Ingelev Ovesdatter KVAM

Notes:

In Jim’s VS, she is Ingelev Ovesdtr Kvam, I2239.

Family/Spouse: Torstein Olsen Leirol KVAM. Torstein (son of Ola Kristofferson LEROHL and Berit Torsteinsdatter SKJEL) was born in 1780 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1841. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kvam 53/ Sløtet

Maren married Nils Knutsen GAASEDELEN about 1833 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Nils (son of Knut Knutson GAASEDELEN and Rangdi Nilsdotter STELE) was born on 27 Oct 1811 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 5 May 1892 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kvam 53/ Sløtet

Berit married Nils Kristoffersen BERGE in 1838. Nils (son of Kristoffer Arnfinnsen BERGE and Margrete Larsdatter WANGENSTEEN) was born in 1816 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1897. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is Ola Torsteinson (Sløtet) Kvam, I2240, in Jim’s VS. He was a husmann on Sløtet, apparently a plass on Kvam.

Jim’s notes:

Han var gift i 1840 med Anne A Skjefte (1814-1877) De hadde barna: Ingeleiv Sløtet Kvam (1840- ) gift til Hardanger i 1879. Sigrid Sløtet Kvam som bodde på Sløtet (1846-). Maren Sløtet Kvam (1849- ) hun reiste til USA. Berit Sløtet Kvam (1849- ) som giftet seg til Reina 106/2 ø. Hella og Anne Sløtet Kvam (1855-1932) som bodde på Bunde 97/1.

Birth:
Kvam 53/ Sløtet

Ola married Anne Andrisdatter SKJEFTE in 1840 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Anne (daughter of Andris Torleivson SKJEFTE and Sigrid Sjugurdsdatter AUSTREIM) was born in 1817 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1877. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Husmann and shoemaker.

In the 1865 Norwegian census, he was Kristofer Torsteinsen, age 42, a husmand med Jord on Haugen in Vang. The household also had Jorand, 32, Torstein, 8, Ole, 6, and Ove, 1, along with Magrete Torsteinsdatter, 42, and her daughters Marie Haldorsdatter, 13, and Magrete Svendsdatter, 4.

Birth:
Kvam 53/ Sløtet

Kristoffer married Jørend Olsdatter TØRSTAD in 1856. Jørend (daughter of Ola Knutsen TØRSTAD and Sigrid Alvsdatter LOME) was born in 1834 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 25 Sep 1923 in Mountrail County, North Dakota; was buried in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Belden, Mountrail County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Kvam 53/ Sløtet

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

Notes:

He may be the Nils Nilsen Gaasedelen, who, with Aasne Herbjørnsdatter, is shown as the parent of the child named Martin who was baptized at the Greenfield Lutheran Church in Harmony, Minnesota, on 21 May 1871. Knut Nilsen Gaasedelen, and his wife Sophie Anderson, also had a child baptized at that church on 21 May: Maren, b. 25 March.

Birth:
Gåsedelen 29/-, Nå Steinsrud

Notes:

He may be the Knut Nilsen Gaasedelen, who, with his wife Sophie Anderson, is shown as the parent of the child named Maren, b. 25 March, who was baptized at the Greenfield Lutheran Church in Harmony, Minnesota, on 21 May 1871. Nils Nilsen Gaasedelen, who, with Aasne Herbjørnsdatter, is shown as the parent of the child named Martin, b. 18 April, who was also baptized at that church on 21 May.

Birth:
Gåsedelen 29/-, Nå Steinsrud

Notes:

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

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

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

Died:
Sælid 25/1

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

Notes:

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

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

Notes:

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

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

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

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

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

Birth:
Bøflaten under Bø 25/ Nilsgården

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

Notes:

Birth:
Kvam 53/ Sløtet

Family/Spouse: Eric LOCKREM. Eric (son of Niels Ericksen LIEN and Anne Olsdatter LOKREIM) was born on 13 Sep 1840 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 26 Jan 1916 in Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Trondhjem Cemetery, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Veflen 99/ Ruskehaugen

Died:
Dalheim (Verpilen) 96/12-38-40 av Kvien i Høre

Family/Spouse: Ragndi Olsdatter HOVDA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Veflen 99/ Ruskehaugen

Died:
Bergli 101/10, Nørre, Ryfoss

Notes:

The Weflen Family Tree calls him Ove Anton and has him born 17 Feb 1875 and dying in Grant County, Minnesota, in October of 1898, leaving behind a wife and son.

Birth:
Veflen 99/ Ruskehaugen

Ove married Mary TELL on 20 Sep 1895 in Grant County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

May have lived in Grant County, Minnesota, in 1900. A Knute Weflin, b. Sept 1870, lived in Elk Lake Twp, Grant County, in the 1900 census. He was single and farmed on a rented farm. He had come to the U.S. in 1890.

Birth:
Veflen 99/ Ruskehaugen; date from NDPDI

Died:
as Knute K Weflen

Notes:

The Weflen Family Tree calls her Selma and has her dying in Olympia, Washington, in November of 1936 as Selma Wallmark.

Birth:
Veflen 99/ Ruskehaugen

Sigrid married Lars John WALLWARK on 19 Dec 1896. Lars was born on 11 May 1873 in Jämtlands län, Sweden; died on 20 May 1926 in Thurston County, Washington; was buried in Masonic Memorial Park, Tumwater, Thurston County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Apr 1873

Notes:

He went to the U.S. with his mother.

The Weflen Family Tree has him as Ole Kristoffersen Weflen, b. Jul 1873, who married Gunhilda Helgeson. He lived in Saskatchewan in 1906.

He was living with his sister Ida in Minot in the 1900 census. At that time he was a house carpenter.

Birth:
Veflen 99/ Ruskehaugen

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Apr 1873

Notes:

She went to America with her mother and twin brother.

The Weflen Family Tree has her marrying Ole/Olaf Helgeson and living in Minnesota or North Dakota in 1900.

By about 1905, they were in Saskatchewan. Ole and family was recorded in Prince Albert in Saskatchewan in the 1916 Canadian census.

Birth:
Veflen 99/ Ruskehaugen

Ingeleiv married Ole HELGESON on 19 Dec 1895 in Renville County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 1 Oct 1876, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He went to the U.S. with his mother.

The Weflen Family Tree has him living in Mountrail, North Dakota in 1910 and marrying Sigrid Nesheim.

In the 1910 census, he, Christ C Weflen, and his wife and mother live in Wayzetta Twp, Mountrail County, North Dakota. He owns the farm but with a mortgage.

In the 1920 census, he and his wife and mother still live in Wayzetta Twp. He and Sigrid now have two children.

They’re still there in 1930 and 1940.

Birth:
Veflen 99/ Ruskehaugen

Died:
as Christopher Weflen

Kristoffer married Sigrid NESHEIM in 1909. Sigrid was born on 28 Feb 1876 in Norway; died on 10 Apr 1946 in Mountrail County, North Dakota; was buried in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Belden, Mountrail County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 Oct 1852, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Hun var jordmoren til far på Tango."Hun skal ha vært et grepa kvinnfolk" og var mye sammen med bestemor på Tango. Det var for å få selskap på øvre Tango at bestemor ba om at Bøland skulle få flytte stølen sin dit.

[Which seems to translate, quite confusingly, as: She was the midwife to the father of the tango."she should have been a grepa women" and was much together with grandma on the Tango. It was to get the company on the upper Tango that grandma requested that Bøland should move the farm his there.]

Birth:
Kvam 53/ Sløtet

Maren married Ola Hansen REMME on 2 Jul 1884 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ola was born on 16 Mar 1858 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Surname Sælid in Norway.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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

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

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

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

Birth:
Kjelvudn under Nedre Stele

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

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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

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

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

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

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

Died:
died at the Faribault School for Defectives

Notes:

Called Dorothea in the 1885 state census.

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

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

Notes:

Called Annie in the 1880 census.

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

A Trønderlag source says that she died 24 March 1961.

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

Notes:

Listed in the 1885 state census. Not listed later.

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

Living with his mother in the 1905 state census.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1960-MN-025633

Notes:

Living with his mother in the 1905 state census.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Birth:
birth location according to his draft registration

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

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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

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

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

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

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

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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

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

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

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

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

Died:
at Norwegian Deaconess Hospital in Minneapolis

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

Notes:

Her birth year is not certain and is shown in various sources as 1872, 1873, or 1874 (e.g., Find A Grave). Her 1889 confirmation record, for St. John’s in Northfield, has not birth date shown other than an apparently speculative 1872. The estimable dwfrench1 shows 1873 so that’s what we’ll show here.

In the 1900 census, she was 26 and had been married for 9 years. She had had 4 children, 2 still living. Those two, are, apparently, Thomas and Andrew.

Her maiden name is Rode in Palma’s birth record.

In the 1930 census, she works at home as a laundress.

Birth:
See note

Margaret married Thomas K WEFLEN about 1893. Thomas (son of Knute Endreson HELLE and Giertrud Tomasdatter ELLESTAD) was born on 8 Jun 1851 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 10 Oct 1932 in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota; was buried in Wangs Lutheran Church Cemetery, Wang Twp, Renville County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 31 May 1874, Holden Lutheran Church, Kenyon, Goodhue County, Minnesota

Notes:

Baptism:
ELCA

Notes:

He is I8030 in Jim’s Ellingboe tree and I1644 in Jim’s VS. Jim says that Christoffer was a renowned wood carver and operated a cabinet maker’s workshop. He supplied furniture to the palace in Oslo (to Haakon VII), to the American embassy in Oslo, and various things to many churches, among others the altar piece for Hensås church.

(The Hensås church, also called the Heensåsen church, is in Vang and is west of Høre and east of Vangsmjøsi at the intersection of County Road 293 and County Road 302. The church was built in 1902.)

Birth:
Dalheim (Verpilen) 96/12-38-40 under Kvien in Høre

Christoffer married Ingeborg Olsdatter ELLINGBÖ in 1912, and was divorced. Ingeborg (daughter of Ole Tollefson ELLINGBÖ and Ingeborg Bøyesdatter KATTEVØL SKEIE) was born on 27 Oct 1894 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1986 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
St. Peter Hospital

Jessie married Harvey Austin COLLINS on 2 Apr 1919 in Oregon. Harvey was born on 17 Mar 1899 in Oregon; died on 12 Oct 1981 in Washington; was buried in Masonic Memorial Park, Tumwater, Thurston County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1920 census, he lived with his parents in Coos County, Oregon. He was a clerk in a drugstore.

Lester married Georgia BOSTIAN on 20 Jul 1926 in Thurston County, Washington. Georgia was born in 1902; died on 31 Dec 2000; was buried in Masonic Memorial Park, Tumwater, Thurston County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
ELCA, First Lutheran in Minot

Family/Spouse: Rose. Rose was born on 1 May 1926; died on 21 Feb 2003; was buried in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Belden, Mountrail County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]