Øystein Olsen KJØS

Notes:

I9281 Valdres Slekt

Birth:
Kjøs 93/1 Øvre

Family/Spouse: Berit Knutsdatter HÅLIEN. Berit (daughter of Knut Johannesson HÅLIEN and Jørand Olsdatter KVÅLE) was born on 14 Feb 1751 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1836. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Øystein married Ingrid Tomasdatter in 1766. Ingrid was born in 1739; died in 1769. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I9282 Valdres Slekt

Birth:
Kjøs 93/1 Øvre

Died:
Egge 24/2 Nedre

Family/Spouse: Ola Gulliksen EGGE. Ola (son of Gullik Olsen EGGE and Gjertrud Jonsdatter KVÅLE) was born in 1769 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
93/

Family/Spouse: Tosten Tostensen RØYNE. Tosten (son of Torstein Knutson RØYNE and Marit Rønjusdatter NORDTORP) was born on 5 Jun 1791 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1874 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Angel Phillips

He is I7637 in Jim’s VS.

Family/Spouse: Aaste Østensdatter BERGE. Aaste (daughter of Øystein Gunnarson ØYDEGARDEN and Anne Eiriksdatter KJØS) was born about 1801 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1801 census, she and Knut Olsen are gbr and kone on Haaelien. They have two children, Østen, 6, and Kari, 4.

Magelin married Knut Olson KVIE in 1787. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ola M BUNDE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I10581 Valdres Slekt

Jim’s notes: Han fikk gården av faren mellom 1805 og 1810. I 1818 klarte han ikke å holde de mange kreditorene unna, og søkte om et større pengelån for å sanere gjelda. Takstdokumentet viser at det var en veldrevet gård med bra hus. Pengelånet hjalp ikke, ha n måtte selge unna en hel del av gården, og tilslutt måtte ha "fantegå" fra hele bruket. Det vil si at han gikk konkurs. Det var boren til moren Øystein Øysteinson Kjøs som kjøpte gården. Gullik var gift to ganger.

Birth:
Egge 24/2 Nedre

Family/Spouse: Ingrid Ivarsdatter RINGESTAD. Ingrid (daughter of Ivar Knutsen RINGESTAD and Marit Knutsdatter VIK) was born in 1788 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 18 Apr 1814 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Marit Engebretsdatter BEITO. Marit (daughter of Engebret Knudsen BEITO and Sidsel Julsdater ØYDEGARDEN) was born about 1800 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I13104 Valdres Slekt

Jim claims that Berit and Torstein lived on Bunde 97/1. The bygdebok (p. 182, Vang C) implies that their farm was 97/4.

Berit and Einar lived on the Bonde farm for 14 years before emigrating in March of 1849.

Berit married Torstein Øysteinson BUNDE on 18 Jul 1819 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Torstein (son of Øystein Torsteinson HELLE and Kari Olsdatter FRAMSTAD) was born in 1796 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1830; was buried in Lillehammer, Gudbrandsdal, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Berit married Einar Halvorsen GROVEN on 29 Jun 1835 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Einar (son of Halvor Halvorsen HØYME and Aaste Einersdatter KVIEN) was born on 22 Dec 1799 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 27 Aug 1875 in Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Valley Grove Cemetery, Wheeling Twp, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Røyne in Hegge

Died:
nrestore

Family/Spouse: Ole Olsen HEGGE. Ole (son of Ole Tostensen MELBY and Ingeborg Olsdatter ALFSTAD) was born on 12 Mar 1812 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1855 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Mar 1823, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

In the 1920 census, she is Aaster K Evenson, age 96, grandmother, iving with her daughter Berith and her grandchildren in Split Rock Twp, South Dakota.

Birth:
Kjøs

Baptism:
Høre stavkirke

Died:
Angel Phillips

Family/Spouse: Iver Endresson LOKREIM. Iver (son of Endre Olsen GIVRE and Berit Ivarsdatter TVEIT) was born on 15 Aug 1815 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 24 Dec 1866 in Valdres i Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 1819, Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Buried as Ingri G. Egge, wife of K. Thompson.

Her obituary:

Ingri Thompson, a young wife and mother died at her home in Eureka. Funeral services were held and her remains were laid to rest in the Norwegian Christiania Lutheran Church cemetery. Ingri, her husband Knute and their daughter Betsy came to this country in 1854 from Valders, Norway. They first settled in Wisconsin and two years later, in 1856 they came to Eureka township where they pre-empted a homestead near the Twin churches. Knute, Ingri and Betsy were three of the original members of the Christiania Lutheran Church. The entire community extends sympathy to the bereaved husband and ten year old child.

Baptism:
24 Aug and 26 Sep

Ingri married Knudt Tomason ELLESTAD on 17 Oct 1852 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Knudt (son of Tomas Knudson TØRSTAD and Berit Johannesdatter ELLESTAD) was born on 4 May 1822 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 11 Feb 1896 in Eureka Twp, Dakota County, Minnesota; was buried in 1896 in Highview Cemetery, Eureka Twp, Dakota County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Feb 1821, Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Birth info per dwfrench1.

Birth:
Egge i Lomen

Family/Spouse: Tosten Nielsen QVIEN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Bonde in Høre according to the French Family Tree.

Died:
Bonde in Høre according to the French Family Tree.

Family/Spouse: Sigrid Olsdatter FRAMSTAD. Sigrid (daughter of Ole Olsen FRAMSTAD and Ragnild Thoresdatter SKEIE) was born on 25 Sep 1823 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 2 Apr 1902 in Swift County, Minnesota; was buried in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emigrated.

In the 1900 census he is in Goodhue County.

Family/Spouse: Marit Gulliksdatter RISTE. Marit was born about 1826 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died about 1904. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She had 12 children, eight of whom survived and led remarkable lives. They had the advantage of a tutor at home and all were exceptionally bright.

Birth:
Bunde 97/ (either 1 or 4)

Family/Spouse: Thomas Anderson VEFLEN. Thomas (son of Andris Haldorsen ØDEGÅRD and Gjartrud Thomasdatter TØRSTAD) was born on 25 Oct 1818 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 18 Aug 1906 in Nerstrand, Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Valley Grove Cemetery, Wheeling Twp, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Came to the U.S. with her brother Ole.

Died at Fertile, Minnesota, on 11 Jun 1889.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Feb 1843, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He became a successful farmer and community leader. He married Ingebor Haugen in 1867 and stayed on the Bonde farm all of his life. He built a much-admired stone house in 1875 and kept a journal, written in Norwegian.

Of his 11 children, seven survived to adulthood.


The Tosten E. Bonde Farmhouse, built of locally quarried limestone in 1875, is one of the oldest structures of its kind in Wheeling Township, Rice County. The Bonde family emigrated to Minnesota in 1849 and homesteaded land in 1855. The private home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

In 1849, Einer and Berit Bonde emigrated from Vang, Valdres, Norway, with their two sons, Tosten and Halvor. Berit’s daughter, Kari, from a previous marriage, and her husband, Thomas Veblen, had immigrated to the United States two years earlier in 1847. The Veblens were the parents of famed sociologist and economist Thorstein Veblen. According to family history, the Bondes “dreamed of following Kari’s footsteps to the new world.”

The Bonde family lived in Port Washington, Wisconsin, before moving to Winneshiek County, Iowa, in the spring of 1854. The following year, on June 9, the family settled on 160 acres in section 11 of Wheeling Township in Minnesota Territory. In 1866, the Veblens moved from Mount Vernon, Wisconsin, to a farm in Wheeling Township, Minnesota. The rural community of primarily Norwegian settler-colonists was composed of respected farmers and civic leaders, including Halvor Quie and Osmund Osmundson, founder of Nerstrand.

From 1855 to 1875, the family resided in a log home. In 1865, Tosten, who was described as a “very able young man,” purchased the farm from his father. His brother Halvor, a Civil War veteran, had settled in Swift County, Minnesota. Two years later, Tosten married Ingebor Hougen on April 3, 1867. They had eleven children, born between 1868 and 1887. Tosten’s family lived with his parents until the stone house was completed in the summer of 1875. His father, Einer, passed away on August 27, 1875, and Berit died on March 12, 1877.

In a diary started in 1888, Tosten Bonde noted the improvements to the farm site: a barn was added in 1870, the stone farmhouse in 1875, a machinery shed in 1883, a granary in 1886, and a milkhouse in 1887. The two-and-a-half-story, L-shaped farmhouse was built on a small rise and constructed of locally quarried limestone from the Nerstrand and Faribault area. Situated near a well-traveled highway approximately one mile from Nerstrand, the gabled farmhouse became a focal landmark in rural Rice County after its completion in 1875.

The farmstead, which is still owned by Bonde family descendants in 2020, is in many respects a “living” document to rural agricultural heritage and practices by a single family dating back to Minnesota’s territorial days. Tosten’s diary offers glimpses into late-nineteenth-century farm life with entries like: “The year, 1887, was very dry and the chinch bug destroyed all the wheat and part of the oats. The hay crop was very short.” In his entry for April 12, 1891, he wrote: “Horses are sick from distemper.” The family history noted that Oscar, a son, remarked they cured the horses by “burning rubbers and had the horses inhale the fumes.”

The family history also tells of tragedy within the farmhouse’s stone walls. When an epidemic of black measles occurred in late March and early April of 1882, three sons died in one week: Edward, who was fourteen, Ingebrit, who was six, and Albert, who was barely a year old, fell victim to the disease. According to family lore, when Ingebor worked in her garden, “she would look to Valley Grove Cemetery and long for her little ones buried there on the distant hill.”

In 1890, Tosten was elected to the Minnesota State Legislature; he was reelected the following year. By early 1895, he developed stomach cancer, and he passed away at his home on October 14, 1897. The fifty-four-year-old was survived by his wife and seven children. One obituary noted he was “a good citizen and highly esteemed and respected in the community.”

In February 1981, Britta Bloomberg’s submission for the Minnesota Historical Properties Inventory Form stated, “The Bonde Farmhouse is significant both for its association with a prominent immigrant family and for its notable limestone construction and outstanding integrity.” In April 1982, the private home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the Faribault Republican, Oct. 20, 1897, via Find A Grave:

Died at his home in the town of Wheeling on Thursday evening, last, Oct. 14, of cancer of the stomach, with which he had suffered for two and a half years. The funeral was held on Monday, with services conducted by Rev. N. A. Quammen, and the remains were buried in the cemetery connected with Valley Grove church. Mr. Bonde was born in Norway, Jan. 12th, 1843. In 1849 he came with his parents to America and first settled at Port Washington, Wis.; five years later removed to Winneshiek County, Iowa, and in 1855 came to Rice County and located on section no.11, in Wheeling, which has ever since been his home. April 3d, 1867, he married Miss Ingebor Haugen, who survives him, and to them were born eleven children, four of whom are dead, and seven are living; Thomas, Bernhard, Anna, Alfred, Oscar, Edward and Carl, all of whom are at home, except Thomas, who is in St. Paul. Mr. Bonde was a good citizen and highly esteemed and respected in the community in which he lived so long, and was honored by election to various offices in the town and as a representative in the legislature, in which he served during the session of 1891.

Died:
cancer

Tosten married Ingeborg Thomasdatter HAUGEN on 3 Apr 1867 in Rice County, Minnesota. Ingeborg was born in 1847; died on 15 Apr 1932 in Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

Served in the Civil War as part of the 2nd Minnesota Cavalry.

He has a great-granddaughter named Nina.

Notes:

Birth:
from nrestore, Høyme in Lomen

Family/Spouse: Berit Olsdatter KVISSEL. Berit was born on 14 Apr 1850 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 30 Jun 1917 in Alberta, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 5 Mar 1845, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Birth record shows her parents unmarried and specifies Kjøs as the farm for both of them. Her baptismal sponsors were Knud Kjøs, Anders Gunderson Gjevre, Guri Køngslien, Sigri Andersdatter Kjøs, and Marit Østensdatter Berge. Could not find Iver/Ivar in 93-94/.

In the 1865 census, she is probably the 21 year-old Berith Iversdatter working as a tjenestepige on Endre Olsen’s Lien søndre farm.

Her connection to Johannes Knudsen Haugen has conflicting information and the bygdeboks aren’t helpful. Among the conflicts, for example, the Bredeson Family Tree calls her Berith J Knutson, daughter of Aaste and someone named Knudt Evenson. The Bredeson Family Tree does have (most of) Berith’s birth date right. Melvin Haugen’s tree shows her as Berit Iversdatter Gjevre and born in Vang 8 Feb 1845.

In the 1910 census, she is Berith Knutson, 65, now a widow and is head-of-household for the farm in Split Rock Twp, Minnehaha County. Living with her is her daughter, Martha Johnson, 25, and sons Andrew, 24, Otto, 22, and Iver, 29, all with the surname Johnson and all shown as single. Also living with the family is Mary J Tvedt, 39, a boarder. Berith still claims 8 children, 7 still living. So for some reason, the children living with her have adopted the surname Johnson.

In the 1920 census, Berith is a 75 year-old widow living on the Split Rock Twp farm headed up by her son Andrew Johnson, age 35. Also in the household is Martha E Johnson, 37, Iver W Johnson, 39, and Aaster K. Evenson, 96, grandmother. Berith is shown to have come to the U.S. in 1872. Aaste is shown as coming to the U.S. in 1867.

Died:
as Berith Knutson

Family/Spouse: Johannes Knudson HAUGEN. Johannes (son of Knud Olsen REBNE and Ingeborg Johannesdatter MOEN) was born on 1 Aug 1843 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 17 May 1906 in Minnehaha County, South Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Oct 1854, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Vang B, p. 202, has his birth date as 1857.

Birth:
Remmen

Osten married Guri Gudbrandsdatter in 1886 in North Dakota. Guri was born in 1863 in Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was prominent in the governmental matters of Osnabrock, North Dakota.

Ole married Marie FLOM in 1884. Marie was born on 12 May 1862 in Kenyon, Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 26 Jul 1920 in Cavalier, Pembina County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Knut P SVALDE. Knut was born in 1850 in Telemark, Norway; died in 1928 in North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]