Böye Ovesen BERGE

Notes:

Jim calls him Bøye Ovesen Wangensteen in his VS, in which this person is I1995.

Vang A, p. 403.

Birth:
Berge 22/A

Died:
Stele 21/1 Nerre

Böye married Marte Christophersdatter LEIROL in 1823. Marte (daughter of Kristoffer Olsen LEROHL and Berte Torsteinsdatter BØE) was born in 1806 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 23 Aug 1830 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Berit Olsdotter QVAM KVÅLE. Berit was born in 1815; died in 1843. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Even Knudsen HEEN. Even (son of Knud Evensen HEEN and Sigri Gulbrandsdatter UVDAL) was born on 14 Jun 1824 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Stele 21/1 Nerre

Died:
Kvåle in Vang

Berte married Ola Andrisson KATTEVOLDVang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ola (son of Andris Olsen KATTEVOLD and Margrete Kristoffersdatter KVÅLE) was born on 19 Dec 1824 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 24 Apr 1878 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang A, p. 404.

Family/Spouse: Anne Kristoffersdatter KVAM. Anne (daughter of Kristoffer Tosteinson HAGASTRØND and Berit Gulliksdatter BERGE) was born on 22 Sep 1844 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1932. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1900 census, he, as Ben Knudtson, and his family were farming in Barton Twp, Worth County, Iowa.

From D M Scott’s contribution to Find A Grave:

#1
BEN KNUDTSON FROZEN TO DEATH

The Christmas festivities of our neighboring town of Carpenter were sadly broken into by the tragic death of one of her citizens, Mr. Ben Knudtson, who died about noon from the effects of having spent the night out - lying beside the railroad track in that awful cold.

Mr. Knudtson came back from Lyle on the 8:20 train Christmas Eve. He had not been up to Lyle to buy either hardware or dry goods, but had already celebrated too much for his own good. When he got off the train he started for his home, which was about a mile northwest of Carpenter; but instead of going around the road, he started cross lots intending to go north on the railroad till he crossed the bridge, then take a path through the woods for home. He only got across the bridge when he fell and rolled down the high embankment, striking on a lot of rocks which lay at the bottom. It is quite evident that he was considerably injured by the fall or he could have managed to have gotten up and out of there. But there he lay during all that bitter, cold night.

At about eleven o'clock Knudtson's son, Ed, about 17 years of age, in company with Ed Edwarson, a boy of about his own age crossed the bridge and heard someone calling to them to hold on but they thought it was a tramp trying to waylay them and they ran as fast as their legs could carry them, and went over to Gilbert Severson's close by and stayed all night. The next morning Severson and Edwards went back to the bridge and, alas, there lay Knudtson, not dead but pretty near it, though he was still conscious and in fact, remained so until just before he died.

They took him home and immediately called Dr. Culmsee. The doctor arrived there about eleven o'clock, but alas he was beyond the reach of medical aid. His injuries were too severe to be helped and he died within an hour. His hands, face and legs were frozen terribly, and he was suffering from internal injuries, evidently caused by falling down the embankment.

The funeral was held on Saturday, conducted at the Deer Creek N. L. Church by Reverend J. Olsen.

It was just eight years ago to a day, that his brother, Theo, came to an untimely death in the same woods, and not a mile from the same place.

[St. Ansgar Enterprise, Dec., 1902, St. Ansgar Iowa Museum Collection]


#2
Ben E Knudtson was born March 1852 in Iowa, son of Even Knudtson, born June 14, 1824

Norway…died August 3, 1902 Iowa (Buried First Lutheran Cemetery, Saint Ansgar (as per Mitchell Co., Grave Records: Ancestery)
and Gerhardine Boyesdatter Heile..according to a tree found on Ancestry: born February 3, 1828 in Norway…died January 27, 1911 Carpenter.

Ben E Knudtson was buried in Deer Creek Lutheran Cemetery according to a tree found.

According to the tree found, Ben Knudtson married Ingeborg Aslaksdtr. Ellingboe who was born March 5, 1865 Noway and died July 5, 1956 in Dickey Co., North Dakota. After Ben's death she married Hans Hanson in 1907.

The son Ed mentioned in Bens obit was Edwin Ben Knudtson 1888-1929 died Minnesota. (name on Minn. Death record has last name spelled Knutsen

His brother Theo mentioned in the obit was Theodore E Knudtson born December 1, 1863…died December 25, 1894…buried First Lutheran (burial from Mitchell Co., Grave Records, Ancestry)

#3
1900 US Census: Deer Creek, Worth, Iowa
Ben Knudtson 48 born March 1852 Iowa
Ingeborg 35 born March 1865 Norway
Edwin 12 born February 1888 Iowa 9died November 3, 1929 Minnesota)
Melvin 8 born March 1892 Iowa (died Montana December 1963)
Antone 6 born October 1894 Iowa (Antone Leonard..his Minn. Death record shows his mothers maiden name as Ellingboe)

Ben married Ingeborg Åslaksdatter ELLINGBÖ on 5 Feb 1887 in St. Ansgar, Mitchell County, Iowa. Ingeborg (daughter of Åslak Amundsson BÖE and Randi Olsdatter ELLINGBÖ) was born on 4 Mar 1865 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 5 Jul 1956 in Dickey County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is I6691 in Jim’s VS.

Jim’s notes:

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

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

Birth:
Kattevold 45/ Øvre

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1914-MN-018373
• Occupation: Plumber
• Baptism: 10 Jun 1883, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Baptismal sponsors: Tollef Olsen Ellingböe, Marit Jøgersdatter Ellingbø, Ole Nielsen Steileeie, Guri Olsdatter Steil, Anders Engebretsen Berge.

In the 1910 census, John and his family were in Minneapolis. John was a plumber. Came to the U.S. in 1904.

The informant for his death certificate was Knute Ellingboe of Milaca. John Steile died of suffocation in a work accident. Sand caved in on him while he was digging for a cesspool.

Birth:
Some sources say 31 March which is incorrect

Died:
Along 38th Street between 13th and 14th Avenues

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

Family/Spouse: Ingebjørg Nilsdatter HOVDA. Ingebjørg was born in 1879. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Berit (Bertha) Ivarsdatter ELLINGBØ on 4 Dec 1908 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Berit (daughter of Ivar Knutsson ELLINGBØ and Berit Olsdatter ELLINGBØ) was born on 3 Oct 1881 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 8 Aug 1964 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 11 Aug 1964 in Glen Haven Memorial Garden, Crystal, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mikal JOHANNESEN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1929-MN-010725

Notes:

He registered for the draft in Dickey County, North Dakota, on June 5, 1917. He was an unmarried, unemployed farm laborer living in Silver Leaf, North Dakota. Although he was registered as Knutson, he seemed to have signed his name Knutsen.

According to his death certificate, his wife was Hannah Dunbar. He died of brain cancer at Colonial Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, but he normally lived in Fullerton, North Dakota. He was a grain elevator buyer for Baldwin Elevator Company of Appleton, Wisconsin.

Family/Spouse: Hannah Pearl DUNBAR. Hannah (daughter of Thomas Jay DUNBAR and Harriet (Hattie) TAYLOR) was born on 9 Nov 1892 in Foster, Faribault County, Minnesota; died on 15 Jan 1982 in Faribault County, Minnesota; was buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Wells, Faribault County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a single farmer in Valley County, Montana, when he registered for the draft on June 5, 1917.

In the 1930 census, he was a “hired man” on a farm in Phillips County, Montana.

In the 1940 census, he was a lodger with William Gust in Whitewater Twp, Phillips County, Montana.

Birth:
the birth date in SSDI

Died:
this is questionable: the Montana Death Index claims that this Melvin Knutson was 94 years old

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1965-MN-023316

Notes:

Mother’s maiden name Ellingboe.

According to his draft registration on June 5, 1917, in Brownsville, Minnesota, he was born in Carpenter, Iowa, and was a bookkeeper for the Citizens State Bank of Borwnsville. He was still single and was described as short, of medium build, with light-blue eyes and light-brown hair.

In the 1920 census, he was still single and living in Barnesville, Clay County, Minnesota. He was a bookkeeper for what appears to be “investment house.”

In the 1930 census, he is still single and living in Hibbing as an insurance agent.

In the 1940 census, he and Lucy and Robert and Douglas lived in Sacred Heart, Minnesota. Five years earlier, the family lived in South Dakota. Anton was the manager of a grain elevator. Anton was a high school graduate. Lucy had had two years of college. He was the member of the household who met with the census enumerator. He incorrectly gave his place of birth as North Dakota.

He died of a heart attack. The informant for his death certificate was Douglas D. Knutson of Sacred Heart.

Anton married Lucy Irene MORRIS on 11 Jul 1931 in Douglas County, Minnesota. Lucy was born on 10 Apr 1900 in Douglas County, Minnesota; died on 24 Apr 1959 in Renville County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Oct 1886, Minnesota

Notes:

Baptism:
Wang Lutheran Church

Notes:

The article in the Ward County Independent that describes his wedding to Josephine says that he graduated from the Red Wing Seminary in 1902 and later from the Teachers’ University of Southern Minnesota at Austin, Minnesota. At the time of his marriage to Josphine, he was superintendent of the public schools at Des Lacs, North Dakota.

Christopher married Josephine ERICKSON on 26 Aug 1914 in Maynard, Chippewa County, Minnesota. Josephine was born on 17 Mar 1885 in Chippewa County, Minnesota; died on 12 Sep 1957 in Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ole married Emma R DALÅKER on 21 Sep 1912 in Chippewa County, Minnesota. Emma (daughter of Ole O DALÅKER and Kjersti C LEROL) was born in Sep 1892 in Minnesota; died in 1971 in Minnesota; was buried in Maynard Lutheran Cemetery, Maynard, Chippewa County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Andrew married Abbie JOHNSON in 1918. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 13 Sep 1903, Lomen, Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

This family of John Steile is per the estimable dwfrench1’s French Family Tree.

At Ove’s baptism, all of the sponsors seem to be from the mother’s family.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1909-33940
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1978-MN-006213
• Baptism: 3 May 1909, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota

Notes:

She was the informant for her mother’s death certificate. At the time of her mother’s death, she lived in Crystal at 4501 Adair Avenue N.

As the 21 year-old Anna Nems, she and her two children were living with her widowed mother in Minneapolis at the time of the 1930 census. Anna was a packer for a seed company. Anna is shown as married.

Baptism:
First Lutheran

Anna married Alfred O NIMS on 3 Nov 1926 in Hennepin County, Minnesota, and was divorced. Alfred was born in 1904 in South Dakota; died on 30 May 1968 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Herbert Harrison STANLEY, Sr about 1931. Herbert was born on 1 Feb 1894 in Kansas; died on 3 Aug 1973 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hazel BURNHAM. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]