Hjalma STENVIG

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Teacher In Public School
• Social Security Number: 471342438

Notes:

Shown as born in Iowa in the 1930 census. Both parents born in Norway.

Shown as born 16 Dec 1883 in La Crosse in the Ancestry World Tree database.

In the 1900 census, the closest match seems to be “Halma” Stenvig, born Dec 1882 in Minnesota but at that time living in Fairhaven, Whatcom County, Washington. Her mother is Anna P., born in Iowa.

In the 1940 census, in a remarkably bad census form entry, she is “Hjlma Siverckrup”, age 57, a public school teacher, living at 710 21st Avenue in Minneapolis. Her household consists of “Hildru Schjeldrup,” a 55 year-old single woman lodger, and Hjlma’s son George, a fourteen year-old student. Hjlma is a renter. The house is owned by Elsie Sverdrup, Hjlma’s dead husband’s aunt and stepmother.

Buried:
Section 16, Lot 56, Grave 8

Hjalma married George SVERDRUP about Sep 1909. George (son of Georg SVERDRUP and Cathrine Elisabeth HEIBERG) was born on 3 Aug 1879 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; died on 11 Nov 1937 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 15 Nov 1937 in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1910-42193
• Social Security Number: 550-26-0098 issued in California before 1951

Notes:

Or Katharine Anne. Shown as Anna K. in the 1920 census; Katherine A. in the 1930 census.

Last residence Payson, Gila, Arizona.

Katherine married Stanley Paul KENNEDY in 1947. Stanley was born on 23 Nov 1920; died on 1 Apr 2004 in Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1912-38878
• Social Security Number: 546320999

Valborg married Leonard Allen ELLISON in 1940. Leonard was born on 15 Nov 1911 in Missouri; died on 23 Oct 1992 in Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1913-41749
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1913-MN-019066

Notes:

Born and died at Norwegian Deaconess Hospital in Minneapolis. Shown on his birth certificate as child #3 born to his parents.

Indexed in death records as Baby Girl. Listed as Male in Minnesota Deaths and Burials.

Buried:
apparently a reburial, Section 16, Lot 56, Grave 5

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1914-42197
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1914-MN-019130

Notes:

SVERDRUP, GEORGE EDWARD 
Minnesota Death Certificate ID#  1914-MN-019130   

 
 Date of Birth: not indexed
 Place of Birth: not indexed
 Mother Maiden Name: not indexed
 Date of Death: 07/06/1914
 County of Death: HENNEPIN

Died:
cemetery record says death date is 16 July

Buried:
apparently a reburial; Section 16, Lot 56, Grave 5

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1916-46780
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1916-MN-020453

Notes:

Buried:
apparently a reburial; Section 16, Lot 56, Grave 5

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1918-45758
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1923-MN-019458

Notes:

Buried:
Section 16, Lot 56, Grave 6

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1925-40904
• Baptism: 21 Jun 1925, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota

Notes:

Apparently he is the retired Minneapolis math teacher mentioned in the MPR article about Leif “Jack” Sverdrup. The article also mentions that Jack Sverdup “helped raise his dead cousin’s son,” presumably referring to this George Sverdrup.

George M. Sverdrup. age 88, of Edina. Retired math teacher, Minneapolis Public Schools. Survived by his wife of 66 years, Jean; sons, George Sverdrup (Kathleen), and Keith Sverdrup (Barbara); grandchildren, Tanja (Allen) Pofahl, Per (Janna) Sverdrup and Stephanie Sverdrup Stone; great-grandchildren, Lindsay, Hannah, Ella, Sofia and Sarah.

Memorials to Augsburg College or Nokomis Heights Lutheran Church.

George married J.M. CHRISTENSEN [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]