Knut Nilsen JØRSTAD

Notes:

Birth:
Jørstadhaugen 36/8

Family/Spouse: Marit Knutsdatter ONSTAD. Marit (daughter of Knut Torgeirson Dy WINDINGSTAD and Marit Gulliksdatter ALFSTAD) was born in 1794 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Jørstadhaugen 36/8

Family/Spouse: Ingeborg Knutsdatter HEGGE. Ingeborg (daughter of Knut Torgeirson HEGGE and Ragnhild Gudbrandsdatter KJØK) was born on 24 Jan 1837 in Øystre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 2 Jul 1913 in Liberty Twp, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Torger married Anna Olsdatter BERGE on 30 Nov 1857 in Wisconsin. Anna (daughter of Ola Gullikson BERGE and Anne Ivarsdatter TUNE) was born on 12 Feb 1835 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 24 Oct 1931 in Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her parents were born in Norway. In the 1900 census, she had had only the two children.

In the 1920 census, she lives in Milwaukee with her daughter and perhaps her son-in-law.

In the 1930 census, she still lives with Frank and Ethel in Milwaukee.

Birth:
Jim’s VS has her incorrectly born in Norway.

Marianne married Ole Olsen BERGE about 1886. Ole (son of Ola Olsen BERGE and Berit Andersdatter VEFLEN) was born on 17 Apr 1858 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin; died on 15 Jan 1914 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Both of her parents were born in Norway. In the 1900 and 1910 censuses she had had only the two children.

Birth:
“of Valders”

Died:
Date from on-line burial records for Oak Hill Cemetery.

Marian married Helge (Harry E) THOMPSON on 27 Jun 1888. Helge (son of Tollef Oleson ELLINGBÖ and Marit Jøgersdatter QUAM) was born on 1 Feb 1856 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 30 Dec 1942 in Wisconsin; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Winnebago County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Otis MARKEN. Otis was born about 1871 in Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1910 census, she had had no children.

In the 1920 census, she lives with her mother in Milwaukee. She is employed as an assembler in a factory. Living with her and her mother is Frank Jackson, presumably Ethel’s husband. Frank is a clerk in a city office.

In the 1940 census, she is the widow Ethel jackson, age 52, living with her mother in Milwaukee. She is usually employed as a saleslady in a department store but she was not employed at the time of the census. She had had one year of college.

Ethel married Frank FREIDEL about 1907. Frank was born about 1887 in Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ethel married Frank L JACKSON about 1918. Frank was born about 1885 in Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1910 census, he is a bookkeeper, probably for his father’s store.

In the 1920 census, he is probably the Walter Berge living in Milwaukee. He is married to Camilla and the couple and their two children live with her mother. His occupation is illegible.

In the 1930 census, the couple is still in Milwaukee. Walter is a vice-president of a brokerage firm.

In the 1940 census, the family is still in Milwaukee. He is the manager of an investment securities firm. All three children still live with him and Camilla. As does his mother-in-law and his mother-in-law’s sister.

Walter married Camilla G CREEVY about 1917. Camilla was born on 6 Mar 1896 in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin; died on 1 Jan 1980; was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Oscar registered for the draft on June 5, 1917, in Kaukauna. He was single and was a salesman for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in central Wisconsin. Oscar was described as tall and of medium build with blue eyes and brown hair. He had “defective eyes.”

In the 1920 census, he is probably the Oscar T Thompson living with his wife Veneta in Milwaukee. Although that Oscar’s father was said to be born in Wisconsin and his mother in Norway, the census-taker most likely got things turned around because the Milwaukee Oscar’s occupation, salesman of rubber goods, is the same as our Oscar had in the 1917 draft registration.

In the 1930 census, Oscar is back in Neenah. (He is indexed as Oren T Thompson with wife Weneta.) Oscar is now doing well. He is a staff superintendent in a paper mill, lives in a house that he owns and that is worth $8000 (338 East Columbia Avenue), and employs a 26 year-old live-in servant named Hazel Belling. Veneta’s mother, Mae Beck, a 62 year-old widow, also lives with them. Oscar was not a veteran.

In the 1940 census, he and Veneta and Dorothy live in Neenah. Oscar is staff superintendent at a paper mill. They live in the same house, 338 East Columbia Avenue, in which they all lived five years earlier. Included in their household is Una Beck, a 40 year-old divorcee who had lived in Milwaukee in 1935. She is called “sister-in-law” and is an unemployed public school teacher. Oscar is a college graduate, Veneta and Una have two years of college.

In his World War II draft registration, he was employed by Kimberly Clark of Neenah.

Birth:
South Kaukauna

Died:
Date from Oak Hill Cemetery on-line burial records.

Buried:
N EA 000 0 64 0 002

Oscar married Veneta A BECK about 1920. Veneta (daughter of Charles BECK and Mary M) was born on 19 Oct 1893 in Marathon County, Wisconsin; died on 12 Jul 1982 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Winnebago County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: School teacher

Notes:

In the 1936 Kaukauna city directory, as A Marcella Thompson, she resides with her parents at 114 W 9th. She is a librarian.

In the 1940 census, she lives with her parents at 114 West 9th Street in Kaukauna. She is a high school teacher.

Died:
Date in Oak Hill Cemetery on-line burial records is 8 May.

Buried:
N EA 000 0 64 0 005

Notes:

In the 1940 census, he was unmarried and living with his parents.

Arthur married Bernice Marie HANSEN on 20 Nov 1941 in Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Bernice was born on 13 Apr 1911 in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin; died on 18 Oct 2001 in Woodbury, Washington County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]