Andreas Eriksen ESKERUD

Notes:

He and his family, all with the surname Eriksen, lived in Nes in Norway’s 1891 census.

Family/Spouse: Mathilde Mathiasdatter. Mathilde was born about 1848. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also known as Mary Andreasdatter Nygård.

According to her obit, she came to the U.S. in 1894 and settled in the Rockdale area. She moved to Stoughton in 1914 after the death of her husband. For many years she was employed by the Stokstad restaurant in Stoughton. She lived with her daughter, Mrs. Walter Johnson, in Chicago for the last 10 years of her life.

In the 1920 census, she was Mary Mathison, a 43 year-old widow living at the Stokstad restaurant in Stoughton. Her daughter Margaret, age 12, lived with her. Mary was a cook at the restaurant. She had come to the U.S. in 1894 and was naturalized as a citizen in 1911.

Birth:
1877 on her graveston

Anne married Johan MATHISON about 1899. Johan was born about 1867 in Norway; died about 1914; was buried in Rockdale Lutheran Church Cemetery, Rockdale, Dane County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not mentioned in his sister Mary’s obit in 1950.

Notes:

She was injured in a traffic accident in Madison in May of 1938.

She was a member of the West Koshkonong Lutheran Church.

Died:
in a Stoughton nursing home

Mina married George WAAG about 1907. George was born on 24 Feb 1877 in Norway; died in 1960. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Oct 1886, Næs, Hedmark, Norway

Notes:

She was called Laura Eriksen in Norway’s 1891 census. She lived in Nes.

In the 1920 census, she and Norma lived in a rented residence in Stoughton. She worked as a stemmer in the tobacco industry. She was married but no husband was shown.

Birth:
“Heleon” in Adolph Norman’s naturalization record

Baptism:
as Laura Eriksen

Died:
“multiple myeloma”

Family/Spouse: Adolph Norman ARNESON. Adolph was born on 18 Feb 1890 in Oslo, Norway; died on 9 Apr 1965 in Idaho; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Idaho. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Waldemar Ferdinand (Walter) JOHNSON, Sr. Waldemar was born about 1907 in Wisconsin; died in 1963 in Cook County, Illinois; was buried in Ridgewood Cemetery, Des Plaines, Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As of 1941 he worked at the Gisholt machine shop in Madison.

He and his wife were on vacation in northern Wisconsin at the time that their son George died in a car accident.

Purchased a farm and moved the family to the farm in 1944. Seems to have sold much of his equipment in auction in March of 1958.

Family/Spouse: Valborg Louise LEE. Valborg (daughter of Andrew LEE and Lena NELSON) was born on 7 Dec 1913 in Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin; died on 11 Apr 1984 in Dane County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Cookes lived in Osburn, Idaho, in 1956.

Norma married Herman COOKE in 1937 in 30 oct 1937. Herman was born in 1909 in Washington; died in 1983 in Washington; was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Idaho. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 15 Oct 1921, Idaho

Notes:

Lawrence (Larry) Arneson, 92, passed away April 29, 2014, at Clearwater Valley Health and Rehab in Orofino.

Larry was born to Adolf and Laura (Nigard) Arneson on Aug. 12, 1921, in East Fork Pine Creek, Kellogg, Idaho. He grew up in Kellogg until graduating from high school. Larry's father one day said, "I guess we should go to Moscow and enroll you in college." Larry argued that the family could not afford to send him to college, but his father told him not to worry, they would find a way. This always stayed with Larry.

Larry enrolled at the University of Idaho and pursued a degree in forestry. He loved the outdoors and working with the land. He was an active member of the 1941 summer camp, along with Frank Dillion, Dick Campana and Bob Stillinger.

In March 1943, he was called away from UI and into service, stationed at the U.S. Army special training camp in Laramie, Wyo. There, he met and later married his wife, Eleanor. Larry and Eleanor married on a three-day pass in Kentucky in 1944. During World War II, Larry served his country in the European theater with distinction in the 285th Engineering Battalion with a rank of sergeant, acting as a foreman construction engineer. After the war, Larry and Eleanor returned to Moscow, where he then finished his degree.

In 1948, Larry went to work for Potlatch Corporation, where he worked for 371/2 half years. He spent that career as a forest engineer responsible for the transportation system in the Headquarters region. They lived and made their home at Headquarters from 1948 to 1975, and then moved to Kamiah. Eleanor passed away in 1999. Larry later married Anne Graft of Kamiah in 2010.

Larry was a life member of the American Legion and member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 5407 in Kamiah. Always remembering his father's words, Larry was a proud UI alumni, member of their Gold Circle Gift Society and sponsor of the Lawrence and Eleanor Arneson College of Natural Resources Scholarship, doing for others what his father did for him.

Larry is survived by his wife, Anne Arneson of Kamiah; sons Robert Arneson of Beaverton, Ore., Alan Arneson of Orofino, Mark and Jan Arneson of Maryville, Ill., Dennis and Debbie Arneson of Woodstock, Ga.; daughter Connie and Tony Nelson of Shelby, N.C.; stepdaughter Arlene Thomas; niece Gayle of Spangle, Wash.; seven grandchildren, Jay, Cory, Libby, Dennette, Deyna, Bryon and Tara; and three great-grandchildren.

Larry was preceded in death by his first wife, Eleanor Arneson; parents Norman and Laura Arneson; and sister Norma Cooke.
There will be a graveside funeral service at 10 a.m. Monday at the Lewis-Clark Memorial Gardens cemetery in Lewiston.

Baptism:
ELCA records of Trinity Lutheran in Coeur d’Alene

Lawrence married Eleanor Alice WELTY in 1944 in Kentucky. Eleanor was born on 30 Jan 1922 in Page County, Iowa; died on 22 Oct 1999 in Nez Perce County, Idaho; was buried in Lewis-Clark Memorial Gardens, Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married Lawrence Dale PALMER on 23 Feb 1951 in Cook County, Illinois, and was divorced. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothy married John Craven SEELING in 1961. John was born on 17 Nov 1924 in Cook County, Illinois; died on 19 Feb 2005 in Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Audrey May LUND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died in a single-vehicle accident. He apparently fell asleep while driving and hit a bridge on Highway 51 east of Madison.