Ola Torleivsson ELLINGBØE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmed Ellingbø 34/1 ca. 1815-1843

Notes:

Vang A, p. 594.

Gardbruker på Skøre.

Died:
Brad has Ole’s death as 5 Nov 1865

Ola married Ågot Helgesdotter ELLINGBØE in 1813 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ågot (daughter of Helge Helgesson ELLINGBØE and Rangdi Gudbrandsdotter NØRSVIN) was born in 1789 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1838 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Apr 1814, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 24 Sep 1831, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Ove Oveson's letter in 1896 suggests that Marit was still alive at that time but that half-brother Ole had died, childless.

Moved to Haugen, Kvam, after marriage to Aslak Kvåle.

Marit and her two sons named Ole were witnesses/sponsors at the baptism of her granddaughter Marit Ovesdatter (#258).

In the 1900 Norwegian census, she is Marit Olsdatter Kvam, widow, b. 1817, living with her unmarried daughter Marit Aslaksdatter, b. 1842, on the Haugen farm in Vang. Also living with them is Johannes Gullikson, b. 1837, tjenestgut.

Birth:
the 19 August birthdate is from her confirmation record in the parish record

Died:
Kvamshaugen

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

Marit married Åslag Olson BUNDE on 9 Jun 1842 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Åslag (son of Ola Olsson and Marit Johannesdatter HÅLIEN) was born in 1812 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 22 Sep 1888 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; was buried on 4 Oct 1888 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 13 Jun 1821, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

One of Ove Ovesen’s godparents (baptismal sponsors).

Son Ole Tollefson (and succeeding lineage) per Brad Ellingboe.

In the 1865 census, Tollev Olsson owns the Ellingbø søndre farm #21 in Hoved subparish, Vang. The farm has 1 horse, 8 cattle, 10 sheep, 1 pig, 4 barleys and 2 potatoes. The household consists of 11 people: Tollev, 43, his wife Marit Jogersdatter, 40, their sons Ole, 19, Christoffer, 16, Helge, 10, Andris, 8, and Gudbrand, 1, and their daughters Berit, 13, and Marit, 4. Also on the farm were two farmhand/servants: Agot Iversdatter, 65, and Knud Iversson, 45.

In the 1886 land register, he is the owner of Skaare on Ellingbø sondre (34-1, old 10-21).

Birth:
as Tollev Olsen Ellingböe in the Vang church book, of Skøre

Tollef married Marit Jøgersdatter QUAM on 20 Jun 1843 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Marit (daughter of Jøger Andersen KVAM and Berit Gulliksdatter BERGE) was born in 1826 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1898 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
15 weeks old

Notes:

Of Ellingbø Skøre 34/1 according to Trudy.

Died:
Nerre Søndrol

Ragndi married Torstein Olsson SÖNDROL on 25 Jun 1846 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Torstein (son of Ola Johannessen BØE and Dorte Knutsdatter SYNDROL) was born on 10 Feb 1815 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 9 May 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of Ellingbø 34/1.

Died:
5 mo. old

Notes:

Of Ellingbø 34/1.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Dec 1834, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Ove and Berit stayed with this aunt of Ove Ellingoe when Ove and Berit first arrived in Minnesota.

Called Sahra in the 1885 census. Called Sara in the 1900 census.

An Ancestry.com family tree gives her birth and death dates as 6 Dec 1835 to 6 Oct 1903. The church book shows she was born in December of 1834 but the exact day is illegible.

Birth:
day from the emigration record

Died:
per the cemetery records according to the Dalby Database

Sigrid married Ole Nielsson KATTEVOLD on 27 Jan 1859 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ole (son of Nils Olsen HELLE and Berit Håvardsdatter HELLE) was born on 2 Jun 1826 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 10 Jan 1903 in Minnesota; was buried in West Christiania Lutheran Cemetery, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Carpenter, farmer
• Baptism: 17 Apr 1840, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 17 Jun 1855, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

I4452 in Jim’s Ellingboe.
I29556 in Jim’s VS.

The 1865 Norwegian census shows Ove being born in 1840. In that census, he is a carpenter living on Ellingbø nordre with 12 others. That farm is owned by Helge Helgesen, b. 1827.

There is some erroneous information regarding his date of death. Some sources say either 1897 or 1898. His gravestone says 1898.

According to the parish record, his god parents (sponsors) were Christopher Helgeson Ellingbøe, “He”? Helgeson Ellingbøe, Tollef Olsen Ellingboe, somebody Andersen, and Guri Tollefsdotter Ellingbøe (Helge Helgeson Ellingbøe's wife). Christopher's name was in the column for illegimate children as "the trustworthy member of the congregation" who stood for the child. Ove probably would have been baptized at the new (current) Vang church. The old stave church was still standing at the time he was baptized but was probably not used as a church any longer by that time.

Although Ove V. Baggethun (#3252) was identified as Ove O.’s father in the Vang church birth record, that paternity is quite unlikely based on the lack of any corresponding matches in modern DNA testing results.

At the time of the 1865 census, Ove was one of 13 people living on the “Ellingbø nordre” farm, or domicile, in Vang with the Helge Helgesen family. His family status is shown as “inderst” (farm laborer) and his occupation is shown as carpenter (”snedker”).

Those 13 people were: Helge Helgesson, “husfar”, age 39; Guri Torsteensdatter, 34, his wife; Helge Helgesson, 11, their son; Guri Helgesdatter, 7, their daughter; Torsteen Helgesdatter, 5, their son; Ole Knudson, 21, servant; Anne Andersdatter, 18, servant; Helge Helgesson, 73, “foderaadsmand”; Guri Tollevsdatter, 72, his wife; Tollev Helgesson, 32, their son, shoemaker; Sigri Helgesdatter, 28, their daughter; Ole Olson, 12, their foster-son; and Ove Ovesson, 26, Inderst, Snedker.

Ove’s occupation is referred to as snedker (carpenter) in Marit’s birth record.

Ove and Berit and family moved to Vestre Toten some time after Ole was born because Thea and Anna Maria were born on the Stepperud farm in Ås in Vestre Toten.

Ove lost the Toten farm to an unknown relative, perhaps an oldest son, of the previous owner who came forward and, by a strange law at the time, was allowed to force Ove to sell it to him.

Ove (42) and Berit (36) arrived (as Ellingbo) in the US on June 11, 1882, in steerage, on the Pollux from Amsterdam. According to the emigration records, they left Kristiania on the Peterson Line ship Christiania on May 20, 1882, with Two Rivers as their destination. (Their out-migration is not recorded in the Vang church book or the Vestre Toten church book.)

Ove and Berit arrived with four children: Marit (7), Ole (6), Thea (3), and Anna (11/12). They would have entered the US at Castle Garden on the southern tip of Manhattan island although Berit supposedly (according to Clara and Jan) said they landed at Ellis Island (which wouldn't have been open in 1882, at least as a port of entry). Their arrival in New York would also have been before the construction of the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island although the torch-bearing arm would have been on exhibit in Madison Square Park.

They went from New York to Two Rivers, Wisconsin, (and, according to Rose, Green Bay) for a year or so and then on to Minnesota. There they lived for three weeks with an aunt of Ove (Sigrid Ellingboe Nelson, #3586) until another baby was born (apparently Oskar, “upstairs in the log house” according to Rose) and then to a sod house. A year later, Ove built the farm house. () This first house and Ove’s only farm was the one Albert inherited.

This account is inconsistent with Berit’s claim in the 1920 census that she immigrated in 1863 and became a naturalized citizen in 1870.

Ed says the family farm was located five miles southwest of Lakeville.

The family is listed in the 1885 Minnesota state census as inhabitants of New Market in Scott County. The household consisted of Ole P Ellingbor, 45, Bary, 39, Meary, 11, Ole, 9, Dille, 7, Anna M, 4, Oscar, 2, and Albert, 0. Their neighbors, or at least the families on either side of them on the census form, were Anna Gilbertson (and Andrew, Zellant, and Meary) and the Thomas and Anna Thompson family.

In the 1895 state census, they’re still in New Market. The census-taker was now a Norwegian so the spelling of the names makes more sense: Ove Ellingboe, 55, Beret Ellingboe, 45, Ole Ellingboe, 19, Tillie Ellingboe, 17, Anna Ellingboe, 14, Oscar Ellingboe, 12, Albert Ellingboe, 10, Olga Ellingboe, 7, and Clara Ellingboe, 4 months.

Ove’s original farm was the 160 acres of the southeast quarter-section of Section 3 of New Market Twp, Scott County. Later, the farm was split between Ole and Albert, Ole getting the southern 80 acres and Albert the northern 80. Evey recalls that Albert’s farm was originally 60 acres and that he added 20 more in the 1940s.

Evey says that Ove built, or helped to build, the District 66 schoolhouse that she and her siblings and cousins attended.

Ove was frequently away from the farm, doing “carpentering,” leaving Betsy and the kids to manage it. Ole said that Ove started with oxen, then mules “from Mons Larson”, then young horses. Ove wasn’t a good horseman.

From the Minnesota Naturalization Records Index on Ancestry.com:

Ellingboe, Ove O.
  County: Dakota Reel: 2
  Code: 3 Volume: 3
  Page: 64 Operator: CONRA
  Date: 06 August 1996 Time: 14:11
  Document Type: Declaration Years: 1888 -1906
  Numbers: 1-451

Rose said that Ove died of liver cancer. The doctor said that it was found “too late” although the options available in 1899 would have been very limited in any case.

Buried at West Christiania cemetery at 245th Street and Pillsbury Avenue southwest of Lakeville in New Market Township. His gravestone says “O O E.”

Apparently has a gravestone at East Christiania too. At least his death is included in the records of the East Christiania church.

The will for Ove O Ellingboe is recorded in the Scott County Will Records, Volume C, 1919-1927, will year 1920.

Ove’s will, dated 13 Nov 1897, named his wife, Berit A Ellingboe as the executrix of his estate. The will was witnessed by E.H. Lee and Mary Lee, both then residing in Montevideo. Berit was bequeathed all of Ove’s real estate and person property. There were two exceptions, depending on whether Berit died before either Clara or Olga reached the age of 18. In such a case, Clara was to receive $300 over and above what each of his other children would be entitled by law and Olga was to receive $200 over and above what each of his other children would be entititled by law. Because Oskar and Albert will also under 18 years of age, and still living at home, the exceptions made for Olga and Clara were apparently made because they were daughters under 18 and may not be able to live on their own if Berit died. The thought must have been that Oskar and Albert, although under 18, were old enough to be on their own if Berit died. Ove may also have been explicitly preserving a dowry for his umarried daughters.

Birth:
Jim says that Ove was born in Søre Ellingbø, Uppigarden, Skøre, farm 34/1.

Died:
church record

Buried:
“with Albert & Anne” 225 NT 13

Ove married Berit Arnesdatter HELLE on 1 Jun 1874 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Berit (daughter of Arne Hallvardsson HELLE and Thora Andersdatter BUNDE) was born on 20 Aug 1846 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 26 Mar 1926 in Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota; was buried on 30 Mar 1926 in West Christiania Lutheran Cemetery, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Sep 1842, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Unmarried. Stayed at Haugen, Kvam. Unmarried and living with her parents at the time of the 1865 Norwegian census.

In the 1900 Norwegian census, she is unmarried and living with her mother on the Haugen farm in Vang.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, she is living on farm 51/1, Nerre Lajord, in Vang. This is apparently her brother’s farm but she is in a separate household. Living with her is Johannes G. Okshovd, b. 1840. Marit’s birth date is shown as 28 July 1842. Her occupation is “Lever av formue, har en kostgjænger,” (lives off wealth, has a boarder). His occupation is “offentlig fattigunderstøttelse” (public elderly support).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Watchmaker
• Baptism: 28 Dec 1844, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

According the 1865 census, Marit and Aslak had two sons named Ole, one born in 1844, one born in 1855. The older one’s occupation, at the time of the 1865 census, was “er hjemme og er Uhrmager.”

Both Ole Aslaksons were baptismal sponsors for Marit Ovesdatter (#258).

From Ove Ovesen’s letter to his mother in January of 1896, it appears that this older of the two Oles had died in 1894 or 1895 and that he had married but had no children. It also can be inferred from Ove Ovesen’s letter that this older of the two Oles died in Minnesota because it seems as if Ove had visited his house.

The 1880-1881 Minneapolis city directory shows an O.A. Kvam, watch mkr. for A Evanson & Co. boarding at the Victoria Hotel.

The 1881-1882 Minneapolis city directory shows an O.A. Kvam, watchmkr. for W.C. Leber, boarding at 203 N. 2d Ave.

The 1882-1883 Minneapolis city directory shows an O.A. Kvam, watchmaker for W.C. Leber, residing at 207 N 3rd Ave.

The 1883-1884 Minneapolis city directory shows an O.A. Kvam, “with W C Leber,” residing at 913 North Washington Ave.

The 1885 and 1885-1886 Minneapolis city directories show an Ole A. Kvam, a watchmaker employed by W C Leber, residing at 112 S 3rd Ave.

The 1886-1887 Minneapolis city directory shows an O.A. Kvam, jeweler for W.C. Leber, residing at 112 S 3rd Ave.

The 1888 Minneapolis city directory shows an Ole A. Kvam, watchmaker for W C Leber, residing at 111 Island Ave.

MOMS shows an Ole Kvan marrying a K Paulseth in Hennepin County on 25 Jan 1888. FS’s Minnesota County Marriages has no name for the woman but says she was 25 years old and that Ole A Kvam was 38.

An advertisement for W.C. Leber (”Dealer in Watches, Clocks, and Jewelry.”) in the 1888-1889 Minneapolis city directory includes the line “O.A. Kvam, Repairing of Fine Watches.” W.C. Leber was at “No. 208 Hennepin Avenue.”

That 1888-1889 directory shows Ole A. Kvam, watchmaker for W C Leber, residing at 111 Island Ave. Note that this is the same address for his first cousin, Jøger Ellingboe (#4056), who was a jeweler for Adolph Leber.

The 1890-1891 city directory also shows Ole A Kvam, watchmaker for W C Leber, residing at 111 Island Ave.

An article in the Saint Paul Globe, Tuesday, February 27, 1894:

O. A. Kvam, the jeweler, died at St. Mary’s Hospital Sunday from the effects of an operation to relieve an ulcer in his stomach. He was advised by Dr. Hoegh to have the operation performed two weeks ago but kept putting it off and it is thought that the delay proved fatal as the disease gained such headway that medical skill was unavailing.

Notes:

No baptism.

Notes:

No baptism.

Died:
14 days old

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Clockmaker and Farmer
• Baptism: 10 Jun 1855, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He or his brother was one of the baptismal sponsors for Ole Ellingboe (#3235). He or his brother also, apparently, made the trip to Vestre Toten to be a sponsor for Thea (#269). Both Ole Aslaksons were baptismal sponsors for Marit Ovesdatter (#258).

Farmed Lajord 51/1 from 1890 to 1925. Built a new out building 1924.

According the 1865 census, Marit and Aslak had two sons named Ole, one born in 1844, one born in 1855. The older one’s occupation, at the time of the 1865 census, was “er hjemme og er Uhrmager.”

In the 1900 Norwegian census, Ole Aslaksson Kvam, a widower born 1855, was living on the Lajord nedre farm in Vang. His occupation was gaardbruger s uhrmager (farmer and watch-maker). Ole’s three children by his first wife, Aslak, Kristoffer, and Marit, were also living with him on the farm. Also living in the household were two servants and the føderaadsmand and føderaadskone, Endre Kristoffesson Lajord, b. 1828, and his wife Guri Torstensdatter, b. 1828. These were the people who had owned the farm previously and who still received a living and the right to live there.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, Ole Aslaksen Kvam still resides on Lajord 51/1 (Nerre-Lajord). The household also includes his 2nd wife, Marit Kristoffersdatter, as well as his five children: Aslak Olsen Lajord, Kristoffer Olsen Lajord, Marit Olsen Lajord, Ole Olsen Lajord, and Torstein Olsen Lajord. The two youngest children were by Marit. The household also includes Guri Torsteinsdatter Lajord, b. 1838.09.09, føderaadskone.

Died:
p. 892

Ole married Ingeborg Kristoffersdatter KVÅLE on 12 Jun 1889 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ingeborg (daughter of Kristoffer Torsteinson KVÅLE and Berit Torsteinsdatter LAJORD) was born in 1860; died on 29 Jun 1897 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; was buried on 6 Jul 1897 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ole married Marit Kristoffersdatter on 21 Jun 1903 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Marit (daughter of Kristoffer Olson) was born on 11 Aug 1866 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Dec 1846, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Dec 1846, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Baptism:
or 30 Dec 1846

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 Jan 1848, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

In his parish birth record, his father is shown (apparently incorrectly) as Ole Tollevsen Ellingböe. His mother is shown, correctly, as Marith Jögersdatter.

He was one of the baptismal sponsors for Ole Ellingboe (#3235).

Ole married Ingeborg Bøyesdatter KATTEVØL SKEIE in 1876 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ingeborg (daughter of Bøye Trondsen KATTEVOLD and Ingeborg Bjornsdatter HAUGEN) was born on 21 Apr 1858 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1914 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 13 Oct 1850, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

In the 1875 Norwegian census, he lived on Skøre with his parents and siblings.

In the 1900 Norwegian census, he is unmarried, occupation “Tjenestedreng, almindeligt gaardsarbeide” on Ellingbø søndre.

He arrived in New York on May 31, 1907, aboard the S.S. Oceanic which had departed Liverpool on May 22, 1907. He was a laborer destined for Minneapolis and his brother, J. T. Ellingbö. He was in good health, 5 feet 7 inches tall, with light complexion, blue eyes, and a bald head. He was travelling with his distant cousin, Berith Ellingbö (#9194), sister of Knute Ivarsen.

In the 1908 Minneapolis city directory, he is probably the Christopher Ellingboe, plumber, boarding at 2417 Butler Place, the same address used in 1907 and 1909 by his niece Marit.

He is likely the Christopher Ellingboe, age 58, living with the Scott County Ellingboes in the 1910 census. He had recently come to the U.S. (1908).

Jim has Christoffer dying in 1926 in Minnesota. That death date is also shown in the bygdebok.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Jun 1853, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

The 1875 Norwegian census includes her son but with no name.

A Berit T. Ellingbö was a baptismal sponsor for Berit Andersdatter Ellingbö, b. 22 Jan 1895.

In the 1900 Norwegian census, she was unmarried and living on her brother Ole’s Ellingbø farm.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, as Berit Torleivsdatter Skøre, she was unmarried and living on a portion of Skøre 34/1. Her occupation was “arbeiderske, kreaturstel for andre, væving og spindling.”

Family/Spouse: Christopher Christopherson LUND. Christopher (son of Kristoffer Eivindsson BØ and Anne Ivarsdatter LAJORD) was born in 1847 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Jim has Helge as #6825. According to Jim, Helge was a businessman in the U.S. and married a Marianne Hougen (b. 1859, d. 1956, m. 27 Jun 1888) and died 30 Dec 1942 in Manitowoc County or in Kaukauna.

In the 1930 census, he is Harry E. Thompson, 74, with wife Marianne, 71, who lived in Kaukauna. Living with them is their 31 year-old daughter, Marcella, who is a high school teacher. Harry is apparently retired because he has no occupation. In the 1920 census, he, Marion, and Marcella live in Kaukauna. Harry came to the U.S. in 1869. He is the proprietor of a shoe store. In the 1910 census we learn that they also have a son Oscar, 20, and that Oscar and Marcella are the only two children that “May” has had. Harry is a merchant with a shoe store and Oscar is an “apprentice merchant.” In the 1900 census we learn that Harry came to the U.S. in 1870.

In the 1940 census, Harry, Marianne, and Marcella live at 114 West 9th Street in Kaukauna. That is the same house that all three of them had lived in five years earlier. Harry, 84, has no occupation. Marcella, 42, is a school teacher.

In the 1880 census, he was 24 year-old Harry Thompson living with, and working in the shoe shop of, Knut K Strande and his family of Cato, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.

In the 1910 Kaukauna city directory, Harry E Thompson’s occupation is “full line shoes” on 2nd. He and Marion reside on 9th.

In the 1936 Kaukauna city directory, Harry E Thompson and wife Marion reside at 114 W 9th.

There is a biographical sketch of Harry in the History of Outagamie County, p. 783, published in 1911:

HARRY E. THOMPSON, a well-known and successful shoe merchant of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, who is the proprietor of the oldest establishment in this line on the south side, has been intimately connected with civic affairs in Kaukauna during the past few years. Mr. Thompson was born in Norway, February 1, 1856, and came to the United States in 1871 with an uncle, on whose farm in Manitowoc county, Wisconsin, he worked during the summer months, while attending school during the winter time. In 1873 he went to Cato, Wisconsin, to learn the trade of shoemaker, and later was located at Alexandria, Minnesota, and Bismarck, North Dakota. After one year at the latter place he returned to Cato, from whence after a short period he came to Kaukauna and opened a shoe store, in 1884, in the Mills Block. In 1897, his increased trade demanding more space, he came to his present location, where he has a modern establishment, equipped with every convenience and facility known to the shoe trade. Mr. Thompson is possessed of much business ability, and his business has demanded much of his attention, but he has still found time to devote to public matters, and has served very acceptably as alderman and poor commissioner, and is now acting in the capacities of water commissioner and school treasurer. His fraternal connections are with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Masons. Mr. Thompson was married June 27, 1888, to Marion Haugen, of Valders, Wisconsin, and two children have been born to this union: Oscar T., who is a student at the University of Wisconsin, at Madison; and Marcella, aged fourteen, attending the public schools. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are members of the Lutheran faith, but are attending the Congregational Church at Kaukauna.

Died:
His obit is in the Wisconsin Necrology files, vol. 48, p. 125. Date from Oak Hill on-line burial records.

Buried:
N EA 000 0 64 0 001

Helge married Marian HOUGEN on 27 Jun 1888. Marian (daughter of Torger Knutsen HOUGEN and Anna Olsdatter BERGE) was born in Jan 1859 in Wisconsin; died on 6 Jun 1956 in Wisconsin; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Neenah, Winnebago County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vang A, p. 748.

Born 34/1 Skøre, resided 43/2 Njuko.

In the 1900 Norwegian census, he and his family were living on the Søndrold (Nybygger) farm “uden jord Anders Ellingboe” in Vang. Daughter Mary was not listed with the family in the 1900 census.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, as Anders Tollefsen Ellingbø, he and his wife and Ole, Berit, and Tollef owned an Øvrebø (Njuko) farm in Vang. Anders’s occupation is shown as “Gaardbr. selveier, veivogter ved offentlig vei.” (Road maintenance man.)

Died:
resided on Njuko

Anders married Ingeborg Olsdatter QVALE on 26 Jun 1883 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Ingeborg (daughter of Ole Olsen KVÅLE and Inglev Larsdatter WANGENSTEEN) was born on 15 Jan 1861 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 18 Mar 1937 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 23 Mar 1862, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Jim says that Marit emigrated to Manitowoc in 1881. The Vang migration records show that the unmarried Marit, with her unmarried brother Gulbrand, left Vang in May of 1881 for Amerika.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 13 Nov 1864, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Jim says that Gudbrand emigrated to Manitowoc in 1881. The Vang migration records show that the unmarried Gulbrand, with his unmarried sister Marit, left Vang in May of 1881 for Amerika.

As Gilbert E Thompson, he married Emma Raduchel in Milwaukee County on 27 Mar 1899. Emma and Gilbert lived at the same address as her parents in the 1900 census (671 8th Street in Milwaukee). Same in the 1905 state census.

He is the Gilbert Thompson, 35, living in Milwaukee with his new wife Emma, 25, and infant son Gilbert in the 1900 census. The senior Gilbert had come to the U.S. in 1882 and was born in September of 1864. He was a baggage man with a railroad.

In the 1910 census, Gilbert and his family live in Milwaukee. Anna Radmichel, mother-in-law, lives with them.

The familiy was still in Milwaukee in the 1920 census.

In the 1930 census, he was a 67 year-old widower. He lived with his son Theodore in Milwaukee. His occupation was baggage man for the C M St. P Railroad.

In the 1940 census, he was a 75 year-old widower, still living with Theodore and family in Milwaukee. He had an eighth-grade education.

He was the last of his siblings. Jøger’s obit mentioned Gilbert as Jøger’s only surviving sibling.

Gudbrand married Emma RADUCHEL on 27 Mar 1899 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Emma was born in Nov 1874 in Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Jeweler
• Baptism: 15 Sep 1867, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He first emigrated from Norway in June of 1885 according to the Vang out-migration record.

He advertised in the St. Paul Globe in May, 1889, as “a steady young man wants a position in a jewelry store.”

From the Emigrantar over Bergen frå Austlande, on August 26, 1898: three unmarried individuals who were born in Vang i Valdres but were returning to their home in Minneapolis after a visit departed on the Stjernelinjen line. The three were: Britha Larsen Kvale, 26, b. 1872 (#11616), occupation syerske (seamstress), Rangdi Tollefsen Ellingbø, 28, b. 1870, occupation syerske, and Jørgen Tollefsen Ellingbø, 31, b. 1867, occupation juveler.

In the 1900 U. S. census, Rangdi (b. June 1872) and Jorger Ellingbo (b. July 1867), brother and sister, are living with their newly-arrived niece, Mary Ellingboe (b. June 1883), at 1425 Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis. Rangdi is a seamstress, Jorger is a jeweler, and Mary has no occupation. Jorger originally came to the U. S. in 1885 and Rangdi in 1890.

He is the Joger Ellingbo, jeweler, single, living in Minneapolis at 1425 Franklin with his sister Rangdi and his niece Mary in the 1900 census. He came to the U.S. in 1885. The Vang parish emigration record shows his departure as 13 June 1885 to “Wisconsin.”

The 1900 Minneapolis city directory shows him as Joger T Ellingbo, a jeweler at 1411 Franklin, residing at 1425 Franklin. Also recorded at that address were his sister Rangdi and Thrond A Ellingbo, a student at U C Sem.

In the 1901 Minneapolis city directory, he is a jeweler at 1411 East Franklin, residing at 1425 East Franklin. Residing with him at 1425 E Franklin are Ole O, Marit A, and Rangdi T Ellingbo.

In the 1905 state census, he and Olina live at 1427 E Franklin in Minneapolis. He is a jeweler and has been in the state for 18 years and 10 months, 7 years in the current enumeration district. She has been in the state and area for 3 years. He was at that same address at the time of the birth of his daughter in July of 1906.

He is probably the Joger T. Ellingboe who attended the St. Olaf Academy 1888-1889.

He is not listed in the 1888-1889 Minneapolis city directory. In the 1890-1891 Minneapolis City directory, Jøger (as Joger T Ellingboe) resides at 111 Island Avenue and is a jeweler for Adolph Leber. Note that this is the same address as his first cousin, Ole A Kvam (#3068), who was a watchmaker for W C Leber.

In the 1892-1893 Minneapolis city directory, he is listed as Joger T. Ellingboe, jeweler for G S Greenleaf and he boards at 169 Nicollet.

The 1894-1895 Minneapolis city directory records two Ellingboes as follows:
Andrew Ellingboe (#11897, Jøger’s nephew), clerk for J T Ellingboe, rms at 45 Washington Ave. S.
Joger T Ellingboe, mnfg jeweler, 45 Wash’n Ave. S., rms same.
(There is also a Miranda Ellingboe, a tailoress for Altman and Co., boarding at 803 N. Bryant Ave.)

The 1895-1896 Minneapolis city directory shows three Ellingboes as follows:
Andrew Ellingboe (#11897), clerk J T Ellingboe, rms 45 Washington Ave. S.
Andrew Ellingboe (#6481), machinist, Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co., resides in Hopkins.
Joger T Ellingboe, mnfg jeweler 45 Washington Ave. S. rms same.
(There is also an Andrew Ellenboe, a painter boarding at 409 1st Ave. S.)

Jøger and his wife were guests at the Ellingboe farm in New Market, Scott County, in the 1906-1908 timeframe.

He is probably the “J T Ellingboe Minneapolis” listed in “The Valdris Book”, a history of the Valdris Samband published in 1920 (available on Google Books). His entry shows that he was a member of the Samband between 1902 and 1910 but he was involved with the Valdris community in the Twin Cities earlier than that. The Valdris Book also lists him as one of the three-person organizing committee of the first “Valdrisstevne” that took place at Minnehaha Falls on June 25, 1899.

In the 1908 Minneapolis city directory, he is a jeweler at 1411 Franklin, residing at 2313 14th Avenue S.

The 1909 Minneapolis city directory has Joger T Ellingbo boarding at 2428 Elliot Avenue.

Jøger apparently went back to Norway to marry his 2nd wife. The manifest of the Helling Olav, which sailed from Oslo on April 21, 1911, included Jøger, his daughter Mildred, and Bertha, “wife”, age 28. All three were shown as United States citizens. Perhaps Bertha became one by marrying Jøger. The Hellig Olav arrived in New York on May 3, 1911. Digitalarkivet does not contain the Vang marriage records for 1911.

By July of 1911, he was a jeweler at 446 Washington in Portland, Oregon.

In the 1913 Portland city directory, he is a jeweler at 620½ Alberta, residing at 1181 E 26th Ave N.

In the 1914 Portland city directory, he is still in business at 620½ Alberta. He and Bertha reside at 1181 E 26th N.

In the 1917 and 1918 and 1920 and 1921 and 1923 and 1924 Portland directories, his business is at 662 Alberta. He and Bertha reside at 1181 E 26th N.

In the 1920 census, he is “Goger” Ellingbo, a watchmaker/jeweler living in Portland, Oregon with his wife (Bertha, 36) and daughter (E Mildred, 13).

In the 1926 city directory, he is a jeweler at 741 Alberta. He and Bertha still live at 1181 E 26th N.

In the 1928 and 1930 city directory, he is a watchmaker at 46 23rd N. Residence still at 1181 E 26th N.

In the 1930 census, he is Joger T. He is a watchmaker with his own shop and he and Bertha live in Portland.

In the 1934 Portland city directory, he is a watchmaker. Bertha is not listed with him. His business is at 10 NW 23rd Avenue. His residence is at 5707 NE 36th Avenue.

In the 1940 census, he is living next door to his daughter, Mildred Kolmayer and her family. He is shown as age 72, a widower, and a retired jeweller. He was born in Norway and had been educated through the 8th grade.

Jim says that Jøger had one son and one daughter.

His obit was in the Saturday, April 24, 1943, edition of The Oregonian:

Funeral services for J.T. Ellingbo, 75, who died Wednesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Albert Kolmayer, route 2, box 197, will be held Monday at 11:30 a.m. at Holman & Lutz, interment at Rose City cemetery. He had been in failing health for some time.

Mr. Ellingbo was born in Valdres, Norway, June 22, 1867, coming to Wisconsin at the age of 14. Before moving to Portland in 1911, he was a manufacturing jeweler in Minneapolis. He was a jeweler and watchmaker in Portland until his retirement in 1934.

Surviving are his daughter, Mrs. Kolmayer, a brother, Gilbert E. Thompson, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and three grandchildren: Walter E. Schroder, with the United States naval aviation technical training corps in Norman, Oklahoma, Dora-Jeanne Schroder, and Irene Louise Kolmayer, Portland.

Pallbearers will be S. P. Ness, O. W. Nelson, O. Lindhjem, Alex Rua, G. A. Seely, and Frank A. Hager.

Birth:
for some reason, his SS application said 22 Jul 1867

Buried:
according to his obit, not included in Find A Grave

Jøger married Olena (Lena) Sophie Olson SMØRHAVN on 24 Feb 1903 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Olena was born on 9 Jan 1867 in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway; died on 11 Oct 1908 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 14 Oct 1908 in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jøger married Bertha on 16 Apr 1911 in Norway, and was divorced. Bertha was born on 27 Jul 1884 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1942-MN-021741
• Baptism: 10 Jul 1870, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Rangdi first left Vang in July of 1892. She arrived in New York on the S.S. City of Paris on 27 July with her destination as Minnesota. On that same ship was her nephew Anders K. Ellingboe, age 17, destination St. Paul.

In the 1897 Minneapolis city directory, she was a tailoress for F G Raichle. She roomed at 818 19th Avenue S.

From the Emigrantar over Bergen frå Austlande, on August 26, 1898: three unmarried individuals who were born in Vang i Valdres but were returning to their home in Minneapolis after a visit departed on the Stjernelinjen line. The three were: Britha Larsen Kvale, 26, b. 1872 (#11616), occupation syerske (seamstress), Rangdi Tollefsen Ellingbø, 28, b. 1870, occupation syerske, and Jørgen Tollefsen Ellingbø, 31, b. 1867, occupation juveler.

Rangdi and Berith arrived in New York aboard the S.S. Majestic on September 8, 1898, after departing Liverpool on August 31st. Rangdi is shown as a U.S. citizen, Berith is a citizen of Norway.

In the 1900 U. S. census, Rangdi (b. June 1872) and Jorger Ellingbo (b. July 1867), brother and sister, are living with their newly-arrived niece, Mary Ellingboe (b. June 1883), at 1425 Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis. Rangdi is a seamstress, Jorger is a jeweler, and Mary has no occupation. Jorger originally came to the U. S. in 1885 and Rangdi in 1890.

The 1900 Minneapolis city directory records her as Rangdi Ellingbo, residing at 1425 E Franklin. She was a tailor at The Plymouth.

She is the Rangdi Ellingbo, seamstress, single, living in Minneapolis at 1425 Frankin with her brother Joger and his (and, presumably, her) niece Mary in the 1900 census. She came to this country in 1890 although she is not listed in the 1890 emigrants from Vang.

In the 1903 Minneapolis city directory, she is a tailor for The Plymouth and lives with Marit at 2121 13th Avenue S.

She is a seamstress living with her nephew Ole in Minneapolis in the 1905 state census.

She may be the Rande Ellingboe, sister of Ole Ellingboe, aunt of Oscar Ellingboe wife of Henry Hanson, mother of Mildred Hanson who was born in Minneapolis in 1908. That Rande came to the U.S. in 1899. She and Henry, Mildred, Oscar, and Ole lived at 4428 44th Avenue South in Minneapolis in the 1920 census.

There were two Randis born in Vang in the 1869-1870 period. One was this Randi, the legitimate daughter of Tollef Oleson Ellingbö and Marit Jøgersdatter. The other (#5753) was the illegitimate daughter of Iver Knutsson Ellingbö and Randi Olsdatter Ellingbö.

The informant for her death certificate was Mrs. R. J. Reardon of 5940 11th Avenue. Rangdi died from heart failure. Her residence was 4428 44th Avenue S. Since she was shown as “wife of” in her death certificate, her husband must have survived her.

Died:
Deaconess Hospital

Rangdi married Henry HANSON on 7 Oct 1905 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Henry was born on 19 Apr 1879 in Sogn, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway; died on 11 Dec 1957 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 14 Dec 1957 in Crystal Lake Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Mar 1847, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is Marit Torsteinsdatter Syndrol, I7028, in Jim’s Ellingboe tree. She is I13907 in Jim’s VS.

Knut and Marit were from different Søndrol farms and may be distant cousins.

In the 1865 Norwegian census, she was 19 years old, still single, and living with her parents and siblings on Søndrohl, mitre in Vang.

Vang A, p. 816, says she came to the U.S. in 1865. Earl Knutson’s research of the West Norway Lake Lutheran Church says that Marit died in 1883.

According to a Norway Lake church record, she came to Norway Lake in 1872.

She is not listed in the 1885 state census.

Died:
Kevin Thompson’s Find A Grave entry for her says 1883.

Family/Spouse: Knut Torsteinsson SØNDROL. Knut (son of Torstein Knudsen SØNDROL and Marit Olsdatter SYNDROL) was born on 9 Aug 1837 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1905 in Minnesota; was buried in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Apr 1851, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

In the 1865 Norwegian census, she was an unmarried 15 year-old living with her parents and siblings on Søndrohl, mitre.

In the 1900 Norwegian census, she was probably the Anne Torsteinsdatter, b. 1851, who is living with her husband and two children on the Myre farm in Vang. Her husband is Ole Toressen, b. 1841, and the two children living with them are Knut Olssen, b. 1891 (”søn, søger smaaskolen”) and Gjertrud Olsdatter, b. 1893. Neither the marriage nor the birth of the two children is recorded in the Vang church books.

Family/Spouse: Ola Toreson BØ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1909-MN-015987
• Baptism: 8 Oct 1854, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is Randi Torsteinsdatter Syndrol, I7080, in Jim’s VS.

Her family farm name was called Sönderold in her birth record.

In the 1865 Norwegian census, she is 12 years old and living with her parents and siblings on Søndrohl, mitre, in Vang.

This Randi is the Rangdi Søndvol to whom Ove Ovesen Ellingbø refers in his 1896 letter to his mother. According to Trudy: “She first married Torstein Flaten from Bøaflatadn in Vang. They lived in Minneapolis until Torstein died in 1895. She took the children back to Norway for a few months and then went back to Minnesota, settling in Sunburg where she married Torstein Hollen, born in Hoverstad 63 in Vang. He was a widower with children. They had 2 children. She died in Minneapolis in 1909 and he died in Sunburg in 1930. I don't know if they stayed married or not.”

Called “Maude” in the 1885 state census.

In the 1895 Minnesota census, she (Randa) and her family lived at 1604 E. Lake Street in Minneapolis. Tosten, 47, was a “dairyman.”

In the 1900 federal census, she and her second husband, Thosten Hollen, and her and their children lived in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County. Randi came to the U.S. in 1869 and Thosten in 1866. Randi had had 10 children, 9 still living. The children from her first marriage that were living with her were Baldor, 14 (b. Feb 1886), Nordal, 12 (b. Jan 1888), and Walter, 9 (b. July 1890).

In the 1905 state census, Tosten and his and her children still lived in Kerkhoven. Rangdy, however, along with four of her children from her first marriage were living separately on a farm in Murdock, Kerkhoven Twp. Rangdy and her children are listed with the last name Flattan. Those children are: Baldor, 19, Nordahl, 17, Valtor, 14, and Meble, 12. They live next door to Ole and Sigre Ellestad (#1953 and #1956).

She is Ronda Flaten on her death certificate. In that certificate, she is identified as a widow living at 2011 2-1/2 Street in Minneapolis. She married at 19 and had 10 children, 8 of whom were still alive at her death. No informant is named on her death certificate. She died of pulmonary tuberculosis which she had had for “8 or 10 years.” Her father was Thosten Sondrol and her mother was unknown. She was buried at “Layman’s.”

Birth:
9 July 1855 on her death certificate

Randi married Tosten N FLATEN on 25 Dec 1873 in Rice County, Minnesota. Tosten (son of Nils Kristoffersen BERGE and Berit Torsteinsdatter KVAM) was born in 1848 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1895 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Randi married Thosten Evenson HOLLEN on 23 Jun 1897 in Swift County, Minnesota, and was divorced. Thosten (son of Even Helgessen HØVERSTAD and Anne Tostensdatter VØVLISEIGA) was born on 13 Oct 1845 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 15 Dec 1930 in Swift County, Minnesota; was buried on 19 Dec 1930 in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Of Sondrol 48/1 according to Trudy.

Apparently purchased his farm from the horse farmer Ivar I. Syndrol in 1900 and adopted the name.

Ole married Gjartrud Ivarsdotter ELLINGBØ in 1905. Gjartrud (daughter of Ivar Knutsson ELLINGBØ and Berit Olsdatter ELLINGBØ) was born on 15 Mar 1874 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 17 Jan 1949 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; was buried in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1922-MN-013347
• Baptism: 24 Apr 1859, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Nels and his two sons are living with his parents and brothers in the 1895 state census in June. His wife must have died because there is no woman other than Sigri in the household.

Nels and his two sons are still living with his parents in the 1900 census but he is shown as a widower.

In the 1905 state census, Nils and his two sons are still on the Nelson farm in New Market with brothers Andrew and Ole and Ole’s new wife.

In the 1910 census, Nels and his son Henry are living with his brother Ole and family on the Nelson farm. Nels’s brother Andrew and son Ole are not listed.

His death certificate, for which Ole J Nelson of Lakeville was the informant, describes him as a widower farmer. His father was Ole O Nelson. He died from influenza, complicated by “chronic Bright’s disease.”

Birth:
as Nils; his death certificate shows his place of birth as New Market

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1933-MN-013927

Notes:

Not living with his parents in the 1880 census. He was a 17 year-old farmhand on a farm in Eureka Twp.

According to Rose, it was this Ole Nelson (or possibly, his father) who encouraged Ove and family to come to the New Market area because you could see three church spires from there.

In the 1910 census (May 10th), he and his family live on a farm in New Market, Scott County, next door to the newly married Ole and Rose Ellingboe. He was 46 and had been married for 6 years to Selma, 37. It was the first marriage for both and Selma had had 2 children: Sofia, 4, and Oscar, 3. On the other side of them lived 50 year-old Nels Nelson, a widower, with his son Henry, 15.

In the 1930 census, he lives in New Market with his son Oscar. They are listed on the census form just after the Ole Ellingboe family. Ole is shown as a widower.

Died of valvular heart disease, chronic nephritis, and arteriosclerosis. Info on his death certificate was provided by Walter Hanson of Lakeville.

Ole married Selma NESS on 18 May 1904 in Scott County, Minnesota. Selma (daughter of Ole Olsson NÆS and Barbro Helgesdatter) was born in Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 18 Dec 1920 in New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota; was buried in East Christiania Lutheran Cemetery, Eureka Twp, Dakota County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1933-MN-013923
• Baptism: 25 Dec 1867, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Living with her parents and brothers in the 1885 census.

In the 1900 census she had had 5 children, all 5 still living. She came to the U.S. in 1870. In the 1910 census those numbers are 7 and 7.

Berit married Ole BERGSTROM on 7 Jan 1886 in Dakota County, Minnesota. Ole (son of John Olsen BERGSTROM and Inger Olsen FLAEN) was born on 8 Jul 1860 in Eidsvold, Akershus, Viken County, Norway; died on 23 Oct 1930 in Scott County, Minnesota; was buried in Solor Lutheran Church Cemetery, Webster, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 Apr 1871, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He appears to have been entered as a 6 year-old Ole in the 1880 census.

Last listed in the 1885 census, age 14.

Not included in the count of his mother’s living children in the 1900 census.

Notes:

Listed in his parents’ household in the 1900 census. Living with his brothers in the 1905 state census.

Notes:

Listed in the 1880 census, not listed in the 1885 census.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 5 Jul 1874, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 1889, Scott County, Minnesota

Notes:

Her baptismal sponsors were Marit Olsdatter Kvamseie, Ole Aslakson Kvam, Ole Aslakson Kvam, Guri Helgesdatter (?) Ellingbø, and Guri Knudsdatter Kirkeby.

Two children died, according to Ed, in addition to the seven shown. (This is incorrect: two of Marit’s children did die relatively young, both by drowning, but there were only 7 children in total.) In the 1910 census, Mary claimed to have had 7 children, all still living.

According to Ed, Marit and Elling lived in many parts of the country but, for the last years of their lives, lived in Omak, Washington. Jan confirms this.

On her death bed, Marit Lee thought she was again on the boat coming to America.

At the time of the 1900 census (June 27th), the Lees were living in Pembina County in North Dakota in Walhalla Village. The family consisted of Elling H., 28 (born October 1871), Mary, 24 (born June 1875), Harry O., 3 (born August 1896), and Floyd M., 1 (born July 1898). Elling and the boys were born in Minnesota. Mary emigrated in 1882 and was a naturalized citizen. She and Elling had been married for five years. She had borne 2 children, both still living. Elling was a salesman and they rented their house (which was not a farm). Mary would have been pregnant with Ella at the time of the census-taker’s visit.

Ilone says: Mary was a wonderful, loving grandmother who always kept very busy helping other people. Ilone always felt as if she were her favorite grandchild but later learned that every grandchild thought that he/she was the favorite. Her cookie jar was always full of gingersnaps. She was a very active member of the Presbyterian church.

Baptism:
baptized at home on June 26th

Confirmation:
probably Christiania, probably 23 June

Marit married Elling Halvorson LEE on 4 Oct 1894 in Traill County, North Dakota. Elling (son of Halvor Tidemandsen LEE and Ingeborg Juelsdatter) was born on 4 Oct 1871 in Montevideo, Chippewa County, Minnesota; died on 5 Nov 1959 in Tonasket, Okanogan County, Washington; was buried in Omak Memorial Cemetery, Okanogan County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1948-MN-003499
• Occupation: Farmer
• Baptism: 31 Oct 1875, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 13 Jul 1890, East Christiania Lutheran Church, Eureka Twp, Dakota County, Minnesota

Notes:

According to Ed, Ole lived his entire life on the Ellingboe farm.

According to Evey, Ole came “from Valdres, Norway, with his parents and three sisters in 1881 when he was six years old.”

Evey goes on to say: “When Pa and his parents and three siblings had come from Norway in 1881, they had lived in Wisconsin for about two years and then had come to this area, living for three weeks with an aunt of Pa’s father [Sigrid] until another baby was born [Oskar], and then in a sod house. (Ma told me that the aunt had written to Pa’s family saying, ‘Why don’t you move here, because from our place you can see the spires of three churches.’ Just what the meaning of that was, I’m not sure.) A year after the move, my grandfather, Ove, built the house. Albert was born there and lived there all his life.”

At the time of the 1910 census (May 10th), Ole and Rosie were living in New Market, near, or perhaps on, the same farm as Ole’s mother, Betsy. Ole, 34, and Rose, 21, are shown as having been married only 3 months. Rose would have pregnant with Ed at the time of the census.

Ole registered for the draft on September 12, 1918. He is described as of medium height and build with blue eyes and brown hair. His nearest relative is “Rosa” Ellingboe.

In the 1918 Alien Registration, he is Ole Ellingboe, age 42, of Lakeville, Scott County.

The Census taker visited the Ellingboe farm on January 30, 1920, and noted 44 year-old Ole, 30 year-old Rose, 9 year-old Edwin, 7 year-old Arthur, 4 year-old Beulah, and 2 year-old Oscar. Rose and Ole were noted as having Norwegian as their native tongue and being able to speak English. Ole’s occupation was noted as “Farmer General Farm.”

Shown as having emigrated in 1882 in the 1930 census.

In the 1940 census, Ole and his family lived in New Market Twp. The household consisted of Ole, 64, Rosie, 50, Edwin, 29, Oscar, 22, Helen, 19, Ruby, 15, Evelyn, 12, Jeanette, 4, and Albert Battin, 79, a lodger who was retired and blind. Ole and Rosie had education through 8th grade, Edwin through four years of high school, Oscar through 8th grade, Helen through one year of high school.

Ole and Rose were naturalized as citizens on November 10, 1937, in Minneapolis in U.S. District Court, 4th Division. At that time, his address was Route #2, Lakeville. Ole is described as 5’8” tall, 160 lbs., blue eyes, brown hair.

According to Evey, Ole died of an apparent stroke.

His obituary (from an unknown newspaper, spelling errors corrected):

Obituary of Ole Ellingboe

Ole Ellingboe of Lakeville, age 72, died at the Sanford hospital at Farmington, Jan. 5, 1948, at 9:30 a.m. after an illness of only five days.

He was born at Valdres, Norway, Sept. 25, 1875, of parents Ove Ellingboe and Beret (Helle) Ellingboe. At the age of six years he emigrated with his parents and three sisters to America. They came to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where they resided one year. Then they came to Lakeville and settled on a farm in New Market township, Scott county, Minn. He attended the District 66 school, which was built by his father. This is the same school attended by his children. His father died at an early age leaving him to be his mother’s main stay to help support his younger brothers and sisters. He was confirmed by the Rev. Quammen and has been a faithful member of the Christiania Lutheran congregation ever since.

On February 12, 1910, he was united in holy matrimony to Miss Rose Mathilda Thompson at Bethel Lutheran church, Ward township, Todd county, Minn. They went to live on his farm, which was a part of the old homestead, and have made their home there ever since. To this union eight children were born, namely Edwin and Helen (Mrs. Clarence Campion) of Minneapolis, Arthur and Ruby (Mrs. Frank Pool) of Farmington, Beulah (Mrs. Lloyd Luckman) of Rosemount, and Oscar, Evelyn, and Jeanette at home.

He leaves to mourn his departure his wife and eight children, two brothers, Oscar of Leavenworth, Kansas, and Albert of Lakeville, who was critically ill at the hospital; five sisters, Mary (Mrs. E. H. Lee) of Omak, Washington, Thea (Mrs. George Tonsager) of Lakeville, Anna (Mrs. John Selmo) of Solway, Minn., Clara (Mrs. Alvin Liggett) and Miss Olga Ellingboe of Waseca, besides seven grandchildren, many nieces and nephews, and a host of friends.

He was preceded in death by his father and mother and also a sister and brother who died in infancy.

Funeral services were held Thursday, Jan. 8, at one o’clock at his home, followed by services at West Christiania Lutheran church with burial in the adjoining cemetery, Rev. Hoff officiating.

Rev. Hanson from Webster also spoke. The Webster Male Chorus sang three beautiful songs accompanied by Mrs. Walter Snesrud {#14775}. Pallbearers were Ole Ellingboe’s three sons, Oscar, Edwin, and Arthur and his three sons-in-law, Lloyd Luckman, Clarence Campion, and Frank Pool.

Many beautiful sprays of flowers were received. One of these were from the V.F.W. Post 210, and one from the 109th Fighter Squadron. Innumerable memorial gifts were received which was evidence of his many friends.

He was a kind and loving husband and father and will be sadly missed. Blessed be his memory.

Birth:
Obit. says he was born in Norway.

Died:
Monday

Buried:
“with Albert & Anne” 225 NT 13

Ole married Rose Mathilda THOMPSON on 12 Feb 1910 in Ward Twp, Todd County, Minnesota. Rose (daughter of Erik (Erick) Andrew THOMPSON and Gunhild Mikkelsdatter (Julia) DIGENE) was born on 25 Jan 1890 in Frederick, Brown County, South Dakota; died on 31 Dec 1976 in Edina, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 2 Jan 1977 in West Christiania Lutheran Cemetery, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1954-MN-015012
• Baptism: 11 Aug 1878, Ås, Vestre Toten, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 3 Jun 1894, East Christiania Lutheran Church, Eureka Twp, Dakota County, Minnesota

Notes:

She has no middle name in her birth record in the Ås, Vestre Toten, church book.

She may be the “Theodora Ellingbo” recorded in the 1901 Minneapolis city directory as a domestic living at 2613 Portland Avenue.

Ed says that Thea and George had nine children.

Buried in the same plot as George and Thea are three of their great-grandchildren, called the “Tonsager Triplets”, who died June 17, 1969.

Ed says that the Tonsagers' farm was about four miles southeast of the Ellingboe farm. Evey said it was about “three miles from us.”

Evey recalls, about Thea: “She was a very warm and motherly person.”

Emigrated in 1882

In the 1905 state census, George and Thea lived a little ways away (on the same census page) from the Ellingboes in New Market Twp.

At the time of the 1910 census (April 15th), the family was renting a farm in New Market township. The family consisted of George, 31, Thea, 31, Clarence M., 4, Palmer O., 2, and Lester G., 8 months. The couple had been married for 5 years and Thea had had 3 children, 3 still living.

Her husband was the informant for her death certificate. George didn’t know who Thea’s parents were. Thea died from a cerebral hemorrhage that had occurred 10 days previously.

In the 1940 census, George and Thea, their three youngest sons, and their grandson Robert lived in New Market in the same house all of them had lived in five years before.

Birth:
Stepperud farm

Confirmation:
with her sister Anna Maria

Thea married George P TONSAGER on 16 Nov 1904 in East Christiania Lutheran Church, Eureka Twp, Dakota County, Minnesota. George (son of Paul GILBERTSON and Sigri Olsdatter (Sarah) ROGNE) was born on 30 Sep 1878 in Minnesota; died on 15 Sep 1972 in Rice County, Minnesota; was buried on 18 Sep 1972 in West Christiania Lutheran Cemetery, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1964-MN-000806
• Baptism: 20 Mar 1881, Ås, Vestre Toten, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 3 Jun 1894, West Christiania Lutheran Church, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota

Notes:

Not included in the 1900 census.

Ed says that Anna lived all of her married life in Solway, Minnesota. Confirmed by the 1930 census; they lived on 3rd Street.

Anna Maria enclosed a letter to her Norwegian relatives with her father's 1896 letter.

Arlo was adopted according to the 1930 census.

Her son Arlo or Orlo was the informant for her death certificate. He had no idea who her parents were. Anna Maria died of influenza.

Birth:
incorrectly shown as born 30 Nov 1881 in her death certificate

Confirmation:
with her sister Thea

Died:
at Lake Julia Rest Home in Durand where she had lived for two years

Anna married John SELMO on 5 Apr 1916 in Scott County, Minnesota. John was born on 25 Jan 1868 in Norway; died on 22 Mar 1962 in Beltrami County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 20 Jun 1897, West Christiania Lutheran Church, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota

Notes:

Oskar Ellingboe changed his name to Arthur Carney and invented a preposterous backstory in which he also changed his birth date and family history.

Ed says Oskar spent his youth in Lakeville, went into the service, and later became a Federal Prison guard at the penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. He lived in Leavenworth until he died.

Not listed with his mother and siblings in New Market Twp in the 1905 state census.

The 1910 census contains no Arthur Carney born in Kentucky within 5 years of 1887.

He was not listed in the WWI draft registrations, either as Ellingboe or as Carney.

In the 1920 census, a 33 year-old Arthur W. Carney is shown as a soldier at Fort Leavenworth. His native state is shown as Kentucky and both of his parent had been born in Kentucky. Thus, he was claiming to have been born in Kentucky several years before he married Marie.

In the 1925 Kansas census, he and Marie are living with other Hamiltons in Leavenworth. Arthur claims to be 38 years old, born in Kentucky, and working for or on the “golf links” at Ft. Leavenworth.

This same Arthur Carney, claiming to be a native of Kentucky, was living in Ohio at the time of the 1930 census. This Ohio Arthur Carney was a prison guard at the prison (U.S. Industrial Reformatory) in Scioto, Ross County, Ohio. He was married, 43, with a wife Marie, 37. This Arthur Carney was a veteran of the World War.

In the 1940 census, he was the 53 year-old Arthur W. Carney living with his wife Marie, 47, in Leavenworth, Kansas. He was a prison officer for the federal prison. Arthur claimed to have had two years of college. Marie had an eighth-grade education. The couple owned their house, worth $4000, at 712 Ninth Avenue (or 712 Central Avenue). They had lived in Leavenworth five years earlier although not at that address. The census-taker talked to both Arthur and Marie. Arthur specifically claimed that he was born in Kentucky. Thus, likely in Marie’s presence, he claimed to have been born in Kentucky, a claim Marie would have known to be false because she had met his family in Minnesota.

A note in the Leavenworth Times in August of 1952 said that Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Carney had returned home after several weeks visit with relatives in Minnesota.

According to city directories, he and Marie lived at 712 9th Avenue in Leavenworth between 1934 and his death in 1960. The couple is shown as briefly living in Alburquerque, New Mexico, in 1955, at which time he was associated with the U.S. Air Force.

A database of obituaries in the Leavenworth Times newspaper shows the death of an Arthur W. Carney in the November 20, 1960, edition.

According to his entry in Find A Grave, which includes a photo of his gravestone, he was Arthur Wilbur Carney, b. 15 Jun 1886 and died 18 Nov 1960. According to the inscription on that gravestone, apparently one supplied by the government, Arthur had been a sergeant in Company B, 88th Infantry of Kansas in World War I.

In the document requesting a military headstone for Arthur, signed by Marie H. Carney on 8 Jun 1961, of 712 Ninth Avenue, Leavenworth, the particulars of his military history are listed: Service number 341371 or 341271, Pension claim number C 122 18 08, Enlisted 10-12-1916 in Washington, Discharged 10-11-1920 at Ft. Leavenworth. He had been a Sgt, Co. B, 88th Infantry, 19th Division, U.S. Army. His date of birth was 15 Jun 1886. The branch of the service that most conforms to this description is the 88th Division, “a National Army Division organized September 4, 1917, at Camp Dodge, Iowa, from men drafted from the states of Minnesota, Iowa. the Dakotas and Illinois. Later when these first drafts had been transferred in large measure to Camps Cody, Bowie, Doniphan, Pike, Travis and Gordon, newly drafted men from these original states, together with men from Missouri and Nebraska, constituted the bulk of the Division.”

One of his nieces says: I've known since I was a little girl that he had changed his name. I think I heard that he took his middle name of "Carne," (most likely Arne) and used it as his last name because there were so many Ellingboes (really?). It was hinted, also, that maybe he changed his name so as not to be traced by someone--maybe a girl? There always seemed to be an air of mystery about it. He and Marie visited once when I was about 10 or so. I remember that Marie played our pump organ and Oscar sang. Ma said later, after that visit, that Marie had said that "the Carne's 'hail' from Kentucky." I don't know what Ma answered to that. She was no pushover. I think some of us thought his story was just to impress Marie with a more important background than he really had. I saw him again, briefly, at Uncle Albert's funeral. Once I asked Aunt Clara (Pa's youngest sister) about it when we visited her in Waseca. Oscar & Marie's picture was displayed on a table, which prompted the question. He was quite a distinguished-looking man, and Marie was very sweet-looking. Oscar resembled Albert a lot--a high forehead with hair that seemed to flow back in a high, bushy sort of way. Aunt Clara said that he left home at about 17 years old--(the 1900 census) and I think she said he went to Canada. Oscar claimed that he was born in Kentucky to wealthy parents who traveled a lot. On one of their trips they went to Norway, bringing him along as a baby. While there, they went out on a fishing expedition of sorts or a boat ride of some kind. Not wanting to take the baby along, they left him in the care of a Norwegian lady, Berit--Grandma supposely (??). Their boat was lost at sea, and Grandma brought him up as her own. Part of the story told of his being part of the Canadian Royal Mounted police, and of heroic acts during a small-pox epidemic. I also remember that they said he had had a family Bible, and maybe something else, too, with the proof--I forget what--in his locker at the prison, but it was lost in a fire there. Also, I recall that he hadn't wanted the story told to his mother as it would upset her. Two of the Lee "girls" told of how Oscar could quote pages and pages of epic poetry and verse, etc.”

Another niece in April of 2003 said:

I am delighted to tell you what I know. You can draw your own conclusions! It is a bit of a mystery. Incidentally, neither my Mother nor I knew Uncle Arthur had lived for awhile in Ohio, or, at least, Mother never mentioned it. Also, Mother never referred to him as "Oscar". I'd never heard that name until my cousin, Dorothy Olson, whom we have only recently come to know rather well, said that was his given name.

I think my Mother, as the 'baby" of the family, was always very special to Uncle Arthur. He and Aunt Marie visited us, if not frequently, at least every once in awhile and I have clear memories of them both; very dear memories. Aunt Marie was a very sweet person with absolutely beautiful handwriting. Uncle Arthur could recite numerous poems, epic and otherwise, from memory. I have a notebook in which he wrote down these poems for me. Family, in general, was very special to Uncle Arthur and everyone and everything related to family was always "the best".

Uncle Arthur left home, the family farm, at a young age and had a variety of adventures, including service in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (and had tales to tell of those years); in the army in the Philippines (I have some photographs of him taken there); lastly as a guard at the Federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, where we visited them.

He was completely convinced that the family name should be Carney, not Ellingboe, and had his name legally changed, though he never told his mother and consequently, as I understand it, his mother never met his wife. It must have been very awkward. That must have been puzzling for his mother, and a source of pain, too, I would think, as well as requiring endless evasions.

Uncle Arthur said he had documentation which proved that an Irish family named Carney, who lived in Kentucky, were in the habit of going to the Norwegian fjords to fish. On one such expedition, they took their son, their son's wife and infant son, along. They left the baby with a maiden lady while they went out fishing. The entire family was drowned and she - the Norwegian maiden lady - raised the boy as her own. Later, she came to the U.S., still claiming the little boy as her son. This little boy was my grandfather. (Only recently, I learned that my grandfather was an illegitimate child, which would lend credence to Uncle Arthur's story.) Thus, the Carney name disappeared and the name Ellingboe appeared.

Uncle Arthur always admired the Irish, and, of course, Scandinavians were looked down upon at this point in our history, as were many immigrants. However, Uncle Arthur was very proud of his family and it is almost impossible for me to reconcile this pride in family, with a repudiation of his family name unless he was certain of the truth of the story. I know Uncle Arthur believed the story though I'm almost as certain no one else did, or does. His documentation, including a family Bible, was burned in a fire in the locker room of the prison so there is no proof of his claim to Irish ancestry.

It is true that my Mother looked Irish; white skin, black hair, bright blue eyes! Who knows? I don't think Mother believed this story, but she didn't actually say she disbelieved it, either. We cannot square such a "fairy tale" though, with what we know of Uncle Arthur's character, so.......As I said, draw your own conclusions!

Confirmation:
as Arne Oskar Ellingbö, age 14

Buried:
section 35

Oskar married Marie Beauchamp HAMILTON about 1923. Marie was born on 25 Jul 1892 in Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas; died on 4 Mar 1971 in Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Mount Muncie Cemetery, Lansing, Leavenworth County, Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1948-MN-003500
• Baptism: 1885, Christiania Lutheran Church, Dakota County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 9 Jun 1901, West Christiania Lutheran Church, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota

Notes:

Some family histories have erroneously had his death date on January 10th.

His will is in the Scott County Will Records, Volume E, 1932-1962, will year 1948.

Registered for the draft on September 12, 1918. Shown as single, a farmer, and his closest relative is Bessey Ellingboe of Lakeville. Albert is of medium height, slender build, with blue eyes and brown hair.

According to Ed, Albert lived on the original Ellingboe farm until he died. Shown as living with Berit (“Betsy”) at the time of the 1920 census.

As of April of 1930, at the time of the 1930 census, 16 year-old Harold R. Johnson was lodging with the Albert Ellingboes, apparently to attend school.

In the 1940 census, he and his family farmed in New Market Twp and lived in the same house that they had lived in in 1935. Albert had a fifth-grade education, Annie had an eighth-grade education.

Obituary of A. O. Ellingboe

Albert Olaus Ellingboe of Lakeville Route 2, died January 9, 1948, at Sanford Hospital from a heart attack. His death occurred the day following his brother Ole’s funeral. Both were taken to Sanford hospital by ambulance January 3, and both lived in New Market township, just a quarter mile apart.

Funeral services for Albert Ellingboe were held at the West Christiania Lutheran church, January 12, at 2:00 o’clock with Rev. E. E. Hoff officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery.

Three hymns were sung: “Built On A Rock”, by Evelyn Ellingboe; “Nearer My God to Thee” and “Behold A Host” sung by Evelyn Ellingboe and Veola Soberg.

Pallbearers were six nephews, Oscar Ellingboe, Edwin Ellingboe, Arthur Ellingboe, Floyd Tonsager, Alvin Tonsager, Francis Tonsager.

The deceased was born March 28, 1885, a son of Ove and Berit (Helle) Ellingboe, on a farm in New Market township, the same farm on which he spent his entire life time. He attended the Scott county school Dist. 66 and then he took a short commercial course at a business college in Northfield. He was engaged in farming through out his life.

He was united in marriage with Anne Bergstrom of Nekoma, N.D., June 21, 1922, at Kenyon, Minn.

Albert Ellingboe is survived by his wife, three daughters, and one son, Alta Ann (Mrs. Samuel Mahnken), Dorothy and Hazel Ellingboe, and Albert Ellingboe, Jr. He is survived by one brother, Arthur of Leavenworth, Kansas; five sisters, Mary Lee of Omak, Wash.; Thea Tonsager of Lakeville, Anna Selmo of Solway, Minn.; Clara Liggett and Olga Ellingboe of Waseca.

Mr. Ellingboe was left with the responsibility of the farm at an early age, when his father died. {illegible} had the care of his mother and younger sisters. He was a faithful and sincere church member of the West Christiania Lutheran Church during his life. Mr. Ellingboe was well-known and highly respected in the community in which he always lived. He was chairman of School Dist. 66 board for 23 years and a church trustee for one year. He was a kind and loving husband and father.

Among the out of town attendants at the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Al Liggitt of Waseca; Arthur Carney of Leavenworth, Kansas; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Campion of Minneapolis; Ed Ellingboe of Minneapolis; Charles Tanger, Mankato; Willard Espelund, Winnebago; Mrs. Tony Sciano of Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mahnken of Minneapolis; Dorothy Ellingboe, New York City; Hazel Ellingboe of Mankato Teachers College.

Died:
Sanford Hospital; Had been sick for some time with a bad heart according to Evey.

Buried:
225 NT 13

Albert married Anne BERGSTROM on 21 Jun 1922 in Kenyon, Goodhue County, Minnesota. Anne (daughter of Hans BERGSTROM and Dorathea PAULSEN) was born on 19 Aug 1897 in Osnabrock, Walsh County, North Dakota; died on 24 Dec 1991 in Scott County, Minnesota; was buried in West Christiania Lutheran Cemetery, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1954-MN-017086
• Confirmation: 11 May 1902, West Christiania Lutheran Church, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota

Notes:

Called Olga Bertina in her father’s will.

Or 25 September. Her birthdate on her death certificate was 24 September.

Never married. Evey says she was an invalid, frequently bedridden, whose illness was probably depression.

According to Ed, Olga spent her life at home on the farm, then in Northfield, and the last years of her life in Waseca, Minnesota. Evy explains that Olga lived with Clara and Al Leggett in Waseca. Shown as living on the farm with Berit (“Betsy”), Albert, and Clara at the time of the 1920 census.

In the 1930 census, Olga was indeed living with her sister Clara Leggett and family at 604 5th St. in Waseca.

In the 1940 census, she was living with the Liggetts in Waseca.

According to her death certificate, she had lived in Waseca for 26 years. Her address was 7th Avenue, SW. Olga died from a cerebral hemorrhage. She also had severe rheumatoid arthritis.

If Olga had lived with Clara for 26 years, she had gone to live with her shortly after their mother died. This suggests that Olga, although only about 40 years old, may not have been able to live on her own.

Confirmation:
as Olga Bertina Ellingbo

Buried:
“with Albert & Anne” 225 NT 13

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Jun 1890, Christiania Lutheran Church, Eureka Twp, Dakota County, Minnesota

Notes:

Cemetery notes indicate she was “age 1 yr.”

Rose said that Clara died of “convulsions” caused by spinal meningitis.

Buried:
“probable burial”; not found by Debbie Boe in her indexing of the cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Jun 1893, East Christiania Lutheran Church, Eureka Twp, Dakota County, Minnesota

Notes:

Buried:
“probable burial”; not found by Debbie Boe in her indexing of the cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Social Security Number: 476-01-0780 Issued in MN before 1951
• Baptism: 19 May 1895, West Christiania Lutheran Church, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 18 Jul 1909, West Christiania Lutheran Church, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota

Notes:

Called Clara Emelie in her father’s will.

Born when her mother was 48 years old.

In the 1915 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, she is probably the Clara Ellingboe, domestic, at 405 E 3rd in Northfield.

Shown as living on the family farm with Berit (“Betsy”), Olga, and Albert at the time of the 1920 census.

Living with her husband, daughter, and sister at 604 Sixth St. in Waseca at the time of the 1930 census. Their rent at this residence was $20/month. They did not have a radio.

Last residence, according to the SSDI, was Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo, Iowa 50428. This may have been the residence of her daughter.

Died:
SSDI last residence

Buried:
280 WE 16

Clara married Alvin M LEGGETT on 22 Oct 1921 in Scott County, Minnesota. Alvin was born on 25 Feb 1897 in Indiana; died on 15 Apr 1967 in Waseca, Waseca County, Minnesota; was buried in Woodville Cemetery, Waseca, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Apr 1890, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Born on nerre Lajord. Gardbruker nerre Lajord.

Living on Lajord nedre with his widower father and siblings in the 1900 Norwegian census.

Aslak married Helga Dorthea Knutsdotter SYLTEVIK in 1922 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Helga (daughter of Knud Knudsen SYLTEVIK and Sigrid Endresdotter ELLINGBØE) was born in 1894 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1947 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Sep 1891, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Family/Spouse: Margrethe B KVALE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Teacher
• Baptism: 12 Nov 1893, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Unmarried

Birth:
Shown as 29 Sep in the 1910 census; shown as 27 Sep in the Norway Burial Index.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: School administrator in Nittedal

Notes:

Birth:
month and day from the 1910 census

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer

Notes:

Unmarried farmer in Canada.

Birth:
from the 1910 census

Notes:

lived 18 days

Died:
18 days old

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1952-MN-020178
• Occupation: Plumber
• Baptism: 18 Jun 1879, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He should have been the heir to Skøre. Instead, 34/1 went to Bøye, the next surviving son.

Brad’s notes, regarding conversations he had with relatives in Norway, refers to Ole as “Ole Ellingboe in the Cities.” Ole was a frequent visitor to the Ole and Albert Ellingboe farms in Lakeville. These visits may have been accompanied by visits to Selma Nelson, a neighbor of the Ellingboes and a sister of “Ole the plumber”’s first wife.

He may be the 22 year-old Ole O Ellingboe who arrived in New York and passed through Ellis Island.

In the 1901 Minneapolis city directory, Ole is living with Jøger at 1425 East Franklin.

In the 1903 Minneapolis city directory, he is probably the Ole Ellingboe, a laborer for J H McGuire, living at 521 12th Ave S.

In the 1905 census, Ole, Mary, and Theodore live in Minneapolis. Ole is a plumber. Living with them is Ole’s 35 year-old aunt Randi Ellingboe, a dressmaker.

Shown as a steamfitter on Theodore’s birth certificate.

In the 1907 Minneapolis city directory, he is Ole Ellingboe, a foreman for the Ireland-Simmons Co. He lives at 2006 21st Avenue S.

In the 1908 city directory, he is Ole O Ellingboe, a foreman for Ireland-Simmons Co. He resides at 915 19th Avenue S.

In the 1909 Minneapolis city directory, he is Ole O Ellingboe, a foreman for Ireland-Simmons Co., living at 2007 22nd Avenue South.

In the 1910 city directory, he is Ole Ellingbo, a foreman for Ireland-Simmons Co, residing at 2009 22nd Avenue S.

In the 1910 census, Ole and the three kids, Theodore, Oscar, and Inga, live at 2104 22nd Avenue in Minneapolis. Ole is a widower. Living with the family is Linette Engdahl, a 19 year-old servant, recently arrived from Norway.

In the 1916 Minneapolis city directory, he is Ole Ellingboe, a foreman for C A Simmons. He rooms at 811 12th Avenue S.

Ole registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Minneapolis as Ole Olson Ellingboe. He lived at 4428 44th Avenue South. He was a plumber for Conner Brothers of 711 6th Avenue North in Minneapolis. He gave as his nearest relative Mary Bekken, sister, 6058 17th Street in Minneapolis. Ole was of medium height and build with blue eyes and reddish brown hair.

In the 1918 Alien Registration, he was Ole Ellingbo, age 38, of Minneapolis.

He is listed in “The Valdris Book”, a history of the Valdris Samband published in 1920 (available on Google Books), as “Ole Ellingboe Minneapolis.” He was a member of the Samband from 1902 to 1916.

In the 1919 city directory, he is a plumber and boards at 4428 44th Avenue S.

In the 1920 census, Ole, a widower, is living with the Henry Hanson family of 4428 44th Avenue S. in Minneapolis. He is shown as “nephew” along with his 13 year-old son Oscar who is also living with the Hansons. Ole was born in Norway and came to the U.S. in 1901. Ole is a plumber.

Ole, of 4428 44th Avenue in Minneapolis, was listed as the nearest relative of Harry Olson Ellingboe on Harry’s draft registration.

Seemingly related here is Bertha Ellingboe, b. ca 1896, in Norway, a tailoress, who lives with Conrad and Mary Hanson of 4420 43rd Avenue S. in Minneapolis. Conrad Hanson and Henry Hanson both work at a bag factory. (That Bertha is, apparently, #10692, the daughter of Anders Tollefson and Ingeborg Olsdatter.)

In the 1924 Minneapolis city directory, he is Ole Ellingboe, helper, residing at 923 Chicago Avenue, flat 1.

In the 1927 Minneapolis city directory, he is Ole Ellingboe, plumber, residing at 929 Chicago Avenue, apartment 1.

In the 1928 Minneapolis directory, he is probably the Ole Ellingboe living at 736 E 18th.

In the 1930 census, Ole is a lodger at a rooming house in Minneapolis. He is a plumber for an illuminating company.

In the 1930 Minneapolis city directory, he is Ole O Ellingboe, a caulker for Minneapolis Gas Light Company. He resides at 818 East 18th, apartment 9.

In the 1932 Minneapolis city directory, he and Bertha live at 1728 Elliot Avenue, apartment 6. He is a caulker for the Minneapolis Gas Light Co.

In the 1935 and 1936 and 1938 Minneapolis city directories, he and Bertha live at 3209 20th Avenue S. His occupation is caulker for the Minneapolis Gas Light Co.

In the 1940 census, he and Bertha live at 3209 20th Avenue in south Minneapolis, a house that owns that is worth $4000. Ole is a caulker for an illuminating gas plant. This is the same house in which they both had lived five years earlier.

In the 1948 Minneapolis city directory, he is a mechanic for MGL. He and Bertha live at 3209 20th Avenue S.

He is the Ole Ellingboe, age 69, arriving in New York on September 20, 1948, aboard the S.S. Stockholm which had departed from Gothenburg, Sweden, on September 11th. Ole’s address is shown as 3209 20th Avenue South in Minneapolis. His U.S. passport was #159040.

He died leaving a widow Bertha who was the informant for his death certificate. According to that death certificate, Ole was a plumber/steam fitter for the Minneapolis Gas Company. His death date was qualified by “found” so he may have died at his residence, 3209 20th Avenue South, and Bertha may not have been living with him. His cause of death was coronary disease.

Birth:
at least one tree in Ancestry incorrectly gives his birthdate as 25 Sep

Died:
Easter Sunday

Ole married Mary Olsdatter NESS on 22 Sep 1904 in East Christiania Lutheran Church, Eureka Twp, Dakota County, Minnesota. Mary (daughter of Ole Olsson NÆS and Barbro Helgesdatter) was born on 26 Sep 1874 in Nord-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 19 Sep 1909 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 23 Sep 1909 in Layman’s Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ole married Bertha ELLINGBOE on 19 Feb 1931 in Scott County, Minnesota. Bertha was born about 1884 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
of diphtheria

Notes:

Died:
of diphtheria

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1963-MN-024248
• Baptism: 9 Mar 1890, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

In the 1910 Norwegian census, as Marit Olsdatter Skøre, she is unmarried and living with her mother and siblings on Skøre 34/1.

She arrived in New York on April 3, 1915, aboard the S.S. Kristianiafjord which had departed Bergen on March 25th. Marit was single, age 25, occupation domestic. She gave her brother Böye Ellingboe of Vang, Valders, as her nearest relative in the country she had come from. She was traveling with her cousin Berit Andersdatter (10692).

Her obit said that she had lived in Minneapolis for 49 years and was a member of Central Lutheran Church.

Marith married Gullick BAKKEN on 17 May 1917 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Gullick (son of Augustinius Herbjornsen BJØRKHAUG and Aase Olsdatter) was born on 27 Oct 1884 in Rjukan, Tinn, Telemark, Norway; died on 21 Feb 1965 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 24 Feb 1965 in Sunset Memorial Park, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gardbruker på Skøre.

According to Bjørn (per Brad), Bøye began using the surname Skøre to expedite the mail. Skøre is the name of the farm which is a part of the old Ellingbø.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, as Bøie Olsen Skøre, he is unmarried and living on Skøre 34/1 with his mother and his siblings.

The Norway Burial Index has a Bøye O Ellingbø dying in Vang on 20 May 1935.

Birth:
Month and day from the 1910 Norwegian census.

Bøye married Guri Andersdatter DALÅKER in 1923 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Guri (daughter of Andris Olsson DALÅKER and Guri Iversdatter SYNDROL) was born on 16 Aug 1901 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 15 Apr 1991 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; was buried in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Listed with the family in the 1900 Norwegian census.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, as Ingebørg Olsdatter Skøre, she was unmarried and living with her mother and siblings on Skøre 34/1.

The Vang bygdebok says that she moved to Oslo in 1912 where she first married Chr. Kvien, with whom she had 3 daughters, and later, in 1932, married Anders Stenberg, with whom she had one daughter. Nevertheless, all of her children were born in Vang.

Birth:
Month and day from the 1910 Norwegian census.

Ingeborg married Christoffer Torsteinson KVIEN in 1912, and was divorced. Christoffer (son of Torstein Kristofferson Ruskehaugen VEFLEN and Ragndi Olsdatter HOVDA) was born in 1886 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1963 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ingeborg married Anders Albertsen STENBERG in 1935. Anders (son of Albert Olsen STENBERG and Sigrid Knutsdatter KVIESMOEN) was born in 1898 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1983 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1977-MN-023522
• Baptism: 31 Oct 1897, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

In the 1910 Norwegian census, as Helge Olsen Skøre, he was living on Skøre 34/1 with his mother and his siblings.

In the 1916 Minneapolis city directory, he is Harry Ellingboe, a baker for Excelsior Baking Co., residing at the Hansons’ home (Harry’s aunt) at 4428 44th Avenue S. Also living at that same address was Ollie Ellingboe, a machinist at Excelsior Baking Co., who may be Harry’s brother Tollef (Tollie?). Listed elsewhere in the 1916 directory is Ole Ellingboe, the plumber (#6236), another of Harry’s brothers, who will eventually also come to live with the Hansons by the time of the 1920 census.

Harry registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Grand Rapids. He was born in Norway apparently. He listed his nearest relative as Ole Ellingboe (see #6236). Harry was a crane operator and electrician with the Olson (or Oliver) Iron Mining Company of Coleraine, Itasca County. Harry was described as of medium height and build with blue eyes and dark hair.

In the 1920 census, Harry (as “Illenbo”) is a lodger with the Gullick and Mary Bakken (his sister) family at 757 8th Avenue South in Minneapolis. Harry came to the U.S. in 1916 and is a bookkeeper at a bank.

In the 1920 Minneapolis city directory, he is Harry Ellingboe, bookkeeper for the Harriet State Bank. He rooms at 757 8th Avenue S.

In the 1920 directory, he is still bookkeeper for the Harriet State Bank. He lives at 615 S 9th.

In the 1923 St. Paul city directory, he is a bookkeeper for Bannon’s. He lives at 229 Spruce.

In the 1924 St. Paul directory, he is still a bookkeeper for Bannon’s Dept. Store. He lives at 198 E 10th.

In the 1930 census, Harry is a baker in Minneapolis. He is a boarder with the Reuben Ericson family. He came to the U.S. in 1916.

In the 1930 Minneapolis city directory, he is Harry O Ellingboe, a helper at Paramount Pies Inc. He resides at 718 E 17th. That is, indeed, the address for Reuben R and Mabel Ericson. Reuben is a plumber for Bjorkman Bros.

He is included in the 1931 and 1932 St. Paul city directories as a helper for Paramount Pies Inc. He resides in Minneapolis.

In the 1932 Minneapolis city directory, he is a cook residing at 718 E 17th Street.

The 1933 St. Paul city directory lists him as a cook for Paramount Pies Inc. He resides in Minneapolis.

In the 1935 St. Paul city directory lists him as a fruit cook for Paramount Pies. He resides in Minneapolis.

In the 1937 Duluth city directory, he is a cleaner for N D Bort. He resides at 16 W 2nd.

In the 1940 census, he lived in Minneapolis as Harry Ellingboe, a 42 year-old single man born in Norway and having had two years of high school. He had lived in Duluth five years earlier. His occupation was bakers helper in a restaurant. He had earned $135 in 1939.

He registered for the draft on 14 Feb 1942 in Minneapolis. He worked for George Lundeen of Dassel, Minnesota.

In the 1948 Minneapolis city directory, he was Harry O Ellingboe, a factory worker for Bemis. He resided at 104 Washington Avenue S.

He may have been married to #10778 although his death certificate says that he never married. (The Vang bygdebok says that he was married.)

The informant for his death certificate was Mrs. Alice Schmitz of 4946 Sherman in Minneapolis. Harry was not a veteran. He died of pulmonary edema and pneumonia. He worked at Bemus Brothers. His usual residence at the time of death was Cook Home of Rice Lake Road, Duluth, which wouldn’t seem to be the address of St. Mary’s Hospital. The SSDI says last residence was Minneapolis.

His obituary was published on p. 11A:1 of the September 14, 1977, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune:

Harry O. Ellingboe, 80, Cook Home, died Sunday in a Duluth hospital. He was born in Norway and came to Duluth in 1962 from Minneapolis. He was a retired laborer. Surviving is a niece, Alice Schmitz, Minneapolis.

Died:
He died at St. Mary’s Hospital in Duluth.

Helge married Endrina FOSS on 14 Jul 1950 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Endrina was born on 29 May 1890 in Minnesota; died on 24 Nov 1981 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried in Crystal Lake Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Listed with the family in the 1900 Norwegian census.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, as Torleiv Olsen Skøre, he was unmarried and living with his mother and siblings on Skøre 34/1.

The Vang bygdebok says that he died in 1971 and was married twice: first to Karine Sveen, who died but with whom he had one son, and second to Astrid Sørbo.

In the 1916 Minneapolis city directory, he may be the Ollie Ellingboe, a machinist for Excelsior Baking Co., who resides with his brother Harry at the Hansons at 4428 44th Avenue S.

In the 1918 city directory, Ollie Ellingboe is a plumber for Sanitor Construction Co and still lives with the Hansons at 4428 44th Avenue S.

In the 1950 census, he may be the Theodore Ellingboe, age 50, who is a lodger with a family in Minneapolis. He works, irregularly apparently, as a cab driver. His marital status is “separated.” This Theodore is shown as having been born in Minnesota, however.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Aug 1903, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 Jan 1876, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Seems to be Skore in the July 2, 1892, emigration record from Vang. He was Anders K. Ellingboe on the manifest for the S.S. City of Paris on which he arrived in New York on 27 Jul 1892 with his aunt Rangdi.

In the 1894-1895 and 1895-1896 Minneapolis city directories, he is shown as Andrew Ellingboe, a clerk for, and living at, his uncle Jøger’s (#4056) jewelry business on Washington Avenue.

In the 1900 census he may be the Andrew Skore, 25, a single laborer (logger) in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. That Andrew was born in February of 1875 and came to the U.S. in 1891 or 1892.

The Anaconda Standard’s (Anaconda, Montana) list of “uncalled-for” letters at the Anaconda post office for the week ending Saturday, June 23, 1906. included one for Andrew Skore.

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1972-MN-033787
• Baptism: 30 Jul 1883, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Baptismal sponsors were Tollef Olson Ellingbö, his wife Marit Jögersdatter, Emilie Erickson Thune, Kristoffer Tollefson Ellingbö, and Anne Olsdatter Kvale.

In the 1900 U. S. census, Rangdi (b. June 1872) and Jorger Ellingbo (b. July 1867), brother and sister, are living with their newly-arrived niece, Mary Ellingboe (b. June 1883), at 1425 Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis. Rangdi is a seamstress, Jorger is a jeweler, and Mary has no occupation. Jorger originally came to the U. S. in 1885 and Rangdi in 1890. That niece Mary may have been caught in the 1900 census at the location of her employer where a 16 year-old Mary Ellingbo (but one supposedly born in May of 1884), recently arrived in the U.S. (1900), is a servant at the home of the Cargill family (the Cargills) on 33rd and Portland. (Could not find a Marit born to Ellingboes in Vang in 1884.)

The Vang church book emigration record shows a Marit Andersdatter Ellingbø, b. 1883, emigrating to the U. S. in 1900, perhaps leaving Vang on March 21st. Ole Iversen Ellingboe (#9188) left Vang at about the same time, perhaps leaving Vang on March 23rd.

Also from the Emigrantar over Bergen frå Austlande, on March 23, 1900, Marit Andersdtr Ellingbø, 17, b. 1883, born and living in Vang, unmarried, departed on the Allan line. Her occupation is shown as “datter af Veivgter.” Marit departed from Liverpool on the S.S. Tunisian on April 5, 1900, and arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on April 14, 1900. She is shown as Marit A. Ellingboe, single female, age 16, occupation “servant.” Her last residence was Valders and her final destination is Minneapolis. She paid for her own passage and had $5. She was going to join her cousin Rangde Ellingbö. Marit appears to have been traveling with 16 year-old Ragnhild Lunde, also from Valders (but not, apparently, from Vang) and also heading to Minneapolis to find work as a domestic.

In the 1901 Minneapolis city directory, she is Marit A Ellingbo, a seamstress, living with Jøger T Ellingbo at 1425 East Franklin.

She was one of the witnesses to her uncle Jøger’s 1903 marriage to Olena.

In the 1903 Minneapolis city directory, she is Marie Ellingbo, tailor at A J Kidd, boarding with Rangdi at 2121 13th Avenue S.

In the 1907 Minneapolis city directory, she is probably the Mary Ellingbo, seamstress, rooming at 2417 Butler Place.

In the 1909 Minneapolis city directory she is Marie Ellingbo, a seamstress who boards at 2417 Butler Place. There was a Conrad Hanson living on Butler Place at the same time.

In the 1910 Minneapolis city directory, she is still Marie Ellingbo, still a seamstress, still boarding at 2417 Butler Place.

Because Bertha is listed as “sister-in-law” in the 1920 census, we can deduce that Mary became the wife of Conrad Hanson and was living at 4420 43rd Avenue South in Minneapolis at that time.

Shown as Mary I. in her death certificate. Her father was shown as Ole Ellingboe and her mother as Ingeborg Qvale. The informant for her death certificate was her son Burton Hanson of 6421 Oliver in Minneapolis. (Burton was mistaken: Marit’s father was, indeed, Anders Tollefson.) Mary died of asthma and heart disease. Her usual residence at the time of death was 2246 East 56th Street in Minneapolis which may be the address of the “St. Olaf Residence.”

Died:
St. Olaf Residence

Marit married Conrad Mandius HANSON on 14 Sep 1910 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Conrad (son of Hans Andreas HALSEIDE and Anna Serine Pedersdatter) was born on 6 Feb 1883 in Haugesund, Rogaland, Norway; died on 27 Apr 1971 in Edina, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 30 Apr 1971 in Sunset Memorial Park, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Nov 1886, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

In the 1910 Norwegian census, he is living with his parents and siblings on the Njuko farm. That census shows his date of birth as (incorrectly) October 9, 1885.

Jim’s Valdres Slekt has Ola Andrissen Njuko Ellingbø remaining in Norway. As does the bygdebok.

He may be the 23 year-old Ola R. Ellingboe lodging at about 7th Avenue and 10th Street in Minneapolis in the 1910 census. He is a packer in a furniture factory or store and came to the U.S. in 1909.

Died:
Find A Grave says 8 Aug

Ole married Anna Sofie Andreasdatter NATVIK in 1925. Anna was born on 18 Jan 1905 in Årdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway; died on 19 Jul 1977 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; was buried in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 5 May 1891, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is not listed in Norway in the 1910 Norwegian census. The bygdebok says she went to Minnesota in 1908.

She is probably the Inga Ellingboe, age 19, servant, living in Richfield, Minnesota, in the 1910 census. She is living with the brothers Nels and Conrad Hanson on their dairy farm at about 54th Street and 28th Avenue. Also living on the farm is Arnold Heen, 23. All are from Norway and all appear to have come to the U.S. after 1900.

Jim’s site, in Valdres Slekt, says that she went to the U.S. before she had children and notes that the bygdebok doesn’t say anything about her coming back. Whatever, she is buried in the Vang church cemetery in Norway with her husband.

She had a daughter Ingeborg (b. ca 1935) with Anders Boe (b. 1878). The bygdebok has this Anders (son of Ola Andrisson Bøe 1854-1948 and Anne Olsdatter Øylo 1856-1938) as born in 1888, dying in 1953, and unmarried.

Birth:
on Skaare

Died:
as Ingeleiv Ellingbø, born 7 Mar 1891

Family/Spouse: Anders Olsen BØE. Anders (son of Ola Andrisson BØE and Anne Olsdatter ØYLO) was born on 17 Jul 1888 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1953 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1979-MN-028384
• Baptism: 14 Apr 1895, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

As Berit Andersdatter Ellingbø, she is living with her parents and siblings in the 1910 Norwegian census.

She arrived in New York on April 3, 1915, aboard the S.S. Kristianiafjord which had departed Bergen on March 25th. Berit was single, age 20, occupation domestic. She gave her father Anders T. Ellingbö of Vang, Valders, as her nearest relative in the country she had come from. She was traveling with her cousin Marit (10705).

In the 1916 Minneapolis city directory, she is probably the Bertha Ellingboe, seamstress, boarding at 4341 Nokomis Avenue.

She may be the Bertha Elingbow, a helper/laundress at Sheltering Arms, in the 1917 and 1918 Minneapolis city directories. There are no other Bertha Ellingboe variants in those two city directories.

In the 1918 Alien Registration, she was Bertha Ellingbo, age 23, of Minneapolis.

In the 1919 city directory, she is probably the Bertha Ellingbo who is a machine operator for Brown Brothers Mercantile Co. She boarded at 3500 16th Avenue S.

She is the Bertha Ellingbo, “sister-in-law”, living with the Mary and Conrad Hanson family in Minneapolis in the 1920 census. (Also see 6236.) She is a tailoress and came to the U.S. in 1915.

She died as Bertha E. Hanson, wife of Henry A. The informant for her death certificate was Burton Hanson. Her parents were Anders Ellingboe and Ingeborg Qvale. This is a different father than the Ole Ellingboe who Burton Hanson said was his mother’s father. Bertha was a seamstress engaged in the tailoring business. She died from a stroke. Her usual residence was 3414 Minnehaha Avenue.

Jim’s site’s Valdres Slekt does not include Berit in the children of Anders and Ingeborg. Nor does the bygdebok.

Buried:
Section C-15, Site 11053

Berit married Henry A HANSON on 3 Apr 1920 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Henry (son of Hans Andreas HALSEIDE and Anna Serine Pedersdatter) was born on 14 Jul 1891 in Haugesund, Rogaland, Norway; died on 1 Sep 1953 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 3 Sep 1953 in Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Mar 1898, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He is listed with his parents and siblings in the 1910 Norwegian census.

The bygdebok says he never married. He was a teacher in Hommelvik, Malvik.

Find A Grave incorrectly has his birth year as 1838. It also says, incorrectly, that he was married to “Synnave Ellingbøe.”

The confusion is because his gravestone is shared with Synnave Ellingbøe (#I31402). She is his niece, the daughter of Ola Ellingbøe and Anne Ellingbøe of Njüko.

Notes:

He gave his uncle, Harry Thompson, as his nearest relative when he registered for the draft.

In the 1930 census, as Gilbert Thompson, age 40, he lived in Milwaukee with his wife, son, and mother-in-law. He was a baggage clerk for a steam railroad. Gilbert was not a veteran.

In the 1940 census, as Gilbert Thompson, age 40, he lived in Milwaukee with his wife and son. He was a baggage clerk for a steam railroad.

Gilbert married Meta Kathrine PAPE about 1922. Meta (daughter of William PAPE and Elizabeth) was born on 21 May 1900 in Wisconsin; died in May 1987 in Jefferson County, Wisconsin; was buried in Glen Oaks Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1920 census, he was single and living at home with his parents and brother. He was a chemist for an auto parts company.

In the 1930 census, he was a chemist with A O Smith. He lived in Milwaukee with his father and his new wife.

In the 1940 census, he was a tool hardening superintendent at an auto body frame manufacturing company. He had had two years of college.

Theodore married Helen about 1929. Helen was born about 1905 in Delaware. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1906-33555
• Baptism: 9 Jul 1906, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota

Notes:

According to her birth certificate, her mother’s maiden name was Ellingboe.

She died as Mildred E. Kolmayer, b. 20 Jul 1906, on 28 Jul 1992 in Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon (SSDI). Oregon death certificate 92-14936. That Mildred was the wife of Albert O. Kolmayer and the couple had at least one child, a daughter who married a man whose last name was Russell.

Mildred E. Kolmayer died of causes related to age Tuesday in her Gresham home. At her request, no service will be held. She was 86.

She was born July 20, 1906, in Minneapolis, Minn. She moved to Oregon when she was 6 years old. She had lived in the Portland area most of her life.

She had been a board member of the Portland Americanization Council and had held a Grange membership for more than 50 years. She had been a PTA member for more than 60 years and held a lifetime membership in Oregon Congress PTA. She was also was a member of the Skyline American Legion Auxiliary and Women's Relief Corps.

Survivors include her son, Walter Schroder of Stanfield; daughters, Irene Bernaix and Kathryn Russell, both of Gresham; 12 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

Disposition will be by cremation.

The family suggrests remembrances be contributions to the United States Adult Cystic Fibrosis Association.

Mildred married George SCHRODER about 1923. George was born about 1900 in Oregon; died on 31 May 1935 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mildred married Albert KOLMAYER on 2 Jul 1937 in Multnomah County, Oregon. Albert was born on 4 Jun 1887; died on 22 Mar 1965; was buried in Bethany Presbyterian Cemetery, Rock Creek, Washington County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1906-34106
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1921-MN-011580

Notes:

He is 3 year-old Elmer, living with his parents and younger sister in Minneapolis in the 1910 census.

He died at the “Minnesota School for the Feeble-Minded and Colony for Epileptics” in Faribault, where he had been for 4 years and 6 months. He died from chronic endocarditis. His usual residence had been 4428 44th Avenue South in Minneapolis.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1908-38634
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1987-MN-023331

Notes:

Mother’s maiden name Ellingboe according to her birth and her death certificates.

In the 1930 census, she was living with her parents and working as a bookkeeper for an oil company.

She was the informant for her mother’s and father’s death certificates.

Buried:
Section 53, Tier B7, Grave 19 (Lawn crypt)

Mildred married Raymond Joseph P REARDON on 18 Dec 1937 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Raymond was born on 13 Aug 1913 in Minnesota; died on 17 May 1995 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 20 May 1995 in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1913-42387

Notes:

Hansen on her birth certificate. She was child #3. Her birth certificate included her death date. She was born at home with a midwife.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1940-MN-016009

Notes:

A Thorsten Sondrol married a Betsey Polsen in Swift County on 8 Dec 1890.

In the 1900 census, he is listed as single and living with his parents and siblings in Kerkhoven Twp.

He registered for the draft as Tosten K. Sondrol on September 12, 1918, in Benson. He gave his age as 45 and his birth date as 14 Nov 1872. He was a farmer and his nearest relative was Mrs. Julia Sondrol of Kerkhoven Twp. He was of medium height and build with dark eyes and a bald head.

In the 1920 census, he is single and living near Theodor, Ole, and Julia in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County.

In the 1930 census, he is still single and farming in Kerkhoven Twp.

The Dalby Database, regarding burials in the West Norway Lake cemetery, has his name spelled Thosten K. Sondrol.

Died:
indexed as Thosten K Sandral

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1949-MN-007112

Notes:

In the 1920 census, he is living near the rest of the Sondrols in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County.

In the 1930 census he is a widower living with his sons and daughter in Kerkhoven Twp very near to the farm of his brother Ole.

Birth:
4 Aug 1875 according to Eugene

Theodore married Tone Bertine LANSVERK on 23 Nov 1902 in Swift County, Minnesota. Tone (daughter of Bjorn Endresen LANSVERK and Engeborg Dorthea SVALSTAD) was born on 30 Nov 1884 in Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota; died on 27 Apr 1921 in Swift County, Minnesota; was buried on 4 May 1921 in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1952-MN-016343

Notes:

He was still single and the head of household in the 1910 census when the family lived in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County, near the Ole O. Ellingboes (#5122 ). The household consisted of Ole, his brother Martin, his sister Clara, and their mother, Julia.

An article in the Willmar Tribune mentioning his marriage called him a well-to-do Swift County farmer.

He registered for the draft in Benson on September 12, 1918. He gave his age as 40 and his birthdate as September 24, 1877. He was a farmer at Route #2, Kerkhoven. He gave as his nearest relative his wife, Mrs. Alma Sondrol. He was described as of medium height and build with blue eyes and light hair.

In the 1930 census, he and his wife and five children are living on a farm in Kerkhoven Twp near his brother Theodore.

Birth:
the date on his draft registration card

Ole married Alma Louise LANDSVERK on 16 Apr 1914 in Swift County, Minnesota. Alma (daughter of Bjorn Endresen LANSVERK and Engeborg Dorthea SVALSTAD) was born on 4 Jul 1892 in Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota; died on 27 Aug 1994 in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota; was buried in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not listed with the family in the 1885 Minnesota census.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1954-MN-016366

Notes:

Living with Ole, Clara, and his step-mother in Kerkhoven Twp in the 1910 census.

He registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Benson as Martin Sondrol. He was 36 years old and gave his birth date as September 16th. The year is not shown on the copy but presumably it’s 1881 or 1882. He gave his address as Murdock 3, Kerkhoven Twp, and his nearest relative as Mrs. Martin Sondrol of that same address. He was of medium height and build with blue eyes and dark hair.

In the 1930 census, he and his wife and three children lived in Kerkhoven Twp, Swift County. Their farm is listed on the same census page as Selmer Framstad (#15995).

Birth:
16 Sep 1888 according to Eugene but that would seem to be after Marit died

Martin married Anna Mary SWENSON on 30 Nov 1917 in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. Anna (daughter of STENSRUD) was born on 11 May 1894 in Minnesota; died on 2 Feb 1977 in Swift County, Minnesota; was buried in West Norway Lake Lutheran Cemetery, Sunburg, Norway Lake Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Myre 103/3 Høre

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:

Probably is the 7 year-old Teoline living with her father in the 1905 state census.

As Ruby T., 12, she is living with her father and siblings in Kerkhoven Twp in the 1910 census.

In the 1920 census, as Ruby Shelstad, married but with no husband listed, she is living with her father and two half-brothers, as well as her son, in Kerkhoven Twp.

Died:
as Mrs. Ruby Theoline Sjelstad

Ruby married Oscar Iver SJELSTAD on 14 Nov 1917 in Swift County, Minnesota. Oscar was born on 30 Dec 1893 in Minnesota; died on 26 May 1977 in Swift County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1910-MN-014265

Notes:

As five year-old Olai, living with his father in the 1905 state census.

Young Olie died from TB. His father was the informant for his death certificate. His surname was called “Holden” on the death certificate.

Notes:

Born in Bygnaden 43/3. Emigrated to the U.S.

Olof applied for a passport in December of 1920. He needed it for a planned trip to Norway to see his parents on December 30th. At that time, he was an S C 1 C in the U.S. Navy, stationed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Massachusetts. He wanted his new passport to be sent to him, special delivery, at the U.S.S. Luce, #99, at the Charlestown Navy Yard. Olof claims that he emigrated to the U.S. on August 7, 1914, departing from Christiania, and spent 6 uninterrupted years in Minneapolis and in the U.S. Navy. He became a naturalized citizen in Boston on December 6, 1920.

In the 1924 Boston, Massachusetts, city directory, he was Olaf O Sondrol, U.S. Navy, residing at 2½ Mt Vernon Chsn.

In the 1925 Boston directory, he was a fish cutter living at 26A Concord Chsn.

In the 1926 and 1927 Boston directories, he was a carpenter living at 26A Concord Chsn.

The 1928 Boston directory says that he has “removed to Somv.”

In the 1929 Somerville, Massachusetts, city directory, he was a cook. He and Ruth live at 8 Hancock.

May be the Olaf O. Sondrol who was a cook on a U.S. Coast Guard vessel at the time of the 1930 census. He was married. In the census, he is stationed at Boston.

In the 1933 Somerville city directory, the entry for Olaf is “rem to Winthrop.”

In the 1935 Gloucester, Massachusetts, city directory, he was with the U S Coast Guard. He and Ruth lived at 9 Highland Place.

In the 1936 Mobile, Alabama, city directory, Olaf and Ruth live at 300 Conti, apartment 4. Olaf is a “chf guard.”

In the 1936 Gulfport, Mississippi, he and Ruth lived at 1612 19th Avenue. He was with the U S Coast Guard.

In the 1956 and 1958 and 1960 Lawrence, Massachusetts, city directories, Olof and Ruth live at 224 Hampshire.

Family/Spouse: Ruth. Ruth died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Theodor married Kari Kristiansdatter TALLE in 1936. Kari was born on 6 Jan 1916 in Årdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway; died in 1994 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The third of 8 children (6 boys, 2 girls).

In the 1928 Minneapolis city directory, he was a clerk for N T Flaten. He lived with his brother at 3936 25th Avenue S.

In the 1929 and 1930 city directories, he was a clerk for Janney, Semple, Hill & Co. He and his brother lived at 3936 25th Avenue S.

Probably the Iver Sondrol, roomer, living in Minneapolis in the 1930 census. He was 21 years old and working as a salesman for a hardware company. He had come to the U. S. in 1926. Living with him, also a roomer, was 20 year-old Knute Sondrol who had come to the U. S. in 1924. Knute was a shipping clerk for a mail order company. Together, the two young men lived at the house of the spinster sisters Mildred and Lillian Skattos at 3936 25th Avenue South.

In the 1934 Minneapolis city directory, Iver and Evelyn live at 639 E 17th, apartment 4. Iver is still a clerk with Janney Sample Hill.

In the 1939 and 1941 and 1942 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, city directories, Iver and Evelyn live at 2012 Bever Ave SE. Iver is a salesman.

In the 1950 and 1951 Cedar Rapids directories, Iver is a salesman. He and Evelyn live at 2056 Eastern Boulevard SE.

In the 1954 and 1956 and 1957 and 1958 Cedar Rapids directories, he and Evelyn still live at 2056 Eastern Boulevard SE. He owns Sondrol’s Variety and Hardware at 1507 1st Avenue E.



His obit:

Iver O. Sondrol, 94, of 322 Liberty Drive SE, Cedar Rapids, died Sunday, Jan. 12, 2003, at St. Luke's Hospital after a brief illness.

Services are 3 p.m. today at Cedar Memorial Chapel of Memories. Burial will be at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Cedar Memorial Funeral Home, Cedar Rapids, is handling the arrangements.

Mr. Sondrol was born July 4, 1908, in Vang, Valdres, Norway, the son of Ole and Gertrude Sondrol. He married Evelyn June 30, 1934, in Minneapolis.

He attended high school in Norway and at age 17 immigrated to the United States, arriving at Milaca, Minn., in March 1926. As a young man he worked on farms and in small businesses in Minnesota before moving to Minneapolis in 1927, where he met his wife. In 1933, he returned to Norway to visit his brothers and sisters, his mother and his ailing father.

In working to attain U.S. citizenship, he took night classes at the University of Minnesota. He began his career working for Janney-Semple-Hill, a hardware wholesale business, and continued that career as a hardware salesman on the road until 1952.

For 22 years, he and his wife owned and operated Sondrol's Variety & Hardware, Cedar Rapids. During that time, he was active in his church, community and in organizations such as the Sons of Norway.

Survivors include his wife; his children, Trudy Wasson of Eden Prairie, Minn., Hal Sondrol of Cedar Rapids and Iver Sondrol Jr. of Muscatine; six grandchildren, one of whom preceded him in death; and four great-grandchildren.

Iver married Evelyn Margrethe OAS on 30 Jun 1934 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Evelyn (daughter of Oscar Michelsen OAS and Emma BAKKE) was born on 14 Dec 1910 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; died on 5 Sep 2007 in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1928 and 1929 Minneapolis city directories, he was a messenger for Sears Roebuck & Co. He lived with his brother at 3926 25th Avenue S.

In the 1930 city directory, he was a stockman for Sears. He and Iver still lived at 3936 25th Avenue S.

In the 1943 La Crosse city directory, he and Pearle lived at 111 S 9th, apartment 101. Knute was a salesman, Pearle was a clerk for the National Youth Administration.

In the 1945 and 1950 La Crosse directories, he was a salesman. He and Pearle lived at 1139 Main.

In the 1953, 1955, and 1956 La Crosse directories, he was a salesman for Janney Semple Hill. He lived at 2617½ Main.

In the 1959 La Crosse city directory, Knute and Florence live at 2116 Redfield. Knute is a salesman.

His obit says that he came to the U. S. in 1924. He and his (second) wife lived in La Crosse before moving to Oelwein. “Survivors are his wife; three sons, Kenneth of Lake Jackson, Texas, John of Wichita, Kansas, and David of Oelwein; five grandchildren; two brothers, Iver of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Bjarne of Vang, Valdres, Norway; two sisters, Ragna Midtsveen of Oslo, Norway, and Birit Laklien of Deset, Norway. He was preceded in death by three brothers.”

Died:
Mercy Hospital

Knute married Pearl Minnie QUAM in 1939. Pearl was born on 15 Sep 1917 in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota; died on 14 Oct 1952 in La Crosse County, Wisconsin; was buried on 17 Oct 1952 in Oak Grove Cemetery, La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Knute married F. FINSTAD [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

De bodde i første huset i Bølandsgøta.

Family/Spouse: Mari Andersdatter VEE. Mari (daughter of Anders Olsen MIDTUN and Oline Hermundsdatter MIDTUN) was born in 1915 in Årdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway; died in 2002 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

De har bygd hus på gården på oversiden av Europaveien. Han er gift med Ragna Marie Gilen (datter av Emma Ellingsdotter Buajordet fra VS og Gullik Kirkvoll fra VS) oppvokst i Gilen hos moren og stefaren. De har to døtre, den ene heter Gerd. Begg e bor i Oslo, en av dem er fly- vertinne i SAS. Bjarne var en meget brukt hyttebygger, og har bl.a. bygd Briskebu og påbygget på Tangebu.

Bjarne married R.M. GILEN [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Resided in Gudbrandsdalen.

Hun hadde før hun giftet seg sønnen Dagfinn med Johannes O Syndrol. Av en eller annen grunn har ikke Frøholm dette med i sin bygdebok!!??

Family/Spouse: Johannes Olsen SYNDROL. Johannes was born on 22 Jan 1900 in Norway; died on 4 Jan 1980 in Norway; was buried in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Svein LØKLIEN. Svein died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Karstein Eiliff MIDTSVEEN. Karstein was born on 17 Oct 1920; died on 28 Apr 1998 in Oslo, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Still alive and living with his father and brother and uncles in Scott County in the 1905 state census.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1971-MN-025624

Notes:

He was shown as born in Dec 1895 in the 1900 census. However, he is listed in the 1895 (June) census as 6 months old.

Living with his widower father in New Market in the 1910 census.

He registered for the draft as Henry Richard Nelson in Scott County on June 5, 1917. He was of slender build (whether tall, medium, or short is not mentioned) with blue eyes, light brown hair, and weak eyes. He was a farm laborer for Alex Stennerson in New Market.

In the 1920 census, he may be the Henry Nelson who is rooming with the Elwood Harper household in Minneapolis. That Henry was a bookkeeper with a wood company.

In the 1940 census, he lives with or next door to the Albert Ellingboes. Henry is a farm laborer.

Evey says that Hank was a “middle-aged bachelor” who “stayed in the little house on Albert’s place.” Rose said that Hank’s house was “on the 20.”

It was Hank Nelson who, with his old pickup truck, drove several of the Ellingboes, including Albert Batten, to Lake Pepin on an overnight fishing trip in the summer of 1941.

Henry was a single farmer according to his death certificate. He resided at Lakeville, Route 1. He died of an intestinal obstruction brought on by cancer. The informant for his death certificate was his cousin Oscar Nelson of 848 East Rose Ave., St. Paul.

Died:
Sanford Memorial Hospital

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1945-MN-014583

Notes:

Supposedly, Sophie also had a stillborn baby.

The informant for her death certificate was her husband, Henry E Nelson. She died of “sudden coronary thrombosis.” She had no Social Security number. Her father was Ole O Nelson and her mother was Selma somebody (the informant did not know).

Birth:
date from Dalby Database for her gravestone; she is not listed in the MHS index of births

Sophia married Henry Engvald HANSON on 30 Sep 1925 in Scott County, Minnesota. Henry was born on 9 Jul 1900 in North Dakota; died in May 1972 in Unknown; was buried in West Christiania Lutheran Cemetery, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1907-25040
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1978-MN-028290

Notes:

He was 22 and single, living with his widower father, at the time of the 1930 census.

According to his death certificate, Oscar never married. He was a laborer for a concrete products company. He died from prostate cancer. The informant for his death certificate was an employee with the VA. His usual residence was 848 East Rose in St. Paul.

Oscar was a PFC in the U.S. Army in World War II. His service start date was 28 January 1942.

He was the informant for the death certificate of his cousin, Henry Nelson, who died in 1971.

Birth:
His birth certificate, as least as it is indexed in the MHS index, gives his birthdate as 6 Jul 1907

Died:
Last residence Ramsey County

Buried:
Section U, Site 839

Inga married Adolph M DAVIDSON on 30 Sep 1909 in Scott County, Minnesota. Adolph (son of Hans DAVIDSON and Carolina STRAND) was born on 10 Mar 1881 in Minnesota; died on 15 Apr 1959 in Scott County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1953-MN-015604

Notes:

In the 1920 census, he and Anna and Mable lived in New Market Twp.

In the 1930 census, Olaf and family were living in New Market Twp next door to his brother Hans. Living with Olaf’s family was a 35 year-old servant, Anna Matson. Olaf’s father is indicated as having been born in Sweden.

In the 1940 census, Mabel and Selma are no longer living at home.

His obituary from the Faribault Daily News:

NORTHFIELD--Funeral services for Olaf Bergstrom, who passed away Friday, November 13, following a short illness, were held Thursday, November 19, at the Solor Church in Webster. the Rev. R. S. Chellman of Minneapolis officiated at 2:00 p.m. Burial was made in the adjoining cemetery. Pallbearers were Lars Holden, Fred Frederickson, Eddy Peterson, Carl Miller, Axel Frederickson and Carl Anderson. Olaf Bergstrom was born March 21, 1889 in the Webster community, son of Ole and Betsy Nelson Bergstrom. He attended the rural schools and engaged in farming in the Webster community. On October 27, 1915, he was married to Anna Iverson of Webster. Following their marriage they lived for four years in Little Chicago and then made their home in Elko. For many years Mr. Bergstrom was known in the neighborhood for his skill with sick animals. While he was on a mission of Mercy to a New Market farm he was stricken with a heart attack from which he failed to recover. Mr. Bergstrom is survived by his widow, three daughters, Mrs. Hubert Ripple (Mabel) of Northfield; Selma Bergstrom of Omaha, Nebr., and Mrs. Glen Stoefer (Kathleen) of Faribault; four sons, Alvin, of Yakima, Wash., Donald of Minneapolis, Edwin who is in the armed forces in Korea, and Leonard at home. There are also eight grandchildren; five brothers and sisters living including, Mrs. Adolph Davidson (Inga); Hans and Joseph Bergstrom of Elko; John Bergstrom of Minneaplis and Mrs. Richard Aronson (Sophia) of Lakeville. One daughter preceded him in death.

Olaf married Anna Sofie IVERSON on 27 Oct 1915 in Rice County, Minnesota. Anna was born on 27 Feb 1893 in Norway; died on 7 Mar 1978 in Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Solor Lutheran Church Cemetery, Webster, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and Alvina lived in Cannon Falls at the time of Louise’s birth. John was a miller.

In the 1930 census John and his family lived in the village of Elko, New Market Twp, Scott County. John was a retail merchant in a general store. John’s parents also lived in Elko, apparently not too far away.

He was living in Minneapolis at the time of his brother Olaf’s death.

John married Alvina Louise JOHNSTON about 1923. Alvina (daughter of Andrew JOHNSTON and Louise) was born on 27 Feb 1897 in Minnesota; died on 14 Feb 1976 in Ramsey County, Minnesota; was buried on 17 Feb 1976 in Roselawn Cemetery, Roseville, Ramsey County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a veteran of the World War according to the 1930 census when he and his wife and daughter lived in New Market Twp, not far from his brother Olaf.

He was living in Elko at the time of his brother Olaf’s death.

Obituary or cemetery records show him as a Private in the U.S. Army in World War I.

Hans married Esther Mabel JOHNSON on 2 Dec 1925 in Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota. Esther was born on 9 Oct 1899 in Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 26 Oct 1964 in Dakota County, Minnesota; was buried in Solor Lutheran Church Cemetery, Webster, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Henry and his wife Coe M. lived in Greenvale Twp, Dakota County, in the 1930 census. Henry was a farmer.

Henry married Mona Coe HAYNES on 7 Jun 1921 in Rice County, Minnesota. Mona was born on 27 Aug 1902 in Missouri; died on 22 Dec 1946 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried in Solor Lutheran Church Cemetery, Webster, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1940 census, he and Florence and their five children lived in New Market Twp. Joseph was a clerk in a grocery and meats store.

He was living in Elko at the time of his brother Olaf’s death.

Joseph S. Bergstrom, 87, Elko, died on Wednesday, May 24,1989, of cancer at Sanford Nursing Home in Farmington. Bergstrom was born on Dec. 2, 1901, to Ole and Betsy Bergstrom in New Market Township. On Oct.10,1923, he married Florence Page. He worked for the Elko elevator, was on the board of directors of Sanford Hospital in Farmington and was a former mayor of Elko; he was also a member of Christiania Lutheran Church in Lakeville. Preceding him in death were his parents, two sisters and four brothers. Survivors include his wife; two daughters Doris (Mrs. Ray) Cousins of Worihington and Marcella (Mrs. Gordon) Tripp of Saugus, Calif.; three sons Ronald of Elko, Loren of Chaska, and Duane of New Market; one sister Sophie Aronson of Lakeville; 13 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Visitation was held on Friday, May 26, at the White Funeral Home in Lakeville. Funeral services were held on Saturday, May 27, at Christiania Lutheran Church with the Rev. Charles vonFischer officiating. Interment was in West Christiania Cemetery. Pallbearers were Debbie, Todd, Scott, Jeff and Mark Bergstrom, and Lori Cousins.

Joseph married Florence Jeanette PAGE about 1924. Florence (daughter of Albert PAGE and Millie ERICKSON) was born on 5 Feb 1902 in Minnesota; died on 15 Mar 1995 in Farmington, Dakota County, Minnesota; was buried in West Christiania Lutheran Cemetery, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was living in Lakeville at the time of her brother Olaf’s death.

Sophie married Richard William ARONSON on 6 Mar 1926 in Scott County, Minnesota. Richard (son of Andrew G ARONSON and Lena BLOCKER) was born on 18 Mar 1904 in Minnesota; died on 8 Sep 1978 in Dakota County, Minnesota; was buried in West Christiania Lutheran Cemetery, New Market Twp, Scott County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]