Ola Nilsson BERGE: Geneastory

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Generation: 1

Ola Nilsson BERGE was born in 1839 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1922.

Notes:

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

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

Children:

2. Marit Olsdatter STEILE was born on 28 Nov 1868 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 16 Aug 1963 in South Dakota; was buried in Scotty Phillip Cemetery, Fort Pierre, Stanley County, South Dakota.

Generation: 2

Marit Olsdatter STEILE

(1.Ola¹) was born on 28 Nov 1868 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 16 Aug 1963 in South Dakota; was buried in Scotty Phillip Cemetery, Fort Pierre, Stanley County, South Dakota.

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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

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

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

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

Birth:
Kjelvudn under Nedre Stele

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