Gürü Halvorsdatter NESS

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: “Kvinne” in Oleanna’s birth entry in Digitalarkivit

Notes:

Among the baptism sponsors listed for her were Guru Olsdatter Leerfald and Biret Olsdatter Ness, her aunts. Her name was entered in her birth record as Gürü.

The November 30, 1832, date is the marriage date shown in Olianna’s birth record. It is also the marriage date shown in the Verdal church book. Other sources suggest March 1, 1833.

Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as Gurru and having been born in 1809.

Shown in the 1875 Norwegian census as the widow Guru Halvorsdatter, b. 1809 in Vinne, Verdalen, “Svigermoder” and “for 2 Maal Jord”, living with Martinus and Olianna on Maritvoldvald.

Their first child was born out of wedlock.

None of the children remained in Verdal; four of them emigrated to the U.S.

In the listings of her children’s births in Digitalarkivet, her residence is shown variously as Folloe, Østvoldvald, Øhr, Maritvoldvald Øren, Øren, and Maritvoldvaldet.

A Guru Haldorsdatter, age 56, died in Verdal/Stiklestad on 30 Apr 1877. Farm name illegible.

Kari Yamane calls her Guru Halvordatter Folloe or Ness.

Gürü married Johannes Hansen ØREN on 30 Nov 1832 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Johannes (son of Hans OLSEN and Berit SVENDSDATTER) was born on 14 Dec 1806 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; was christened on 26 Dec 1806 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 26 Jan 1870 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Nov 1830, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 6 Oct 1844, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

In the Inderøy church book entry for her marriage, she is shown to be from Verdalen and her father is Johannes Hansen.

May have taken the surname Johnson. Called Anna Johnson in her son Martinus’s death certificate.

Shown as born illegitimate (before her parents marriage).

Confirmation:
this date is also entered in her birth record

Died:
inferred from Norway Burial Index, DIS-Norge, 1700-2010

Buried:
Norway Burial Index, DIS-Norge, 1700-2010

Anne married Bernt Andreas Monson AARFALD on 25 Nov 1853 in Saxhaug, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Bernt (son of Mons Aagesen AARFALD and Menthe Johnsdatter) was born on 4 Jul 1825 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died in Aug 1909 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; was buried on 31 Aug 1909 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Jun 1833, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 24 Sep 1848, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Strøm/Strømmen is surname she used for herself in her bible and Bereth is the spelling she used.

Or Beret. In the church book as Birit.

Or Beret Øren, Beret Strømmen, or Bestemor Næss.

FamilySearch gives her last name as Aarfald and her husband’s last name Stomen. She may have taken the surname Johnson somewhere along the line.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, she was living in Trondheim with her son Herman and his family.

Birth:
Bereth’s bible says 1 Mar

Died:
A note in her bible says she died at age 95. A Bertha Strøm was buried 12 Apr 1929 in Trondheim.

Bereth married Andreas Aagesen NÆSS on 11 Jun 1857 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Andreas (son of Aage Jonsen NOS and Ingebor Anna) was born on 5 Oct 1830 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died after 1900 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Mar 1836, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 10 Jun 1850

Notes:

Also spelled Oleanna (the way it’s spelled in her birth record). Called herself Olianna Bye in calling cards that she used in Fergus Falls.

Last name in Norway is also Martitvoldvald. Could not find her in the 1865 census. There was a 27 year-old Olianna Johansdatter who lived on Mikvoldvald and was the wife of the husmand Jørgen Andersen. That couple had two children.

She had 3 siblings living in Fergus Falls.

Oleanna Johannesdatter, 43, and her four children (Jon Martinussen, 11, Marie Martinussdatter, 7, Anna Martinussdatter, 9, and Hans Martinussen, 5) left Norway on 5 April 1882 on the feeder ship Tasso to Hull, England. Their destination was Fergus Falls, Minnesota. They are not listed among the emigrants in the Stiklestad church book.

Birth:
Øhr farm. Her gravestone in Oak Grove Cemetery has her birth date as 12 Dec 1835 (repeated in the Dalby Database), a date which is patently correct.

Died:
month and day from Dalby database

Buried:
she has a stone that says “Mother” near Martin’s at Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery

Olianna married Martinus Eliassen BYE on 18 Nov 1870 in Vinne, Verdal (Vårdalen), Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Martinus (son of Elias Eliassen BŸVALD and Guruanna (Guriana) Hansdatter BYVALD) was born on 18 Aug 1847 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; was christened on 10 Oct 1847 in Vinne, Verdal (Vårdalen), Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 29 Nov 1932 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 3 Dec 1932 in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Feb 1839, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 10 Feb 1853, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

“Soldat” in the remarks column of his birth entry.

Not in Verdal in the 1865 census. Not listed in the Verdal Death Register 1801-1922.

Birth:
Øren

Notes:

May have died at birth or in infancy. “Død” in the remarks column of his birth entry. Baptism entry is only shown as 1841 with no month. Listing indicates he was baptized at home.

His family was of Maritvoldvald at the time of his birth and death.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1918-MN-013126
• Baptism: 26 Jun 1842, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Went by the name of Anna. Had no children.

In the 1865 Norwegian census, she was Guru A. Johannesdatter, b. 1842 in Verdalens, a maid for the Hans F Muller family on the Brosvebakken farm in Frol, Nord-Trøndelag. Also a maid with that family was her sister, Julianna.

She is Mrs. Anna Stang, 52, a laundress, living with Lena Anderson in the 2nd ward of Fergus Falls in the 1895 Minnesota state census.

In the 1900 census, she is Anna Stang, 58, b. February 1842 in Norway, living with Lena Anderson in the 2nd ward of Fergus Falls near Whitford Street and Lincoln Avenue. Both women are “washerwomen.” Anna had been married for 15 years and had had no children. Both women emigrated from Norway in 1882.

In the 1903 Fergus Falls city directory, she was Mrs. Annie Stang who resided at the rear of 113 Whitford St S.

In the 1905 state census she is Anna Stang, 63, living on Whitford Street in the 2nd ward of Fergus Falls. Her occupation is washer.

In the 1907 and 1909 Fergus Falls directories, she was Mrs. Anne Stang, still residing at the rear of 113 Whitford Street S.

In the 1910 census she is Anna Stang, 68, living on her “own income” in a house that she owns, free of mortgage, near Whitford Street and Lincoln Avenue.

Guruanna married Christian A STANG on 9 May 1885 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Christian was born about 1843 in Norway; died before 1895 in Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 10 Jul 1860, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

In the 1865 Norwegian census, she was Julianna Johannesdatter, b. 1844 in Verdalens, a maid for the Hans F Muller family on the Brosvebakken farm in Frol, Nord-Trøndelag. Also a maid with that family was her sister, Guru A.

In the church book entry for her marriage she is called Julianna Johannesdatter Hansen. Of Marithvoldvald when she married.

She is probably the Julie Anna Johannesdatter, last name Wisth, who died on the Sole farm in Verdal on 10 April 1921. That woman was married and was not a widow and she had been born on March 9, 1844. She died of heart disease and old age.

In the 1900 census, Elling Whist and Julie Whist and their family lived in “Bjørgen Jernbanestation” in Singsås in Sør-Trøndelag. Elling was “stationsmester og postaabner.” Elling and Julie had both been born in “Wærdalen” but all of their children had been born in Singsaas.

According to Wikipedia, Singsås Station is a railway station located in the village of Singsås in Midtre Gauldal, Norway on the railway line Rørosbanen. The station is served three times daily in each direction by the commuter rail service Trønderbanen between Røros and Trondheim. The service is operated by Norges Statsbaner. The station was opened in 1876, one year before Rørosbanen was completed.

On January 1, 1964 Singsås was merged with the municipalities Budal, Soknedal and Støren to form the new municipality Midtre Gauldal.

Birth:
The 1910 census says 9 Mar 1843. The 1875 census says 1841.

Died:
Verdal death register on Digitalarkivet

Juliana married Elling Nilsen WHIST on 4 Jun 1872 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Elling was born on 18 Nov 1842 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 3 Oct 1931 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1925-MN-010522
• Baptism: 9 Apr 1848, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 4 Oct 1863, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

His parents’ farm was Maritvold Ørm (or Øren?) according to his birth record.

In the 1865 Norwegian census he was Teodor Johannessen, a 19 year-old male servant on the farm of the Olsens and Olsdatters (6 unmarried brothers and sisters) on Leirfald vestre in Vinne, Værdalens.

Emigrated to the U.S. in 1870; came to Fergus Falls in 1875 (the first of his siblings to do so). “He went into the butcher business and made a name for himself in town, at least with the Norwegian population. He was also a prominent figure in the free church congregation there.”



Notes in the remarks column of his birth entry: “Att. Amerika 17.04.1870.”This is correct. The church book records Theodor Johannessen Leirfald emigrating from Verdal to Amerika on April 17, 1870.

In the 1875 state census, Theodore, Martha, and Gilmer are living in Fergus Falls.

In the 1880 census (June 21st), Theodore Johnson was a butcher living in Fergus Falls. His family consisted of himself, 32, Martha, 34, Gitmer, 5, Conrad, 2, and Thorval, 3 months. Theodore and Martha were born in Norway, Gitmer in Wisconsin, and the other two boys in Minnesota. The family also had four boarders living with them, one of whom was Martinus E Bye, 32.

In the 1885 state census, Theodor, Martha, Gilmar, and Konrad are living in Fergus Falls. Living with them is 68 year-old Jens Evenson. Their next-door neighbor is Martin Orfal and his wife Marie. And living with the Orfals is 68 year-old Martha Aune.

In the 1895 state census, Theo, Martha, Gilmer, Conrad, and Sophie, along with Jens Evenson, are living in Fergus Falls. Theo and Gilmer, both shown as butchers, are shown as having lived in the U.S., and in Fergus Falls, for 19 years.

In the 1900 census, he and his family are living on Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls, just a few houses away from the newly-married Hans and Marie Bye. It’s just Gilmar and Conrad left of the kids. Also living with the family is Martha’s father Jens Evenson, a “nephew” Fonzio (sp?) Whist, 24, born in Norway, and an adopted daughter, Sophia.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he owns a meat market at 222 Bismarck Avenue E and resides there as well with his wife Martha C and Miss Sophie Johnson. His sons Gilmer and Conrad also live at 222 Bismarck.

In the 1905 state census, the household, at 222 Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls, consists of Theodore, Mrs. Martha, Gilmer, Conrad, Mrs. Lizzie (Conrad’s new wife), Ellen S. Johnson, 21, and Gyda Johnson, age 7.

He was the informant for the information on his wife’s death certificate. At that time he was living on Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls.

As Theo Johnson, he was one of the charter members of Trønderlag of America in 1908. This was (and still is) the bygdelag for emigrants and their descendants from the Trøndelag region of Norway. Theo claimed to come from the Lerfald farm. “Theodore Johnson (Leirfald)”, of Fergus Falls and from Vårdalen, was listed in the Trønderlaget’s 1910 yearbook. In that yearbook, Theodore is shown as having emigrated to the U.S. in 1870.

In the 1910 census, he is a widower living not far from his two married sons who are managing the butcher shop. Theodore is the “proprietor.” Sophia is still single and living with him and they also have 16 year-old Edward Johnson living with them. Edward is a wagon driver for the butcher shop.

In the 1920 census, he is a widower living on Washington Avenue, Fergus Falls, not far from his son Conrad. His occupation is owner, butcher shop.

He died of pneumonia. The informant for his death certificate was his son Conrad who had no idea who his father’s parents were. Theodore’s residence at death was 222 Washington Avenue. He was a widower.

There were no residences remaining on Washington Avenue in 2008. According to Chris, Theo’s butcher shop was torn down in 2007 and the location is now a parking lot.

Theo and his family belonged to the Norwegian Free Church in Fergus Falls, now known as Zion Lutheran Church. Theo was known as “Butcher Johnson.”

His granddaughter’s father-in-law, Elias Pederson, officiated at Theo’s funeral.

Died:
he died at home of pneumonia, the Dalby Database has his date of death as April 12th

Buried:
this cemetery is or was also known as Mount Faith

Theodor married Martha Catrine Jensdatter on 4 Jul 1872 in Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. Martha (daughter of Jens Evenson and Karen Hansdatter ØREN) was born on 30 Jan 1844 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 22 Oct 1908 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 27 Oct 1908 in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1916-MN-010235
• Occupation: Butcher
• Confirmation: 6 Oct 1867, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Known in the U.S. as Charles Henry Johnson.

Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as Charl Henrik Johannessen, the only child still living with his parents, born in 1851.

Married and had 12 children, 7 of whom died before he did.

Noted in the Remarks column of his birth entry: “Att. Levanger 25.0.”

In the 1895 Minnesota census he is Chas Johnson, 44, butcher. He had been a resident of Minnesota for 20 years and 1 month and a resident of “this enumeration district” for 5 years and 2 months.

In the 1900 census he is Charles H. Johnson, 48 (b. Dec 1851), living with his wife and family at 323 Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls. He was a butcher. He had come to the U.S. in 1872.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he, as Charles H Johnson, works for his brother and, with wife Mary, resides at 323 Bismarck Avenue E.

In the 1905 state census he is Charles S. Johnson, 53, a laborer living at 323 Bismark Avenue East with his wife and family. The family consists of Mrs. Mattie, 42, Constance, 13, Julia L, 11, and Ruth 4. Charles S. had been in Minnesota for 25 years and in this enumeration district for 14.

Charles Johnson, 58, is still living in Fergus Falls with his wife and family in the 1910 census. That Charles married his wife in about 1881 and came to this country in 1872. The children at home were four daughters: Constance, 17, Judith, 15, Gyda, 12, and Ruth, 9.

He died from chronic nephritis. The informant for his death certificate was his daughter Constance Johnson. His residence at death was 323 Bismark in Fergus Falls.

Carl married Mary Christine Marie BJERTNESS on 17 Mar 1881 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Mary (daughter of John BJERTNESS and Louisa) was born on 24 May 1862 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 5 Jul 1935 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 8 Jul 1935 in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1935-MN-013726
• Baptism: 30 May 1852, Saxhaug, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 22 Sep 1867, Saxhaug, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Emigrated from Inderøy in February of 1881. Martin Aarfald arrived in the U.S. at New York on April 14, 1881, aboard the Parthia.

In the 1885 state census, he and his wife Marie, along with 68 year-old Martha Aune, live in Fergus Falls next door to Theodore and Martha Johnson.

In the 1890-1891 Duluth city directory, there is an entry for Orfel & Co at 2101 W Superior for which the partners are Martin Orfel and Peter Aume. Martin Orfel lives at 2101 W Superior. Hans Bye is listed in that directory as a driver for Orfald & Aune. In the 1891-1892 and 1892-1893 Duluth city directories, there is an entry for “Orfald and Aune meats”, a business at “rear 2101 W Superior”, for which the partners are shown as Martin Orfald and Peter Aune. In that same directory, Martin Orfald of Orfald & Aune lives at 2230 W Michigan. In the 1891-1892 Duluth city directory, the particulars for Martin and the business are the same except that Martin lives at 2302 W Michigan.

In the 1895 Minnesota state census, Martin, 43, Mary, 44, and three month old George live in Duluth where Martin is a laborer.

In the 1895-1896 Duluth city directory, he may be the Martin Orfald, laborer for the Duluth Manufacturing Company, who resides at 211 60th Ave W. In the 1896-1897 directory, there is still a Martin Orfald, laborer, living at 211 S 60th Ave W.

Martin and Maria (Aune) Orfald lived in Mille Lacs County in 1900 and 1910 with a son George H. George H. married Dorothy Scott and together they had a daughter Sally Ann and, probably, a son George Scott. Maria and Martin died in St. Louis County in the 1930s.

According to the 1900 census, he came to the U.S. in 1880. In that 1900 census Martin’s occupation is day laborer.

He is probably the “Martin Orfold of West Duluth” mentioned in a brief note in the Minneapolis Journal in its 13 Nov 1901 edition. He had “returned from the Klondike where he cleared up $15,000 in two years.”

In the 1905 state census, Martin and his family live in Milaca. Martin is a butcher.

In the 1910 census, Martin is a laborer doing odd jobs.

Martin was a clerk in a general store. His brother John was the informant for his death certificate. Martin died from acute bronchitis.

According to the Iron Range Research Center’s database, Martinus B. Orfald applied for citizenship in Otter Tail County.

Birth:
birth record says May 4th, death certificate says May 4th; confirmation record says June 4th, emigration record says June 4th

Martin married Marie Lorenzdatter AUNE on 13 May 1883 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Marie (daughter of Lornts Haldorson SAXHAUG and Ingeborg Marth Johnsdatter) was born on 7 Apr 1851 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 25 May 1938 in Biwabik, St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried on 28 May 1938 in Biwabik, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 23 Mar 1856, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Birth:
According to her baptism record in FS’s Norway-EASy.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Mar 1859, Saxhaug, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

She emigrated on August 8, 1881, from Sakshaug as Gurine Berntsdatter Aarfold. According to the church book’s out-migration record, Gurine was born 27 Dec 1858 and was confirmed on 10 April 1874. She was traveling to America with two other young women, one of whom was her first cousin Grethe Oline Andreasdatter.

She was not the person of 1936-MN-012484.

Birth:
FamilySearch’s Norway-EASy Baptism record has the birthdate as 31 Dec 1858 as the birth date.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1915-MN-004676
• Occupation: Farm Laborer
• Baptism: 25 Jul 1861, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 8 Oct 1876

Notes:

Or Mortinus.

According to the Sakshaug church book emigration record, he left for Amerika in March of 1882 as Martinus Berntssen Aarfald.

He may have been the 23 year-old M. Orfald in Fergus Falls in the 1885 state census.

In the 1895-1896 Duluth city directory, he is probably the Martinus B Orfald, who lives at “e s 57th Avenue W 2 s of Gosnold.” That Martinus B is a butcher for C O Balstad. In the 1894-1895 city directory, there is a Martin Orfod, butcher, living at “e s 57th av 2 s of Gosnold.”

An article in the November 13, 1901, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune claims that Martin had just returned from the Klondike gold country $15,000 to the good. “However, that was acquired with much hardship as he remarked that he nearly starved for three months shortly after reaching Alaska.”

He was unmarried according to his death certificate. The informant was his brother John B. of Biwabik. He died from crupous pneumonia.

Birth:
His death certificate says 2 Jun 1862. His baptism record in FS’s Norway-EASy (for Mortinus Berntsen) says 1861.

Confirmation:
date according to his emigration record from Sakshaug

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Apr 1864, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

In the 1910 Norwegian census, she is probably the Julie Berntsdatter, b. 1-1-1864 in Inderøen, who is the wife of John Jakobsen, owner of the large farm Rol øvre 138 in Inderøen.

She died on Rol or, at least, resided on Rol at the time of her death.

Birth:
Her baptism record in FS’s Norway-EASy.

Died:
as Julie Marie Wibe, Norway Burial Index, DIS-Norge, 1700-2010

Buried:
Norway Burial Index, DIS-Norge, 1700-2010

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1947-MN-014408
• Occupation: cook, “Stationary furnace, iron mine”

Notes:

John married his first cousin.

Immigrated from Norway 1885, naturalized in 1892. He appears not to have emigrated from Trondheim.

In the 1890-1891 Duluth city directory, he is John Orfald, “boarding house 23 1st av E.” In that same directory, Mary Bye is shown as "domestic, John Orfald" and living in West Duluth. John is listed in the 1891-1892 Duluth city directory as John Orfald “boarding house Central Ave. sw corner N 3d W. Duluth.”

John’s brother, Martin Orfald, was a partner with Peter Aune in a meat store at 2101 W. Superior in Duluth. (Hans Bye is listed in the 1891 Duluth city directory as a “driver” for Orfald & Aune.)

In the 1895 Minnesota state census, John, 30, Mary, 23, and “Helma” 1, (with 20 year-old boarder Hans Westby) live in “Town 58, Range 19” in St. Louis County with Mountain Iron as their post office.

At the time of the 1900 census, John is living apart from the family and Marie is the head of houshold and is living in Missabe Mountain Township in St. Louis County. The family consists of Marie, 27 (born April 1873), Alma O., 5 (born Oct 1894), Marvin B., 3 (born April 1897), and Jennie M., 8 months, born in September, 1899. Marie is shown as married and having been so for 7 years. She had had 3 children, all still living. Her occupation is shown as cook. She emigrated from Norway in 1880.

John Orfald, 38, cook, and Petter Aune, 62, butcher, both of 2224 West Superior Street in Duluth, went to Norway in the early 1900s. They arrived back in New York on September 1, 1904, aboard the S.S. Baltic which had sailed from Liverpool on August 24th. Arriving in the U.S. with John and Petter was Ingvald Aune, age 9, a citizen of Norway, who is indicated on the Baltic’s manifest to be the “ward” of Petter. The child’s passage had been paid for by his grandfather. Petter had become a citizen by action of the District Court of St. Louis County on July 17, 1893, and John by that same authority on April 2, 1888. Ingvald is shown as going to join his mother.

In the 1905 state census, the Orfalds live in Biwabik. John is a cook.

In the 1907 Range Towns directory, Peter L. Aune has a meat business at 2224 W. Superior. In that 1907 Range Towns directory, there is no entry for Orfald.

At the time of the 1910 census, the family is together in Biwabik in a house they are renting. The family consists of John (“Jno”), 43, Marie, 36, Alma, 15, Marvin, 13, Jennie, 10, Myrtle, 6, Ruth, 4, Mabel, 2, and Roy, a few months old. John and Marie had been married 17 years. Marie had had 7 children, all still living. John is a cook at a logging camp.

He is Jno B Orfald in the 1912 Hibbing city directory, which includes Biwabik. He is an engineer for the Ruddy Mine, residing at the Duluth Location.

In the 1917 Virginia city directory, which includes Biwabik, he is Jno B Orfald, a fireman, residing ¼ mile n w of Canton Location.

In the 1920 census (January 20th), the family is in Biwabik in a house they are renting. The household consists of John Orfold, 52, a stationary fireman in an iron mine, Marie, 46, Marvin, 22, and a miner in the iron mine, Ruth, 14, Mabel, 12, Robert, 9, and Edna, 7. Also living with John and Marie’s family is Fred Goodman, 29, an iron miner, Jennie Goodman, 20, Marie Goodman, 2 and 7 months, Gladys Goodman, 1 and 2 months, and Harry Goodman, a 26 year old boarder who is an iron miner. John came to this country in 1885 and became a citizen in 1892. Marie came to this country in 1883 and became a citizen in 1892. Fred came to this country in 1912 and was not a citizen (Jennie, even though she was born in Minnesota, is shown as an alien in the census because of her husband’s status). Harry came to this country in 1914 and became a citizen in 1919.

In the 1922 Virginia city directory, which includes Biwabik, he is the only Orfald listed. He is still a fireman, housed ¼ mile n w of the Canton Location.

A January 13, 1922, article in the Duluth News-Tribune mentions that John was an officer of the Diamond lodge No. 262 of the International Order of the Odd Fellows. John was “district deputy grand warden.”

In the 1924 Virginia city directory, which includes Biwabik, he is a watchman at the Canton Location. His daughters, Mabel, Myrtle, and Ruth, are also listed in this directory, in all three cases still residing at home.

In the 1930 census, John and Marie and family were living on Chicago Avenue in Biwabik. The household consisted of John B., 63, Marie, 56, Myrtle (absent, but not to attend school), 25, Robert, 20, Edna, 17, Lawrence, 9, grandson, and Anton, 50, brother of John. Everyone is shown as single except John and Marie who were married when they were 27 and 20, respectively. John and Marie own the house, which is worth $4000, and they have a radio. John, Marie, and Anton were born in Norway. Lawrence’s father was born in England and his mother was born in Minnesota. (Lawrence is Jennie’s son.) Anton and John came to this country in 1888, Marie in 1893. John’s occupation is “cook” and the industry is illegible, may be “county”, and he is currently employed. Anton’s occupation is listed as “none” although the census-taker had one filled in initially and then crossed it out. Myrtle is a telephone operator for Bell Telephone and she is also currently employed. Robert is a sample-taker for the “Evith Furnace Co.” (Eveleth?) and he is unemployed. Neither John nor Anton are veterans.

In the 1940 census, John, Marie, Edna, and Anton lived in Biwabik. John was a janitor for the village hall. Edna was a stenographer for a school paper. John, Marie, and Anton had had an eighth-grade education. Edna was a high school graduate. None of the four were living at the same house in which they had lived in 1935. At that time they had been living elsewhere in St. Louis County.

John died of complications from Parkinson’s disease, which he had had for 9 years.

Johannes married Marie Othelie Martinusdatter BYE on 3 Apr 1893 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Marie (daughter of Martinus Eliassen BYE and Olianna Johannesdatter JOHNSON) was born on 27 Apr 1873 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 19 Jun 1966 in Virginia, St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried on 21 Jun 1966 in Lakeside Cemetery, Biwabik, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Jun 1870, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Family/Spouse: Jørgen Andersson KVISTAD. Jørgen was born on 28 Feb 1870 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not listed in Nord-Trøndelag in the 1910 Norwegian census.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1956-MN-015540
• Confirmation: 25 Aug 1895, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

His confirmation record in Inderøy is for Iver Anton Jonsen Aarfald, born in Gran, 29 June 1879, bapt. 27 July. He was living on Aarfald, “with Bernt.”

He is recorded in the Sakshaug, Inderøy, church book’s emigration records as Iver Anton Jonsen Aarfald, leaving the parish in 1900 for Amerika. He was not listed with Bernt and Ane in the 1900 Norwegian census.

In the 1905 census he was a mechanical laborer in Itasca County, Minnesota. He had been in the state for 5 years and in the local area for 3 years.

In the 1910 census he is a single, 30 year-old, diamond driller living in a construction camp, probably for a railroad, in Nashwauk Twp, Itasca County. He came to the U.S. in 1900.

Registered for the WWI draft on September 12, 1918, as Anton Jonson Orfold. His address was general delivery, Buhl, MN. He was a naturalized citizen and was employed by the Duluth Diamond Drill Co. as a diamond drill runner. He lists his nearest relative as John Orfold of Biwabik. He is described as short, of medium build, with blue eyes and brown hair.

In the 1930 census he was 50 years old and living with John and Marie Orfald in Biwabik. He had no occupation.

In the 1940 census, he was 66 and worked as a laborer in an ore mine.

Mrs. A. Cartwright of Biwabik was the informant for his death certificate. He was totally blind. He died of uremia. He had been a diamond driller in the iron mining industry.

Died:
Virginia Municipal Hospital where he had been for 1 day

Notes:

“Sypige” and living at home in the 1875 Norwegian census.

According to Nina, Julie and Elias lived in Skansegata, Trondheim.

Birth:
NÆSS says 1 Feb 1855, Bereth’s bible says 31 Jan.

Family/Spouse: Elias HAUGEN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

“Hjælper Moderen”, single, living at home in the 1875 Norwegian census.

Her father was on Nes when she was born.

She is listed as emigrating from Sakshaug on August 8, 1881, as Grethe Oline Andreasdatter Nes i Strommen, pige, confirmed 10 May 1873. She was apparently traveling with two other young women according to the church book, one of whom was her first cousin Gurine Berntsdatter Aarfold.

Travelled to Fergus Falls in 1881 and then supposedly lived in Fargo after her marriage, according to NÆSS.

According to the 1900 census, she had had 12 children, 11 still living. The child who died must have been born in about 1887, between Annie and Gustave. That’s what is shown here. In the 1910 census, the numbers were 13 and 12.

She died in Cass County, North Dakota, which is probably where the idea that she had lived in Fargo came from.

Died:
As Gertrude O Anderson, b. 20 Jun 1857 out of state and resided in Minnesota.

Grethe married Ingebret/Edwin O ANDERSON on 7 Nov 1881 in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. Ingebret/Edwin was born in May 1855 in Norway; died on 8 Mar 1934 in Clay County, Minnesota; was buried in Barnesville City Cemetery, Barnesville, Clay County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shown as “Fisker?” in the 1875 Norwegian census.

Born on Nes.

Came to the U.S. in around 1881 according to Nina. May have travelled with his sister Grete.

Notes:

Or Anne Beret. She is Anne Bergithe in the Sakshaug church book birth record.

Living with her parents and siblings in the 1875 Norwegian census.

According to Nina and NÆSS, Anne Bergithe travelled to Fergus Falls in 1884 or 1885 and married Andrew Grande. They lived in Virginia, Minnesota, and she had six children.

She is not listed in the Sakshaug emigration records. The 1900 census lists her year of immigration as 1885. The 1910 census lists her year of immigration as 1886. The 1920 census lists her year of immigration as “Un.” the 1930 census lists her year of immigration as 1884.

In the 1905 Minnesota state census, Andrew and Annie (as Grandy) and family live in Missabe Mountain Twp in St. Louis County. Andrew is a carpenter.

In the 1900 census, Annie (b. Jul 1864) and Andrew (b. Jun 1858) lived in Duluth. Andrew is a carpenter and came to the U.S. in 1882. Annie came in 1885. Their children: Mamie J (b. Apr 1890), Agnes (b. Jul 1892), John A. (b. Jan 1894), and Geda R. (b. Aug 1896). Annie has had five children, four still living.

in the 1910 census, the Grandes live in Virginia where Andrew is a building contractor. Annie B has had seven children, six still living.

In her April 24, 1920, passport application, she claims to have lived in the U.S. uninterruptedly for 35 years from 1885 to 1920, of which 15 years were in Duluth and 20 years in Virginia, Minnesota. She gives her name as Annie Grande and claims to be going abroad for no more than six months to visit relatives. She intends to leave the U.S. at the port of New York aboard a ship of the Norwegian-American line on June 20, 1920. She is described as 55 years old, 5 feet, 3 inches tall with blue eyes and gray hair. She lives at 105 N, Fifth Ave. W., Virginia, Minnesota.

The New York Passenger lists show that she returned to New York on September 7, 1920, aboard the SS Stavangerfjord which had sailed from Christiania on August 28th. She seems to have been accompanied by Christ and Sara Christofferson, of 512 2nd Street in Virginia. Christ’s passport number was 1 number higher than Annie’s (31048 vs. 31047).

In the 1930 census, Annie was a widow living in Virginia with her sons and daughter Mamie.

In the 1940 census, Annie and Mayme lived 107 5th Avenue North in Virginia in a house they owned worth $10,000 (!), the same house in which both had lived five years earlier. Neither Annie nor Mayme were employed but Mayme was a high school graduate. Living with them was a lodger, Florence Iverson, a third-grade teacher in the public school.

Birth:
her 1920 passport application asserts July 20th

Anne married Andrew GRANDE on 22 Nov 1890 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Andrew was born in Jun 1858 in Norway; died on 2 Aug 1924 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 8 Nov 1868, Saxhaug, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Not born on Nes.

As Johan Andreassen Ness, he emigrated from Saxhaug in late May of 1887. Nina says he came to Fergus Falls and then lived in Duluth.

In the 1900 census, a John Ness, b. July 1868 in Norway, was a single man rooming in Fargo. He was a laborer.

In the 1920 census, he was John A Ness, 51, a farmer in Berthold Twp, Ward County, North Dakota.

The family was still together and living in Berthold Twp in the 1930 census.

John, Hanna, and Lester lived in Berthold Twp in the 1940 census in the same house in which they had lived five years earlier.

Family/Spouse: Hannah JOHNSON. Hannah was born on 13 Feb 1875 in Sweden; died on 2 Sep 1974 in Ward County, North Dakota; was buried in Wild Rose Cemetery, Berthold, Ward County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Carpenter, merchant

Notes:

In the 1900 Norwegian census, Hermann Næss, b. 1870, and his wife Marie Næss, b. 1871 in Stenkjær, live in Trondheim.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, Herman Næss, b. 10 Oct 1870, and his wife, Marie Næss, b. 19 Mar 1871, live in Trondheim. Herman ran a grocery store. His widowed mother lives with the family.

Birth:
day and month from NÆSS

Died:
NÆSS

Buried:
Norway Burial Index, DIS-Norge, 1700-2010

Family/Spouse: Marie Amalie STAMNES. Marie was born on 19 Mar 1871 in Stenkjær, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 15 Feb 1960 in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway; was buried on 22 Jun 1960 in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1900 Norwegian census, he lived in Trondheim with his brother Hermann and family. Olaf was a stone cutter.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Baker

Notes:

Spelled Osker in his mother’s diary. Unmarried, diabetic.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1922-MN-010119
• Occupation: Grocer in his brother’s business, dealer in farm products
• Baptism: 4 Mar 1870, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 4 Oct 1885, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

Oleanna Johannesdatter, 43, and her four children (Jon Martinussen, 11, Marie Martinussdatter, 7, Anna Martinussdatter, 9, and Hans Martinussen, 5) left Norway on 5 April 1882 on the feeder ship Tasso to Hull, England. Their destination was Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

He married his 2nd cousin.

In the 1895 census, J. M. and Gertie are living in Fergus Falls. J. M. is a clerk.

In the 1900 census, John is shown as 30, having been born in Norway in December of 1869. He and Gertie had been married 5 years. Gertie is 27, born in December of 1872, and has had two children, both still living. The children are Mabel, 3 (born June 1896) and George, 2 (born in August of 1897). John is shown as having emigrated in 1882, Gertie in 1892. John is a grocer. Gertie is shown as not being able to speak English. John owns his home without mortgage.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he and Gertie live at the west end of Channing Avenue. He is in business with his father as J M Bye & Co. at 103 Bismarck Avenue E.

In the 1903 Fergus Falls city directory, he was John M Bye, a grocer with his business at 103 Bismarck Avenue E. He and Gertie resided at the west end of Channing Avenue.

In the 1905 directory, he was John M Bye, a dealer in Groceries, Crockery, Glassware and Gents’ Furnishings at 103 Bismarck Avenue E. He and Gertie resided at 420 Channing Avenue W.

In the 1905 state census, he and his family live on Channing Avenue in Fergus Falls. John is a grocery merchant.

In the 1907 directory, his name is listed with bold letters but he has no occupation shown. He and Gertie still live at 420 Channing Avenue W.

As J. M. Bye, he was one of the charter members of Trønderlag of America in 1908. This was (and still is) the bygdelag for emigrants and their descendants from the Trøndelag region of Norway. J. M. Bye, of Fergus Falls and from Vårdalen, was listed in the Trønderlaget’s 1910 yearbook. In that yearbook, J. M. is shown to have emigrated to the U.S. in 1882.

In the 1909 directory, he is John M Bye, no bold letters or occupation or wife’s name shown. He lives at 420 Channing Avenue W.

In the 1910 census, he is shown as age 40 and a widower; apparently a fairly recent widower because he has a one-year old daughter. John is a dealer in farm produce. He owned his home without mortgage.

In the 1911 city directory, he is now in the grocery business with his brother Hans as part of the Hans P Bye & Co. with a store at 220 Lincoln Avenue W. He still lives at 420 Channing Ave W.

John, his brother Hans, and perhaps their uncle Theodor were original shareholders of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Fergus Falls when it was organized on May 22, 1915.

In the 1920 census, (incorrectly indexed as Beel) the family was living at 425 Channing Avenue in a home he owned without mortgage. The family is John, 50, no occupation, Mabel, 24, a school teacher, George M., 22, a clerk at the post office, John G., 19, a shipping clerk at a wholesale house, Myrtle T., 16, and Margaret, 10. John is shown as married. He came to this country in 1882 and is naturalized.

His obit noted that he had been 20 years with H P Bye & Company on Washington in Fergus Falls but had retired on account of ill health. “One of his daughters teaches school at Stanley, N.D.”

John M.’s Minnesota death certificate #1922-MN-010119. Another John Bye died in Otter Tail County on Jan 31, 1922.

There was no such house as 425 Channing in 2008.

John prepared his will on June 21, 1920. His brother was named as the executor of his will. That will was recognized by the probate judge of Otter Tail County on 6 Jul 1922. The terms of the will granted his wife a life estate on his homestead in the city of Fergus Falls. The rest of his property was to go to his children, “share and share alike.” The will notes that his wife is not included in the distribution of his personal property because John had a $2000 life insurance policy “payable direct to her.”

According to the obit, John died “at 6:45 PM, “from apoplexy.” According to his death certificate, he died from a cerebral hemorrhage for which cardiovascular disease was a contributory cause. The doctor filling out the death certificate said that he confirmed the diagnosis of cerebral hemorrhage by the fact of “paralysis.” The informant for the information in John’s death certificate was his brother Hans. John was a retired merchant. He was married but the death certificate did not include a name for John’s wife. Hans knew that John’s father was M. E. Bye but all he knew of his mother, or at least all he had included in John’s death certificate, was “Olianna” with no last name.

According to Mike, “John Bye put out ‘year plates’ for his grocery store and my mother has several of them with the dates.”

His naturalization records:

John M. Bye
Otter Tail County
Reel 2
Volume C
Code 4
Page 434

and

John M. Bye
Otter Tail County
Reel 6
Volume J
Code 18
Page 273

Died:
St. Luke’s Hospital. Find-A-Grave says June 1st.

Buried:
1:30 PM funeral at Bethlehem Lutheran Church

Johan married Grethe Johanna Mikalsdatter (Gertie) HAGA on 4 Jun 1895 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Grethe (daughter of Michael Olsen HAGE and Gurina Johnsdatter SKOGN) was born on 20 Dec 1872 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 12 Oct 1926 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 15 Oct 1926 in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1949-MN-003383
• Baptism: 26 Dec 1871, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 3 Oct 1886, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

Oleanna Johannesdatter, 43, and her four children (Jon Martinussen, 11, Marie Martinussdatter, 7, Anna Martinussdatter, 9, and Hans Martinussen, 5) left Norway on 5 April 1882 on the feeder ship Tasso to Hull, England. Their destination was Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Lived for awhile in Fergus Falls, later in Duluth. After marriage, she and Andrew lived in Duluth for a year or two, then moved to Cedar Lake.

Edna Cartwright, Anna's sister's daughter, said in a 1970 letter that her mother remembered Anna as a beautiful young girl. Edna herself remembered Anna as a lovely person whom she loved almost as much as her own mother. Edna said that she wished Anna could have had an easier life.

Died at the home of her son (Albin) where she had been for a week following two weeks of hospitalization at St. Joseph's Hospital, Brainerd.

In addition to, presumably, all of her living children, the following people attended Anna’s funeral according to a newspaper account: Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Graham and family, Oak Park, Ill.; Mrs. Marie Orfold and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Orfold, Biwabik; Mr. Conrad Skogen, Duluth; Mr. and Mrs. Knute Johnson and family, St. Louis Park; and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Carlson, Minneapolis.

David believes that there may have been some hard feelings in the family or among the siblings regarding the inheritance from Martinus after his death in 1932. All or most of it went to Hans Peter and little or nothing to Anna or Marie.

Anna rarely, perhaps never, got back to Fergus Falls to visit her father or brothers after she left for Duluth.

Anne’s letter to her husband, addressed to him in Deer River, Minnesota:
(translated from the Norwegian)

Cedar Lake, July 30th, 1906

Dear Andrew,

I received a letter from you on the 26th. You asked about the haying but I have already written two letters to you since we were through with the haying and with this letter it will be the 3rd. You must not be getting all the letters I write you.

We finished the haying on the 18th of July. We filled the hay barn and also made a big stack. There came a little rain on the last load but that didn’t hurt anything.

Mrs. Holem and Mrs. Rud visited me yesterday and last Thursday I was to a Ladies Aid at Mrs. Rom.

The pigs have grown a lot since you were home. We have so many flowers blooming. We had bad luck with our gander. He fell on his head in a deep bucket with water in and he drowned. Now the goose goes around here alone.

We are all well and hope that you are fine also. There aren’t many berries this year. We find only enough to eat.

Next year if we are all well and you work away from home I want to go with you. I am tired of being so alone in the wilds. Also it will be better schooling for the children. Greetings from all the boys, Astrid, and Lillie.

Write as soon as you can so we will hear how everything is with you.

Best of everything to my dear husband.

Your Annie

One of her granddaughters recalls remembers Annie as “incredibly sweet and kind.” In her last years, Annie’s legs were ulcerated and wrapped. “She would let me sit on her lap over my mother’s protests. She would frequently instruct me ‘Go get my handbag’ and she would fish out a quarter - great wealth back then!”

Death Certificate ID# 1949-MN-003383   
Date of Death: 03/22/1949
County of Death: CROW WING  

The August 21, 1947, edition of the Brainerd Daily Dispatch, probably referring to August 14, 1947, records: “Mr. and Mrs. Henry Norton of Chicago, Mrs. Arthur Cartwright and Mrs. J.B. Orfold of Biwabik visited with Mrs. Anne Everson and John Everson on Thursday.”

She died of cardiac failure. Her son Albin, of Aitkin, was the informant for her death certificate. Albin knew that Anna’s father was Martin Bye but he did not know the name of Anna’s mother.

She died intestate. The probate hearing was to be May 24, 1949, according to a notice in the edition of the Brainerd newspaper. Albin Everson, petitioner, asked that Naomi Everson be appointed “administratrix.” The probate judge was L. B. Kinder, the same judge who married John and Mabel.
 

Birth:
parish birth record found by Mark

Confirmation:
perhaps First English Lutheran Church

Died:
Her death certificate says that she died in Rabbit Lake Twp but usually lived in Deerwood Twp

Buried:
Her funeral was from the Seavey Funeral Home, not the Dorris church.

Anna married Anders (Andrew) EVERSON on 4 Mar 1892 in Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin. Anders (son of Iver Halvorsen GUSTAD and Ane Arntsdatter VINJE) was born on 15 Feb 1856 in Kvernes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway; was christened on 12 May 1856 in Kvernes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway; died on 15 Dec 1942 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 21 Dec 1942 in Dorris Cemetery, Cedar Lake, Farm Island Twp, Aitkin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1966-MN-015728
• Occupation: Cook
• Social Security Number: 474-58-3355 issued in Minnesota in 1965
• Baptism: 15 Jun 1873, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 2 Oct 1887, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

Marie married her first cousin.

Oleanna Johannesdatter, 43, and her four children (Jon Martinussen, 11, Marie Martinussdatter, 7, Anna Martinussdatter, 9, and Hans Martinussen, 5) left Norway on 5 April 1882 on the feeder ship Tasso to Hull, England. Their destination was Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Her death certificate, for which the informant was her son Robert, says that she was born in Trondheim.

Living in Biwabik, MN, at the time of Martin Bye’s death in 1932 and Anna Bye Everson's death in 1949. Living in Biwabik at the time of the 1920 census (January 20th). All five children were living at home at that time.

According to Edna Cartwright, she was 9 when the family emigrated and 15 when her mother died. These dates are only slightly inconsistent with other information. According to the 1920 census, Marie immigrated in 1883 and was naturalized as a citizen in 1892.

The 1890-91 Duluth directory lists Marie as Mary. Mary Bye is shown as "domestic, John Orfald" and living in West Duluth.

Lived with Edna in her later years and "was well into her '90s" when she died (according to Lil).

Marie was referred to as Mary by many in the family.

An article in the August 11, 1918, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune, datelined Biwabik, was headlined “Biwabik Woman and Daughter Found in Woods Following Prolonged Search.” Marie and one one of her daughters became lost picking blueberries. The Home guard and firemen found them “a few miles from the town of McKinley, wandering helplessly about the woods.” They had been lost for two days and a night.

The Thursday, October 18, 1945, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that “Mrs. J.B. Orfald, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cartwright and daughter, Linda, of Biwabik visited with the John Eversons Tuesday.”

The Thursday, August 21, 1947, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that “Mr. and Mrs. Henry Norton of Chicago, Mrs. Arthur Cartwright and Mrs. J. B. Orfold of Biwabik visited with Mrs. Anne Everson and John Everson on Thursday.”

Minnesota death certificate shows the date of death as June 19, 1966 in St. Louis County (Minnesota Death Certificate ID# 1966-MN-015728). The SSDI shows her date of death as August 15, 1966, with the indication “verified with family.”

Another Marie Orfald died in St. Louis County on May 25, 1938. (Death Cert # 1938-MN-013506)

From her obituary in the Biwabik newspaper:

Marie Othelia Orfald, a Biwabik resident since 1898, died early Sunday morning at Virginia Municipal Hospital. She had been in failing health since April and had been admitted to the hospital on June 3rd.

She was born in Trondheim, Norway on April 28, 1873.

She was a member of the Biwabik Community United Church of Christ.

She is survived by one son, Robert W. Orfald of Virginia, and five daughters: Mrs. Jennie Goodman, Biwabik, Mrs. Myrtle Lehto, Chicago, Mrs. Harry (Ruth) Saxhaug, Virginia, Mrs. Mabel Norton, Chicago, and Mrs. Arthur (Edna) Cartwright, Biwabik. She is also survived by 17 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren, and 31 great-great-grandchildren.

Her pallbearers were Vernon Saxhaug, Virginia, Richard Dane, Lakeland, Daniel Norton, Chicago, and Robert, John, and Rickey Goodman, all of Biwabik.

Her death certificate gives her usual residence as 322 2nd Ave N in Biwabik. She died of cerebral thrombosis.

Birth:
28 Apr in SSDI

Died:
Virginia Municipal Hospital where she had been for 16 days

Buried:
family plot

Marie married Johannes (John) Berntson ORFALD on 3 Apr 1893 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Johannes (son of Bernt Andreas Monson AARFALD and Anne Johannesdatter) was born on 1 Aug 1866 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 23 May 1947 in Biwabik, St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried on 26 May 1947 in Lakeside Cemetery, Biwabik, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1946-MN-011782
• Occupation: Grocer, Shoe Salesman
• Baptism: 14 Nov 1875, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 1889, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

Oleanna Johannesdatter, 43, and her four children (Jon Martinussen, 11, Marie Martinussdatter, 7, Anna Martinussdatter, 9, and Hans Martinussen, 5) left Norway on 5 April 1882 on the feeder ship Tasso to Hull, England. Their destination was Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

The 1891-92 Duluth directory lists two of the Byes. Mary Bye is shown as "domestic, John Orfald" and living in West Duluth. Marie Bye was also called Mary. Hans Bye is shown as "driver, Orfald & Aune" and his address as "boards 2330 W Michigan." Orfald & Aune was a meat store at 2101 W. Superior in Duluth that was a partnership between Martin Orfald and Peter Aune.

In the 1893-1894 Duluth city directory, a Hans Bye, laborer, lives at 2302 West Michigan.

“Mr. Bye took a prominent part in the affairs of the city during his lifetime. He was for a number of years employed in the flower mills of the city, and later operated a grocery store in partnership with his brother, the late J. M. Bye. He served as alderman from the Fourth ward for several terms and gave freely of his time in the interests of this city and its citizens. He was popular with his fellow-man and highly regarded in the community.”

In the 1900 census, the newly-married Hans and Marie were living at 208 Bismark Avenue in a home that they rented. Hans is 24 (born Sept 1875) and Marie is 25 (born Nov 1874). They had been married 0 years and Marie had had 0 children. Both had emigrated from Norway in 1882. Hans is shown as a millhand in a flour mill.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he was Hans P Bye, a miller for the F Flour Mills Co. He and Mary lived at 208 Bismarck Avenue E.

In the 1903 Fergus Falls city directory, he was Hans P Bye, an oiler for F Flour Mills Co. He and Mary lived at 108 Bancroft Avenue E.

In the 1905 Fergus Falls directory, he was Hans P Bye, still an oiler for the F Flour Mills Co. He and Mary resided at 823 Vine Street.

In the 1905 census Hans (29, a miller) and Marie, 30, live in Biwabik, Twp 58, St. Louis County. The census form that he and Marie are listed on calls their location the “Duluth Mine Location” and is part of a different set of forms from the one that lists John and Marie Orfald who were also in Biwabik at this time. Hans’s entry seems to indicate that he and Marie had only been in Biwabik for a couple of months.

In the 1907 and 1909 Fergus Falls directories, he and Marie live at 126 Channing Avenue W. He is still an oiler for the F Flour Mills Co.

Hans was one of the charter members of Trønderlag of America in 1908. This was (and still is) the bygdelag for emigrants and their descendants from the Trøndelag region of Norway. Hans Bye, of Fergus Falls and from Vårdalen, was listed in the Trønderlaget’s 1910 yearbook. In that yearbook, Hans is shown as having emigrated to the U.S. in 1882.

By the time of the 1910 census, Hans, 34, and Marie, 35, were living at 126 Channing in a house that they owned without a mortgage. They had been married for 10 years and Marie had never had any children. Hans is a workman in a carpenter shop. Marie appears to have emigrated in 1894.

In the 1911 directory, he has a grocery business called the H P Bye & Co., a partnership with his brother with a store at 220 Lincoln Avenue W. Hans and Mary still live at 126 Channing Avenue W.

Hans, his brother John, and perhaps their uncle Theodor were original shareholders of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Fergus Falls when it was organized on May 22, 1915. The bank opened for business on August 2nd.

Registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Fergus Falls. His birthday is listed as September 24. He lives at 126 Channing Avenue N., Fergus Falls. He is a merchant for the H. P. Bye and Co. at 220 Lincoln Avenue N., Fergus Falls. His nearest relative is his wife, Marie, of the Channing Avenue address. He is described as tall and of stout build with blue eyes and grey hair.

In the 1920 census, Hans is listed as having no occupation (“none”). Hans is 44, Marie is 45. Hans emigrated in 1882 and Marie in 1893. They are still living at 126 Channing Ave.

In the 1930 census, Hans, 54, and Mary, 55, were living at 126 Chamin (sp?) Ave. in Fergus Falls with Anna Stangvick (“sister”) and Martin (“grandfather”) in a $4000 house that Hans owned. Hans is a salesman in a “shoe department.” The household had a radio. Anna was 38 and single; Martin was 82 and widowed. All four people are shown as having been born in Norway as were their parents. Hans is showing as having emigrated in 1882. The corresponding years of emigration for Mary, Anna, and Martin are shown as 1895, 1899, and 1880 respectively.

In the 1931 city directory, he and Mary live at 126 Channing Avenue W.

In the 1935/36 Fergus Falls city directory, he and Marie reside at 126 Channing Avenue West. In the 1939/40 Fergus Falls city directory, their telephone number is 937W.

In the 1940 census, he and Marie and Marie’s sister Anna live at 126 Channing in Fergus Falls. Hans has no occupation, is shown as unable to work, but earned $1200 the previous year. Hans and Marie were educated through the fifth grade.

In his September 13, 1945 letter to his brother Harold, George Everson wrote: “Hans Bye was here the last part of August. He stayed a whole week. He did not go to Biwabik. He said he enjoyed his visit very much.” In all likelihood, that was Hans’s last visit to Deerwood.

According to his death certificate, Hans died of stomach cancer which he had had for several months. He spent the last three-and-a-half days of his life at St. Luke’s Hospital in Fergus Falls. His “usual residence” was 126 West Channing, Fergus Falls. Hans did not have a social security number. Margaret Bye Ellingboe was the informant for his death certificate and she knew that Hans’s parents were Martinus Bye and Olianna Johnson.

Naturalization record:

Hans Bye
Otter Tail County
Reel 11
Volume H
Code 30
Page 152

Birth:
death date per death certificate

Died:
St. Luke’s Hospital, 11:45 PM, “of cancer”

Hans married Marie (Mary) STANGVIK on 22 Apr 1900 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Marie (daughter of Ole Olsson STANGVIK and Marit Martinusdatter TORVIK) was born on 6 Nov 1874 in Stangvik, Møre og Romsdal, Norway; died on 15 Jul 1941 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 17 Jul 1941 in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was living with his uncle, Theodor Johnson, in Fergus Falls in the 1900 U.S. census, employed as an “agent for cigars.” That census claims he came to the U.S. in 1880. As Fridthjof, or any variation, he doesn’t appear in any other U.S. censuses. However, a 33 year-old Fred Whist, born in Norway is recorded in Los Angeles in the 1910 census. Fred is a restaurant waiter and is married to Hilma, age 27, born in Sweden. That Fred and Hilma, now with a daughter Thelma, are still in Los Angeles County in the 1920 census. Fred is now 45, works as a salesman for a produce company, and claims to have come to the U.S. in 1890. By the 1930 census, Hilma, now as Helena, is a widow, still in Los Angeles. Hilma died in Los Angeles in 1959. Her daughter Thelma (born Edith) died in Los Angeles as Thelma Niederwerfer in 1993. Hilma’s maiden name is Andersen in Thelma’s death record; Hilma’s maiden name is Olson on Thelma/Edith’s birth record.

A 21 year-old “Axel” Whist was a land office clerk in St. Paul in the 1895 Minnesota state census. That Axel had been in Minnesota for two years.

Notes:

In the 1900 Norwegian census, in which he still lived at home with his parents, his occupation was shown to “overkonstabel.”

Notes:

In the 1900 Norwegian census, in which she still lived at home with her parents, her occupation was shown to “tjenestepige - husgjer.”

Birth:
birthdate in 1910 censu

Notes:

In the 1900 Norwegian census, in which he still lived at home with his parents, his occupation was shown to “kontorist ved station.”

Notes:

In the 1900 Norwegian census, in which he still lived at home with his parents, his occupation was shown to “kontorist ved station.”

Notes:

He was living with his parents in Verdal in the 1910 census. His occupation was skoleelev (pupil).

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1918-MN-013277

Notes:

Gilmer and Marie live not far from Conrad and Theodore in Fergus Falls in the 1910 census. Gilmer is the manager of the family butcher shop.

His obit in the 16 October 1918 edition of the Fergus Falls newspaper:

Gilmer Johnson, one of the well known residents of this city, died at 11 PM Tuesday evening at the home of his father, Theo Johnson, on Bismarck Avenue from pneumonia.

Mr. Johnson was born in this city and was 44 years of age at the time of his death. He had been in North Dakota engaged in wheat buying when he was taken ill. He is survived by his wife and one son who will have general and sincere sympathy.

His wife has been at International Falls on a visit with her brothers and it has been impossible to reach her by wire since he was taken ill, possibly on account of the derangements of the wire service owing to the forest fires. The funeral arrangements will be announced later.

Gilmer was a victim of the so-called “Spanish Flu” epidemic. His death certificate says that he died from influenza with double central and broncho-pneumonia.

Gilmer married Marie Margareta REHN on 30 Oct 1907 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Marie was born about 1885 in Sweden; died in Mar 1974 in Salem, Marion County, Oregon; was buried in Belcrest Memorial Park, Salem, Marion County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1946-MN-011614
• Occupation: Meat Cutter
• Social Security Number: 470-10-9556

Notes:

Conrad and family were living next door to his father on Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls in the 1910 census. Conrad is a butcher in the family butcher shop.

He registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Fergus Falls. He lives at 218 Washington Avenue East in Fergus Falls. He works in his father’s meat market at 222 Washington Avenue. His nearest relative is his wife, Lizzie Johnson. He is of medium height and build with blue eyes and brown hair.

In the 1920 census, Conrad and his family live on Washington Avenue in Fergus Falls, not far from Conrad’s father. Also living with the family is Lizzie’s sister, Ragna Lunde. Conrad is a shopman in a meat shop.

In the 1930 census, the family is still on Washington Avenue in Fergus Falls. Thora has left home but Margaret is still at home and living there with her new husband. Also living with the family is Ragna Lunde and boarder named Ernest Haeuser.

In the 1935/36 Fergus Falls city directory, he and Lisse reside at 218 Washington Avenue East. In the 1937/38 Fergus Falls city directory, his address is the same but his occupation is shown as meat cutter. In the 1939/40 Fergus Falls city directory, their telephone number is 126.

He was living at 218 Washington Avenue in Fergus Falls when he died of hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

His obituary from the May 13, 1946, edition of the Fergus Falls Daily Journal:

Conrad Johnson, 69, died Sunday at 11 AM at his home at 218 East Washington. He has been afflicted with a heart ailment for the last four years and, though unable to work, he has been up and around each day.

Mr. Johnson was born in this city on 24 August 1877 and would have been 69 on his next birthday. Conrad was associated with his father in the meat business and, after the business was discontinued, he was employed in other meat markets in this city. He was married on 29 August 1904 to Miss Liza (Lizzie) Lunde. He was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church. Funeral arrangements are pending word from the son in South America to whom a cablegram has been sent.

Conrad married Lisa LUNDE on 29 Aug 1904 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Lisa (daughter of Asle Nielsen LUNDE and Syverinde Monsdatter BJONE) was born on 12 Aug 1879 in Minnesota; died on 15 Apr 1968 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Single and living with Theodore’s family in the 1895, 1900, 1905, and 1910 censuses. In the 1905 census she is shown as Ellen S.

In the Fergus Falls city directories, she is Miss Sophie Johnson, never with an occupation.

She is not the person in Minnesota death certificates 1910-MN-009515, 1918-MN-012997, or 1918-MN-013677.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1963-MN-014803
• Baptism: 2 Mar 1884, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

He was an apprentice carpenter in the 1900 census.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he lives with his parents and works for the J M Bye and Co.

In the 1905 Fergus Falls directory, she was Miss Hilga L and was employed at the State Hospital.

A 21 year-old Gust Johnson, both parents born in Norway, was listed as a nurse at the state hospital in the 1905 state census.

Cecil Johnson of Pelican Rapids was the informant for his death certificate. Gustaf was a car man for the Great Northern Railway. Gustaf was a widower and his usual residence was 1006 Sheridan Street in Fergus Falls. He died of uremia and kidney failure.

In the 1910 census, he and Helga live in Devils Lake, North Dakota. The couple had been married for 2 years and had had no children. Gust was a tin smith in the “shops.” According to the birth record for Alice, he was a coppersmith.

In the 1920 and 1930 censuses, he and his wife and son lived in Minot, North Dakota. Gust was an air man for the steam railroad.

His obit noted that he was a carman for the Great Northern Railway for 41 years, and a member of the railroad carmens and pensioners association.

Birth:
His obit said 2 January.

Died:
Lake Region Hospital

Buried:
buried with Helga

Gustave married Helga L BYE on 19 Jun 1907 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Helga (daughter of Henry Hendrikssen BYE and Lena Christena SEVERSON) was born on 21 Sep 1881 in Minnesota; died on 8 Oct 1951 in Ward County, North Dakota; was buried in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gustave married Johanna GREFSRUD on 25 Apr 1961 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Johanna was born on 14 Jul 1887; died on 7 Aug 1961 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he lives at home with his parents but is employed by his father’s brother’s meat market. He is not listed in the 1905 directory.

He registered for the draft in San Diego on June 5th, 1917. He lived with his wife and child at 1543 7th in San Diego. He was a self-employed attorney with his office at 218 Owl Building in San Diego. He claimed 20 months of previous military service as a private in a hospital company in the U.S. Army. He was described as of medium height, slender build, with blue eyes and black hair.

In the 1910 census, he and his wife and son lived in Coronado City where he was a solicitor for a retail grocery concern.

In the 1920 census, he and his wife and son lived in San Diego. He was a criminal lawyer.

In the 1930 census, he and his wife and son lived at 3445 32nd Street in San Diego in a house that they owned. Edwin was an attorney.

From a highly affected profile of Edwin Johnson written about 1960, as posted with The Johnson Family Tree on Ancestry:

After coming to San Diego in 1907 his first appearance by name in the city directory was as "Teamster, Coronado Beach Company."  A few months later he was helping internationally famous Glen Curtiss build his first hydroplane on North Island.

The Johnsons lived on South Island. North Island and Coronado were connected by a very thin strip of sand.  The inlet on the bay side, protected on north and south by the two larger "islands", and by the sand strip from the open sea on the west, was known as Spanish Bight.  Here, Curtiss experimented with flying boats.

When Ed was 15 years old he was through grammar school and was working in his home state of Minnesota as a "printer's devil." Before E.L.J. came to San Diego, at the age of twenty two, he had just completed two years in the army.  Before that, in addition to printing-office experiences, he had been a miner in the Black Hills and a farmer.

As a young teamster in San Diego, working for John D. Spreckels and others who were developing Coronado, Ed Johnson kept a copy of Blackstone's commentaries under the seat of his wagon.

Law practice for the senior Johnson commenced in 1911.  It included the successful defense for murder charged against one of his former bosses of the Coronado Beach days; also experiences as deputy district attorney from 1923 to 1926. His most interesting case was the one written up in "Master Detective" in 1950.  The facts, which had occurred 27 years before, concerned a successful prosecution in San Diego of a first degree murder charge without the availability of a corpse. The victim had just disappeared--forever.

Birth:
other sources say November 1885

Edwin married Loretta Wilhelmina ACHENBACH on 2 Sep 1907 in San Diego County, California. Loretta was born on 6 May 1887 in Meade County, South Dakota; died on 29 Jul 1952 in San Diego County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Still living at home in the 1910 census.

Died:
Lake Region Hospital

Buried:
This cemetery may also be known as Zion Lutheran Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota.

Constance married Peter J BARRY on 27 Feb 1918 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Peter was born on 14 Mar 1892 in Minnesota; died on 21 Jul 1960 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1968-MN-007084

Notes:

Still living at home in the 1910 census. Living with her widowed mother in the 1920 census. Judith is a clerk in a dry goods store.

In the 1930 census she is the widow Judith L. Moe living with her mother and daughter at 323 Washington Avenue in Fergus Falls.

In the 1941/42 Fergus Falls city directory, as the widow of Elias, she is Judith L. living at 116 Bancroft Avenue East.

She was the informant for Elias’s death certificate.

According to her obit, she was a cashier at the J. C. Penney store for many years.

Referred to as Judith L in her daughter’s obit.

Buried:
apparently as Judith Moe

Judith married Robert S MOE on 29 Jun 1920. Robert (son of Paul MOE and Augusta Maud OLSON) was born on 30 Jun 1893 in Hanska, Brown County, Minnesota; died on 24 May 1929 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 27 May 1929 in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Judith married Elias PEDERSON on 5 Sep 1933 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Elias (son of Peder PEDERSON and Anna ERICKSON) was born on 14 Jun 1865 in Namdalen, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 25 Oct 1939 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 28 Oct 1939 in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Doesn’t seem to be listed in the 1905 state census but she is listed in the 1910 census.

In the 1905 state census she is listed with the household of her aunt and uncle: Theodore and Martha.

One source refers to her as Geda Eletta.

An obit:

Mrs. Geda E. Moe, 85, 116 E. Bancroft, died Friday, July 23, at Lake Region Hospital. Services are scheduled for 10 a .m. Wednesday, July 28, at Zion Lutheran Church with Rev. James Armstrong officiating. Burial will be in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery.

The daughter of Charles and Mary (Bjertness) Johnson, she was born July 16, 1897, in Fergus Falls. A life member of Zion Lutheran Church, she was baptized and confirmed there. On Dec. 1, 1917, she married Phillip J. Moe. The couple moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and she resided in Iowa while her husband was stationed in the military service there during World War I. She returned to Fergus Falls when her husband was sent overseas. Also spending a time in Wisconsin, she resided in Fergus Falls most of her life.

Her husband died in September 1978.

She had served as president of the ladies aid at Zion Lutheran Church, had been president and treasurer of the Pioneer Home Sunshine Society and was a member of the World War I Barracks Auxiliary. She was moderator of a local Saturday morning radio program, "The Christian Woman Speaks."

Surviving are a son, Phillip J. Moe Jr., Campbell, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Otto (Ruth) Kvernstoen, Fergus Falls, Mrs. Dwain (Nancy) Tollefson, Crookston; 16 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren; several nieces and nephews.

Visitation is this evening and all day Tuesday at the Olson Funeral Home, continuing at church one hour prior to services Wednesday morning.
 

Geda married Phillip Johannes MOE on 1 Dec 1917. Phillip (son of Paul MOE and Augusta Maud OLSON) was born on 19 Oct 1894 in Hanska, Brown County, Minnesota; died on 22 Sep 1978 in Cass County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ancestry trees call her Louise Camilla.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1916-MN-010169

Notes:

The informant for her death certificate was her sister, Constance Johnson. Ruth’s residence when she died was 323 Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls. She died of tuberculosis complicated by “la grippe.”

Notes:

Birth:
Shown as age 1 year, 3 months, in burial record.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1967-MN-015818
• Baptism: 9 May 1897, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota

Notes:

He apparently was the second George H. His middle name was probably Hilmar or Helmar, like the first George H.

Adopted by Martin as shown in the 1910 census. His father was Scottish and his mother was from Minnesota.

In the 1900 census there is no mention of his being adopted. He is shown as George E. and both of his parents were born in Norway.

In the 1916, 1924, and 1929 Minneapolis city directories, he works for Armour & Co. and resides at 2547 Emerson Avenue S. In 1916, he was a clerk. In 1924 and 1929, he was a salesman.

In the 1934 and 1944 Minneapolis city directories, he is still a salesman for Armour. Dorothy I is listed as his wife and the couple lives at 2717 Colfax Avenue S.

George is single and living with the Martin Aune family in Minneapolis in the 1930 census. He’s a “specialty man” for Armour.

In the 1940 census, he and his family live at 2717 Colfax. He was a salesman for a meat packing house. They owned their house, worth $5000. Both he and Dorothy were high school graduates.

In the 1950 Minneapolis city directory, George and Dorothy lived at 4829 Colfax.

George was a veteran of WWI. He was a meat salesman according to his death certificate. He died of a heart attack but he also had diabetes. His address at the time of his death was 4829 Colfax in Minneapolis. There is no mention of his being adopted in his death certificate; his parents are shown as Martin and Mary.

George had a patent (#2210728) on a “Method of Cleaning Abrasive Sheet Material.” He applied for the patent in 1937 and it was granted August 6, 1940.

Baptism:
Immanuel

Died:
at home

George married Dorothy I SCOTT on 9 May 1931 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Dorothy was born on 27 Feb 1903 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; died on 14 Aug 1978 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1954-MN-014052

Notes:

Middle name Othelia or Olina.

She was listed, as Alma Orfald, in the 1912 Hibbing city directory which includes Biwabik. She had no occupation, only that she boarded with her father, Jno B Orfald.

In the 1915 Hibbing city directory, which includes Biwabik, she is the only Orfald listed. She is still Alma Orfald, a clerk for Matt Vidas.

At the time of her death, she and Orris lived at Route 1, Box 102, Gilbert. They had lived there for 22 years. Alma died from a cerebral hemorrhage brought on by hypertension.

Birth:
perhaps born in Duluth

Alma married Orris William DANE on 15 May 1915 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Orris (son of William S DANE and Mary WINDUS) was born on 27 Dec 1891 in Portage, Columbia County, Wisconsin; died on 13 Jan 1977 in San Bernardino County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Laborer, iron mine; salesman
• Baptism: 9 May 1897, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota

Notes:

He is included in the 1912 Hibbing city directory which includes Biwabik. He was a lander at the Ruddy Mine.

In the 1917 Virginia city directory, which includes Biwabik, he is a motorman boarding at his father’s.

An August 3, 1922, article in the Ironwood, Michigan, Daily Globe newspaper describes Marvin Orfald, “First Aid man,” as being in charge of a traveling U.S. Bureau of Mines railroad car which travels to various mining locations and provides instruction on safety apparatus.

Not living with his parents in 1930. Apparently living with his wife Rose on East Third Street in Duluth at the time of the census. Marvin is shown as 31, which is younger than implied by the 1920 census. His wife Rose is shown as 25. They were married at the ages of 26 and 19, respectively. Marvin and Rose are renting, at $50/month, and they have a radio. They have no children. Rose was born in Illinois and her parents were born in Germany. Marvin is a salesman in the safety equipment industry and he is a veteran of the World War.

In the 1932 Pittsburgh city directory, he is Marvin B Orfald, a “ctywkr” for the Mine Safety Appliances Co.

In the 1940 census, he (indexed as Mawin Orfold) and Rose live in White Plains, Westchester County, New York. Five years earlier, they had lived in Chicago. He is a safety inspector for a tunnel construction company.

Not listed in the draft registration for WWI.

Baptism:
Immanuel

Marvin married Rose SCHROETER about 1924. Rose was born on 28 Oct 1904 in Illinois; died on 18 Sep 1969 in Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1984-MN-030021

Notes:

In the 1940 census, Jennie was a 40 year-old widow living in Biwabik with her four youngest children. This was not the home they had lived in five years earlier. In 1935 they lived at a different residence in St. Louis County.

GOODMAN, JENNIE M. 
Minnesota Death CertID# 1984-MN-030021   
Date of Birth: 09/03/1899
Place of Birth: MINNESOTA
Mother Maiden Name: BYE
Date of Death: 11/08/1984
County of Death: ST. LOUIS

Listed in her mother’s obituary as still being alive, and living in Biwabik, at the time of her mother’s death in 1966.

Of Biwabik at the time of her sister Ruth’s death.

Her obituary was published on p. C8:2 of the November 9, 1984, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune:

Jennie M. Goodman, 85, Biwabik, died Thursday in White Community Hospital’s nursing unit in Aurora. She was born in Biwabik and had lived there most of her life. Her husband, Fred C., died in 1933. She was a member of Community United Church of Christ and the Peterson-Lofquist Auxiliary of the American Legion. Surviving are two sons, Robert G. of Biwabik and William D. of Chicago; three daughters, Marie Peterka of Lewiston, Idaho, Gladyce Himango of Butte, Montana, and Leah J. Cartwright of Biwabik; a sister, Mabel Norton Croon, of Chicago; 20 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday in the Range Funeral Home, Virginia, and from 1 to 2 p.m. Monday in Community United Church of Christ in Biwabik. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the church. Burial will be in Lakeside Cemetery, Biwabik.

Jennie married Frederick Charles GOODMAN on 9 Dec 1916 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Frederick (son of John GOODMAN and Elizabeth MELLOW) was born on 15 Aug 1889 in St. Austell, Cornwall, England; died on 28 Dec 1933 in Biwabik, St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried on 31 Dec 1933 in Biwabik, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1902-23660

Notes:

Shown on the birth certificate as the fifth child of Marie and John. However, Marie is shown in the 1910 census as having seven children, all still living.

St. Louis County death certificate #5001.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1903-24958
• Social Security Number: 510-30-9221 Issued In Kansas Before 1951

Notes:

Her birth certificate shows her as child #6. Her birth certificate was amended on November 22, 1966, to add her first and middle names.

Not living with her family in the 1920 census.

In the 1924 Virginia city directory, which includes Biwabik, she is listed as living at home and working as a clerk, employer not listed.

She was listed (although absent) with her family in the 1930 census. She is listed in the 1930 census as a servant in the William Tannenhaus family in Chicago.

In the 1940 census, she and Waino and their three children live in Biwabik. He is a plasterer and painter in building construction. He has an eighth-grade education, she has one year of high school. In the 1935, the family lived at a different residence in St. Louis County. Waino was not working in the last week of March, 1940, but he was assigned to “public emergency work.”

In the 1956 Wichita city directory, she is Mrs. Myrtle M Lehto, a saleswoman for Hinkels. Also listed is her son, John T, a driver for Southwestern Electric. Both Lehtos reside at 352 Pennsylvania Avenue, apartment 2.

Listed in her mother’s obituary as living in Chicago at the time of her mother’s death in 1966.

Of Wichita, Kansas, as Myrtle Lehto, at the time of her sister Ruth’s death in 1978. The absence of her husband’s name suggests that she was divorced or a widow at that time.

Died:
The Daniels Family Tree says September 16th.

Myrtle married Waino William LEHTO on 25 Nov 1930 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Waino was born on 23 Jun 1910 in Missoula County, Montana; died on 15 Apr 1992 in Orange County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1905-25170
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1978-MN-023691

Notes:

In the 1924 Virginia city directory, which includes Biwabik, she is listed as living at home and working as a clerk for A H Tandberg.

Her birth certificate was amended on August 1, 1967, from “Babe.”

Her obituary was published on p. 6C:2 of the September 28, 1978, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune:

Ruth E. (Harry) Saxhaug, 73, Virginia, died Wednesday in the Virginia hospital. Surviving are a son, Vernon, Virginia; a daughter Harriett (Roy) Tucker, Franklin, Ohio; a brother, Robert Orfald, Virginia; and four sisters, Edna (Arthur) Cartwright and Jennie Goodman, Biwabik; Marie Lehto, Wichita, Kansas; and Mabel Croon, Chicago. Services will be at 10:00 a.m. Friday in Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Virginia. Arrangements are by the Range Funeral Home.

Ruth married Harry Delford SAXHAUG on 23 Dec 1925 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Harry (son of Martin Ellingson SAXHAUG and Kate SOLEM) was born on 20 Aug 1901 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; died on 11 Oct 1980 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried on 14 Oct 1980 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1907-24258

Notes:

In the 1924 Virginia city directory, which includes Biwabik, she is listed as a student living at home.

The Thursday, August 21, 1947, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that “Mr. and Mrs. Henry Norton of Chicago, Mrs. Arthur Cartwright and Mrs. J. B. Orfold of Biwabik visited with Mrs. Anne Everson and John Everson on Thursday.”

Listed in her mother’s obituary as still being alive, and living in Chicago, at the time of her mother’s death in 1966.

She is Mabel Croon, of Chicago, at the time of her sister Ruth’s death. The absence of her husband’s name suggests that Mabel was a widow by that time.

Listed as Mabel Norton Croon of Chicago in her sister Jennie’s obituary.

In the SSDI she is Mabel T. Croon, b. 23 Dec 1907, d. Mar 1991, SSN issued in Illinois before 1951. Place of death not given in the SSDI.

Died:
place of death inferred

Mabel married Henry Hull NORTON on 1 Feb 1926 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Henry (son of Michael William NORTON and Della G HELSEL) was born on 16 Apr 1903 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; died on 14 Apr 1957 in Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Harold D CROON. Harold was born on 28 Apr 1903 in Illinois; died on 11 Nov 1972 in Cook County, Illinois; was buried on 14 Nov 1972 in Acacia Park Cemetery, Norwood, Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1910-23644
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1982-MN-007492
• Social Security Number: 062-12-8316 issued in New York before 1951

Notes:

Called Roy in the 1910 census.

Living with his parents at the time of the 1930 census.

In the 1940 census, he and Arla lived in White Plains, Westchester County, New York. They had no children. Five years earlier, they had both lived in Virginia in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Robert is a blacksmith in tunnel construction.

According to Veterans’ Memorial Hall, “Robert W. Orfald entered the Army on Feb. 23, 1943. He was a private in the continental U.S. and was separated on July 9, 1943.”

Robert, with his wife, accompanied his mother to her sister’s funeral.

Of Virginia at the time of his sister Ruth’s death.

Robert died of cancer. He worked at Virginia Ready-Mix. He lived at 325 S 8th Street South in Virginia, Minnesota. That was also the address shown for him when he was the informant for his mother’s death certificate.

His obituary was published on p. A4:3 of the March 6, 1982, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune:

Robert W. Orfald, 72, of Virginia, died Thursday at the Virginia Regional Medical Center. Arrangements are pending with the Cron-Harris-Clarke Funeral Home in Virginia.

Died:
Virginia Regional Medical Center

Robert married Arla SCOTT on 7 Sep 1935 in St. Louis County, Minnesota, and was divorced. Arla was born on 7 Feb 1917 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; died on 11 Jan 1992 in Washington County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married B.L. MCCUMBER [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1912-26130
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1978-MN-029420

Notes:

She was still living at home in the 1940 census. She was single and was stenographer for a school paper.

The Thursday, October 18, 1945, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that “Mrs. J.B. Orfald, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cartwright and daughter, Linda, of Biwabik visited with the John Eversons Tuesday.”

The Thursday, August 21, 1947, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that “Mr. and Mrs. Henry Norton of Chicago, Mrs. Arthur Cartwright and Mrs. J. B. Orfold of Biwabik visited with Mrs. Anne Everson and John Everson on Thursday.”

The St. Louis County Death Index records the death of an Edna Elizabeth Cartwright in Aurora.

Of Biwabik at the time of her sister Ruth’s death.

Not in SSDI.

Her obituary was published on p. 7B:3 of the December 2, 1978, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune:

Edna Elizabeth (Arthur) Cartwright, 66, Biwabik, died Thursday in an Aurora hospital. Surviving, besides her husband, are two daughters, Linda (Russ) Norha, Wayzata, and Shirley (Rich) Czarniecki, Harvey, Illinois; a brother, Robert Orfald, Virginia; three sisters, Jennie Goodman, Biwabik, Myrtle Lehto, Wichita, Kan., and Mabel Croon, Chicago, and four grandchildren. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday in Range Funeral Home, Virginia. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday in Community United Church of Christ, Biwabik. Burial will be in Lakeside Cemetery, Biwabik.

Edna married Arthur Nicholls CARTWRIGHT on 12 Nov 1942 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Arthur (son of Arthur CARTWRIGHT and Kate Irene NICHOLLS) was born on 22 Jun 1914 in Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 26 Jul 2001 in Virginia, St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Biwabik, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Nina, he never married and had no descendants.

Notes:

According to Nina, he never married and had no descendants.

Notes:

She was living at home with her parents and younger siblings in the 1900 census. Her occupation was “compositor.”

She is not the Ida M Anderson who married Gust E Erickson in Clay County on 14 Dec 1901.

Seems to have also been called Edith.

Family/Spouse: Rasmus REINHOLDT. Rasmus was born about 1873 in Denmark; died in 1956. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1923-MN-002619

Notes:

Lived at home, age 24, in the 1910 census. Employed as a laborer for telephone lines.

In the 1920 census, age 35, he was a roomer with a family in Barnesville. He was employed as a machinist in a garage.

Notes:

She had left home by the time of the 1910 census. The Wohlwend Family Tree has her dying in Iowa on 20 Jan 1906. Kelly Ann agrees so that’s what is shown here.

Notes:

Inferred from sibs’ birth dates and the claim in the 1900 census that Grethe had had 12 children.

Notes:

Lived at home in the 1910 census. Employed as a laborer doing odd jobs.

In the 1940 census, he and his brother Oscar lived in a rented apartment in Barnesville, the same residence in which both of them had lived in 1935. Gus was a general laborer. Oscar had no occupation. Both men had eighth-grade educations.

Notes:

Lived at home in the 1910 census. Employed as a saleswoman in a store.

In the 1920 census, she and Charles and their three children lived in Barnesville. They were still there in the 1930 census but the name is written and indexed as Wohlwand.

Olga married Charles Reuben WOHLWEND on 30 Dec 1912 in Clay County, Minnesota. Charles was born on 17 Aug 1893 in Minnesota; died on 22 Mar 1956 in Seattle, King County, Washington; was buried in Washington Memorial Park, SeaTac, King County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lived at home in the 1910 census. Employed as a carpenter.

He served as a Private in the Pioneer Infantry in World War I.

In the 1930 census, he lived at home with his father and sister in Barnesville. He was still a carpenter.

In the 1940 census, he and his brother Gus lived in a rented apartment in Barnesville, the same residence in which both of them had lived in 1935. Gus was a general laborer. Oscar had no occupation. Both men had eighth-grade educations.

Notes:

Birth:
In the 1900 census, her birthdate was shown as Mar 1892 and she was shown as 8 years old. The MHS death index says 27 Mar 1893.

Geda married Mayer GREGORY on 18 Mar 1913 in Clay County, Minnesota. Mayer was born on 3 Aug 1883 in Illinois; died on 9 Apr 1972 in Stearns County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kelly Ann

Notes:

He lived with his father and siblings in Barnesville in the 1920 census. He was a carpenter.

In the 1940 census, he is the 44 year-old Julian Anderson living with his family in Fergus Falls. Five years earlier, the family had lived in Fargo. Julian was a clerk for the Great Northern railroad. Julian had an eighth-grade education. His wife had two years of high school.

Julian married Augusta LARSON on 3 Nov 1923 in Clay County, Minnesota. Augusta (daughter of Louis LARSON and Sarah LARSON) was born on 25 Aug 1899 in Minnesota; died on 20 Dec 1993 in Cass County, North Dakota; was buried in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1930 census, she lived in Barnesville with her father and brother. She was a waitress in a cafe.

Notes:

Called Willie in early censuses. Called William Anderson Sr. in his death record.

In the 1930 census, he lived in Barnesville with his wife and children. He was a railroad freight clerk.

In the 1940 census, he and his wife and son lived in Barnesville in the same house in which they all had lived in 1935. He was a warehouseman for a railroad.

William married Elvina Annette HAGEN on 4 Nov 1919 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, and was divorced. Elvina (daughter of Ole M HAGEN and Julia NELSON) was born on 22 Sep 1898 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; died on 1 Jun 1993 in Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Wilhelm’s Portland Memorial Mausoleum, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: DC-09399

Notes:

Her obit says that she had worked in several restaurants and grocery stores in Barnesville and had retired in 1963.

Died:
As Ruth O. Wefflen.

Ruth married Henry N WEFFLEN on 9 Sep 1925 in Clay County, Minnesota. Henry was born on 16 Aug 1896; died on 20 Aug 1963 in Clay County, Minnesota; was buried in Hamar Cemetery, Rothsay, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Living at home in the 1930 census with her mother and brothers. She had no occupation.

Living at home in the 1940 census with her mother. No occupation.

Never married. No children.

Birth:
MHS death index says 9 April 1891. Shown as age 43 in the 1940 census.

Agnes married Frank W KLINE on 9 Dec 1919 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Frank was born on 4 May 1889 in Taylors Falls, Chisago County, Minnesota; died on 4 Dec 1956 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1980-MN-010182

Notes:

He registered for the draft on June 5, 1917, in Virginia. He was a garage man at the Central Auto Company in Virginia. He was still single. He was described as tall and slender with blue eyes and light hair.

Living at home in the 1930 census with his mother and sister and brother. He was a manager of a hardware store.

Birth:
NÆSS, incorrectly, has his birth and death, as 1899-1995. Those dates apply to his wife.

John married Myrtle Emmeline PICKETT on 27 Sep 1933 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Myrtle was born on 24 Nov 1899 in Minnesota; died on 6 Oct 1995 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1914-MN-013282

Notes:

Age 13 and living with her parents in Virginia in the 1910 census.

She wasn’t listed with the family in the 1920 census.

Nina says that Geda died young of diabetes.

Died:
in the MHS death index as “Geda Graudr”

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: DC-64418

Notes:

Shown as age 9 in the 1910 census.

In the 1930 census, she was a student nurse in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

No children.

Survived by Agnes Kline, John Grande, Arnold Grande, and niece Randi.

Died:
last residence Atlanta

Family/Spouse: Theodore O WINSHIP. Theodore was born on 22 Aug 1905 in Colorado; died on 8 Aug 1974 in Dekalb County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1904-24534

Notes:

Living at home in the 1930 census with his mother and sister and brother. He was a clerk at a hardware store.

In the 1940 census, he and his wife and son lived in Virginia, Minnesota. He was a manager and part owner of a retail hardware store.

He lived in Virginia in 1986.

Arnold married Lulu Irene ANDERSON on 1 Oct 1934 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Lulu was born on 11 Jul 1907; died on 15 Jun 1986 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1940 census, he and his family live in Kenmare, Ward County, North Dakota. He is a salesman for a motor company. He and Agnes had eighth-grade educations.

Died:
last residence Berthold, Ward County

Family/Spouse: Agnes HENRICKSON. Agnes was born on 10 Oct 1908 in Canada; died on 13 Dec 1994 in Burleigh County, North Dakota; was buried on 16 Dec 1994 in Wild Rose Cemetery, Berthold, Ward County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Berghild.

Living at home with her parents and siblings in the 1930 census.

In the 1940 census, she was a cook at Ellison’s Tea Room and living in Minot.

She may be the B. Jackie Ness mentioned in Harold Gustafson’s obit.

Died:
Tacoma

Notes:

Still single and living at home with his parents in the 1940 census.

Died:
last residence Berthold, Ward County, North Dakota

Ruth married Harold Gustaf GUSTAFSON on 24 Feb 1940 in Seattle, King County, Washington. Harold was born on 14 Jul 1911 in North Dakota; died on 21 Feb 1987 in Pierce County, Washington; was buried on 25 Feb 1987 in New Tacoma Cemetery, Pierce County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1910 Norwegian census, she is living with her parents and siblings in Trondheim. Her occupation is shown as modedame.

Never married, no children.

Died:
NÆSS

Notes:

Birth:
NÆSS says 27 June

Died:
NÆSS

Buried:
Norway Burial Index, DIS-Norge, 1700-2010

Family/Spouse: Astrid Margrethe SVENSEN. Astrid was born on 10 Nov 1897 in Norway; died in 1974 in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anne Sofie VEDVIK. Anne was born in 1900 in Norway; died in 1986 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Two children, both daughters.

Family/Spouse: Magnhild QVAM. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alv Oscar VEIE ROSVOLL. Alv (son of Bernt Olaussen VEIE and Ragnhild Andersdatter ROSVOLD) was born on 13 May 1898 in Norway; died on 12 Dec 1957 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Five children.

Family/Spouse: Astrid KOBBERØD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Three children.

Family/Spouse: Torbjørn GANGÅSSÆTER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Public School Teacher
• Oregon Death Certificate: 92-05496
• Baptism: 17 Jul 1896, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

She completed the Teachers’ Training Course at Fergus Falls High School in May of 1915.

She was still at home in Fergus Falls at the time of the 1920 census.

She was Mrs. Anton Haugen of Portland, Oregon at the time of her mother’s death.

In the 1930 census, she and her husband and two sons lived at 935 East 35th Street in Portland, Oregon, in a house that they owned and that was worth $5500. They had a radio. Anton was a carpenter for “residences” and had come to the U.S. in 1904.

Mabel would have been the first of her siblings to move to Portland.

As Mabel Oline Haugen, her obit was in the March 18, 1992, edition of The Oregonian:

A funeral for Mabel Oline Haugen, a Southeast Portland resident, will be at 11 a.m. Friday in the Central Lutheran Church. Interment will be in Lincoln Memorial Park.

She died of causes related to age Sunday in her home. Mrs. Haugen was 95.

She was born June 2, 1896, in Fergus Falls, Minn., where she was raised and educated. After receiving her teacher's training in Valley City, N.D., she taught in Astoria as a young woman.

A longtime resident of the Portland area, Mrs. Haugen had been a substitute teacher for a number of years. She was an active member of Central Lutheran Church for many years. Her husband, Anton Haugen, preceded her in death.

Survivors include her sons, Jim of Vancouver, Wash., Anton Jr. of Seaside and Ronald of Hesperia, Calif.; sister, Margaret Ellingboe of Phoenix, Ariz.; eight grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.

Birth:
birth date from her Oregon death record

Baptism:
First English Lutheran in Fergus Falls

Mabel married Anton HAUGEN on 25 Dec 1924 in Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon. Anton was born on 9 Aug 1882 in Svatsum, Gausdal, Oppland, Norway; died on 18 Dec 1962 in Multnomah County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Postal worker, garage mechanic
• Oregon Death Certificate: 77-14574
• Baptism: 31 Oct 1897, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

Registered for the WWI draft on September 12, 1918. Living at 420 Channing Ave. N., Fergus Falls. Employed as a clerk at the H. P. Bye and Co., 220 Lincoln Avenue N., Fergus Falls. His closest relative is J. M. Bye of the Channing Avenue address. He is described as of medium height and build with blue eyes and light hair.

George was a private in the U.S. Army in World War I. The Find A Grave entry for Wilma says he was a Sergeant.

In the 1929 Portland, Oregon, city directory, Geo M Bye was a sander for the DmfgCo, the same job and employer as his brother John had. George lived at 935 E 35th N.

George was single and living in an apartment in Los Angeles with his brother John and John’s wife Evelyn at the time of the 1930 census. George was a janitor in an apartment building.

According to the records of the Sawtelle home for disabled veterans in Los Angeles, George enlisted in the U.S. Army on March 31, 1917, in Minneapolis and was discharged as a Private on October 25, 1917, at Fort Snelling. He had been in the 135th U.S. Infantry. He was admitted to the Sawtelle home on July 19, 1932, with a myocardial weakness. He was single, a surveyor by occupation, and was 36 years old, 5 feet six inches in height, with a ruddy complexion, light blue eyes, and brown hair. He gave as his nearest relative his brother, “Jno. G. Bye”, who lived at 74th and San Pedro in Los Angeles. George was discharged on November 8, 1932. He is shown to have had a pension of $12 which was apparently a daily allowance for the home.

In the 1933 Portland city directory, George was a laborer. He lived at 4435 NE 35th Avenue.

In the 1936/37 Portland (Oregon) city directory, he is Geo M Bye, wife Wilma, who lives at 2303 SE 12th Avenue. He is not listed in the 1937/38 Portland (Oregon) city directory.

In the 1940 census, George and Wilma and their 5 children lived at 25 SE 14th Avenue in Portland. George was a recorder for a WPA project.

In the 1941 Portland city directory, George and Wilma lived at 25 SE 14th.

In the 1943/44 Portland (Oregon) city directory, Geo M Bye and wife Wilma M lived at 9201 N Fairhaven Avenue.

In the 1946 Salt Lake City city directory, George and Wilma live in Garfield. George is an unloader for the AS&R Co.

In the 1950 census, he and and Wilma and their children live in Multnomah. George is a laborer doing odd jobs.

His SS# was issued in Oregon before 1951.



His sister Myrtle’s 1967 obituary says that George was living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at that time. That may have been an erroneous reference to Milwaukie, Oregon, a suburb of Portland.

Baptism:
First English Lutheran in Fergus Falls, with Eivind George Bye.

Buried:
Section O, 0, Site 1170

George married Wilma M BECKHAM on 8 Jun 1934 in Los Angeles County, California. Wilma (daughter of William D BECKHAM and Minnie THOMPSON) was born on 1 Feb 1902 in Missouri; died on 14 Mar 1982 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon; was buried on 17 Mar 1982 in Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1900-17366
• Oregon Death Certificate: 76-07163
• Baptism: 27 Sep 1900, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

He was “at home” at the time of his father’s death.

An unnamed Bye was born to a mother named Gertie in Otter Tail County on September 7, 1900. We’ll assume that this was John.

John Gustave Bye registered for the draft on September 12, 1918. His birthday is listed as September 7, 1900. He lives at 420 Channing Ave. N., Fergus Falls. He is a clerk with the H. P. Bye and Co. at 220 Lincoln Avenue N., Fergus Falls. His nearest relative is J. M. Bye of the Channing Avenue address. He is medium height and build with blue eyes and light hair.

He worked for Otter Tail Power Company in Fergus Falls at the time of his mother’s death in 1926.

In the 1929 Portland, Oregon, city directory, he was a sander for the D Manufacturing Co. He and Evelyn lived at 5254 74th SE.

John G. was married and he and his wife were living with George in an apartment in Los Angeles at the time of the 1930 census. John and his wife Evelyn A. had been married a year. John was a sander at a furniture company.

In the 1932 California voter registration, John G and Mrs Evelyn A Bye lived at 308 E 74th Street in Los Angeles. He registered as a Democrat, she as a Republican. This may be the “74th and San Pedro” address that George cites as the address of “Jno. G. Bye” in George’s admission to the Sawtelle home in July of 1932.

For the 1932-33 registration year, John’s car registered in Oregon was a 1928 Pontiac coupe. He lived at 7228 55th Avenue SE.

In the 1936/37 Portland (Oregon) city directory, John G Bye is a factory worker at DMfgCo. He and his wife Evelyn live at 5830 SE 80th Avenue. In the 1937/38 Portland (Oregon) city directory, John G is a “furnwkr DMfgCo.” He and Evelyn still live at 5830 SE 80th Avenue.

In the 1940 census, he and Evelyn and Robert and Mary live at 5839 SE 80th in Portland, Oregon. John had had 1 year of high school, Evelyn had had 3 years. John was a machine sander in the furniture industry.

A John G. Bye married a Ruth Ella Hardin (neé Descombes), both of Multnomah County, in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, on 21 Jul 1945. That Ruth died 6 Feb 1993 in Multnomah County as Ruth E Johnson.

In the 1953 Portland, Oregon, city directory, John G Bye and his wife Ruth E lived at 2817 NW Thurman. He was a machinist. They were still together at 2817 NW Thurman in the 1956 city directory. At that time, John was a machinist for Schmitt Steel and Ruth was a machine operator for Thurlow, Inc. Listed as also living at the 2817 NW Thurman address in that 1956 directory was Robert E Bye, a tracer for Willamette Iron & Steel. John G and Ruth E were still listed together as spouses in the 1959 and 1960 Portland city directories.

John G. Bye, born Sep of 1900, died April 9, 1976, in Washington County, Oregon. His wife was named Betty. His death cert was 76-07163.

Johnny and Betty lived in Beaverton, Oregon, according to Michael.

Baptism:
First English Lutheran of Fergus Falls. As Johan Gustav Bye.

Buried:
urn memorial, Garden of the Apostles

John married Evelyn Agnes BOGUSLASKI on 8 Sep 1928 in Multnomah County, Oregon, and was divorced on 2 Jun 1942 in Multnomah County, Oregon. Evelyn was born on 20 Jun 1909 in Wisconsin; died on 22 Apr 1978 in Lane County, Oregon; was buried in Rest-Haven Memorial Park, Eugene, Lane County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Ruth Ella DESCOMBES on 21 Jul 1945 in Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, and was divorced on 10 Jun 1958 in Multnomah County, Oregon. Ruth was born on 22 Jun 1913 in Missouri; died on 6 Feb 1993 in Multnomah County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Betty Marie LUCHTERHAND. Betty was born on 5 Dec 1905 in Oakland, Oregon; died on 21 Jun 1995 in Washington County, Oregon; was buried in Skyline Memorial Gardens, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1903-18586
• Occupation: Public School Teacher
• Oregon Death Certificate: 2822
• Baptism: 20 Sep 1903, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

Her birth certificate was amended on February 28, 1944.

The 1925 North Dakota census records a 22 year-old Myrtle Bye living in Fargo, North Dakota.

In the 1925 Astoria, Oregon, city directory, probably prepared in 1924, she was Myrtle Bye, Public School Teacher, living at 397 4th.

She was “of Astoria” at the time of her mother’s death. That would have been Astoria, Oregon, in Clatsop County.

Myrtle T. Bye, age 26 and a single public school teacher, was living in Portland, Oregon, at the time of the 1930 census. She was born in Minnesota and her parents were born in Norway.

According to Michael:

She was called "Teddy" when she was a young woman. She attended normal school in Minot, North Dakota, and moved to Oregon to teach. Myrtle never remarried and died of cancer in Portland in 1967. She was very strong-willed and an extremely capable and dedicated teacher. The primary school where she last taught held a small memorial service for her and planted a tree in her honor. {Myrtle} taught first grade for many years in the Parkrose School District.

Her obit in The Oregonian:

Mrs. Myrtle T. Boyle, 4215 NE 114th Ave., died Wednesday at Portland after an extended illness. Her funeral will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Gethsemane Lutheran Church.

Mrs. Boyle was born Aug. 25, 1903, at Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and came to Oregon in 1922. She taught in the Parkrose Schools for more than 20 years. She was a member of Gethsemane Lutheran Church.

Survivors include two sons, Floyd, of Portland, and Robert, of Wishram, Wash.; one daughter, Patricia Taylor, of Portland; 11 grandchildren; two brothers, John Bye, of Portland, and George Bye, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and two sisters, Mabel Haugen, of Portland, and Margaret Ellingboe, of Hemet, Calif.

The family requests that any remembrance be in the form of a contribution to the Gethsemane Lutheran Church Building Fund.

Baptism:
First English Lutheran in Fergus Falls

Myrtle married Leo Donald BOYLE on 2 Jan 1931 in Klamath County, Oregon, and was divorced in Aug 1942 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. Leo (son of James J BOYLE and Theresa Eleanor ARQUETTE) was born on 12 May 1901 in Iowa; died on 18 Oct 1967 in Klamath County, Oregon; was buried in Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1908-18515
• Baptism: 4 Feb 1909, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 14 May 1922, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

No first name shown on birth certificate. Mother’s maiden name shown as Hagen.

Spelled Margarette in the 1910 census.

She was a student at St. Olaf College at the time of her mother’s death.

She graduated from St. Olaf in the class of 1930.

Margaret Bye was, apparently, adopted by her uncle after her father’s (and mother’s) death. She is listed as a foster daughter in the obituary for Hans Bye.

Her marriage to John Ellingboe was announced in the Northfield News edition of June 1, 1928.

Elaine visited the Ellingboes in the middle of August, 1943. The Ellingboes lived in Robbinsdale at that time.

Margaret was the informant for her uncle Hans’s death certificate. At that time (late 1946), her address was Richfield Station, Route 4, Minneapolis. Margaret knew that Hans’s parents were Martinus Bye and Olianna Johnson.

Margaret and John Sr. moved to Phoenix in 1953 according to their son.

Margaret’s obit in the Arizona Republic:

Margaret Bye Ellingboe

Margaret Bye Ellingboe, Born November 7, 1908 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, passed away January 25, 2004. Preceded in death by her husband, John Sr., survived by her son, John Jr., of Gualala, CA, and her daughter, Mary Masterson of Phoenix, 7 grandchildren, and 9 great grandchildren. No memorial service is planned. Contributions may be made to Habitat for Humanity, Phoenix Rescue Mission, or Trinity Hospice. (Published in the Arizona Republic from 1/31/2004 - 2/1/2004.)

Margaret Bye's father John was one of the charter members of the Trønderlag of America, the bygdelag for the Trøndelag region. John's brother Hans, John's and Hans's uncle Johannes (John) E. Bye, and John's and Hans's uncle Theodor Johnson (all of Fergus Falls) were also charter members. Although they weren't charter members, Johan Nathan Kildahl and his son Harald B. Kildahl joined the lag within its first two years. I suspect that this Trønderlag connection was what led Hans Bye (Margaret's uncle as well as step-father by that time) to send Margaret Bye to Kildahl's St. Olaf in 1926. Hans, having no children of his own, would have had the means to support Margaret's education and may have met Kildahl or known his fellow Trønder was president of St. Olaf. Northfield was quite a ways from Fergus Falls so it would have been unusual (except for the Trønderlag connection) for Margaret to have been sent off to St. Olaf.

Mabel’s address book had Jack and Margaret’s address as 2002 W Sunnyside Dr, GH #20, Phoenix, AZ 85029

Baptism:
She had been baptized earlier at home on November 10, 1908, probably because her survival had been in doubt.

Confirmation:
Bethlehem Lutheran

Margaret married John Leverne ELLINGBOE, Sr on 21 Nov 1927 in Rice County, Minnesota. John (son of John Maurice ELLINGBOE and Elise (Lizzie) HENDRICKSON) was born on 12 Jul 1905 in Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota; died on 10 Feb 1998 in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Railroad fireman in 1920, driller
• Social Security Number: 234-14-9993 issued in West Virginia before 1951

Notes:

Shown as “Male Everson” on his birth certificate (#191) in St. Louis County.

Called EOE by some of his siblings. In particular, Lil called him Ole.

Iver registered for the WWI draft on June 5, 1917, in Deerwood. He lists his address as RFD #3, Aitkin, MN. He describes his occupation as farmer and bar keeper, employed on his father’s farm in Deerwood. He is single, claims no dependents, and does not claim exemption from the draft. He is described as tall and of slender build with brown eyes and black hair.

In November of 1920, Iver received a letter from one of his Army buddies, a Hans Jensen of Kansas City. Iver had been in the 3rd Pioneer Soldiers. Hans commiserated with Iver that they had not received their Soldiers Bonus yet. Iver at that time was working ”on the Iron Range.” Hans said, “... or maybe we don’t want to remind each other about the time you were eating slum and corn bill in France.”

In July of 1924, Iver wrote Harold a postcard from Indianapolis: “Indianapolis Ind July 23rd I am having a fine trip and every thing we can eat and that is all can expect from I. Everson.” The postmark was the Indianapolis and Peoria RPO.

In a postcard from Minneapolis dated October 18, 1926 or 1928, Harold writes to Iver: “Saw Longyear this A.M. They don’t need Jno at Ariz. now but will want him at some other job soon so get in touch with him. You may hear from them any day so be ready to go. They will have jobs in Ariz., New York, Michigan, and Sask. May go to Milwaukee tonite. Will write then.”

The Thursday, November 22, 1928, edition of the Crosby-Ironton Courier had an article saying that, “Iver Everson of Aitkin Township, Thor Anderson of Deerwood, and Pete Hanson of Crosby have signed up with Longyear Exploration Company for at least a two-year contract in exploring and drilling for copper in South Africa.” (Thor Anderson was the brother of Andy Anderson, a friend of John Everson.)

Harold and Iver were drillers. British incoming passenger records show that Iver arriving in Southampton from New York on November 20, 1928, aboard the S.S. Leviathan. He is shown as a miner whose intended address in the United Kingdom was Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd.

Mark found an entry record for Iver arriving in New York on August 14, 1929, aboard the S.S. Homeric which had sailed from Southampton on August 7th. Iver is shown as age 36 and residing in “Aitken”, Minnesota. He is also shown as married which may be a mistake. British records show that Iver had arrived in Southampton aboard the Arundel Castle of the Union Castle line which had sailed from Capetown, South Africa. He was returning to U.S. from Rhodesia. His occupation was shown as driller.

By September of 1929, Iver was in Mexico.

At the time of the 1930 census, Iver, 37, was a boarder at the White Hotel in Calderwood, Chilhowee township, Blount County, Tennessee. His occupation is diamond drill runner. He is shown to be a veteran, apparently (“aef”) of the American Expeditionary Force. Iver’s gravestone indicates that he was a Private in Company L of the 3d Pioneer Infantry in World War I.

Most of the “Pioneer” infantry regiments were formed from surplus national guard infantry regiments so it’s possible that Iver was initially in the Minnesota national guard. The 3rd Pioneer Infantry was formed partly from troops from the Massachusetts national guard. The 3rd Pioneer Infantry was organized in February of 1918 at Camp Greene, North Carolina, as an army troops unit and was moved overseas in August of 1918. It served with the U.S. 1st Army between September and November and was slotted for conversion to the 381st Infantry but the war ended before that occurred. The 3rd Pioneers returned to the U.S. in July of 1919 and demobilized at Camp Dodge, Iowa. (From Rinaldi’s “The U.S. Army in World War I - Orders of Battle.”) The Pioneers performed engineering tasks such as construction of field fortifications or military camps as well as repair of military railways.

In February of 1935, Iver got mail at 3621 3rd Avenue South in Minneapolis.

In the summer of 1936, Iver was accepting mail in Grafton, West Virginia.

In March of 1937, Iver was in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and received mail from a person name Roan or Haen at 3855 Portland in Minneapolis.

In November of 1938, he was in Bethlehem, PA, at the Eagle Hotel.

On 14 Feb 1938, Iver was receiving mail at 3855 Portland in Minneapolis.

In an October 10, 1939, post card sent to his parents, Iver had arrived in Port au Prince, Haiti. He said he would be sailing again “this afternoon at 2 PM” so Haiti was only a short stay.

Iver received a valentine from Mrs. Alice Olson (3132 4th Avenue South) in Minneapolis in February of 1940. At that time he was living in the Canal Zone.

In the 30s and 40s, Iver worked as a driller throughout the southern states or Central or South America (mentioned as being “in the south” by a couple of letters Harold had from the ‘40s). He may later have settled in Columbia, and later still lived in the Panama Canal Zone.

In the 1940 census, he lived Gatun, on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal Zone, probably in or near the Fort William Davis Military Reservation. He was the “partner” in a two-person household that included Woodford N Babbitt, 30, born in Alaska. Both men were diamond drillers in “special engineering.” Both men were employed full-time and both men had worked 52 weeks in the previous year.

Immigration records show that he landed in New York on May 3, 1941, aboard the S.S. Cristobal which had sailed from Cristobal, Canal Zone, 6 days earlier.

He was in the Canal Zone at the time of his father’s death in December of 1942; news accounts said that he returned for his father’s funeral.

He was described as “of Columbia, So. America” in an obituary for his mother.

In 1958, according to a letter that George received from Iver, Iver’s address was Box 583, Diablo, Canal Zone. In this letter, Iver asked George if he could borrow $30. (Apparently he had already borrowed money from Harold.) He said that his vision was blurry and that prevented him from working.

From a letter he sent to Harold in April of 1969, we learn that Iver was in Balboa in the Canal Zone and that he had been sick and hospitalized since the beginning of that year. From the symptoms, it sounds as if he was experiencing heart problems much like John would later have.

One of the brothers, probably Albin, received a handwritten letter dated June 19, 1969, from someone named R. T. Tweedy, apparently in response to a letter that Tweedy had received that day:

“I will give you what information I have, which was received by telephone since I am located fifty miles from the hospital. The information I received from another veteran is that he was admitted to the hospital. Evidentally (sic) he had a stroke, paralyzed right side with complete loss of speech. However, if he recovers this may be temporary. His condition is very serious and the information I received by telephone were that his chances of recovery were very slim.” Tweedy goes on to say that Iver’s address at the hospital was Ward 2, Room 204, Gorgas Hospital, Ancon, Canal Zone.

The SSDI shows his address at the time of death was 530, U.S. Consulate, Panama Canal Zone. The SSDI shows the date of death as June 30th. The Gorgas Hospital Mortuary records show the date of death as June 29th. The Gorgas records also show that the body was shipped to the US on July 3, 1969 and the cost associated with whatever the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary did was $331.58.

Iver’s funeral was at the Hasskamp Mortuary. Pallbearers were Ronald Everson, Jerry Everson, Andrew Everson, Robert Everson, Robert Foster, Donald Carlson. (These must have been honorary pallbearers. There is no indication in Cora’s diary that Donald H. Carlson or Bob Everson attended in person.)

Albin received a letter from DHEW (Social Security) in October of 1969 indicating that, per his request, the lump-sum benefit for Iver ($255) had been sent to Hasskamp Mortuary, Aitkin.

Died:
per NARA’s AAD website for the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1908-MN-002733

Notes:

Eight months old in the 1895 Minnesota state census (June 17 and 18).

John said that Astrid was born in Duluth. She is not listed in the St. Louis County index of births. If the Eversons were out of Duluth in 1893 (according to the interview of Andrew and according to the 1895 Minnesota census), then Astrid would have been born in Aitkin County.

A death certificate was issued in Minnesota as follows:
IVERSON, ASTRID MARGARY 
CertID# 1908-MN-002733   
 Date of Death: 12/04/1908
 County of Death:   CROW WING

Physically and mentally disabled. Suffered from severe cretinism, a genetic defect in which her head grew but not the rest of her body. DeAnn says: “Astrid was the second child, and got polio (we think) when she was about two years old.  She survived, but was severely paralyzed, and couldn't swallow. Her mother, Anna, chewed Astrid's food for her and poked it down Astrid's throat. While all of this was going on, Anna underwent several more pregnancies and miscarriages, and raised those awful Norwegian boys. At least they got another girl, Lillian, before Astrid was gone. When Astrid was about twelve, she died during the night, having strangled on her saliva.”

Astrid’s death certificate gives her cause of death as cretinism “since birth.”

In his letter to George Everson in 1943, the older Pastor Dahle’s son Anker says that he could not find any record of Astrid’s baptism. He suggests that perhaps she was baptized by someone else. The Dahles didn’t arrive in Aitkin County until 1895, when Astrid would have been 7 or 8 months old. Anker Dahle noted that “when John Holum’s first house burnt down the early church records went with it.”

Anker Dahle’s letter does have the death and burial dates for Astrid, December 5th and December 7th, 1908. Thus, even though we can no longer see a gravestone, and perhaps there never was one, we can be sure that Astrid was buried in the Dorris Church cemetery.

Died:
Anker Dahle said that the church record for her death was December 5th

Buried:
Dorris Church Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1976-MN-014379
• Occupation: Driller
• Social Security Number: 236-03-1177 issued in West Virginia.
• Confirmation: 11 Jun 1911, Deerwood Norwegian Lutheran Church, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

Called Harald Iverson in his confirmation book.

Harold and Iver were professional drillers outside of Minnesota. Albin and John also did drilling.

Harold registered for the WWI draft on June 5, 1917, in Ironton. He lists his occupation as drilling and his employer as Hill Mines Co., Ironton. He is single and claims no dependents. He does claim exemption from the draft on the basis of “bad wind.” He has never been in military service. He is described as tall and of stout build with dark blue eyes and light brown hair.

In a postcard from Minneapolis dated October 18, 1926 or 1928, Harold writes to Iver: “Saw Longyear this A.M. They don’t need Jno at Ariz. now but will want him at some other job soon so get in touch with him. You may hear from them any day so be ready to go. They will have jobs in Ariz., New York, Michigan, and Sask. May go to Milwaukee tonite. Will write then.” From this, we may deduce that Harold was the first of the brothers to go into drilling and that the others’ entry into that profession was due to Harold’s initiative.

In the 1930 census, Harold was still living at home as a farmer or laborer. John, who with Mabel and Elaine, was also living with the Andrew Eversons at the time, is shown as a drill operator, iron ore.

In a public notice in the April 24, 1933, edition of the Brainerd newspaper, Harold Everson is reimbursed $450 “for damages to his land and expenses incurred by him due to the negligence of the Game and Fish Department.”

The 1937-38 Brainerd city directory, which includes other communities in Crow Wing County, Harold is shown as having land in section 12 of Deerwood Twp but not owning it. In the 1939-40 city directory, he is shown as owning it. George also owns land in section 12. In the 1942-43 directory, Harold and George are shown as owning land in section 12 together. Neither George nor Harold are listed in the 1949 directory.

In the 1940 census, for which his sister-in-law, Naomi J Everson, was the enumerator, Harold is listed with his parents in Deerwood Twp although with the indicator “ab” indicating he was absent. His occupation was technical instructor in the diamond core drilling industry. He was fully employed, working 40 hours per week. Naomi indicated that Harold had earned $390 in wages in 1939 for 13 weeks worked.

In May of 1941, Harold was accepting mail in Eureka, Nevada.

From a box of pictures and letters found after Harold died, we know that Harold had a long-running (from the ‘40s through at least the late ‘60s) relationship with a woman named Libby (Elizabeth) Saffel who lived in Grafton, West Virginia and, in her later years, lived in Baltimore. Her address in 1965 was 232 Stonecroft Rd, Baltimore. Harold apparently met Libby when he worked for a drilling company headquartered in Grafton, W. Va. He was in Pennsylvania in 1939.

Also from these letters, we learn that Harold spent some time in England in the 1960s, probably on business for the Grafton company.

On June 11, 1944, Harold and Albin signed nine-month contracts with the Callahan Construction Company of Minneapolis (later the Grafe-Callahan Construction Company of Dallas) to do drilling work in Great Britain for the Ministry of Works. Callahan called it the UK of Great Britain project. (The project had at least some military men working on it because one of Harold’s British friends from the job mentions in a 1946 letter that he was now a civilian.) It appears that Harold and Albin flew to England, departing on a British Airways “flying boat” out of Baltimore, on June 29th or 30th, 1944.

Apparently in their first few months in England, Harold and Albin were stationed at Wigan, near Manchester and Liverpool in western England. At that time they made many friends, particularly with the barmaids at the Banks Arms pub in Wigan. Harold had a “little black book” in which he asked people to write their names and addresses. In that book, and in several of the letters, it’s clear that among Harold’s and Albin’s friends were several women (Peggy Adams, Blind Sally, Beatrice, Margaret, Jenny, and Jeannie) at “Bankses” and, later, at the New Inn near Bristol.

By December of 1944, Harold and Albin were in Scotland: Albin in Cardenden, Fife, and Harold nearby at Dunfermline, Fife. Harold received an affectionate letter from Jenny: “Have you found a pub with plenty of Scotch? Also a nice little barmaid to keep you company? Give Al my love and tell him to keep his eye on you for me.”

Albin writes to Harold in January of 1945 about the work and hard drilling and that he hasn’t had a letter from home in 3 weeks. Albin was already looking forward to going home in two months. He also mentions that he was “spending too much time at Jock Birds to save any money.”

In a letter to “Darling Harold” from Jeanie on February 15th, she mentions that she has learned that she would not be able to go to the states unless she was married to an American and “that is impossible.”

A letter from “little Jeannie” to “Harold Darling” on March 3, 1945, refers to the end of Harold’s and Albin’s stay: “You and Al finish your contracts on the 1st or 11th of March. I bet Al has been looking forward to seeing his wife and children soon.”

And another letter from “little Jeannie” on March 20th talks of her concern that Harold had another girl.

There was apparently some discussion at about this time of going home to visit but it didn’t happen because of safety concerns in crossing the ocean while the war went on. Harold had inquired about the terms of taking a leave from the contract. Safety may have been the major reason why Harold and Albin chose to renew their contracts and not come home in March of 1945.

Money was the other reason. Harold was sending home around $500 per month as we can see from his bank statements. Harold had nearly $7000 in the Deerwood bank at the end of 1945.



Harold’s decision to extend his stay must have been a disappointment to George. From his letters in early 1945, he was clearly looking forward to Harold’s return to give him some help with his mother who was becoming ill. George had sold off all of his livestock in the winter of 1944-45 and had gone to Minneapolis to find a carpenter job which he didn’t get. George even mentioned in his letters that Annie Everson would go to live with John Everson after George left home.

By mid-1945, Harold was in Merthyrr Tydfil, Glamorgan in South Wales. An undated letter from one of his buddies that must have been from this time: “So you had the girl to Cardiff? Now I’ll bet that was some night, hey? Who was the most pooped out the next day, huh?”

By September 13, 1945, according to the letter of that date from George to Harold, Albin was back and “drilling in Palisade.” So Albin must have gotten off a little early from his six-month extension. (According to his passport, Albin left England on July 11, 1945.)

Harold continued on until his formal separation on November 29, 1945. His letter of recommendation from Grafe-Callahan described Harold as “an exceptionally good workman and {we} are very glad to recommend him.” Another note from the company at this time said, “Be in London office Friday A.M. November 30th, sail from Liverpool December 3rd for New York City.”

There is an interesting letter from Albert Barrow of Toronto dated January 30, 1946, who was “Hal’s” cabin mate on the trip home and referred to their “awful trip” on the Empire Joy. Albert said in his letter that he got home to Toronto the day after Christmas. {The Empire Joy sailed from Newcastle, England, on December 10, 1945, and arrived in New York on Christmas Day. Albert and Harold are listed on the manifest.}

“Little Jeannie” sent a letter to Harold in Aitkin in mid-January of 1946: “I suppose you have forgotten all about Jeannie. If you see Al, give him my love and tell him I hope his family had not grown since he got back. Jack my husband came home just after Christmas. He is now demobbed {demobilized?} so I have to be a good girl and stay home the nights I am not working at the Bankses.” Her letter mentions Blind Sally.

In a similar letter, dated January 20, 1946, Peggy Adams of Bristol writes that she is “glad to hear you arrived home safely but sorry to hear your mother was ill.” Her letter refers to the gang at the New Inn and to Beatrice. It’s possible that the New Inn was Harold’s home base while he was on the South Wales job.

Ten days later, in a letter to Harold dated January 30, 1946, Peggy says that she received a letter from Beth Lowell in Aitkin asking for her measurements. The letter from Beth even included a measuring tape with instructions on how to take the measurements.

A letter from Beth Lowell of Aitkin, dated February 18th, asks how much Harold cares to spend on his gift to Peggy Adams. Beth also comments: “When Albin told us of your accident, I went up to Crosby {to the hospital, perhaps?} the next Sunday (2 weeks ago) to see how you looked when you were sober only to find you had gone home the day before.” On March 26th, Harold sent Beth a check for $30. Beth Lowell appears to have been a local seamstress that Harold hired to make a blouse or dress for Harold’s friend Peggy back in England.

A letter dated April 7, 1946, is from another English friend, John Anderson in Essex. After explaining that he wants to open a pub, he says, “I don’t suppose you hear anything from Beatrice now. She was a peculiar girl.” And a postscript: “The wife asked me to ask you if you have any spare candy.”

Apparently Harold returned to drinking when he got back to the states. In late September of ‘46, he had a car accident, perhaps not the first since he had been home, involving a Walter Linderud and had to have his insurance agent, Joe Best, write a letter to the insurance company attesting that Harold was “not a habitual drinking man.”

Also when he got back to the states, Harold subscribed to two or three services that provided names, addresses, and even descriptions of lonely women (mostly widows) apparently interested in finding a husband. He must have sent out several letters to names on these lists because there were nearly a dozen letters in response from these women, most with pictures of themselves. (Included in the material was a small photo of Harold of the type that he must have sent to them in his letter.)

Harold worked at a variety of places in the period 1946-1948 because he received letters addressed to him in several places. He received mail at addresses in Zimmerman and Babbit. Most notable was an extended stay in Palmer, Missouri, during which he received several letters from the various lovelorn. He received an offer for a job in Honduras, to begin in August of 1946, but nothing more seems to have come of that.

Harold was in Iron Mountain, Missouri, in June of 1947.

He was described as “of Nashwauk” in an obituary for his mother.

In the 1950 census, he is a driller for an iron mine. He lives in a rooming house in Crosby.

The most intriguing issue with Harold was his long-running relationship with Elizabeth (Libby) Saffel in West Virginia.

Elaine says: “I remember that Uncle Harold had a big picture of Libby on his dresser at Grandma's....she was a nice looking lady. I always wondered why he didn't get married to her.”

Harold lived and worked in Tucson during all or parts of 1955, 1956, and 1957.

In the summer of 1960, Harold was working for the Bear Creek Mining Company in Cooke City, Montana. This seeams to have been the Miners’ Ridge project in the Nothern Cascades of Washington. A photograph in the St. Cloud Times’s 27 Jun 1960 edition seems to show Harold with another miner holding a copper core.



Harold had surgery for something on 11 Feb 1970 in Duluth.

The informant for his death certificate was his brother John. John said that Harold was a driller in the mining industry and was never married. Harold died from a heart attack.

Confirmation:
by Pastor M. L. Höstager

Buried:
Arrangements by Koop; funeral at Koop’s chapel. Clergyman was Erwin Schroeder. Casket bearers were Ron, Gerald, Bill, Jack Davis, Jerry Redfield, and Carl Landstrom.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Addie (Libby) SAFFEL. Elizabeth was born in 1913 in West Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1973-MN-022880
• Social Security Number: 468-18-1038 issued in MN before 1951
• Baptism: 30 Oct 1898, Aitkin County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 18 May 1913, Deerwood Norwegian Lutheran Church, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

His middle name and his baptism date is from a letter to George from Anker Dahle in 1943. Called George Iverson in his confirmation book.

Took care of his parents on the farm. The only one who didn't leave.

George registered for the WWI draft on September 12, 1918, in Deerwood. He lists his address as RFD 3, Aitkin, MN. He is a farmer on his father’s (Andrew Everson) farm, Sec. 12, Deerwood Twp, Aitkin, Crow Wing County. He lists his nearest relative as his mother, Mrs. Andrew Everson. He is described as tall and of medium build with dark blue eyes and brown hair.

Godfather for his niece Elaine (Eva Gustad was godmother). Pastor Ole Dahle spelled George’s name “Georg” on Elaine’s baptismal certificate.

George somehow purchased some land in Florida in the ‘30s. Iver went with him in early 1937 on a road trip to check on the land which must have been near Tampa. A letter to George dated November 1, 1934, shows he had purchased land in the Mountain Park Orange Groves Company in Orlando.

The 1939-40 Brainerd city directory, which includes other communities in Crow Wing County, George is shown as owning land in section 12 of Deerwood Twp. His address is Aitkin 3. Harold also owns land in section 12. In the 1942-43 directory, Harold and George are shown as owning land in section 12 together. Neither George nor Harold are listed in the 1949 directory.

George sold off all of his stock in the winter if 1944-45 (he still had them as of October 15, 1944), apparently in hope of leaving home and getting a job. Albin notes, in a letter to Harold in March of 1945, that Naomi had said in recent letters that “Geo, Jno, Leon Mattson went to Mpls. to get a carpenter job but they didn’t get the job. George must be kicking himself for selling all the stock.” If and when George left, his mother would go to live with John and Mabel. It’s not clear that this ever happened. In his letters to Harold, George repeatedly mentioned his mother’s ill health and his and her reluctance to leave the old place.

In his September 13, 1945 letter to Harold, George writes that “When cattle get cheaper, I think I will buy a few milking shorthorns or white faces. That’s the only cattle to start in with.”

In December of 1946, George received a letter from the University of Minnesota Ag dept. in response to a question that George had apparently asked regarding the amount of hay he would need to winter cows.

In the 1950 census, he is shown as a retired farmer living in Deerwood Twp.

In the 1960s, while Ron was in the legislature, George sent a letter to the St. Paul newspaper that was printed in the paper:

“Sir: I agree with Pro Bono Me of St. Paul. Your letter was very good. I agree with you especially on this: a politician is a person who believes everything everybody else does should be regulated.

“About all our legislature did besides raising its own salaries and mileage was to tax the already too weary taxpayers another cent on gasoline and the seat belt law, a laugh. Too much dictator. It’s getting so a person can’t walk across the street without a uniformed character pushing you over and fining you from $25 to $100 because he didn’t think you were walking properly.

“I think it is about time the legislators gave a little thought to the taxpayers who are paying them instead of giving everyone who is on the state’s payrolls a raise, especially the highway patrol. That force could easily be cut in half and they could stand a cut in their salaries about half.”

His brother John was the informant for his death certificate. John claimed that George had been a driller in the iron mining industry. George died of heart failure brought on by peritonitis caused by a strangulated hernia. His body was autopsied.

Baptism:
by Pastor Dahle at the Dorris Church

Confirmation:
by Pastor M. L. Höstager

Died:
died at Cuyuna Range District Hospital

Buried:
funeral at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: DC-11958
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1972-MN-034979
• Occupation: Driller
• Social Security Number: 475-05-4142 issued in Minnesota before 1951.
• Confirmation: 15 Jun 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

His birth certificate identified him as Albin Everson, the fifth child. His father was a carpenter. His birth certificate was amended in some way in February of 1942 and required (and includes) his mother’s signature.

Albin was still living with Andrew and Annie, and shown as “single”, at the time of the 1930 census in early April.

The 1937-38 Brainerd city directory, which includes other communities in Crow Wing County, Albin is shown as living in Deerwood Twp and his address is Aitkin 3. Albin is not listed in the 1939-40 directory. In the 1942-43 directory, Albin is shown as living in Deerwood Twp but not owning land. In the 1946 Crosby directory, Albin is shown as living in Section 35 of Rabbit Lake Township, rural postal delivery on the Aitkin 3 route. In the 1949 directory, Albin is shown as living in Rabbit Lake Twp.

David says that his father “worked on jobs far away when he could get hired. He disliked working regular jobs like in the mines.”

A bill in the state legislature in January of 1939 (H. F. No. 226) was for an “Appropriation to Albin Everson for damage to real property by flooding due to the negligent operation of the Cedar Lake dam.”

In the 1940 census, Albin and his family live on a rented farm in Deerwood Twp. His wife, Naomi, was the census enumerator. Albin was a farmer with zero wages earned in 1939. He had an eighth-grade education. His wife, Naomi, had education through one year of college. Naomi was not employed at the time of the census (other than as enumerator). Albin had worked all 52 weeks of 1939 but with zero money wages. He did “receive income of $50 or more from sources other than money wages or salary.”

He and Naomi purchased the Rabbit Lake farm, previously occupied or owned by Martin Monson, in 1942.

According to David, after their marriage, Albin and Naomi lived in a house on Cedar Lake near Andrew and Anna Everson until 1943. Naomi was a schoolteacher at the Cedar Lake School (District 27) until Ron and David started school, then she was required to quit. The family moved to Iron Hub in 1943. David recalls, “The house we moved into was a miserable three-room, unpainted house. We stayed in that house for two years, then my mother built the new house on higher ground that she lived in for the rest of her life. The house was built with money my mother saved from my father’s wages during the year he worked in England.”



In the summer of 1943, Albin worked for the Miller Construction Co. of Edmonton on the Alaska Highway Telephone Line.

Albin was in England with Harold working on a drilling project in the 2nd half of 1944 and the first half of 1945. Albin spent most of his time in Cardenden in the Fife region of Scotland. (Harold was in Dunfermline, Scotland, in December of 1944.) This was called the U.K. Project of Great Britain conducted by the W.E. Callahan Construction Company of Dallas. According to Albin’s drilling notebook, the project was a series of test holes to locate coal.

Albin left England in July of 1945. We know from George’s letter to Harold of September 13, 1945, that by that time Albin was drilling “in Palisade.”

From September to December of 1946, Albin worked in Honduras as a diamond drill operator for P. W. Chase of Tegucigalpa and Joy Manufacturing Co. - Sullivan Division. The contract was for 4 months work at $300/month.

According to his passport, Albin was in Venezuela in February of 1948.

In the 1950 census, he and Naomi and their three youngest children live in Rabbit Lake Twp. Albin is a drill runner for an iron mine.

Albin worked as a wagon drill operator (W.D.O.) in the fall of 1952 (August through November) for North Atlantic Constructors.

An article in the Thursday, January 22, 1953, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that Albin was fined $100 for drunken driving and his drivers license was revoked.

Albin worked as a light equipment operator in Iceland in 1953 (May through November) on an Army contract with Metcalf Hamilton Smith Beck.

In 1956 and 1957, Albin worked as a wagon drill operator for Greenland Contractors in Thule, Greenland. His pay was $2.80/hour with a guaranteed 260 hours/month. Greenland Contractors was a joint venture of four construction companies: two from Omaha and two from Minneapolis.

Albin was also employed at some point by the Bureau of Mines as a core drill operator. This was through the Region V, Aitkin Mining Division, Development Branch.

Elaine remembers Albin as having debilitating lung condition. He received treatment at the Nopeming Sanatorium in Nopeming, Minnesota, for 52 days between December 11, 1967, and January 31, 1968. In May of 1969, a letter from the Nopeming Sanatorium indicates that Albin was still receiving quarterly X-rays there.

The informant for Albin’s death certificate was his wife Naomi who identified herself, as the name of Albin’s wife, as Naomi Landstrom Everson. She and Albin lived at Route 3, Aitkin, in Rabbit Lake. Albin was a driller in the mining industry. He died from cardiac arrest brought on, or complicated by, cirrhosis, emphysema, and bronchopneumonia.

Died:
died at Cuyuna Range District Hospital

Buried:
Funeral at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub. Arrangements by Koop. Honorary pallbearers: William Meacham, Fritz Dangers, Fred Knuppel, Edward Harms, and William Hamdorf, Sr.

Albin married Naomi Johanna LANDSTROM on 10 Jun 1930 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Naomi (daughter of Gustaf Jakob LANDSTRÖM and Klara Andersdotter WALLBÄCK) was born on 1 Nov 1906 in Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 3 Jun 1986 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 6 Jun 1986 in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1982-MN-011116
• Occupation: Driller
• Social Security Number: 475-09-6876 issued in MN before 1951
• Confirmation: 15 Jun 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

John, Mabel, and baby Elaine were living with Andrew and Annie at the time of the 1930 census. According to Jack Davis, John Everson purchased the Deerwood property in 1928.

One of the first meetings of John Everson and Maurice Carlson is recorded in the December 5, 1938, edition of the Brainerd newspaper: “Mr. Carlson of Minneapolis was looking over property here which he purchased recently. He spent the night at the John Everson home.”

The 1937-38 and 1939-40 Brainerd city directories, which include other communities in Crow Wing County, John E is shown as owning land in section 14 of Deerwood Twp and his address is Deerwood 1. John’s land is specifically shown as owned, although his father’s entries do not show ownership. This may mean that John’s is owned free and clear. Same in the 1942-43 directory. Same in the 1949 directory.

In the 1940 census, John and Mabel and their three children lived in Deewood Twp. Mabel was a high school graduate, John had an eighth-grade education. John was a farmer. Living with the Eversons, as a lodger, was Alaine Smith, age 22, a public school teacher.

Hospitalized with a “major operation” at the Community Hospital in February of 1949. Joanne believes that it may have been his appendix.



John says on the back of a postcard of Sonora, Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, that “was here in 1929.” John was in Tucson in that year, as well as Nogales. He was in Calderwood, Tennessee, in 1930-31. There is a picture notated with “Rudy and I” taken on the Potomac River in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He was in Amberg, Wisconsin, in 1925. He was in Orville, Ohio, on 3-6-1926 and Payter or Paytes, Virginia, in July of 1927. John was in Gouverneur, NY, in December, 1927.

In his letter to Iver dated 18 October 1929, John said that he was buying the Olson farm. Also, he had spent $100 on medicine and hospital for Mabel, who was with him in Mexico at that time.

John and Albin worked in Alaska on the Alaska Highway in the early 1940s.

In their letters to Harold in January of 1945, both Ron Everson and George mention that John is out of work but expects to get a job soon.

In the 1950 census, he and his family live in Deerwood. He is an ore drill operator for iron ore exploration.

John enjoyed traveling but Mabel didn’t. John went to Florida to Bill’s and to Arizona with Jerry Redfield.

The informant for his death certificate was his wife Mabel. John was a driller of water wells. He died “instantly” from ventricular arhythmia brought on by valvular heart disease with congestive heart failure.

John’s funeral was at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Iron Hub. Casket bearers were Jack Davis, John Davis, Jeff Davis, Jerry Redfield, Gerald Everson, and David Everson.

Birth:
Born in Everson home on west side of Cedar Lake. Not in MHS birth index.

Buried:
funeral at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub

John married Mabel Amanda LANDSTROM on 24 Jan 1929 in Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Mabel (daughter of Gustaf Jakob LANDSTRÖM and Klara Andersdotter WALLBÄCK) was born on 4 Jan 1909 in Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 18 Oct 1999 in Crosby, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 21 Oct 1999 in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Social Security Number: 344-40-6062 issued in Illinois between 1963 and 1964.

Notes:

Lillian graduated from Crosby-Ironton High School in the class of ‘24 whose commencement services were held on Thursday night, May 29, 1924. Also graduating in that class was Helga Landstrom (#110). Graduating from the Crosby-Ironton normal school for teachers in that same commencement program was Eva M. Gustad (#135).

In January, 1925, Lil was at college in St. Cloud. Agnes Gustad, better known as “Aggie” to Lil, was also at St. Cloud college at that time.

In April of 1929, Lil was in Hibbing.

At the time of the 1930 census, Lillian Everson was renting apartment #206 at 218 Mayfield Avenue in Chicago. Lillian, 25, was sharing the apartment with Katherine Anderson, 20. Their rent is $47.50/month and they had a radio. Both are single and both were born in Minnesota. Lillian’s parents were both born in Norway, Katherine’s in Finland. Lillian was a secretary in the lumber industry, Katherine a stenographer in the insurance industry.

The Friday, April 8, 1949, edition of the Brainerd newspaper notes that “Mr. and Mrs. George Graham, Jean, and David spent several days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albin Everson last week.”

Lil said, in a letter to Elaine in 1970:

"I did not live [at] home after I started high school and then only summers. Prior to that those things held no interest for me."



In his September 13, 1945 letter to his brother Harold, George Everson wrote: “Lil was home over a week. She bossed quite a lot, she also helped a lot.”

Died suddenly at her home while unpacking groceries.

According to her obituary in the Chicago Tribune, Lil moved to Chicago in the 1920s and worked for several years as a secretary before her marriage. She was a volunteer for many years for the Service League at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. Her son-in-law said that "she had kindness, love, and generosity. She would take food to a housebound person and drive another to church. She always kept jam and cookies to give someone who needed a pickup and she taught the little ones to sew. She did things for people."

Her son David was the informant for her death certificate.

Lil's SS# was issued in Illinois.

Birth:
Jean says 1905

Died:
“Lillian E.” in the Cook County death records

Lillian married George Wesly GRAHAM on 2 Aug 1932 in Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois. George (son of David GRAHAM and Minnie Augusta HERRMEYER) was born on 14 May 1901 in Hibbing, St. Louis County, Minnesota; died on 22 Mar 1983 in Sarasota County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1913-21075

Notes:

In the 1940 census, he, as Thomas J Craig, and Muriel lived in Superior, Wisconsin. He was a clerk in a coal office.

Family/Spouse: Muriel Arbutus OLSON. Muriel (daughter of Harold OLSON and Margaret J ANDERSON) was born on 22 Mar 1915 in Wisconsin; died on 18 Nov 2001 in Wisconsin; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1905-18837
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1996-MN-036430

Notes:

She lived in Barnesville at the time of her father’s death.

Thora married Norris Orvin BERGESON about 1925. Norris (son of Bennett BERGESON and Gurine (Carrie)) was born on 6 Jul 1898 in Minnesota; died on 27 Aug 1973 in Clay County, Minnesota; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: Zion Lutheran Church, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1911-18997
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2006-MN-028923

Notes:

Not listed in the SSDI.

From her obit:

All through her life Margaret loved music. She was a member of the Singing Legionettes, the Federated Church Choir and the Senior Citizens Kitchen Band where she played the washboard. She enjoyed singing and accompanying herself on the autoharp. Her songs brought joy to all who knew her, and she always encouraged her family to find pleasure in music. She was a homemaker and found pleasure in knitting, crocheting, cooking and nurturing her family. She was known to her grandchildren as "Fluffy." She wore her Norwegian heritage with pride as a member of the Otter Tail County Historical Society, Senior Citizens, Antiquarians and Sons of Norway. She is survived by her daughters: Rebecca (Reno) Kuehnel of Wausaukee, Wis., Doris (Jerry) Enderson of Fergus Falls, and Kathryn Knutson of Wadena; sons, Richard (Mary Ann) Pederson of Kettering, Ohio, and Charles (Vicki) Pederson of Rolla, Mo.; son-in-law, Norman Toso of Janesville, Wis.; 32 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren; and her brother, Conrad LeRoy (Delores) Johnson of Barnesville. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Phyllis Marlene Toso; her husband, Reuben P. Pederson; and a sister, Thora Adeline Bergeson. Visitation: Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home and one hour prior to the service at the church Service: 11 a.m. Saturday at Federated Church, Fergus Falls Clergy: Revs. Harry Olson and John Lindholm Burial: Knollwood Memorial Gardens Funeral Home: Glende-Nilson Funeral Home of Fergus Falls.

Confirmation:
be her eventual father-in-law, Elias Pederson

Died:
at Pioneer Retirement Community

Signe married Reuben Philip PEDERSON on 16 Jun 1929 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Reuben (son of Elias PEDERSON and Hannah Marie KITTELSON) was born on 15 Aug 1905 in Chippewa County, Wisconsin; died on 11 Apr 1985 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1918-23796
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2008-MN-008503

Notes:

An “Army pilot” in South America at the time of his father’s death. Of Barnsville at the time of his mother’s death, for whom he was the informant for the death certificate.

His obit in The Forum:

Conrad L. "Lee" Johnson

Conrad L. “Lee” Johnson, 89, of Barnesville, Minnesota died Sunday, March 16, 2008, in the Good Samaritan Society - Barnesville.

Lee was born July 20, 1918, in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. He graduated from Fergus Falls High School in 1936. He entered the U.S. Army in 1941. He received his wings and his commission in the Army Air Corps in 1942. Lee retired a Lt. Colonel from the Air Force in 1967. He then moved to Barnesville.

Lee married DeLoris “Dee” Barth on February 21, 1970. They made their home in Barnesville where they raised their family.

Lee is survived by his wife, Dee of Barnesville; two sons and two daughters, Tom (Linda) Barth of Moorhead, Linda (Jeff) Uhl of St. Cloud, Conrad (Tammy) Johnson of Fargo and Lisa (Arlyn) Scherbenske of Steele, North Dakota; 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Died:
Good Samaritan Nursing Home

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

Conrad married Deloris Laverne ANDERSON on 21 Feb 1970 in Clay County, Minnesota. Deloris was born on 11 May 1925; died on 30 Jun 2008 in Barnesville, Clay County, Minnesota; was buried in Barnesville City Cemetery, Barnesville, Clay County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1910-18396
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1910-MN-009338

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2005-MN-037412
• Occupation: Lutheran pastor

Notes:

Of Pelican Rapids at the time of his father’s death in 1963.

By 1970, he was Bishop Cecil Johnson, bishop of the Northern Minnesota District of the ALC.

His obit, from Find A Grave:

The Rev. Cecil M. Johnson, 87, Eventide Lutheran Home, Moorhead, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2005, in the nursing home.

Mr. Johnson was born Nov. 24, 1918, in Minot, N.D., where he grew up and graduated from high school in 1935. In 1940, he earned an education degree from Minot State University. From 1940 to 1941, he taught high school in Zahl, N.D. From 1941 to 1943, he worked for Lockheed Aircraft, Los Angeles. On Dec. 24, 1941, he married Eleanor Granstrom in Appam, N.D. He served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1943 to 1946. He graduated from Luther Seminary, St. Paul. From 1949 to 1956, he served at a four-point parish in Starkweather, N.D. He then served at a two-point parish in Pelican Rapids, Minn., until 1969. He received an honorary doctorate from Concordia College in 1969. From 1969 to 1981, he served as district president (bishop) of the northern Minnesota district of the American Lutheran Church. He worked for Oak Grove (Minn.) Lutheran High School from 1981 until his retirement in 1983. She died in 2004.

He is survived by a son, The Rev. Timothy (Susan), Anoka, Minn.; two daughters, Kathryn Benson, Moorhead, Sita (Norman) Johnson, Richfield, Minn.; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Visitation: Monday from 5 to 7 in Wright Funeral Home, Moorhead, and Tuesday from 10 to 11 in Trinity Lutheran Church, Moorhead.

Funeral: Tuesday at 11 in the church.

Died:
Eventide Lutheran Home, a nursing home

Cecil married Eleanor Delphine GRANSTROM on 24 Dec 1941 in Williams County, North Dakota. Eleanor was born on 18 Dec 1917 in North Dakota; died on 10 Oct 2004 in Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota; was buried on 14 Oct 2004 in Prairie Home Cemetery, Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lawyer

Notes:

Called Ashley C. and listed as living at home with his parents in the 1930 census. He had no occupation.

In the 1940 census, he was C. Ashley Johnson, an attorney in San Diego. He and Janet had no children.

Charles married Janet Ethel GANS on 30 Apr 1932 in Yuma County, Arizona. Janet was born on 9 Oct 1910 in New York; died on 22 Dec 1997 in San Diego County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1939/40 Fergus Falls city directory, she was a high school student.

Elaine married Wallace Lester ROBERTSON on 11 Oct 1947 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Wallace was born on 23 Dec 1924 in Minnesota; died on 22 Apr 1982 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2009-MN-026275

Notes:

Born Edith Marilynn.

In the 1939/40 Fergus Falls city directory, she was Marilynn Moe, high school student, living at 116 Bancroft Avenue East. In the 1941/42 Fergus Falls city directory, she is E. Marilynn Moe, living with her mother at 116 Bancroft Avenue East.

Her obit:

Marilynn M. Lee, 86, of Woodbury, Minn., and formerly of Fergus Falls, died Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009, at the Woodwinds Hospital in Woodbury.

She was born March 21, 1923, in Fergus Falls, the daughter of Robert S. and Judith L. (Johnson) Moe. She grew up in Fergus Falls, graduating from high school in 1941. She attended the University of Minnesota, receiving her B.S. in 1949, and her Masters in Social Work in 1951.

On Dec. 28, 1950, she married Owen M. Lee at Zion Lutheran Church in Fergus Falls.

Marilynn was employed with the Wilder Foundation in St. Paul from 1951 to 1988 as a social worker. She was serving as Vice-president and Division Director of Children’s and Family Services at the time of her retirement in 1988.

During World War II she held a technical position with the FBI in Washington, D.C., for three years.

She was formerly a member of the National Association of Social Workers.

Marilynn enjoyed playing piano, music, reading, and playing golf in her younger years. She especially enjoyed entertaining friends and relatives at their home on Lake Superior, near Lutsen, Minn.

Survivors include her husband, Owen M. Lee of Woodbury; a stepbrother, Luther Pederson; two stepsisters-in-law, Marian Pederson and Margret Pederson; 10 nephews and nieces; and many grandnieces and nephews.

Preceding her in death were her parents, Robert and Judith Moe; her stepfather, Rev. Elias Pederson; her grandparents: Charles and Mary Johnson, and Paul and Marie Moe; two stepbrothers, Reuben Pederson and Morton Pederson; and a stepsister, Henrietta Pederson Bye.

Memorial Service: 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at Zion Lutheran Church in Fergus Falls
Clergy: Rev. Marv Abrahamson
Interment: Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls
Funeral home: Olson Funeral Home in Fergus Falls

Birth:
Fergus Falls

Died:
Woodwinds Hospital, Woodbury

Marilynn married Owen M LEE on 28 Dec 1950 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2005-MN-014865

Notes:

In the 1935/36 Fergus Falls city directory, she is a high school student living with her parents at 111 W Vernon Avenue. In the 1937/38 Fergus Falls city directory, she has no occupation and lives with her parents at 621 Union Avenue South.

She graduated from Fergus Falls High School in its class of 1937.

Ruth (Moe) Kvernstoen, 86, Fergus Falls, died May 12, 2005, at the Lake Region Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility.

She was born Jan. 13, 1919, in Fergus Falls, arriving in time for the great cyclone of 1919. She married Otto in 1939, and with characteristic optimism, bore 4 children. Her children still struggle to make her optimism warranted. Although a town girl, she adapted well to life on the farm, near Dalton, where she lived until 1979, then moving to Fergus Falls, where she lived at 619 East Summit for 26 years. She worked for 20 years at the Pioneer Home, and made many friends there.

She was a person of many interests, talents, and friends, all three categories too numerous to mention in entirety. Interests included poetry (reading, memorizing, and writing), crochetting, music, her dog Brie, and voracious reading. She liked nothing better than sitting down with a good book and "a little something" to eat. If there are murder mysteries and Racko tournaments in Heaven she will be happy there.

To all her many friends: she would regret leaving without saying goodbye to all of you. She will be greatly missed by many. It is hard to express our loss. Fortunately, we have tears.

She is survived by her children: David Kvernstoen, Kristie (James) Martinka, Constance (Bernard) Adams, Steven Kvernstoen and wife Orapan Footrakoon; grandchildren: Matt and Sara Martinka, and Tina, Kari, and Joel Adams; and sister Nancy (Dwain) Tollefson.

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; brother Phillip; and her beloved hearing-ear dog, Brie.

Visitation: Monday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home and will resume one hour prior to the service at the church on Tuesday.

Service: 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Zion-Sarpsborg Free Lutheran Church in Dalton

Clergy: Revs. Steve Carlson and Dennis Norby
Burial: Sarpsborg Cemetery in Dalton
Funeral Home: Olson Funeral Home, Fergus Falls
 

Ruth married Otto Martin KVERNSTOEN on 1 Jan 1939 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Otto (son of SAGENG) was born on 8 Aug 1910; died on 20 Dec 1988 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Sarpsborg Cemetery, Tumuli Twp, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1941/42 Fergus Falls city directory, he is a high school student.

In the 1950 census, he worked in a college bookstore in Menlo Park, California.

In the 1955 city directory for San Jose, he was an engineer. He received a degree from Stanford in 1951.

Phillip married Mary ADDLEMAN on 4 Jun 1949 in Santa Clara County, California, and was divorced in Apr 1970 in Santa Clara County, California. Mary was born on 5 Mar 1930 in Cook County, Illinois; died in 2005 in Santa Clara County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]