in 1767 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1858. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang A, p. 425.

Birth:
Berge 22/1

Family/Spouse: Margrete Larsdatter WANGENSTEEN. Margrete (daughter of Lars Bøyesen STELE WANGENSTEEN and Ingeborg Nilsdatter GIVRE) was born in 1779; died in 1860. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Berge 22/1

Died:
Austreim 72/1

Family/Spouse: Andris Torkjellsen GÅSEDELEN. Andris (son of Torkjell Torsteinsen GÅSEDELEN and Ragndi Vilhjølmsdatter BAGGETUN) was born in 1761 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1834 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Berge 22/1

Died:
Kvame 11/I Øye

Family/Spouse: Knut Håvardson STEINDE. Knut was born in 1776 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1843 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorthe married Ola Helgesen KVAME in 1796 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ola (son of Helge Knutsen KVAME and Anne Olsdatter LEINE) was born in 1767 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1804 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Berge 22/3 Slettadn

Family/Spouse: Andris Knutsen LYKKJA. Andris (son of Knut Olson LYKKJA and Kari Torleivsdatter SKJEFTE) was born in 1797 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Berge 22/3 IIB

Family/Spouse: Hallvard Endresen RØE. Hallvard (son of Endre Hallvardsson HAGEN and Anne Ivarsdatter AUSTREIM (KATTEVØL)) was born in 1789 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
sommerfam

Family/Spouse: Ole Engebretsen NESJA. Ole was born on 3 Apr 1796 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 11 Jun 1864 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang C, p. 444, calls her Ambjørg Trondsdotter Hagen el. Berge (faren frå Bøkko, Ellingbø).

That should make her father Trond, b. 1766, son of Andris Jonsson Ellingbø and Ambjørg Simensdotter (frå Øylo?).

Ambjørg married Øystein Olsson ELLINGBØ in 1823. Øystein (son of Ola Eivindson ELLINGBØ and Anne Sakariasdatter BØ (UPPIGARDEN)) was born in 1787 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1858. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Family/Spouse: Ingebjørg Nilsdatter GRØV. Ingebjørg (daughter of Nils Jørnson KLINGENBERG and Magelin Knutsdatter GRØV) was born in 1782 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1856. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I2963 in Jim’s VS.

Birth:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Family/Spouse: Niels Nielsen GRØV. Niels (son of Nils Jørnson KLINGENBERG and Magelin Knutsdatter GRØV) was born about 1794 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1868. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Margrete married Andris Olsen KATTEVOLD in 1822. Andris (son of Ole Andrisson KATTEVOLD and Ingebjørg Nilsdatter GRØV) was born in 1806 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1889. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jim calls him Erik Kristoffersen Kvåle, I8780, in his VS.

Birth:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Erich married Kjersti Endresdatter KATTEVOLD on 7 Jun 1842 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Kjersti (daughter of Endre Trondsen KATTEVOLD and Ragndi Andrisdatter BERGE) was born in 1816 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1889. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang A, p. 671. This citation only mentions his later marriage to Berit Torsteinsdatter Kattevøl.

Family/Spouse: Kirsti Simonsdatter LAJORD. Kirsti (daughter of Simon Knutsson BAGETUN (SØYNE) and Anne Torsteinsdatter ELLINGBØ) was born in 1812 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1864. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Berge 22/1

Family/Spouse: Øystein Sakariasson ØDEGÅRD. Øystein (son of Sakarias Øysteinson BØ (UPPIGARDEN) and Ingeleiv Bøyesdatter STELE) was born in 1803; died in 1881. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 1825, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Vang A, p. 790. According to the bygdebok, they were going to go to America in 1850, but then it was said that Ragnhild and the children were not going to travel.

Christopher married Ragnild Olsdatter SØRE-BØ in 1834. Ragnild (daughter of Ole Tostensen KJERSTEIN and Kirsti Larsdatter STELE WANGENSTEEN) was born on 10 Jun 1804 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In Jim’s VS, he is Nils Kristoffersen Berge, I553.

Jim’s notes:

Han drev husmannsplassen Nilsegården eller Bøaflaten. Berit og Nils hadde barna: Ove (1839-) som kjøpte Sælid VS i 1897, han hadde sønnen Jørgen, med Marit Flaten. Ola tvillingen til Ove, var murer og en tid på Kjelvo under Stele, Kristoffer (1842 - ) til USA, Torstein (1848- ) gm Randi Syndrol, til USA, Maren 1853-død ung, Ingeleiv, drev husmannsplassen etter at broren kjøpte Sælid, så til ØS, Ingebjørg (1859-) død etter operasjon på Riks- hospitalet i Oslo.

Birth:
Berge 22/

Nils married Berit Torsteinsdatter KVAM in 1838. Berit (daughter of Torstein Olsen Leirol KVAM and Ingelev Ovesdatter KVAM) was born in 1814 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Berge 22/1

Ingebjørg married Ole Jacobsen HAMRE in 1837. Ole (son of Jakob Olson HAMRE and Berit Aslaksdatter BØ) was born in 1811 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1893 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Berge 22/1

Family/Spouse: Endre Trondsen KATTEVOLD. Endre (son of Trond Jonsen KATTEVOLD and Kjersti Bøyesdatter WANGENSTEEN) was born in 1777 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1832 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Austreim 72/1

Gunhild married Gudbrand Helgesen NORDSVEEN in 1825. Gudbrand (son of Helge Gudbrandsen NORDSVEEN and Sissel Olsdatter EDSVOLD) was born in 1800 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 20 Dec 1872 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Jan 1810, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

His name as recorded in the parish register.

He is I11868 in Jim’s VS.

Jim’s notes:

Han vokste opp på Austreim og giftet seg i USA, ganske gammel. Se bilde med notatet om Estremfarmen i Holden twsh.

Don Estrem skriver i notatet sitt (se bildet):

Anfinn married the eldest daughter of Knut Tasa, also an early settler of Decorah, Iowa. Anfinn settled as a neigbour to his father-in-law in the summer in 1855 in Holden Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota. Then Anfinn sold his half of the farm in Iowa to his brother Christopher for $720.00 on April 21, 1856.

Andris og Marit hadde 4 barn. Den 10. januar 1888 solgte Andris 80 acres til hver av sønnen (Knut og Andris). Andris bodde på gården til han døde i 1910 og er begravet på en liten kirkegård som ligger på den opprinnelige delenen av farmen hans.

In the 1860 census, he is Amphim Anderson, age 50, living in Holden Twp, Goodhue County. His wife Mary is also shown as age 50 for some reason. Their children are Cornelia, 5, born in Iowa, Caroline, 3, born in Minnesota, Andrsn, 1, born in Minnesota, and Canute, one month, born in Minnesota. The household also has an 18 year-old farm laborer, Torston Olseson, and a 31 year-old domestic, Isabel Anderson.

In the 1900 census, as Anfinn Estrem, he is living with his son Knut in Holden Twp, Goodhue County.

Birth:
Austreim 72/2

Buried:
gravestone says 1810, white cross says 12-29-1809

Anfind married Marit Knutsdatter DE TASAIowa. Marit (daughter of Knut Thomassen LO and Kari Jonsdatter STEINDE) was born on 27 Feb 1825 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 11 Nov 1861 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried in Old Hauge Cemetery, Kenyon, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Information from Find A Grave and Dennis C. Olson.

imaging101 has him as Torkel Andersen Estrem.

Birth:
Austreim. Bygdebok says 1807; Find A Grave says 1 Dec 1806.

Thorhild married Sigrid Helgesdatter IGDUN on 22 May 1844 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Sigrid (daughter of Helge Helgesen IGDUN and Sigrid Olsdatter LOKREIM) was born in 1814 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Dec 1819, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Birth:
dwfrench1 interprets the birth record as 28 Nov

Baptism:
main Vang church (the stavkirke)

Family/Spouse: Inger Caroline Gulbrandsdatter LOMEN. Inger (daughter of Gudbrand Iversen LØKEN and Anne Iversdatter RINGESTAD) was born on 7 Apr 1821 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 14 Mar 1901 in Winneshiek County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kvame 11/I Øye

Died:
Søyne 50/

Family/Spouse: Ragnhild Olsdatter STRAND. Ragnhild (daughter of Ola Olsen Øye-Eiga STRAND and Kari Guttormsdatter WANGENSTEEN STRAND) was born in 1822 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 7 Aug 1905 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

p. 220, Vang A.

He is I976 in Jim’s VS.

Jim’s notes:

De hadde i tillegg følgende barn: Kjersti (f1834) g Thomas Ølgøgn i 1852, MARIT (f1845) til USA 1869 gm Andris T Kjerstein i 1869, og Ingebjørg (f1848) g 21.6 1871 med Johan Henrik T Kvam. Han var "bel" i sitt eget bryllup, red rundt med en stokk med messingholk på. med den banket han på dørene, når folk kom ut og spurte hva han ville, svarte han; "E vil ha kjøt! O so ha e ei venle bøn o begjæring te dikka um de vil koma til bryllaups te hono Ja-Henrik på, Kvame 21. juni klokka 12", takk for bøe sa folk, og så fikk han fenalår og sjenk atpå."

Anfind Olsen var en av de tre mennene som møttes i prestegården i Vang 3. november 1837. De to andre var Ole Andersson Haalien og soknepresten Thomas Stang.

Dette møte er historisk. Det var nemlig det første kommunestyremøtet i Vang. Disse tre mennene hadde tidligere på høsten blitt valgt som "Formænd" for hvert sitt sokn, og da de satte seg rundt kontorbordet til presten denne høstdagen, var folkesty ret formelt innført i Vang.

Før de skiltes denne dagen, hadde de valgt soknepresten som den første ordføreren i kommunen, og Haalien gikk fra møtet med tittelen "Viceordfører".

Presten Stang var den eneste av disse tre som kunne skrive, den 17 linjer lange protokollen har Ole Haalien og Anfind Qvame undertegnet "med iholdt Pen".

Da Stang bare noen få måneder etter dette møtet flyttet til Hallingdal, ble Ole Haalien ordfører, og Anfinn ble valgt til bygdas tredje ordfører i 1839. Han satt som ordfører til 1841. Han kalles "Gamle Kvamin". Som halvbroren "Søynin" var han en meget god felespiller, Han lagde også feler selv. Han var også hjulmaker, men mest kjent er han for at han dreiv kvern og stampe i Eidsån. Han var dessuten den første som drev skyssstas jon på Kvame.

Birth:
Kvame 11/ i Øye

Died:
Kvame 11/ i Øye

Family/Spouse: Marit Helgesdatter KJERSTEIN. Marit (daughter of Helge Andrisson KJERSTEIN and Kjersti Tomasdotter TØRPE) was born in 1809 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1867 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Larry Playfair calls her Berthe Andersdatter Berge.

Birth:
Øyo 83/3, Belsheim, Tømmermyre

Died:
Høvda

Family/Spouse: Andris Andrisson HØVDA. Andris (son of Andris Eivindson DAL and Mali Nilsdatter LIEN) was born in 1811 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 20 Dec 1881 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang B, p. 462.

Andris married Kari Øysteinsdatter LIHAGEN in 1856. Kari (daughter of Øystein Johannesson LIEN and Sigrid Embriksdatter BELSHEIM) was born in 1832 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1926. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang B, p. 440, and Vang C, p. 120.

Ola married Marit Tostensdatter ØYDGARDEN on 25 Mar 1845 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Marit (daughter of Tosten Eriksen ØYDGARDEN) was born in 1825 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gjartrud married Halldor Olsen LØKREIM in 1854. Halldor (son of Ola Hallvardsen HAGEN and Sigrid Evensdatter ELLINGBÖ) was born in 1821 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1885. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The ELCA record for his son Theodore’s birth in 1873 refers to him as Embreth Olsen Nesja and his wife as Barbara Tollefsdatter.

In the 1880 census, as Albert Olson, he and his family live in Preston Twp, Fillmore County, Minnesota.

In the 1900 census, as Albert Nesja, he and his wife live with their son Theodore in Preston Twp, Fillmore County.

An article that appeared in several Wisconsin newspapers, datelined Eau Claire: A horse driven by Albert Olson Nesja, a farmer, aged 69, took fright on a business street this morning, the horse kicking the dash board to pieces. Just as Nesja fell toward the horse’s hoof struck him on the head and killed him instantly.

Family/Spouse: Barbro Tollevsdatter. Barbro (daughter of Torleiv Andrisson RØVANGSMOEN and Margrete Johannesdatter HÅLIEN) was born on 28 Sep 1847 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 12 Jan 1909 in Fillmore County, Minnesota; was buried in Lanesboro Cemetery, Lanesboro, Fillmore County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

sommerfam

Died:
Big Bend City

Family/Spouse: Tore Gulbrandsdatter HAAVERUD. Tore (daughter of Gulbrand Nilsen HAUGRUD and Anne Olsdatter) was born on 3 Nov 1836 in Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 3 Feb 1927 in Chippewa County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Asbjørn Andrisson HAGASTRØND in 1857. Asbjørn (son of Andris Asbjørnsson HAMRE and Anne Nilsdotter HERMUNDSTAD) was born on 10 Feb 1822 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1865 census, he was Kristoffer Thorstejnson, age 50, gbr on Kvale 32/2.

Birth:
Kvåle 39/1 Nerre

Family/Spouse: Berit Torsteinsdatter LAJORD. Berit (daughter of Torstein Torsteinsen LAJORD and Ingebjørg Thomasdatter NETRØST) was born in 1829 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1912. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ola Knudsen SKOGSTAD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Grøv 7/1

Died:
Brekka 68/1 (Remmisbrekkun)

Family/Spouse: Ola Knutson LIEN. Ola (son of Knut Thomassen TØRPE and Sigrid Olsdatter LIEN) was born in 1812 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1883 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is I1994 in Jim’s VS.

Jim’s notes:

Han drev gården fra 1843. Han hadde lånt masse penger og måtte til slutt selge den på tvangsauksjon i 1853. Nils (Kattevold) Bøe kjøpte den. Ole og Berthe leide seg noen mål på Kvåle, hvor moren hans var fra. De døde begge på Kvåle. De hadde sju barn. To døde meget unge. Martha Kattevold (1846- ) Andris Kattevold (1849-) og Berit Kattevold (1852-) var født på Kattevoll Margaret Kattevold (1857- ) Andris (Andrew) Kattevold (1859-), Bøye (1864- ) Kristoffer (1868- ), Alle barna reiste til USA

Dermed var det slutt på den direkte linja på Øvre Kattevold slik haugamannen fra Føssebekk ved Helestrønd hadde sagt, da han ikke fikk fikk Dorte, datter datter til oldefaren hans (Andris O Kattevold (1737-1807)) femti år tidligere. Bildene fra Marilyn Holian Ettesvold.

Birth:
Kattevold 45/ Øvre

Died:
Kvåle in Vang

Ola married Berte Bøyesdatter WANGENSTEENVang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Berte (daughter of Böye Ovesen BERGE and Marte Christophersdatter LEIROL) was born on 20 Aug 1824 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 24 Apr 1878 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Dec 1838, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is I8781 in Jim’s VS.

Although she is illegitimate, her parents later married.

Anders Olsen Kattevold was her “responsible person” or principal sponsor at her baptism. That Andris (I1993 in Jim’s VS) was gaardbrukar of Kattevold 45/ Øvre at the time of Randi Erichdatter’s birth. Other baptismal sponsors listed for Randi were: Niels Nielsen Böe, Christopher Tostensen Kattevold, Margrethe Christopherdatter Kattevold, and Anne Johannesdatter Böe.

There was no other Randi Eriksdatter shown as born in Vang around 1838. Randi’s parents, Erich Christopherssen Qvale, age 36, and the maiden Kjersti Endresdatter Kattevold, age 26, later married in Vang on 7 Jun 1842. For this marriage his father was Christopher Tostenson and her father was Endre Thronsen.

Quite incorrectly, Jim’s VS shows this Randi marrying Andris Thomassen Høyne, b. 1830, and having four children with him between 1857 and 1862 in Vestre Slidre.

In the 1865 Norwegian census, Rangdi Eriksdatter, age 28, seamstress, and her daughter Berit Jakopsdatter, age 5, both born in Vang, were lodgers on the Anders Olsen farm on Søndrebøe østre 37/ in the Hoved Sogn subparish in the Vang parish.

Family/Spouse: Jacob Olsen HAMRE. Jacob (son of Ole Jacobsen HAMRE and Ingebjørg Kristoffersdatter BERGE) was born on 8 Nov 1839 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Randi married Alexander Pettersen SKJELHAUGEN on 9 Jun 1870 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Alexander (son of Petter Persson) was born in 1841 in Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1916-MN-014942

Notes:

He and Ingeborg emigrated 2 days after their marriage.

aka Qvale and Quale

Carol Heimdal’s nllha.org research says the newly arrived couple first went to Goodhue County and then to Swift County in 1868. The 1886 plat map has the family owning the southwest quarter of Section 14 in, presumably, Kerkhoven Twp.

Buried:
as Christopher Quale

Kristoffer married Ingeborg Olsdatter HAMRE on 5 Apr 1866 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ingeborg (daughter of Ole Jacobsen HAMRE and Berith Johnsdatter BRÆKKE) was born on 19 Oct 1844 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 21 Aug 1909 in Minnesota; was buried in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 May 1835, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is Marit Olsdatter Lajord (#I22262) in Jim’s Valdres Slekt tree. In that tree, her parents are Ola Christopherson Kvåle (1809-1903) and Berit Torsteinsdatter Kattevold (1821-1885).

She is Marit Olsdatter Qvale, #I8255, in Jim’s Ellingboe tree. In that tree, her parents are Ole Christopherson Qvale (1809-1903) and Kjersti Simonsdatter Søyne (1812-1864).

The Ellingboe tree record is the more recently modified, suggesting that it is more authoritative. The Vang birth record confirms that Marith was the daughter of the unmarried couple Ole Christopherson Qvale and Kirsti Simonsdatter Lajord.

Jim’s notes for Marit in his Ellingboe tree:

Marit was the illegitimate daughter of Ole Christopherson Kvåle and Kirsti Simonsdatter Lajord (or Søyne), according to the Vang church books, but I could not find anything about this in Anders Frøholm's Vang A.

The emigration records for Vang show that on 22 Mar 1862, Marith Olsdotter Ellingböe, widow, age 27, intended to travel to America with her two sons, Ole Olson (age 6) and Jörgen Olson (age 4). Marit was married in 1857 to Ola Jørnsson (born 1831, died between 1859 and 1862), who farmed a piece of land called "Plassen, Nørre Plassen or Jørnplassen, under Ellingbø, Nigarden, no. 33/1.”

According to the 1885 Minnesota census, her son Andrew was born in Ontario, although Arta Juneau believes that he was born soon after Marit's arrival in Northfield, Minnesota, where her brother Tosten Quamme was already living. Apparently she never remarried and had a difficult life, dying in her sixties.

Marith, 27 a widow, Ole, 6, and Jørgen, 4, left Vang for Amerika on March 22, 1862, through Bergen. This was the same day that Thrond Iverson Ellingboe (#3164) left Vang for America with his family. In Marit’s emigration record there is no mention of Andrew. In a Norway Lake church record, Marit, as Ole’s mother, is reported to have come to Goodhue County in 1862 and to Norway Lake in 1868.

Could not find an entry for Andrew’s birth in the Vang parish record.

In the 1870 census, Mary and her three boys are living on the Cal Johnson farm in Benson Twp, Chippewa County, Minnesota.

In the 1875 Minnesota census, she is Mary Olsen, 29, living with her three boys in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County.

In the 1880 census, Marit and her three boys are living on the V. J. Finstad farm in Kerkhoven Twp. George, 21, is “teaching.” Also living on that farm were Marit Ellingboe, a 46 year-old widow, “housekeeper”, and Marit’s two sons, Ole, 23, and Andew, 18. All four of these Ellingboes were born in Norway.

In the 1885 census she is living in Kerkhoven Twp with her sons Ole, 28, and Anders, 22, as well as Erland Johnson, 21, of Norway. Anders is shown as born in Ontario.

There is a gravestone for Marith O. Ellingboe in the Sunburg cemetery that provides the 1885 death date.

She was a charter member of West Norway Lake Lutheran Church.

Buried:
Norway Lake

Marit married Ola Jørgensson ELLINGBØ on 20 Oct 1857 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ola (son of Jørgen Evensson ELLINGBÖ and Anne Thomasdatter HAGASTRØND) was born in 1831 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died before 1862 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown Anders. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Jun 1841, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

From Carole H.’s write-up for the Norway Lake church’s history:

Tosten Olson Quamme and Marit Tostendatter Sondrol, Charter Members West Norway Lake Lutheran

Tosten Olson was born 19 June 1841 in Vang Parish, Valdres Norway to Ole Christopherson Qvale [1809-1903] and Kjersti Simonsdatter [1812-1864]. He had one sister Marit born in 1836.

Tosten emigrated in 1864. He first settled in Rice County. In 1867 he was one of a group of Valdres Norwegians who settled in “Valdres Prairie” now known as Kerkhoven Township in the north east corner of Swift County.

Tosten married Marit Tostendatter in 1867. Carole H notes that “There were two Marit Tostensdatters of nearly the same age and place of birth. The ELCA funeral entry has a birth date matching neither of the two. Ultimately, it was the orderly old Norwegian convention for naming children that favored the Marit listed above.”

{We don’t know who Tosten married. The Marit Tostensdatters born in those years are all accounted for. The estimable dwfrench1 has no information on Tosten O’s wife other than that she was a Marit T. and lived ca 1845 to 2 May 1903. He has her as born in Minnesota which seem unlikely.}

This Marit was the daughter of Tosten Knudsen and Marith Olsdatter. She was born 1 April 1845 in Vang, Valdres Norway. The farm name was Sondrohl. Marit emigrated 12 April 1865 as Marit Tostendatter Sondrol. She may have come to marry Tosten. {The 1865 out-migration record is not available on Digitalarkivet.}

Tosten and Marit settled on 160 acres in Section 26 [NE 1?4]. They also owned acreage in Section 23. 80 acres in N1/2 of SE 1/4, 40 acres in NE 1/4 of SW1/4 and 40 in SE 1/4 of NW 1/4. I could not find the homestead records for any of the properties. Tosten and Marit remained on this land until their deaths.

Tosten and Marit had 10 children, 9 of whom survived to adulthood. All the children were born after the move to Kerkhoven Township and all were baptized at West Norway Lake Lutheran.

1. Kristi: born 2 Mar 1869, died 26 Oct 1943, married Even Olson Grindheim

2. Marit: born 12 June 1870, died 7 June 1905, married Andrew Jorgenson

3. Tosten T: born 19 May 1872, died 29 May 1922 ,married Ingeborg [Belle] Hanson

4. Anne L: born 12 Dec 1873, died 1 Nov 1939, married Nuffen Torger “Gunuf” Gunufson

5. Dina: born 20 Aug 1875, died 09 Mar 1876

6. Ole T: born 15 June 1877, died 1907-1910, married Julia Njos

7. Martin: born 16 Mar 1879, died 07 June 1939, married Emma Johanna Paulson

8. Simon: born 22 Aug 1881, died 18 Dec 1955, married Ingeborg Halvorsdatter Hande

9. Dina, born 24 Dec 1883, died 26 Dec 1957, married Alfred Berg

10. Matthea:born 7 Dec 1889, died 5 Feb 1949, married Peter LeClair

In 1876 a school was established in the north east corner of Section 26. It was known as Quamme School.

Tosten and Marit are in the 1875 census as Olsens but by the 1880 census they are using Quamme. He adopted this name from the farm in Norway, Kvamme Gard, where he last worked.

Tosten passed away 16 May 1899 at the age of 57. The cause of death was stomach trouble lasting several years. Funeral services were held at West Norway Lake Lutheran, Rev Jordahl officiating. He was buried in the Monson Lake Cemetery. Marit passed away 2 May 1903 and was also buried at Monson Lake Cemetery, again after services at West Norway Lake Lutheran.

According to the 1907 plat map, after Marit’s death Simon and Martin each inherited 80 acres in Section 26. Tosten received 40 acres contiguous to land he owned in Section 23.

Tosten’s sister Marit Olsdatter Ellingboe was also a charter member of West Norway Lake Lutheran.

Family/Spouse: Marit. Marit died on 2 May 1903 in Swift County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Bøa-Ødegården 27/1

Family/Spouse: Nils Andrisson IGDUN. Nils (son of Andris Nilsen FYGLE and Ingebjørg Helgesdatter IGDUN) was born in 1839; died in 1914. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

dwfrench1

Birth:
nedre Bøe

Family/Spouse: Ingelev Andersdatter TUNE. Ingelev (daughter of Andris Ivarsen TUNE and Berit Nilsdatter WANGENSTEEN) was born on 18 Nov 1830 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1915. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang A, p. 480.

He was huusfar and gbr on Bøe nordre in the 1865 census. The household consisted of Christoffer, b. 1830, Ambjør, b. 1833, their four children Ingeborg, b. 1855, Birte, b. 1859, Ambjør, b. 1863, and Østen, b. 1865, Ambjør’s parents, Aslak, b. 1806, Birte, b. 1807, and the older Ambjør’s siblings, Birte, b. 1836, Nils, b. 1861, and Ingrid, b. 1846 (Aslak Østensen’s daughter with another partner).

Kristopher married Ambjørg Aslaksdatter BÖE ELLINGBØE in 1854. Ambjørg (daughter of Aslak Øysteinsson BØ and Berthe Helgesdatter LEINE) was born in 1832 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Feb 1844, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Birth:
her gravestone says, incorrectly November 23rd

Baptism:
at the home of Johannes Thoresen Bøe

Died:
Clinton Twp

Family/Spouse: Ole Petersen STEEN. Ole was born on 14 Jan 1832 in Buskerud, Norway; died on 3 Feb 1904 in Rock County, Minnesota; was buried in Flowerfield Cemetery, Hills, Rock County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also had a son, Jørgen Ovesen Bø, b. 1858, by Marit Jørnsdatter Flaten.

Ove and Anne moved to Øystre Slidre in 1897 and had three more children there.

Birth:
Bø 25/, Bøflaten under Bø25/1, Uppigarden

Died:
Sælid 25/1

Family/Spouse: Anne Nilsdatter KATTEVOLD. Anne (daughter of Nils Thomasen BØE (KATTEVOLD) and Berit Thomasdatter KVÅLE, HAUGEN) was born in 1859 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1930 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang C, p. 412, calls him Ola Nilsson Bøflaten, a husmann on Kjelvudn under Nedre Stele.

Family/Spouse: Guri Olsdatter KJELVO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is Torstein Nilsen Flaten, I7030, in Jim’s VS.

He is the Tosten, son of Nels Christopherson and Berith Tostensdatter “Böesjet” born in Vang on 13 Nov 1848 and baptized on 31 Dec 1848.

In the 1880 census he was Torstein (”Sorstein”) Flaten or Flaton, 31, living in Minneapolis (”Lower Levee”) with his wife Rangdi, 23, and their three daughters Bertha, 5, Margaret, 2, and Annie, 4 months (born in January). Torstein is a carpenter.

He is shown in the 1885 state census as T. N. Flaten, living in Minneapolis. The household is himself, 35, “Maude”, 30, Bertie, 10, Dorothea, 8, Nellie, 5, and Nels, 2.

The 1895 census showed that he had been in Minnesota for 26 years which would be consistent with him and Randi emigrating in 1869. Tosten was a dairyman and he and his family lived at 1604 East Lake Street. The household consisted of himself, 47, Randa, 40, Bertha, 20, Margarite, 18, Nellie, 15, Balder, 7, Nordie, 7, Walter, 5, and Mable, 2.

Birth:
Bøflaten under Bø 25/ Nilsgården

Tosten married Randi SÖNDROL on 25 Dec 1873 in Rice County, Minnesota. Randi (daughter of Torstein Olsson SÖNDROL and Ragndi Olsdotter ELLINGBØE) was born on 10 Jul 1854 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 12 Apr 1909 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Dec 1839, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He is I4561 in Jim’s VS.

He later married Marit Andrisdatter Stele in 1866 when he became gaardbrukar on Hamre 59/1 Nerre Nordigarden.

Family/Spouse: Randi Erichsdatter KATTEVOLD. Randi (daughter of Erich Christophersen KVÅLE and Kjersti Endresdatter KATTEVOLD) was born on 31 Oct 1838 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1905 in Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jacob married Marit Andrisdatter STELE in 1866. Marit (daughter of Anders Andersen STEILE and Marit Gudmundsdatter BØEIGA) was born in 1845 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1900 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is I1937 in Jim’s VS.

Jim’s notes:

Ove måtte selge Kattevold 44/4 på auksjon i 1852. Dermed kom en ny slekt på gården. Det var Per Tørrisen Leine som kjøpte gården. Ove forsøkte å ta den tilbake på odel senere for å gi den til sønnen Trond, men saken ble hevet mot at han og sønne n Trond fikk bruke husmannsplassen Skraslebakken. Ove reiste med konen og sønnen Endre O Kattevold (1846- ) til USA i 1876. Sønnen Trond O Kattevold (1839- ) som brukte Skraslebakken reiste til USA i 1870. De hadde også Gjartrud O Kattevold (1845-) Øystein O Kattevold (1855). De hadde tre sønner som het Endre. De to eldste døde små, men dette viser hvor ivrige de var med å følge navnereglene i Vang.

Ove lånte en masse penger, minst 435 spd, bl.a. av brødrene Ivar og Torgeir T Eltun. De forlangte tvangsauksjon over gården og Andris F. Hamre fikk tilslaget den 1.4.1852 for 300 spd. Han solgte straks til Per Tørrisen Leine for det samme beløpet .

Ove reiste odelspåtale mot Per på vegne av sønnen Trond, men de inngikk forlig den 15.2.1856. Forliket gikk ut på at Ove trakk odelssaken mot at Trond fikk husmannsplassen Skraslebakken og at Ove og hans familie kunne bo hos Trond og overta plasse n dersom Trond døde eller reiste bort. Det siste var nok tatt med med tanke på Amerika feberen som raste over Valdres på den tiden. Det viste seg også å være riktig for Trond dro til USA i 1870, så faren overtok og drev plassen til han selv dro over i 1876.

Trond dro kanskje til Amerika for å slippe å ta ansvar for den sønnen han fikk med datteren til per tørrisen i 1869.

Det er nok han Bøye Skeie skriver om i "Gamalt frå Vang" side 60, som etter 30 år i Amerika skrev til slektninger i Vang: E skulde like um de sendte me ei flis taa dørahellun mino paa Helestrønd, ner so kunne felle, samma un flise ikkje var størr e ennn tobaksdaasen min". Det minner om ekte hjemlengsel.

Birth:
Kattevold 44/4 Systøga av Sygarde

Ove married Gjartrud Øysteinsdatter BØE in 1842. Gjartrud (daughter of Øystein Torsteinsson BØE and Ingebjørg Knutsdatter NEFSTAD) was born in 1812 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kattevold 44/4 Systøga av Sygarde

Kjersti married Erich Christophersen KVÅLE on 7 Jun 1842 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Erich (son of Kristoffer Torsteinsen KVÅLE and Berit Knutsdatter BØE) was born in 1806 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1844. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kattevold 44/4 Systøga av sygarde

Family/Spouse: Berte Helgesdatter LEINE. Berte (daughter of Helge Helgesen LEINE and Gjartrud Bøyesdatter WANGENSTEEN) was born in 1841 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1903. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The bygdebok (Vang A, p. 774) says that he was a husmann under Øvre Hamre. Endre was his only offspring.

Family/Spouse: Guri Olsdatter BØ. Guri (daughter of Ola Olsson ØYO (TØMMERMYREN) and Kari Hansdotter KVIESEIGA) was born in 1819 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Peder Johnsen KVÅLE. Peder (son of John Jonsen KVÅLE and Ingri Madsdatter HAUGEN) was born on 25 Jul 1820 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 6 Aug 1898 in Walsh County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called Emily in the 1860 census.

Birth:
Heen 70/1 Nordre, Larsbakken

Family/Spouse: John Knutsen TASA. John (son of Knut Thomassen LO and Kari Jonsdatter STEINDE) was born in 1834 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 24 May 1924 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 May 1834, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Birth:
Heen 70/1 Nordre, Larsbakken

Family/Spouse: Kari Knutsdatter TASA. Kari (daughter of Knut Thomassen LO and Kari Jonsdatter STEINDE) was born in 1830 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Dec 1829, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Baptism:
Vang stavkirke

Family/Spouse: Knud Gjermundsen HØYME. Knud (son of Gjermund Gudbrandsen HØYME and Sigrid Kristoffersdatter RIDSTE) was born on 2 Dec 1829 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 26 May 1915 in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called Cornelia in the 1860 census. The census-taker was just making up names.

In the 1900 census, as Gunild Thompson, she had had 8 children, 6 still living.

In the 1910 census, she had had 8 children only 4 still living, 3 of which were living with her.

Gunhild married Tørris Tomasson LEINE on 16 Mar 1876 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Tørris (son of Thomas Thomasen LO and Anne Tørrisdatter SØRE-DØTTEN) was born on 23 May 1846 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1921; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1914-MN-004559

Notes:

In the 1900 census, she had had 6 children, all 6 still living. Remarkably, called “Estra” in the 1900 census.

Died:
Carrie A. Turtness

Kari married Nels TURTNESS about 1884. Nels was born in Nov 1858 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1920-MN-005075

Notes:

He was a farmer in Holden Twp in Goodhue County. At the time of his death, he had been retired from farming for seven years.

In the 1910 census, he was a farmer in Warsaw Twp.

In the 1920 census, he was a widower living with his son Carl and family in Warsaw Twp, Goodhue County.

He died from tuberculosis. His son Carl was the informant for his death certificate.

Birth:
Find A Grave says 22 Mar

Died:
Find A Grave says 15 Jan 1890!!

Andrew married Marit (Mary) Larsdatter SOINE on 8 May 1884 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Marit (daughter of Lars Christopherson SOINE and Anna Tomasdatter ELLESTAD) was born in Nov 1863 in Minnesota; died on 17 Dec 1912 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He farmed in Holden Twp in the 1920 census,

Knute married Berit (Bella) SOINE on 2 Jun 1896 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Berit (daughter of Lars Christopherson SOINE and Anna Tomasdatter ELLESTAD) was born on 13 Mar 1868 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 26 Mar 1948 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Marit GULLICKSON. Marit (daughter of Gullik Gulliksen JEVNE and Kjersti Helgesdatter JEVNE) was born on 27 Jun 1850 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 25 Nov 1911 in Winneshiek County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Oct 1852, Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Notes:

Her baptismal sponsors were Christoffer Andersen, Anfind Andersen (25783), Inger C Gudbrandsdatter, and Ingeborg Gudbrandsdatter.

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

Mrs. Ingeborg Haugen passed away February 2 on her farm two and a half miles west of Union Lake at the age of seventy-five years. Mrs. Haugen had been ill for several months, but had been able to be up and around until two weeks prior to her death. On the morning of February 2 she died suddenly from a heart attack.

She leaves to mourn her 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, Christ Estrem, Petersburg, Neb., Andrew Estrem, Decorah, Iowa, and several grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Gilbert; 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

Those from a distance who attended the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Overby and daughter, Inga, of Binford, N.D.; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thorpe of Minneapolis; Mrs. Arthur Severson and little son, Ardell, Albert Estrem, Telford Estrem, Joseph Estrem and Adolph Estrem, all of Decorah, Iowa. Mrs. Anna Bakken and son Torger, Mrs. G. O. Strand, Mrs. P. Hauge and Mrs. Anna Halverson of Dennison, Minn.

Birth:
ELCA, other sources claim 8 Aug

Baptism:
ELCA Washington Prairie

Family/Spouse: Gulbrand Gulbrandsen HERMUNDSTAD. Gulbrand (son of Gulbrand Håvardsson HERMUNDSTAD and Marit Knutsdatter DY TASA) was born on 8 May 1849 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 19 Nov 1915 in Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Trondhjem Cemetery, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anders Olsen SCORE. Anders was born on 21 Jul 1848 in Oppland, Norway; died on 15 Oct 1925 in Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christopher married Anna NUMEDAHL on 18 Sep 1881 in Winneshiek County, Iowa. Anna was born on 24 Nov 1857 in Decorah, Winneshiek County, Iowa; died on 14 Mar 1898 in Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ella Christophersdatter HEEN. Ella (daughter of Kristoffer Einarsson HEEN and Marith Endresdatter ELLESTAD) was born on 5 Oct 1867 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 14 Dec 1907 in California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Søyne 50/

Died:
Bøe 41/2, Sørebø

Family/Spouse: Nils Thomassen BØE. Nils (son of Thomas Nilsen ROGN and Ingeborg Nilsdatter WANGENSTEEN) was born on 10 Jul 1848 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 28 May 1929 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kvame 11/ i Øye

Marit married Anders Thomassen KJERSTEIN about 1869. Anders (son of Thomas Helgessen KJERSTEIN and Dorte Thomasdatter MØSAKER) was born on 10 Feb 1843 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kvame 11/ i Øye

Died:
Kvame 11/ i Øye

Family/Spouse: Berit Kristoffersdatter KVAM. Berit (daughter of Kristoffer Tosteinson HAGASTRØND and Berit Gulliksdatter BERGE) was born in 1835 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1928 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ingeborg married Johan-Henrik Trondsen ØYE on 23 Jun 1871 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Johan-Henrik (son of Trond Ivarson ELTUN and Gjertrud Johan-Henriksdatter SVIEN) was born about 1850 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang B, p. 368.

Andris married Marit Halvardsdatter GARVIK in 1867. Marit was born in 1834 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ola married Kari Øysteinsdatter LIHAGEN about 1865. Kari (daughter of Øystein Johannesson LIEN and Sigrid Embriksdatter BELSHEIM) was born in 1832 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1926. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jim calls him Nils Andrison Hovda, I15486 in his VS.

grb on Røvang 27/5 in Vestre Slidre, a farm he took over in 1876

Birth:
Hovda 69/2 under Nordsveen

Family/Spouse: Anne Nilsdatter KVIEN. Anne (daughter of Nils Nilsen KVIEN and Kjersti Endresdatter HELLE) was born in 1849 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1941 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Larry Playfair

Birth:
Nordsvin

Family/Spouse: Guro Nilsdatter TØRPE. Guro (daughter of Nils Kristoffersen KVIESEIGA and Marit Hallvardsdatter HAGEN) was born on 24 Nov 1852 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 9 Oct 1912 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Christophersdatter LEROHL. Anne (daughter of Kristoffer Kristofferson LEROHL and Randi Andrisdatter HERMUNDSTAD) was born on 5 Nov 1862 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 29 Dec 1931 in Chippewa County, Minnesota; was buried in Wangs Lutheran Church Cemetery, Wang Twp, Renville County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Sep 1845, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Gjartrud married Kristoffer Torsteinsson BERGE on 30 Jan 1862 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Kristoffer (son of Tosten Olsen BERGE) was born in 1842. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang C, p. 118, says that he and his sister Sigrid emigrated to the U.S. in 1898.

Notes:

Vang C, p. 118, says that he emigrated to Northfield, Minnesota, in 1880.

dwfrench1 says that he married Ragnild Larsdatter and died in Grand Forks County, North Dakota, in 1936.

Notes:

Vang C, p. 118, says that she and her brother Ola the younger emigrated to the U.S. in 1898.

Notes:

He was the older of the Olas born to his parents. This older Ola was the heir to his father’s farm in Norway, Røe 95/2 Søre Røe.

Birth and death info from Perry Amussen.

Died:
Hoff

Ola married Ingebjørg Ivarsdatter ROBØLE in 1874 in Hegge, Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ingebjørg was born on 24 Feb 1849 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 7 Nov 1927 in Østre Toten, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Hansen HAUGSTAD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Carrie HATLELI. Carrie was born on 8 Jun 1877 in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway; died on 13 Aug 1953 in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Lutheran Hospital

Family/Spouse: Olaus E JOHNSON. Olaus was born on 18 Nov 1867 in Fillmore County, Minnesota; died on 24 Jun 1939 in La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

sommerfam

Engebret married Emma FENSAND on 4 Jun 1905 in Minnesota. Emma (daughter of Ole Pedersen FENSAND and Helene Henriksdatter) was born on 15 Jan 1886 in Chippewa County, Minnesota; died on 19 Feb 1981 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 May 1857, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

One of the baptismal sponsors for her daughter Anne was Marit Asbjørnsdatter Berge, probably Anne A.’s sister born in 1873.

Family/Spouse: Knut Pedersen ROGNE. Knut was born in 1859 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gardkj. nerre Lajord.

Ingeborg married Ole Aslaksson KVAM LAJORD on 12 Jun 1889 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ole (son of Åslag Olson BUNDE and Marit Olsdatter ELLINGBØE KVAM) was born on 25 Apr 1855 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1934 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 Sep 1843, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

In the 1865 census, he is probably the Ole Olsen, age 23, living as a lodger on the Grov 123 farm in Vang. He is umarried and his occupation in skrædder (tailor). Others living on that farm: Thosteen Nielssen, 35 (g and s), Niels Nielssen, 72, Anne Kristoffersdatter, 71, Niels Nielssen, 47, and Kristoffer Nielsen, 41.

Ole Olsens born in Vang in 1843:

22 May, 11 Jun Ole Thomassen Skogstad and Ingeborg Andersdatter. Sponsors: Iver Sørbu, Lars Grøv, Tosten Opdahl, Ingeborg Sørbu, Kari Hoversdatter Hermundstad.

11 Jul, 10 Sep The unmarried Ole Knudsen Skogstad and Magelien Nielsdatter Grøv. Sponsors: Thron Iversen Opdahl (responsible person), Christopher Grøv, Iver Tostensen Sørbu, Kari Nielsdatter Hermundstad, Ambjor Knudsdatter Grøv.

27 Oct, 5 Nov One of twin boys born to Ole Gulbrandsen Opdahlseie and Gunvor Knudsdatter. Sponsors Tosten and Gulbrand Opdahl, Ingeborg Andersdatter Skogstad, Marit Grøv, Berit Gulbdrandsdatter Opdahl.

6 Nov, 31 Dec Ole Andersen Berge in Hørum and Jøran Olsdatter. Sponsors: Knud Anderssen Berge, Ole Garstad, Tosten Garstad, Gjertrud Berge, Marit Gulbrandsdatter Torstad.

The most likely Ole Olsen, by far, is the one born on 11 Jul so that is what is shown here.

In the 1870 U.S. census, he, as Ole Grove, and “Cara” and their two children lived in Warsaw Twp, Goodhue County, Minnesota. Their children were Ole, 6, and Betsy, 2.

In the 1880 census, he, as Ole O Grov, and Kari and their children live in Wang Twp, Renville County, Minnesota.

Ola married Kari Olsdatter STRAND on 10 Jan 1869 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Kari (daughter of Ole Olsen DY STRAND and Ambjør Helgesdatter KASA) was born on 26 Aug 1842 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 14 May 1911 in Renville County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is I9527 in Jim’s VS.

Jim’s notes:

Han dro til USA i 1878, og kom hjem igjen i 1883. Da giftet han seg med Anne E Rogn, Han kom igjen enda en gang, og tok med seg sin bror Ola på 11 år, og niesen, Anne Olsdtr på 20 år, da han dro tilbake til USA igjen i 1900. Han bodde i Minnesota , antakelig i New Lisbon.

Family/Spouse: Berit Johannesdatter NORDLAND. Berit (daughter of Johannes Andrisson NORDLAND and Ragndi Andrisdatter ELLINGBØ) was born on 1 Jun 1848 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1925 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Jul 1862, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Family/Spouse: Sigrid LALIM. Sigrid (daughter of Ivar Torsteinsson KJØS and Ingeborg Iversdatter HEMSING) was born on 24 Dec 1863 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1951. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is I6691 in Jim’s VS.

Jim’s notes:

Hun og søsteren Berit dro fra de trange kårene på Kvåle til USA i 1871. De var bl. de første som reiste med dampbåt, og reisen ble derfor ikke så tung som for de første pionerene. De reiste til Minnestoa og fikk arbeid hos sin egen slekt der . De traff mennene sine i Goodhue Co MN, men begge bosatte seg i Wang Township. Marta lærte seg aldri engelsk. Hun var en glimrende husmor og en ekselent kokk, men var meget alvorlig og seriøs. Hun giftet seg 5.11.1875.

In the 1900 census, she had had six children, four still living.

Birth:
Kattevold 45/ Øvre

Martha married Gunder Kristoffersen HEEN about 1876. Gunder (son of Kristoffer Gudbrandsen HEEN and Anne Gunnarsdatter GIVRE) was born on 8 Mar 1853 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 16 Aug 1942 in Chippewa County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 15 Dec 1861, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Berith is mentioned on p. 104 of the Vang B bygdebok but she is erroneously referred to there as “Randi.” The bygdebok identifies her mother as Randi Eiriksdotter Kattevøl.

In the 1880 U.S. census, she is Berit Pedersen, daughter of A. Pederson and his wife Randi of Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County. The rest of the children shown for that family are quite a bit younger although there is a daughter Kersti, age 10 (so born in 1869 or 1870) born in Norway. That implies that A. Pederson and Randi were together in Norway before coming to the U.S. in about 1870. Their 10-year-old son, Gustav, was born in Minnesota.

In the 1910 census, she is 48 years old, has been married for 29 years, and has had 15 children, 14 of whom are still living, and 13 of whom are still living at home. She came to the U.S. in 1872.

Berith married Christopher HOLLEN in 1880. Christopher (son of Even Helgessen HØVERSTAD and Anne Tostensdatter VØVLISEIGA) was born on 29 Jan 1855 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 6 Aug 1916; was buried in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 Oct 1870, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She was born Kirsti on 16 Sep 1870, bapt. 9 Oct 1870, in Vang to Alexander Petterson Skjerhaugen, b. 1841, and Randi Eriksdatter, b. 1838. That couple had been married two months. Among the witnesses to Kirsti’s baptism was Kirsti Eriksdatter Bøe-Eie.

Christine married Peter R SOLBERG on 4 Aug 1895 in Swift County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 18 Nov 1866, Goodhue County, Minnesota

Notes:

In the 1910 census, as Erick Quale, a single man, he was a professor at Augustana College in Canton Twp, Lincoln County, South Dakota.

Birth:
date church book, Emmanuel Lutheran, Kenyon; gravestone says 25 Oct

Baptism:
dwfrench1

Buried:
as Erick Quale

Family/Spouse: Ingeborg SAXLUND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Real estate broker

Notes:

He and Laura moved to Hammond, Wisconsin, in 1933.

Died:
obit

John married Laura GAVIC on 7 Feb 1920 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Laura was born on 14 Jan 1885 in St. Croix County, Wisconsin; died on 26 Sep 1975 in Pierce County, Wisconsin; was buried in Saint John Cemetery, Spring Valley, Pierce County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
tuberculosis

Family/Spouse: Emma SOLBERG. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Physician

Notes:

He was a faculty member of the University of Chicago. He was also a writer and speaker for the Republican National Committee.

Birth:
his death certificate said 26 Nov 1874

Carle married Lillian Alsinda WRIGHT on 28 Dec 1903 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Lillian was born in 1882 in Illinois; died in 1973; was buried in Westville Cemetery, Westville, LaPorte County, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1914-MN-020314

Notes:

In the 1910 census, he was living with his father and siblings in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County.

Died:
As Anton C Quale

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1910-MN-014269

Notes:

Died:
as Christine Quale

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1929-MN-015529
• Baptism: 26 Oct 1856, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 1871, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota

Notes:

Baptismal sponsors for Ole were Tollev Olsson, Ole Tollevson, Ole Endresson, Marith Jögersdatter, and Randi Larsdotter, all (apparently) of Ellingboe farm. (See p. 47.)

The records of the Norway Lake Lutheran churches in Kandiyohi County show: “Ole Ellingboe, born in Bang, Balders. Came with his mother to Goodhue County in 1862 and to Norway Lake in 1868. Married Maria H. Gandrud, born in Spring Grove, Minnesota.”

As a young single man, he was a charter member of the West Norway Lake Lutheran Church.

He was a farmer in Kerkhoven Twp in the 1900 census. Came to the U.S. in 1862.

Claretta is not listed with the family in the 1905 census but an 18 year-old Martin Ellingboe is, as is a 28 year-old Alice Olson, servant.

In the 1910 census he was a farmer in Kerkhoven Twp. The household consisted of Ole, 53, Maria, 41, Herbert O., 14, Cornell M., 8, and a servant named Carl Hagen, 23. The couple had been married for 15 years. This was his 2nd marriage, her first. Ole came to the U.S. in 1862.

He is still farming in Kerkhoven Twp in the 1920 census.

He resided at Route 1, Sunburg, at the time of his death. His wife Mary was the informant for his death certificate. He died from stomach cancer. An exploratory surgery had been performed the previous April.

The will record for Ole O Ellingboe is recorded in the Swift County Will Records, Volume 003, 1920-1939, will year 1932.

Birth:
Several sources, including his death certficate, give the erroneous date of September 4th.

Confirmation:
“old log church near Norway Lake”

Ole married Maria O SONDROL on 4 Feb 1886 in Swift County, Minnesota. Maria was born in 1860 in Norway; died on 12 Jan 1892 in Minnesota; was buried in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ole married Inger Maria GANDRUD on 16 Jun 1894 in Swift County, Minnesota. Inger (daughter of Halvor Evenson GANDRUD) was born on 26 Feb 1869 in Spring Grove, Houston County, Minnesota; died on 25 Feb 1958 in Kerkhoven, Swift County, Minnesota; was buried on 1 Mar 1958 in Monson Lake Cemetery, Sunburg, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 24 Apr 1859, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 10 May 1874, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota

Notes:

He was George Ellingboe, 21, “teaching”, living on the V. J. Finstad farm in Kerkhoven Twp in the 1880 census. Also living on that farm were Marit Ellingboe, a 46 year-old widow, “housekeeper”, and Marit’s two sons, Ole, 23, and Andrew, 18. All four of these Ellingboes were born in Norway.

In the 1885 census, he is G. O. Ellingboe in Pillsbury Twp, Swift County.

In the 1895 census he is George Ellingboe and has remarried and is in Kerkhoven Twp.

The November 23, 1897, edition of the Willmar Tribune says that George Ellingboe moved his family to Mille Lacs, Minnesota. In March of 1898, that paper noted that George was on his way to Aitkin County.

In the 1905 state census he and his family live in Lake George Twp, Stearns County.

Land records show that the St. Cloud land office issued a 153.67 acre homestead in Section 2 of Aitkin County to a George O Ellingboe on 14 Jun 1904. The land description is as follows:

1 E½NE 4TH PM No 44 N 24 W
2 SWNE 4TH PM No 44 N 24 W
3 SENW 4TH PM No 44 N 24 W

In the 1910 census, he was a farmer in Crow River Twp, Stearns County. Living with the family is Sarah’s mother, Signe or Sigre Handa or Handr. The Hande site says that George purchased land in Churchbridge, Saskatchewan, in 1906.

George moved his family to Canada in 1911. In the 1916 Canadian census, he is George C Ellingboe, age 57, living with his family in “22, 32, 1, Churchbridge” in the province of Saskatchewan, district of “28 Saltcoats.” Living with him is Sarah, 43, Josef S, 13, Verda, 17, Harry C, 19, William R, 8, Mildred J, 11, and Marcus S, 1.

In a Minnesota Valley history, he seems to be referred to as “Professor.” Here is his entry in the “History of the Minnesota Valley”, published in 1882, for Swift County:

Ellingboe, George O., Professor. Professor George O. Ellingboe was born January 29, 1859, in Norway. His father died and he came with his mother to America in 1862; the family resided in Goodhue County, Minnesota, five years and since that have been in Kerkhoven. He received a good education and has since been teaching; has a farm of 160 acres; since 1880 has been town clerk. Married January 30, 1882; Ida Syse.

According to Jim’s source, George had ten children.

Birth:
incorrectly shown as 29 Jan 1859 in the church book record of his confirmation

Confirmation:
Norway Lake (there is more than one Lutheran church with Norway Lake in its name in Kandiyohi County)

Died:
D’Arcy

Buried:
Find A Grave has him and Sarah buried in Churchbridge, Saskatchewan

Jørgen married Inga SYSE on 31 Jan 1882 in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. Inga was born on 27 Sep 1860 in Wisconsin; died on 11 Dec 1889 in Minnesota; was buried on 16 Dec 1889 in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jørgen married Sigrid (Sarah) HANDE on 7 Dec 1893 in Stearns County, Minnesota. Sigrid (daughter of Tosten Halvorsen HANDE and Sigrid Finkelsdatter) was born on 13 Aug 1871 in Nerstrand, Rice County, Minnesota; died on 3 Jan 1938 in Churchbridge, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in Churchbridge, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 3 Jun 1877, East Norway Lake Lutheran Church, Pennock, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota

Notes:

Not listed in the Vang births.

According to Jim’s source, Andrew was baptized with the patronym Andersen which indicates that Andrew was not the son of Ola Jørgensson.

Jim’s notes for Andrew in his Ellingboe tree:

There is no record in the Vang church books for the birth of Anders.

In the 1865 Census of Minnesota, he is listed as Anders Andersen, while his brothers Ole and Jørgen are listed with their mother under the name Jørgensen. Also, in the christening record for Anders, which was found in the Vang Church (Holden Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota) by Curt , his name is listed as Anders Andersen. This very deliberate distinction in his name is strong evidence that Ole Jørgensen was not his father and that an unknown Anders was his father. It is likely that widow Marith and her children emigrated because she was obviously pregnant and was not going to marry the father of Anders. It would be difficult to hazard a guess as to who the father of Anders was because there were many men by the name of Anders in Vang at this time.

In the 1875 Census of Minnesota, he is listed as Anders Olsen, age 13, with mother Mary Olsen, age 39, brothers Ole, age 18, and Jorgen, age 15. All were listed as having been born in Norway.

The 1885 Census of Minnesota lists the family under the surname Ellingboe, with mother Marit Ellingboe, age 49, born in Norway, Ole Ellingboe, age 28, born in Norway, and Anders, age 22, born in Ontario. It would seem that he was born while his mother and brothers were immigrating to Minnesota, probably by way of the port of Quebec. Arta believes that he was born soon after Marit's arrival in Northfield, Minnesota, where her brother Tosten Quamme was already living.

According to Arta , Andrew had three daughters and one son, Arthur. He left his wife when the children were ages 1-4 and married again about 14 years later. His second marriage produced one daughter who was living at the age of 97 in 2000.

In the 1885 census he living with his brother Ole and Marit in Kerkhoven Twp (Lake Johanna P.O.). He is shown as age 22, born in Ontario. He was apparently born during his mother’s journey from Norway to Minnesota.

His father was born in Norway. His mother may have been too but the 1910 census for Andrew claims that his mother spoke Swedish.

In the 1895 census he was 29 and was some kind of an engineer living in a hotel in West Minneapolis.

He is listed in the 1895-1896 Minneapolis city directory as Andrew Ellingboe, machinist, Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co., resides in Hopkins. (The Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. was a predecessor to the Minneapolis-Moline Co.)

Presumably, he is the Andrew O Ellingboe mentioned in the March 24, 1896, edition of the Willmar Tribune as having “devoted much of his time this winter in the buying of stock.”

In the 1900 census, indexed as Andrew Elingbor, he is a 35-year old single engineer boarding with the Robert Nelson family in Brainerd.

In the 1903 Brainerd city directory, he was an employee of C E Peabody. He and Annie resided at 1324 E Pine Street.

In the 1905 census he and his family live at 1320 Pine Street in Brainerd. He is a bartender.

The 1905 Brainerd city directory shows him at 1329 E Pine St. His wife is Annie.

In the 1907 Brainerd city directory, he and Annie live at 614 Laurel Street. He is a bartender.

An article in the Brainerd newspaper in November of 1907 says that A. O. Ellingboe has taken over the agency of the Fitger Brewing Co.

In the 1908 Brainder city directory, he and Annie live at 1603 E Pine Street. He is an agent for Fitger & Co.

He was a saloon keeper in Brainerd in the 1910 census.

His saloon was called the Nugget.

In the 1920 census, he is 57 year-old Andrew O. Ellingboe, born in Minnesota, a stationary engineer living in Brainerd with his wife Anna M., 34, and daughter Ruth V. M., 16. Andrew was also the census enumerator.

In the 1927 Brainerd city directory, he is a clerk for the Northern Pacific Railway. He and Annie live at 502 Quince.

In the 1930 census, Ruth has left home and Andrew and Anna are living in Brainerd at 1204 S. 7th. Andrew is a laborer at a railroad shop.

In the 1937-1938 Brainerd city directory, Andrew and Anna M live at 1204 S 7th. Same in the 1939-1940 directory. In the 1942-1943 Brainerd city directory, The entry for Andrew O Ellingboe is “moved to Milwaukee Wis.” In the 1944-1945 Wright’s directory for Milwaukee, Andrew O Ellingboe and his wife Anna M reside at 1441 N Humboldt Avenue. They were still there in the 1947 city directory.

In the 1940 census, he lived with his wife and daughter in Milwaukee.

According to Jim’s source, Andrew was married twice and had three daughters and one son by his first wife. He left his first wife when the children were quite young and married again about 14 years later.

His obit from the Friday, July 25, 1947, edition of the Brainerd Daily Dispatch:

Andrew Ellingboe, former resident of Brainerd, died Tuesday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Ruth, 1441 North Humboldt, Milwaukee, Wis.

Mr. Ellingboe had been living in Milwaukee for the past eight or 10 years. Previously he had lived in Brainerd where he worked at the Northern Pacific shops.

Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon in Milwaukee. Burial will be in Milwaukee.

Birth:
this date is from his confirmation record in the church book; shown as June, 1864, in the 1900 census

Confirmation:
specifically shown as East Norway Lake (there is more than one Lutheran church with Norway Lake in its name in Kandiyohi County)

Andrew married Carolina ELIASSON on 14 Apr 1888 in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Andrew married Anna Maria ANDERSON on 28 Jun 1902 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Anna was born about 1885 in Minnesota; died in Aug 1979. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his wife and three children arrived in the U.S. on August 16, 1919, at the port of New York aboard the Stavangersfjord.

Birth:
Igdun 74/1

Family/Spouse: Genoieva Julie RASMUSSEN. Genoieva (daughter of Sivert Andreas Colbeinsen RASMUSSEN and Martha Lisabeth QUAERNENAES) was born in 1894; died in 1963; was buried in Maynard Lutheran Cemetery, Maynard, Chippewa County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Emma Matilda RASMUSSEN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1900 census, she had had five children, all five still living. She had come to the U.S. in 1891.

Ingebjørg married Gudbrand Kristoffersen HEEN about 1895. Gudbrand (son of Kristoffer Gudbrandsen HEEN and Anne Gunnarsdatter GIVRE) was born on 25 May 1855 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 10 Apr 1931 in Wang Twp, Renville County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

dwfrench1

Died:
Bøe nedre

Family/Spouse: Marit Andersdatter STEILE. Marit (daughter of Anders Andersen STEILE and Marit Andersdatter KVALE) was born on 2 Mar 1855 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 16 Sep 1924 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

dwfrench1

Birth:
nedre Bøe

Family/Spouse: Olaf Andersen TVEITMOE. Olaf (son of Anders Olsen KAARSTAD and Ingeborg Anfinnsdatter BERGE) was born on 7 Dec 1865 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 19 Mar 1923 in Santa Cruz County, California; was buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 May 1862, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He married his first cousin.

Family/Spouse: Ambjørg Christophersdatter BØA-ØYDGAARDEN. Ambjørg (daughter of Kristopher Øysteinsen ØDEGÅRD and Ambjørg Aslaksdatter BÖE ELLINGBØE) was born on 20 Feb 1868 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 5 Feb 1951 in South Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang A, p. 506. Came to the U.S. oin 1891.

Family/Spouse: Knudt Bjørn HIPPE. Knudt was born on 3 Mar 1863 in Valdres i Oppland, Norway; died on 30 May 1934 in Morrison County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 29 Mar 1868, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She married her first cousin.

Family/Spouse: Christopher Zakariasen ØDEGÅRD. Christopher (son of Zakarias Øysteinsen ØDEGÅRD and Ingelev Andersdatter TUNE) was born on 21 Apr 1862 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 17 Nov 1933 in South Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
The date on her gravestone

Clara married Andrew SANDERSON on 4 Feb 1897 in Rock County, Minnesota. Andrew was born on 25 May 1871 in Iowa; died on 26 Apr 1938 in Rock County, Minnesota; was buried in Flowerfield Cemetery, Hills, Rock County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Surname Sælid in Norway.

He registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in McKenzie County, North Dakota. He was a farmer in Watford City. He had come to the U.S. in 1905.

In the 1930 census, he was a farmer in Tobacco Garden Twp, McKenzie County, North Dakota.

In the 1940 census, he was still a farmer in Tobacco Garden Twp. Children still at home were Dorothy and Orville. Alvin, Harold, and Annie were listed with the family but shown as absent.

He and Jennie returned from a trip to Norway aboard an American Overseas Airlines airplane that landed in New York on 26 Jul 1948. The plane had departed from Oslo. They lived in Watford City, North Dakota, at that time.

Birth:
Bø 25/ Uppigarden; his WWI draft registration said 20 Feb

Nils married Jennie LARSON on 19 Feb 1915 in McKenzie County, North Dakota. Jennie was born on 23 Feb 1898 in Iowa; died on 2 Mar 1987 in Traill County, North Dakota; was buried in Bruflat Cemetery, Portland, Traill County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Dec 1868, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Most sources on Ancestry have her birth date as 1869 or 1870 in Vang i Troms. Those dates and that location for Vang are incorrect.

Mary’s obit, as well as her gravestone, says she was born in 1869. That is incorrect.

Her obit said that she came to the U.S. at the age of 18. She and Willie and family moved to a ranch in Stanley County, South Dakota, south of Ft. Pierre, in 1906. They moved into town in 1936. Mary spent her last years in the Alleman Rest Home.

Surviving her are seven children, Goldie, Mrs. Ed Spencer, Ft. Pierre; Myrtle, Mrs. Walter Fackeiman, Ft. Pierre; Mrs. Laura Busch, Los Angeles; Orin and Stanley, Ft. Pierre, and Lowell, Pierre: eight grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and one great great grandchild. A daughter, Viola, died before Mary.

Birth:
Kjelvudn under Nedre Stele

Marit married Willie GORDON on 31 Dec 1896 in Mitchell County, Iowa. Willie was born in 1870 in Mitchell County, Iowa; died in 1963 in South Dakota; was buried in Scotty Phillip Cemetery, Fort Pierre, Stanley County, South Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1905-41-2553

Notes:

Living at home with her parents and siblings in Minneapolis in the 1885 state census. In the column for “Condition”, there is no indication that she was “deaf, dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic.”

She is still living with her parents in Minneapolis in the 1895 census.

In the 1900 census, she, as 25 year-old Bertha Flatten, is an inmate at the School for Feeble Minded in Faribault.

She died of feeble mindedness, epilepsy, and mitral stenosis.

Birth:
30-6-19 on her death certificate means years-months-days

Died:
died at the Faribault School for Defectives

Notes:

Called Dorothea in the 1885 state census.

In the 1900 census, she had been married for three years and had had no children.

Margarite married Frederick WILLIAMSON on 19 Sep 1897 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Frederick was born in Sep 1870 in Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called Annie in the 1880 census.

In the 1940 census, she is the 60 year-old widow Nellie T Pederson and lives with her daughter and son-in-law in Vancouver, Washington. Five years earlier, she had lived in Minneapolis.

A Trønderlag source says that she died 24 March 1961.

Nellie married Christoffer PEDERSON on 7 Jul 1898 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Christoffer was born on 17 Nov 1872 in Norway; died on 14 Jul 1936 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Listed in the 1885 state census. Not listed later.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1941-MN-006713

Notes:

Living with his mother in the 1905 state census.

In the 1910 census he and his brother Walter are roomers in Minneapolis at 320 Cedar Avenue. Both men are laborers.

He registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Willmar. He was a farmer in Gennessee Twp. His nearest relative was Alta Dorothy Flaten of 1 Gennessee. He was of medium height and build. No information was taken for his eye or hair color.

In the 1920 census, he is 33 year-old Balder Flaten, a farmer in Gennessee Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. The household consists of himself, Alta, 26, Wiliam, 3 months, Charles, apparently also 3 months, and Walter, Balder’s brother.

In the 1930 census, Balder is a boilermaker for a steam railroad shop and he and his family live in Willmar in a house on Litchfield Avenue that he is renting. The family consists of Balder, 44, Alta, 36, William B, 13, Charles B, 10, Leo G, 9, Anna M, 7, Calvin C, 5, Helen M, 3, Elroy J, 1, and Raymond H, 4 months.

In the 1940 census, he was a WPA laborer living on a farm in Gennessee Twp, Kandiyohi County.

According to his death certificate, for which his wife Alta was the informant, Balder was a WPA worker. He died of myocarditis brought on by the flu. He died in Fahlun Twp but he was a resident of Gennessee Twp.

Family/Spouse: Alta Dorothy PETERSON. Alta (daughter of Charles PETERSON and Anna ANDERSON) was born on 3 Aug 1893 in Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota; died on 15 Nov 1968 in Willmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota; was buried on 18 Nov 1968 in Atwater Union Cemetery, Atwater, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1960-MN-025633

Notes:

Living with his mother in the 1905 state census.

In the 1910 census he is living in Minneapolis with his sister Nellie Pedersen and her family. He is a clerk in a butcher shop.

He registered for the draft in Minneapolis on June 5, 1917. At that time he lived at 2411 11th Avenue South in Minneapolis. He was self-employed with a grocery business at 910 East 24th Street. He was married with a wife and child and claimed their dependancy as grounds for exemption from the draft. He was tall and slender with blue eyes and light hair.

In the 1930 census, he and his family live at 4101 41st Avenue South in Minneapolis. He has a grocery store.

In 1937, he was licensed to sell “lunch, groceries, soft drinks and confectionery” at 2507 East 38th Street in Minneapolis.

In the 1940 census, he and his wife and four children still lived at 4101 41st Avenue in south Minneapolis. He was a the manager of a confectionery.

He was the informant for his brother Walter’s death certificate. At that time, Nordahl lived at 4101 41st Avenue S.

According to Mark, Nordahl owned the building his store was in and rented out several stores in the building to others.

Birth:
birth location according to his draft registration

Nordahl married Almida Caroline RENNING on 8 Sep 1914 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Almida (daughter of Conrad RENNING and Marie PETERSON) was born on 25 Mar 1896 in Minnesota; died on 11 Jan 1980 in Scott County, Minnesota; was buried on 14 Jan 1980 in Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1943-MN-023791

Notes:

Living with his mother, as Valtor, in the 1905 state census.

In the 1910 census he and his brother Baldur are roomers in Minneapolis at 320 Cedar Avenue. Both men are laborers.

In the 1920 census, he is a farm laborer on his brother Balder’s farm in Kandiyohi County.

In the 1930 census, Walter was a lodger with a family in south Minneapolis. He was a salesman in the groceries business.

Walter died of tuberculosis. At his death he was a single man who was a clerk in a grocery store. He lived at 736 East Franklin and had lived in Minneapolis all of his life. His brother Nordahl was the informant for his death certificate.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1910-MN-019370

Notes:

Not listed in the 1900 census. Living with her mother, as a 12 year-old, in the 1905 state census.

In the 1910 census, she (as Mabel Flaten) and her brother Nordahl Flaten are living with their sister Nellie Pedersen (husband Christopher b. ca 1873) and her family in Minneapolis. Mabel is shown as 22 years old and is a cutter in a knitting works.

Mabel died from typhoid fever which had produced internal hemorrhaging as well as pneumonia. She lived at 2311 E 32nd Street in Minneapolis and was employed as a “cutter.”

A different Mabel Flaten, a few years older and perhaps a cousin, married a Walter G Lee in Renville County on 11 Sept 1912.

Birth:
The child shown in the Minnesota Births and Christenings database on FS as born on this date to these parents was named Emily Ruth.

Died:
at Norwegian Deaconess Hospital in Minneapolis

Buried:
This is the cemetery on the northeast corner of Lake Street and Cedar Avenue. It is the oldest cemetery in Minneapolis and is now called the Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery. Minneapolis’s poorest citzens were buried in unmarked mass graves in Section H.

Notes:

Birth:
Hamre 59/1 Nerre Nordigarden

Died:
Oldre 58/3 Nerøldre

Family/Spouse: Ola Guttormsen OLDRE. Ola (son of Guttorm Knutsen OLDRE and Dorte Nilsdatter REMMISSTØLEN) was born in 1863 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1944 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1900 census, she is the 58 year-old widow Ingeborg Soine living on a farm in Wang Twp which she owns with a mortgage. She had 15 children, only 6 of which are still alive, and four of whom are living with her: Ove, Sissie, Alfred, and Clara. [She had 7 living children at the time of the census.]

Birth:
Kattevold 44/4 Systøga Av Sygarde

Died:
as Ingeborg Soine in North Dakota PDI

Ingeborg married John Jonson SOINE in 1862 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. John (son of Jon Person KVÅLE and Anne Sjugurdsdatter LAJORD) was born on 23 Nov 1826 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 14 Nov 1888 in Renville County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Dec 1838, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is I8781 in Jim’s VS.

Although she is illegitimate, her parents later married.

Anders Olsen Kattevold was her “responsible person” or principal sponsor at her baptism. That Andris (I1993 in Jim’s VS) was gaardbrukar of Kattevold 45/ Øvre at the time of Randi Erichdatter’s birth. Other baptismal sponsors listed for Randi were: Niels Nielsen Böe, Christopher Tostensen Kattevold, Margrethe Christopherdatter Kattevold, and Anne Johannesdatter Böe.

There was no other Randi Eriksdatter shown as born in Vang around 1838. Randi’s parents, Erich Christopherssen Qvale, age 36, and the maiden Kjersti Endresdatter Kattevold, age 26, later married in Vang on 7 Jun 1842. For this marriage his father was Christopher Tostenson and her father was Endre Thronsen.

Quite incorrectly, Jim’s VS shows this Randi marrying Andris Thomassen Høyne, b. 1830, and having four children with him between 1857 and 1862 in Vestre Slidre.

In the 1865 Norwegian census, Rangdi Eriksdatter, age 28, seamstress, and her daughter Berit Jakopsdatter, age 5, both born in Vang, were lodgers on the Anders Olsen farm on Søndrebøe østre 37/ in the Hoved Sogn subparish in the Vang parish.

Family/Spouse: Jacob Olsen HAMRE. Jacob (son of Ole Jacobsen HAMRE and Ingebjørg Kristoffersdatter BERGE) was born on 8 Nov 1839 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Randi married Alexander Pettersen SKJELHAUGEN on 9 Jun 1870 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Alexander (son of Petter Persson) was born in 1841 in Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1916-MN-014942

Notes:

He and Ingeborg emigrated 2 days after their marriage.

aka Qvale and Quale

Carol Heimdal’s nllha.org research says the newly arrived couple first went to Goodhue County and then to Swift County in 1868. The 1886 plat map has the family owning the southwest quarter of Section 14 in, presumably, Kerkhoven Twp.

Buried:
as Christopher Quale

Kristoffer married Ingeborg Olsdatter HAMRE on 5 Apr 1866 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ingeborg (daughter of Ole Jacobsen HAMRE and Berith Johnsdatter BRÆKKE) was born on 19 Oct 1844 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 21 Aug 1909 in Minnesota; was buried in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She and Tosten had no children.

Birth:
Hamre 60/1 Uppigarden

Family/Spouse: Tosten Olson HAUGEN. Tosten (son of Ola Olsen Grihamar HAUGEN and Ingeleiv Knutsdatter GÅSEDELEN) was born on 4 Mar 1880 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in Jan 1963 in Ward County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 19 Jul 1846, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He was his mother’s 2nd instance of leirmal. Anders Anderssen Bøeyet stood for the illegitimate child.

Birth:
Harold E Petersen says Røyse under N. Bø

Baptism:
Wangs kirke

Endre married Sonneva Haagensdatter HOLIEN in 1874 in Wisconsin. Sonneva (daughter of Haagen Knudsen HOLIEN and Marit Endresdatter TORSTAD) was born on 14 Apr 1856 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 7 Jan 1937 in Wang Twp, Renville County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margrethe Nilsdatter HAUGEN. Margrethe (daughter of Nils Knutson HAUGEN and Ingelev Knudsdatter BUNDE) was born on 22 Nov 1860 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 30 Jan 1956 in Walsh County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the Rice County Journal, May 4, 1910:

Knut Tasa, aged fifty-five years died at his home in Holden on Thursday, April 21, of consumption. He was born October 13, 1864. He was a single man. Mr. Tasa leaves his parents, two brothers and three sisters to mourn his loss. The funeral was held at Vangs church on Monday, April 25, Rev. A. Hauge, officiating.

Notes:

Called Emma S. in the 1880 census.

The 14 November 1896 edition of the Northfield News, as indexed in the Minnesota Newspaper Headline Index, notes for “Mrs. Thomas Ellingboe” that “sister of Mrs. Erick Svien death announced.”

Her sister Marit Lovise Ellingboe (#6803) seems to have died on the same day as Anne Sophie Svien.

Her death and burial date are confusing in the church record. Her funeral seems to have been on the same date as her sister Marit (#6803), b. 10-24-74, d. 11-8-1896. However, the burial date for both is clearly October 11th. The person who entered the burial dates seems to have gotten mixed up because all of the dates are (otherwise) consecutive and the funeral before the two sisters is October 31st.

Buried:
She and her sister Marit share the same gravestone.

Family/Spouse: Erik SVIEN. Erik (son of Johannes J (John) SVIEN and Beret Eiriksdatter KASA) was born in Dec 1869 in Minnesota; died on 14 Jul 1947 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried on 19 Jul 1947 in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Dec 1874, Minnesota

Notes:

Her death and burial date are confusing in the church record. Her funeral seems to have been on the same date as her sister Anne Sophie Svien (#13388), b. 9-23-1868, d. 11-8-1896, wife of Erik Svien. Marit’s death date is also shown as November 8th. However, the burial date for both is clearly October 11th. The person who entered the burial dates seems to have gotten mixed up because all of the dates are (otherwise) consecutive and the funeral before the two sisters is October 31st.

Her last name from her daughter’s death record.

Baptism:
date from her burial record

Buried:
She and her sister Anne share the same gravestone.

Marit married Trond Iversson (Tom) ELLINGBOE on 20 Jun 1895 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Trond (son of Ivar Trondsson ELLINGBØE and Ambjørg Eiriksdotter KASA) was born on 2 Jan 1873 in Warsaw Twp, Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 15 Oct 1945 in Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried on 11 Sep 1958 in Oaklawn Cemetery, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the Faribault Daily News, Sept. 7, 1967:

Gilbert Tasa, 90, of Dennison passed away at Northfield City Hospital Tuesday, Sept. 5. He had been a resident of the Dilley Convalescent unit for some time. Mr. Tasa was an 1896 graduate of Luther College and farmed most of his life. He was never married. Funeral services will be held from the Vang Lutheran Church at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, with the Rev. John Fahning officiating. Interment will be at the Vang Cemetery. Survivors include on brother, Albert, and several nieces and nephews.

Notes:

From the Faribault Daily News, Sept. 23, 1971:

Funeral services for Albert Antoni Tasa, 85, of Dennison, were held Sept. 17 at the Vang Lutheran Church with the Rev. Jeno Weisz officiating. Interment took place at the Vang Cemetery. Christine Gunhus, accompanied by Mrs. Cyrus Midge, sang "Children Of The Heavenly Father." Pallbearers were Eric Odegaard, Lester Odegaard, Obert Musgjerd, George Langemo, Myron Heggedahl, and Robert Adamson. Albert Tasa was born on Feb. 6, 1886, to John and Ingeborg Bakken Tasa on their homestead in Holden Township. He was baptized on March 14, 1886, by the late Rev. J. N. Kildahl, and confirmed on Nov. 11, 1900, by the late Rev. A. Hauge. He was a life-long member of the Vang congregation, and lived on the homestead for most of his life. His parents, eight sisters, and three brothers preceded him in death. He is survived by 14 nieces and nephews as well as many other relatives. He passed away on Sept. 13 at the Dilly Convalescent Home in Northfield, where he had been a resident since 1964.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Clergyman

Notes:

Rev. Knut E. Bakken died at his home east of the village here on Saturday evening, Oct 23, after an illness of five months. He became ill this spring while pastor of a charge at Verndale, Minn., and was forced to resign on account of poor health, and returned to his farm in the township of Warsaw. his illness was heart trouble and he gradually grew weaker until at last succumbed on Oct 23.

Knute E. Bakken was born in Warsaw Township, Goodhue county, on July 24,1861. He attended St., Olaf College from 1880 to 1882. During the winter of 1882 he attended Decorah Institute, Decorah, Iowa. In 1883 he entered Archibald’s Business College at Minneapolis and graduated from that institution the 29th of May, 1884. in 1885 and 1886 he was engaged as a school teacher. From 1887 to 1889 he was clerk in the Minnesota legislature and during the summer of 1890 he was appointed United States Census Enumerator at St. Paul. In the fall of 1890 he entered the United Church Seminary and graduated June 3, 1893. He accepted a call from Springfield congregation in Winneshiek county, Iowa and was ordained as a minister on the 15th of June 1893, at Minneapolis. He served as pastor in this charge from 1893 to 1911.

On the 15th of November, 1894, he was joined in marriage to Miss Signe Augusta Jacobson of Winneshiek county, Iowa. Besides his wife he leaves nine children, four sons and five daughters, to mourn his death. He also leaves his aged mother, who lives at the old homestead and two brothers, Rev. G.H. Bakken of Wautomah, Wis., and Thomas Bakken of Warwas township, and also two sisters, Mrs. Ole J. Hamre of Erskine, Minn, and Miss Carrie Bakken who lives at the old homestead.

The funeral was held on Thursday oct 28, with a short service at the home and reguar service at Vangs church. Rev. H.O. Fjelstad of Holden congregation preached the funeral sermom. Rev. S. O. Simundson of Kenyon also made a short speech. Prof I.F. Grose of St. Olaf college read a resolution of thanks from the congregation in Winneshiek county, Iowa, where Rev. K.E. Vakken had been pastor for 18 years. During the service John T. Eltun of Northfield rendered a vocal solo. The paulbearers were Rev. A, Hauge, Rev. S.O. Simundsomn, Prof. I.F. Grose, David Jacobson, John Eltun and Sever Stende. The floral offerings were many and beautiful. Vangs churh was filled with friends and relatives who were present to attend the funeral services of a man who was loved and respected by a large circle of friends. The remains were laid at rest in Vangs cemetery.

Those who came from a distance to attend the funeral were the following: Otto Jacobson of Hettinger, ND; David Jacobson, Mrs. L. W. Boe, Mrs. C.J. Hovey, Mrs and Mrs. A.G. Gross of Minneapolis, Miss Clara Jacobson, Mrs. Hans Jorgenson, Mrs. Gullik Gullikson of Decorah, Iowa; Miss Anna Jevne of Red Wring, and Prof I.F. Grose of St. Olaf College.

Knute married Signe Augusta JACOBSEN in 1894. Signe was born on 4 Jul 1870; died on 1 May 1961 in Olmsted County, Minnesota; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 1878, Holden Twp, Goodhue County, Minnesota

Notes:

Information on Gunhild’s ancestors per the esteemed dwfrench1’s French Family Tree.

In the 1910 census, she had had 11 children, 9 still living, and 8 of whom were still at home.

Gunhild married Ole Alfred Johnson HAMRE on 30 Sep 1887 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Ole (son of John Helgeson HAMRE and Ingeleiv Andersdatter JØVNE) was born on 3 Oct 1861 in Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anna SVIEN. Anna (daughter of Johan Henrich SVIEN and Marit Sjugurdsdatter TURTNES) was born on 13 Dec 1868 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 1 Jul 1943 in Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: George DUBOIS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Unmarried and living with his parents in the 1910 and 1920 censuses.

Julia married Knudt ANDERSON on 17 Mar 1907 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Knudt was born on 11 Dec 1867 in Minnesota; died on 7 Jul 1949 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Unmarried and living with her parents in the1910 and 1920 censuses.

Notes:

He served in the U.S. Army as a Private in World War I.

Unmarried and living with his parents in the 1910 and 1920 censuses.

Nels married Ruby TAPAGER on 21 Aug 1916 in Freeborn County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 15 Feb 1885, Goodhue County, Minnesota

Notes:

According to his wife’s obit, he and she came to Montana in 1915.

In the 1920 census, he was a farmer in McCone County, Montana.

Birth:
Vang church baptism record says January 1

Anfin married Beathe Marie ODNESS on 15 Sep 1914 in Kenyon, Goodhue County, Minnesota. Beathe (daughter of Carl Andreas (Charles S) ODNESS and Sophia (Suzie) BENSON) was born on 11 Dec 1896 in North Dakota; died on 25 Jan 1983 in Valley County, Montana; was buried in Highland Cemetery, Glasgow, Valley County, Montana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Lorents.

In the 1930 census, he and his family live in Minneapolis. He was a common laborer.

In the 1940 census, he was a receiving clerk for a wholesale export and import brokerage. He had a sixth-grade education, his wife an eighth-grade education. Their son Richard, the only child still living with them, was a 3rd-grader.

Carl married Marie Oline HAUGEN on 4 Jul 1911 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Marie (daughter of Nels Thomasson HAUGEN and Karen Regina BREKKE) was born about 1892 in Minnesota; died in 1967. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not living at home in the 1910 census. May have died after the 1900 census.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Nov 1890, Goodhue County, Minnesota

Notes:

Baptism:
Vang in Dennison

Mary married Jay Alphonse ELVERUD on 4 Jul 1911 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Jay was born about 1890 in Ohio; died in 1956. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
1893 in his Montana death record

Family/Spouse: Olive. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Ray Clyde ELVERUD on 7 Feb 1919 in Terry, Prairie County, Montana. Ray was born on 8 Jul 1898 in Warsaw Twp, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Jun 1897, Goodhue County, Minnesota

Notes:

Birth:
Incredibly, her gravestone says 1896!

Baptism:
Vang in Dennison

Family/Spouse: Austin Carroll LOCKREM, Sr. Austin (son of Kristoffer Larsen LOKREIMSHAUGEN and Berit Andrisdatter HØVERSTAD) was born on 13 Jul 1878 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 30 Apr 1950 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1940 census, he was a janitor at a country church and a farmer in Holden Twp, Goodhue County.

Leonard C. Estrem, 88, of Kenyon died Sunday, May 28, at his home. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Vang Lutheran Church with the Rev. Curtis Schneider officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. Wednesday at Hanson Funeral Home, Kenyon, and Thursday at the church one hour prior to services. He is survived by three sons, Kenneth of Wanamingo, Lowell of Kenyon and Donald of Dennison; two daughters, Mrs.Paul (Betty) Knivsland of North St. Paul and Mrs. Gayle (Ann Marie) Erickson of Rochester; 23 grandchildren; 36 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Maurice (Valvorg) Husbyn of Goodhue.

Birth:
Warsaw Twp

Died:
Kenyon

Leonard married Ida Kristina LINDSTROM on 26 Nov 1925 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Ida was born on 22 Sep 1901 in Värmlands län, Sweden; died on 10 Oct 1943 in Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Some sources erroneously say that he died in 1937

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1910-08545

Family/Spouse: HUSBYN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Maurice.

No one seems to know what happened to him. He is not listed in the birth index. He may not be an actual biological son of Knut and Berit. He is the only one of the siblings not to be buried at Vang.

Several trees on Ancestry erroneously show him as the son of his brother Leonard.

He is living at home in Holden Twp with his mother and siblings in the 1930 census. He is no longer living with his mother in the 1940 census.

Family/Spouse: Nels ODLAND. Nels was born on 20 Sep 1878 in Hordaland, Norway; died on 21 Jul 1970 in Olmsted County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]