Anders Eriksen /AFLANGRÜD FLØTTUM

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Husmann (according to death entry in church book)

Notes:

A source says that he was born June 1796 in Nes as Anders Eriksen, son of Erik Nielsen (20 Jan 1754 to 12 Jun 1812 in Nes) and Lisbeth Andersen (1760 to 26 Jun 1834 in Nes).

Not listed in the Næs census of 1865.

The bygdebøk says: “Arvingene etter Anders Eriksen solgte eiendommen i 1856.” (The heirs of Anders Eriksen sold the property in 1856.)

The ThruLines connection to the Froslees has Anders Eriksen’s mother being Anne Arnesdatter (1772-1811) and Anne Arnesdatter’s father as being Anders Nielsen (1773-1806). The latter is the common ancestor with the Froslees if we believe this alternative theory of Anders Eriksen’s parentage.

Birth:
Date may be June 1st.

Died:
Anders Eriksen Flyttum, age 46.

Anders married Johanne Johnsdatter on 4 Jan 1822 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway. Johanne (daughter of Jon Jensen and Kari Stephensdatter) was born on 1 Mar 1795 in Odevold, Næs, Hedmark, Norway; was christened in Jun 1796 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway; died before 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He is the Erik Andersen, b. 1822, living as a husmand med jord on Pilstøn in Næs in the 1865 census. His wife was Angnet Larsdatter, b. 1822, and their sons were Andreas Eriksen, b. 1849, and Lars Eriksen, b. 1852. All born in Næs.

In the 1875 census, they were still on Pilstøen in Nes. Erik is now shown as b. 1821, Agneth Larsd in 1829, and Andrias in 1849. Lars is not listed with this family. Andrias’s occupation is trader of some sort.

He was on Eskerud at the time that he married Agnethe Larsdatter.

Jorunn says that he was a farmer on Pilstoen in 1865 and 1875. In 1880 he bought Bratlie. His sons sold the place after their parents’ death.

Erich married Agnethe Larsdatter on 12 Nov 1849 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway. Agnethe (daughter of Lars Andersen) was born in 1830. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

“ikke nevnt 1835”

Notes:

Never married.

As Johannes Andersen Flÿttum, he was a baptismal sponsor for his niece Johanna in November of 1863.

Birth:
bygdebøk says born in 1825

Notes:

Anne var enke og dagerbeider i 1900. Hun døde på Heggen-eie in 1904.

Birth:
Avlangerud-eie, Fløttum

Died:
Heggen-eie

Anne married Ole Larsen HEGGENBAKKEN in 1857. Ole was born in 1823 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway; died in 1894 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Never married.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Dairy farmer in the U.S., Jordarbejder in Norway
• Baptism: 13 Jul 1834, Næs, Hedmark, Norway
• Confirmation: 6 Oct 1850, Næs, Hedmark, Norway

Notes:

His name in Norway was Ole Andersen Aflangerud.

In a book that Kristiane had, Ole’s middle initial is C.

His birth record is for, simply, Ole Anderssen. Among the people whose names are identifiable as baptismal sponsors: Magrethe Ericksdatter Heggen, Amünd Anderssen Lünds, Karie Ericksdatter, unmarried, Sÿver Erickssen Engesoüg, and Sÿver Pedersson whose farm name may be Gagnamdan.

There is a comment that I am unable to translate in his confirmation record.

Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as Ole Andersen, born in 1834 and living in or on the Orderholdt domicile in Næs, Hedmark, in the Helgeøen school district. Ole’s occupation in Jordarbejder (farm worker or field laborer). The household doesn’t have much, only 10 units of potatoes. Included in the household is Ole Anderssen, 32, born in Næs, Kristiane Kristiansdatter, 28, his wife, born in Toten vestre, and “his daughter” Anne Marie Olsdatter, 12, born in Næs.

The bygdebøk says “Ole Andersen Fløttum, f. 1834, var jordarbeider og bodde her i 1865.”

Ole (33) and Christiana (29) supposedly, according to Cora, emigrated to the US from Norway in October of 1867 with one child, Carl (6 months). This conflicts with the 1900 census entry for Charlie which indicated the year of immigration as 1869. In Kristiane’s obituaries, she is claimed to have come to the U.S. in 1870. Could not find the emigration entry for them in the parish record.

A declaration for an Ole Anderson to become a citizen was declared in La Crosse County and so recorded on October 31, 1865. The hearing, order, and filing of his citizenship was on June 12, 1872. Another entry for an Ole Anderson, perhaps more likely to be our Ole, was a declaration on February 3, 1874, and the hearing, order, and filing on October 30, 1878.

In the 1870 census, the Andersons were living in the 2nd ward in LaCrosse. The family is Ole, 37, Christiana, 32, Carl, 3, and daughter Jennie, 5 months. Ole’s occupation is shown as “laborer.” Jennie is shown as born in Wisconsin, the others in Norway.

In the 1880 census, shown as living in 3rd ward, LaCrosse, occupation “peddler”, age 47. Wife, Christina, age 42, “keeping house.” Sons Carl, age 13, and Ole, age 6. Only Ole was born in Wisconsin. The other three are shown as born in Norway, and everyone’s parents are shown as born in Norway.

Lived at 609 South 8th Street in LaCrosse. {No, 603 S. 8th Street; 609 was next door.} “He bought the big lot on [the] corner [and] built [the] house in front on [the] street [and] built [the] barn for his cows on [the] back of [the] lot, next to [the] alley [, and] took his cows to graze on [the] farm [a] short ways from his house outside town."

Cora says that she, Ron, and I saw the place when we drove down to LaCrosse in the mid-1960s. At the time, she recalls, the house had been moved to the side and a new one built in front. The old house had had a big part torn off of it and so wasn't as large as it had been in Cora's day. She also recalled the lot being bigger than the one we saw.

{Cora’s recollections may not be correct. The house as I saw it in 2004 looked to be the same size and shape as the one drawn in the La Crosse fire insurance maps for the late 1800s or early 1900s.}

From the Wisconsin Deaths database on Ancestry.com:

Wisconsin Vital Records Death Index.
Name: Ole Anderson
Death Date: 25 Nov 1898
County: La Crosse
Volume: 02
Page: 0234
Reel: 044
Image: 0448
Index Volume: -
Sequence #: 006676

In the 1884 La Crosse city directory, he is Ole Anderson, milkman, res 603 S 8th. Ole is shown as “retired” in the 1890 city directory but as a laborer in the 1893-4 city directory. He is shown as “retired” again in the 1895-96 city directory and in the 1897 city directory.

His death and burial are recorded in the records of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in La Crosse. Incorrectly shown as age 56 at death.

Died:
Vol 02, p. 0234, Reel 44, image 0448

Buried:
Sec 45, Lot R11, Gravesite G24

Family/Spouse: Antonette Gülbrandsdatter AARLIEN. Antonette (daughter of Gulbrand Gulbrandsen AARLIEN and Pernille Nielsdatter) was born on 15 Dec 1820 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway; died on 6 Apr 1862 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway; was buried on 15 Apr 1862 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ole married Kristiane Kristiansdatter on 14 Apr 1863 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway. Kristiane (daughter of Christian Christiansen SKOGSTAD and Karen Olsdatter) was born on 23 Mar 1838 in Vestre Toten, Oppland, Norway; died on 12 Apr 1906 in La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin; was buried on 15 Apr 1906 in Oak Grove Cemetery, La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shown as Maria Andersen Aflangerud Flottum in one source.

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]

Family/Spouse: Talette Bergitte. Talette was born on 30 Sep 1862; died on 19 Jan 1930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The bygdebøk says: Lars reiste til Amerike i 1885 var hjemme på besøki i 1891. Har var ugift da drev med krøttersell og jordarbeide, reiste til bake.

Notes:

According to the bygdebøk, he emigrated to America in 1882. He and his sister Gønner (both as Heggeneie) left, according to the church book, quite late in the season: November 27th.

They probably arrived on the S.S. Geiser which arrived in New York on December 20, 1882, after sailing from Copenhagen and Christiana. The manifest shows a Gønnør Olsen, 17, “girl”, and an Andreas Olsen, 23, “laborer.”

Notes:

According to the bygdebøk, she emigrated to America in 1882. She and her brother Anders (both as Heggeneie) left, according to the church book, quite late in the season: November 27th.

They probably arrived on the S.S. Geiser which arrived in New York on December 20, 1882, after sailing from Copenhagen and Christiana. The manifest shows a Gønnør Olsen, 17, “girl”, and an Andreas Olsen, 23, “laborer.”

Notes:

According to the bygdebøk, she emigrated to America in 1885.

Notes:

According to the bygdebøk, she was still at home in 1891. “Drev med skreddersøn for egen regning men i 1905 reiste også hun til Amerika.”

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Jan 1855, Næs, Hedmark, Norway
• Confirmation: 3 Oct 1869, Næs, Hedmark, Norway

Notes:

Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as “his daughter.”

There is no mention of her as having come to the U.S. with the rest of her family in the late 1860s. She apparently emigrated to Utah with her husband and family in the late 1880s.

Anne Marie and Martin apparently converted to the LDS faith in Norway on 22 Mar 1882, their baptism dates. Up until that date, Anne Marie and Martin had had their children (Johanne, Ole, and Agnette) christened in the Norwegian church. After that date, they did not. (Berthe and Anne Mathilde were born in Norway but, apparently, were not christened in the Norwegian church.) Anne Marie and Martin waited until they got to Utah to baptize their oldest two children into the LDS faith which they did soon after arriving. However, for some reason, Agnette was not baptized into the LDS until 1963, over 4 years after her death. Berthe and the ensuing children were baptized in the LDS faith on schedule after their 8th, but before their 9th, birthdays, as is the custom. Olga, who never made it to her 3rd birthday, was apparently never baptized.

Birth:
Many sources erroneously show her date of birth as November 20th.

Confirmation:
as Marie Olsdatter Gaalaas born on Lieneiet

Buried:
Grave location A.09.10.02

Anne married Martin Johannesen JOHNSON on 18 May 1875 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway. Martin (son of Johannes OLSEN and Beathe JOHNSDATTER) was born on 21 Jun 1852 in Hilstadeie ovre, Næs, Hedmark, Norway; died on 29 Oct 1938 in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah; was buried on 1 Nov 1938 in Richfield City Cemetery, Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 8 Nov 1863, Næs, Hedmark, Norway

Notes:

Her parents were Ole Andersen Beressen (sp??) and Christiana Christiansdatter.

Birth:
born on Røråsen according to the bygdebøk

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1934-MN-020308
• Occupation: Farmer, Esp. Tobacco
• Baptism: 23 Jun 1867, Næs, Hedmark, Norway

Notes:

In the parish birth record as Karl. In the bygdebøk as Karl.

His obituary says that he emigrated to the U.S. at the age of 6 months.

Charley and Anna were married in a Lutheran ceremony in La Crosse witnessed by Bertha Bowe and Ole Anderson. Charley’s occupation is shown as laborer in his marriage record.

Charly and Anna spent six years in LaCrosse after Cora was born. Cora remembered it being near the Catholic church and the hospitals. Charly worked in a grocery store and a saloon. When Cora was six, the family moved out to live on the Bowe farm with the Bowes who were in declining health.

Charly lived the last eight years of his life with Maurice and Cora.

Death certificate 1934-MN-020308 was issued in Hennepin County for “Charles C. Anderson” with a date of death of May 22, 1934.

The 1900 census enumerator, Charles Engelstad, visited the Andersons on June 11th at their rented home at 715 South 11th Street in the 17th ward. The entry indicates “Charles Anderson” as the head of family, age 32, born in May of 1867 or 1868 (the exact year is illegible). Charles is indicated as being able to read, write, and speak English, having the occupation of “harvester”, having been unemployed for 8 months of the previous year, and having emigrated to the United States in 1869. He is shown to have been born in Norway.

The Anderson residence was, indeed, near a Catholic hospital and nunnery. In fact, 715 South 11th Street was across the street from St. Francis Hospital and just down the street from the Santa Rosa de Viterbo convent. In 2003, there was no building at 715 South 11th Street, just a parking lot.

From the 1893-94 La Crosse city directory, we learn that Charles Anderson was a clerk for Will & Bros., grocers at 622 South 8th St. Charlie was still living at home at 603 South 8th Street. The Will & Bros. building was gone by the time of the 1906 Sanborn Fire Insurance map of La Crosse. In the 1901-02 city directory, a George Will runs a grocery and saloon and resides at 622 South 9th. All of this is consistent with Cora’s recollection of the Wills.

In the 1895-96 city directory, Charley is still living at home but is now a bar keeper for John M. Kolb. In the 1897 directory, Charley works for George Dagendish, stone cutter, and now resides at 1026 South 10th Street. In the 1900 city directory, Carl C Anderson is a teamster for C L C L Co and resides at 813 Market. In the 1901-02 directory, Charley and his family are living at the 715 South 11th Street residence and Charley is a teamster for the C L Colman Lumber Co. Shortly thereafter, Charley and his family moved to the Bowe farm south of Viroqua.

In the 1934 Minneapolis city directory, he is presumably the Chas C Anderson with the notation “died May 22 ‘34 age 67.”

Died at Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis where he had been for four days. His residence at the time of death was 4230 Minnehaha Avenue. The cause of his death was coronary thrombosis. His death certificate, information provided by Cora, said that he had been a farmer for 12 years and that he had last been a farmer in 1924.

His obit, in the Star on May 23rd, said he had been a resident of Minneapolis for seven years. His funeral was to be at the “Folsom church near Viroqua.”

Birth:
born in Hoelstadstua according to the bygdebøk and in his birth record

Christened:
As Karl Olsen

Carl married Anna Clausdatter BOWE on 24 Aug 1895 in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. Anna (daughter of Claus Sjursen BØE (BOWE) and Kari Andersdatter MAREIM) was born on 22 Aug 1863 in Hafslo, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway; was christened on 18 Oct 1863 in Hafslo, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway; died on 14 Feb 1926 in Viroqua, Vernon County, Wisconsin; was buried on 16 Feb 1926 in North Kickapoo Lutheran Church Cemetery, Franklin Twp, Vernon County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not found in the listing for the Oak Grove cemetery.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Aug 1872, La Crosse County, Wisconsin

Notes:

The ELCA records show this Ole.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1938-MN-027355
• Occupation: Printer for newspaper
• Baptism: 8 Feb 1874, La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin

Notes:

Ole and Ella were married in a Lutheran ceremony witnessed by Olaus Nyseth and Gusta Nyseth. Ole’s occupation is listed as printer and his residence as La Crosse.

Worked for a newspaper in LaCrosse and in Duluth. Cora says his family is still in Duluth (or was in the early 1980s). He had "quite a few kids."

Cora said that she'd met two of the daughters, “Mariam” and Gertie, and that "they were nice."

Census enumerator Charles Engelstad visited Christiana and Ole on June 5th, 1900, when the two were living on 9th street (or 8th street: it is the last entry for 9th street) (but Cora said it was a corner lot) in the 17th ward of the city of La Crosse. In the census form, Christiana’s and Ole’s birthdates are confirmed as March, 1838, and January, 1874, respectively. Ole is shown as single with “printer” as his occupation. He is shown as having been unemployed zero months in the past year. Ole is shown as having been born in Wisconsin; Christiana as having been born in Norway. Both could read, write, and speak English.

Ole is shown as a clerk, and living at home, in the 1893-94 La Crosse city directory. In the 1895-96 city directory, and in the 1897 city directory (as O. C. Jr.), Ole’s occupation is “comp Daily Press.” In the 1900 city directory, O C Anderson Jr is “comp Press” and resides at 603 S 8th with his mother, Mrs. Christiana Anderson. The 1901-02 city directory lists him as a printer and still living at home with his mother. The 1905-06 directory lists him as a machinist for the “Leader & P.”

In the 1905 Wisconsin state census, he and his family are living in the 17th ward of La Crosse, not far from his mother. Also nearby, apparently, is the St. Anna Orphan House. The family consists of Ole C. Anderson, 31, a printer, Eda C., 22, his wife, and Herbert C., 1. Ole is a printer and he rents his home.

Registered for the draft in Duluth on September 10, 1918, as Ole Christian Anderson. Living at 2108 West Superior Street. He was a linotype operator with the Duluth Herald. His employer was A.C. Weiss. He listed his nearest relative as Ella Anderson, his wife. He was tall, of slender build, with blue eyes and “grayish” hair.

In an obituary for his mother, Ole Jr. is indicated as still living in La Crosse at the time of his mother’s death. Apparently Ole C. didn’t stay too long in La Crosse after his mother died. In the 1905-06 city directory, Ole and his family were first listed, in print, as living at the rear of 941 Market Street. Then, in successive handwritten revisions, the addresses are 603 S. 8th, 925 Ferry, and, finally, 2106 W. Superior, Flat 3, in Duluth.

Living in Duluth at the time of the 1910 census at a house they rented at 2106 West Superior Street. The household consists of Ole C., 35, Ella C., 26, Herbert C., 6, and Marion C., 4. Ole and Ella had been married for 7 years and she had had two children, both still living. Ole is a printer for the newspaper.

Ole C. Anderson is listed in the 1910 Duluth city directory as a lino operator for the Duluth Herald residing at 2108 W. Superior. The 1915 entry is similar except that Ole’s occupation is listed as “comp” for the Herald.

The 1917 Duluth city directory records Olaf C., comp Dul Herald, r. 2108 West Superior.

He registered for the draft at the Sloan Building in Duluth on September 10, 1918, as Ole Christian Anderson. His address was 2108 West Superior Street in Duluth. His nearest relative was Ella Anderson of the same address. He was a linotype operator for the Duluth Herald and the name of his employer was A.C. Weiss. He was described as tall and slender with blue eyes and “grayish” hair.

Living in Duluth at the time of the 1920 census (January 10th) at 2106 West Superior Street, near 21st West. Shown as age 44 which is inconsistent with the birthdate information we have. All children were still at home.

In the 1930 census (indexed as Anderosn), the family is still at 2108 Superior Street in Duluth. Gertrude has left home but the other children are still single and listed at home with their parents although Herbert is designated “AB” for absent. Ole is still a typesetter at a newspaper.

In the 1936 Duluth city directory, he is Ole C Anderson, a lino operator for the Herald Co. He and his wife Ella C live at 119 N 26th Avenue West.

His death certificate puts his last address as 2530 West 2nd Street in Duluth. The informant for the information on his death certificate was Walter Johnson. Ole was still married to Ella when he died. He was a linotype operator for a newspaper. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage brought about by hypertension.

Ole married Ella Kristine NORDRUM on 10 Aug 1903 in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. Ella (daughter of Hans G NORDRUM and Marie Amelia JOHNSON) was born on 28 Apr 1883 in La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin; died on 31 Jan 1971 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried on 3 Feb 1971 in Bethany Cemetery, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This entry for Karoline Anderson was in the records of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church of La Crosse.

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: Anna Marie Abrahamsen. Anna was born on 15 May 1902 in Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway; died on 17 May 1982 in Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 Oct 1875, Næs, Hedmark, Norway

Notes:

Called Johanna Johnson on Leland’s and Lillian’s birth certificates.



In the 1930 census, she was living with her daughter Maude’s family in Colusa County, California.

Johanna married Joseph Rahalt CHRISTENSEN on 11 May 1898 in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. Joseph was born on 11 Apr 1872 in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah; died on 12 Apr 1945 in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah; was buried in Richfield City Cemetery, Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Apr 1878, Ringsaker, Hedmark, Norway

Notes:

In the 1910 census, he and his family live in Richfield, Utah. Ole is a carpenter. Living with him are his sister May and his brother Martin.

Ole L Johnson is included in the list of World War I civilian draft registrations. He did so in Custer, Idaho.

In the 1920 census, as Ole L Johnsen, he and his family are in Richfield, Utah. Ole is a house carpenter.

In the 1930 census, he and Selina and the three youngest children live in Los Angeles County. Ole is a carpenter.

Ole married Selina Elizabeth THALMAN on 25 Nov 1903 in Vermillion, Sevier County, Utah. Selina was born on 4 Jan 1886 in Utah; died on 19 May 1973 in Los Angeles County, California; was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Oct 1880, Ringsaker, Hedmark, Norway

Notes:

In the 1924 San Pedro city directory, Jos B Charles, card writer, lives with wife Nettie at 890 W 23rd.

In the 1926 San Pedro, Californa, city directory, Mrs. Agnetta Charles, and Jos B Charles, a sign painter, both live at 890 23rd.

The husband of Agnetta Charles in the 1928 San Pedro, California, city directory was J Boyd Charles. The address is still 890 23rd. J Boyd is called a sign writer employed by John McKinzie.

In the 1930 census, she is Agnethe Charles, a 49 year-old widow living in San Antonio Twp, Los Angeles County, California. She has no occupation.

In the 1934 San Pedro city directory, Nettie Charles, widow of J E, and J Boyd Charles, sign writer, live at 2409 S Leland.

In the 1937 San Pedro directory, she is Nettie Charles, widow of J E, living at 2409 S Leland. A Jos B Charles, employed be McKenzie Sign and Neon Co., lived at 201 N Beacon.

Nettie Charles, widow of J E, lives at 2409 S Leland in the 1940 San Pedro, California, city directory. J Boyd lives at 201 N Beacon.

In the 1940 census, she is the 59 year-old widow, Nettie Charles, living at 2709 S Leland in San Pedro, Los Angeles County.

Died and buried as Nettie Keown.

Agnete married Joseph E CHARLES on 16 Nov 1900 in Ogden, Weber County, Utah. Joseph died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1910 census, she has had three children, two still living.

Bertha filed for divorce from Oscar on 9 Nov 1921.

Died:
FS’s California Death Index has 6 December

Bertha married Peter Oscar THOMPSON on 25 Feb 1903 in Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. Peter was born on 13 Oct 1878 in Arizona; died on 1 Feb 1951 in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is not listed in the Utah Death Index.

Notes:

Registered for the draft on June 5, 1917, in Richfield, Utah, as Martin Johnson, Jr. He was married and a self-employed mason living in Richfield. He claimed exemption from the draft on grounds of bad feet. He was described as tall and of slender build with light blue eyes and brown hair.

In the 1920 census, Martin and Sarah, childless, lived with or next door to his brother Ole and family. Martin was a bricklayer.

In the 1930 census, Martin, shown as age 40, and “Sarrah A”, shown as age 36, and their family were living in Salt Lake City. Martin was a mason in the building industry. He was a veteran of the World War.

In the 1940 census, Martin, 52, lives with his family in Richfield. He is still employed as a mason in the building industry.

He died at the LDS hospital in Salt Lake City. His principal cause of death was liver failure. He was a widower and had been a self-employed brick layer.

Buried:
Grave location 18 023 0

Martin married Sarah Ann DYCHES on 23 Jun 1916 in Manti, Sanpete County, Utah. Sarah was born about 1895 in Utah; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1920 census, in which his age is shown as 28, he and Mida and their son Joseph H and daughter Gwendolyn live in Sigurd Precinct, Sevier County, where Joseph was a merchant in the hardware business. The Dastrups, presumably Mida’s parents and siblings, lived next door. One of the Dastrups, 21 year-old John O, was also listed as a merchant in a hardware store.

In the 1930 census, he and his family lived in Richfield, Utah. He was a carpenter. He was not a veteran.

In the 1940 census, he and his wife and younger daughter are still there. His older daughter Gwedndolyn is listed with the family but noted as “ab” and was probably away at college.

Birth:
other sources say 1891

Buried:
Grave location B.20.15.04

Joseph married Mida DASTRUP on 28 Jan 1914 in Manti, Sanpete County, Utah. Mida was born on 4 May 1893 in Utah; died on 6 Sep 1973 in Salt Lake City, Utah; was buried on 10 Sep 1973 in Richfield City Cemetery, Richfield, Sevier County, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is shown twice in the 1910 census. In one, she’s living with her brother Ole in Richfield, Utah. In the second entry, she’s living with her father and his second wife. In the latter entry, she’s shown as a hotel waitress.

Living with her sister Bertha in San Pedro Twp, Los Angeles County, in the 1920 census as Mae Johnson, single, age 25. She was a packer in a fish canning plant.



A Mae M Howard, age 27, died in Los Angeles on 5 Dec 1921.

According to the Find A Grave entry for her, as created by Andrew Howard:

Mae was shot and killed by her brother-in-law, Oscar Thompson. Thompson killed his wife, Bertha (Mae's sister) in the attack. Mae was attempting to summon the police when she was murdered. 
 
According to her death certificate, she was buried at "Harbor View" 10 Dec 1921. No marker has been located at San Pedro’s Harbor View Cemetery.

May married James EKSTEDT on 3 Jul 1913 in Salt Lake City, Utah. James was born about 1892. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

May married William Fred HOWARD on 21 Jun 1920 in Salt Lake City, Utah. William was born in 1884 in New York; died on 4 Jun 1955 in Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1995-MN-034522
• Occupation: Homemaker
• Social Security Number: 472-44-4397 per her 1960-64 diary, confirmed in SSDI as issued in Minnesota in 1956-57
• Baptism: 26 Apr 1896, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin

Notes:

Her middle name is probably from her father’s mother.

Cora is shown on the 1900 census as having been born in Wisconsin in March, 1896. In Ancestry.com’s site, it is La Crosse Ward 17, image 32 of 35. At the time of the census, in June of 1900, the family was living on S. 11th Street, probably #715, according to the census form.

Cora’s birth, as listed in the Wisconsin Births database on Ancestry.com.

Wisconsin Vital Records Indexes, Pre-1907 Birth Index, Marriages, and Death Index.

Name: Cora C Anderson
Birth Date: 07 Mar 1896
County: La Crosse
Reel: 0104
Record: 000126

Her birth is recorded (as Cora Christine) in the records of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. Her baptismal sponsors were Simon Lee and Martha Brouhard and Nelson {sic} and Lovise Boe.

In early 1941, Cora, like Maurice, sought a copy of her birth certificate. She received it on April 7th in an envelope postmarked on April 5, 1941, in La Crosse, from Charles J. Wachs, the Register of Deeds of La Crosse County. The birth certificate (#126567) lists her name as Cora Christena Anderson, that she was born at 9:00 AM on Saturday, March 7, 1896, in La Crosse. The birth was recorded by Randolph Elliott, then the Register of Deeds, apparently, on August 19, 1896, and is recorded on page 236, Volume 8, of the register. The certification of the facts of the birth was apparently provided by P. B. Amunson, “attending physician”, on May 15, 1896, in La Crosse. Cora’s father is listed as Charles Clarance Anderson, “laborer.” Cora’s mother’s maiden name is listed as Anna Bowe. Charles Wachs issued the certified copy on April 4, 1941.

Confirmed November 20, 1910, Bethesda Lutheran Church, Viroqua, WI, C.E. Sybilrud, Pastor. {Sybilrud was pastor at Bethesda Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church from 1909 to 1912.}

Witnesses at wedding: Clara Nundahl and (her future husband) Odin Olson. Married by Pastor Esaias O. Hofstead. {Hofstead was pastor at Bethesda Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church from 1912 to 1919.} Hofstead died less than 4 years later at the age of 41.

The Kickapoo Scout’s 18 Jul 1918 edition noted that Cora and her mother, with several other women, visited Sam Nundahls’. This was probably to show off Cora’s one-year old daughter.

We know Cora, Maurice, Don, and probably Vivian visited Viroqua when DHC was one year old to visit with Cora's parents. The next year, Cora’s mother died and soon after that Charley came to Minneapolis to live with Cora and Maurice.



My Mother’s People
By Cora Christine Anderson Carlson, 1980 or 1981

Grandpa Claus Bowe Vaas, Norway
born June 1, 1833 in Norway
died March 2, 1913 at Viroqua, WI

Grandma Carrie Bowe Sogn, Norway
born October 31, 1833 in Norway
died October 31, 1908 at Viroqua, WI

They lived on a farm near Viroqua. When they first came from Norway, they stayed at Liberty Pole, Wisconsin, a small berg about 10 or 12 miles west of the place they homesteaded in 1862. Their first house they built on the farm was dug into the side of the hill near the house they built of logs. Later they built the rest of the house of lumber. (What you saw was the log part.) While they were at Liberty Pole, Grandpa had a shoemaker’s shop. He also built a shoemaker’s shop at the farm. He had a brother-in-law he made shoes for who was a tailor. I used to watch Grandpa make shoes for him in this shop of his. It was a big deal for me to get to be with him. But they - Grandpa and his sons and my dad - were tobacco farmers. They also had cows, sheep, horses, had hay, grain, etc., but tobacco was their main money crop. The chickens, eggs, and butter was money for the household.

My mother and dad had come to stay and take care of grandma and grandpa as they were getting old and I was an only child so no noise. The other daughters had too many kids so they didn’t want them. I was a quiet little mouse.

Grandpa and Grandma Bowe had 6 daughters (one died in childhood), 2 sons, and one adoptive son (Grandma’s sister’s son, she died). The daughters were Aunt Susan, my mother, Aunt Martha, Aunt Bertha, Aunt Louise who was a twin (the other one died). The sons were Uncle Nels, Uncle Sever, and Uncle Andrew the adopted one. (He was the son of Grandma’s sister who died in childbirth of Andrew.)

Aunt Susan married a man named Tom Munson and had 2 sons, Albert and Martin Ekum (the boys changed their names), and 4 girls, Caroline, Clara, Rhoda, and Theresa (who died in California). Caroline married a fellow named Hendrickson, Clara and Rhoda never married.

Aunt Martha married a Swenees and divorced him and married Hendrickson and had a son Arthur and a daughter Myrtle. Myrtle Carter has a son, Frank Carter Jr.

Aunt Bertha had two sons, Carl and Tillman, and a daughter Clara. Aunt Louise had 1 daughter Adah.

They are all dead.

Uncle Nels married a girl in Dakota. She died. They had a son which her folks took to raise. I never met them. Uncles Sever and Andrew never married.

Myrtle is my only living cousin but I have a lot of cousins from my cousin’s children. Clara had 11 children, two died. Carl had 10 or 11 children. Tillman had 3 children; I haven't heard that any of them are dead.

Albert had 6 kids: 3 girls and 3 boys. One girl died: Theresa.

Martin had no kids. Caroline had 1 daughter. Mildred had 2 sons: Chester and the other with an odd name I can’t remember.

Arthur Hendrickson married my cousin Gertie (they had 3 kids) then divorced her and married an older woman. His kids [apparently by Gertie]: 2 girls, Barbara and Pat, and one son Arthur.

My Father’s People

My Grandpa Ole Anderson, Sr.
Born March 11, 1834, in Hedemarken, Norway
Came to La Crosse, Wis, some time in October ,1867
Died November 26, 1898, in La Crosse, Wis

My Grandma Christiana Anderson
Born March 23, 1838, in Toten, Norway
Died April 12, 1906, in La Crosse, Wis.

My Dad Carl Clarence Anderson (Called Charly)
Born May 6, 1867, Hedemarken, Norway
Died May 22, 1834, in Minneapolis, Minn.

My Uncle Ole Anderson, Jr.
Born January 19, 1874 in La Crosse, Wis
Died in Duluth, Minnesota

Ole Anderson and his family lived in Duluth, his family is still there. He worked for a newspaper in La Crosse and Duluth.

My Grandpa Anderson had a dairy. He bought the big lot on the corner. He built a house in front on the street. {Maybe he didn’t build it; the Sanborn fire insurance map from the late 1850s shows a house on that corner already.} He built a barn for his cows on the back of the lot next to the alley. {This is confirmed by the 1891 Sanborn fire insurance map. There is a pair of outbuildings on Ferry, on the west side of the alley,that the Sanborn map identifies as a stable.} He took his cows to graze on a farm a short ways from his home outside town.

{The Lincoln Public School, which Ole and Charley may have attended, was a block north on the northern one-third of the block bounded by Division, 9th, Ferry, and 8th.}

Their home address is 609 South 8th Street, La Crosse, Wis. {No, Ole and Christina lived at 603 South Eighth Street; 609 was next door.} Don, you remember you saw the place when we drove down there [with Ron in 1966]. They had moved Grandpa's house onto a side street and built a new one on the front street. {?} They had torn off a big part of it so it wasn’t so big anymore. {This is confirmed by the Sanborn maps although the change must have happened between 1906 and 1910 after Christina died and Ole Jr. moved to Duluth. The 1891 Sanborn map shows a single house at 603. The 1906-1910 map shows two significant changes: the house at 603 has become a duplex with a new entriy at 802 Ferry and there is an additional dwelling on the lot with the address of 810 Ferry.} He had his customers. I think the lot was bigger than what we saw. {The lot was the same size, and the neighboring house at 609 in the same place, in the 1891 and 1906-1910 Sanborn maps.} They must have sold it for other houses.

My dad’s brother lived in Duluth. He had quite a few kids who still live there. His wife is dead also. I don’t know much about them. I met 2 of the daughters. They were nice. Mariam and Gertie and one son called Herbert.

My dad had relatives on the southern part of Minnesota at Grand Meadow by the name of Jorgens and some by the name of Skogstad. They had their own band. They were his mother’s relatives I guess. I remember meeting some of them at my grandmother’s funeral. [There were] also some cousins in La Crosse and some here in Minneapolis. Grandma Anderson was a singer from Oslo, Norway, so I guess all the music singers were from Grandma’s side. She was very well liked and had lots of friends. She belonged to the Norwegian Lutheran Church in La Crosse. Her funeral was so big and had so many flowers. I haven’t seen so many flowers at a funeral (until Maurice’s). Those days they had special built carriages for choirs, etc. It impressed me so I will never forget it.

Cora Christine Anderson Carlson

I was born at La Crosse, Wis March 7, 1896. I remember [a] few things about when we lived in La Crosse. I remember one place we lived, even to the lay out of the house. It was near the Catholic church and the hospitals. At Easter time, Palm Sunday, the nuns and other people would go by the house, carried palms. I would see the nuns going to the church.

At this place we had rooms upstairs that we let a lady dress maker rent. She made me a light brown silk dress trimmed with light blue. I think I had my picture taken in it. She had a boyfriend that was an artist. To pay his way at school, he had to deliver milk. Anyway, he must have liked me as he painted Christmas cards for me with my name on them. He also painted two big beautiful paintings for my mother, framed. We had them hanging in the living room. I could have had them but I didn’t want them. I am sorry now. They were so big. (I couldn’t see them on my walls, too old fashioned.)

{Presumably, Cora remembers their home at 715 S. 11th. It is shown in the Sanborn fire insurance directory as a 1-1/2 story wood frame building with a slate roof. It was located in mid-block, on the south side of the alley and there were other buildings, including a stable, next to the house on the alley. The house was across the street from St. Francis hospital and a few blocks from the Santa Rose de Viterbo convent.}

My dad worked at a grocery store and saloon beer parlor. {Charley is shown as a clerk for Will & Brothers grocery in the 1893-94 city directory and a barkeeper in the 1895-96 city directory. By the time Cora would have been able to remember, Charley is shown in the city directory as a stone cutter and a teamster so he probably helped out part-time at the grocery and saloon. The Will & Brothers grocery was at 622 S. 9th, a building that is not shown in the 1906 Sanborn fire insurance map.} The grocery store was in front, the saloon in back. I remember I would go with my mother grocery shopping. I would go into the saloon part (there was nobody there in the day.) I could see all those tables and chairs, also what they had on the bar such as crackers, eggs, etc. (snacks). Their name was Wills. {George Will was the name of the grocer/saloon keeper.} They had a little boy, older than me. Anyway, he liked to play with me. His name was Ruben Wills. They teased me about [it?] so I would play with [him?] even after we moved to Viroqua. [When] we would go back to visit in La Crosse, we would go over to visit. We were at my grandma’s. Her place was just a block away, down the alley. Ruben would come running over to play. It was OK as long as they wouldn’t tease me and such things visiting with friends, going over to my grandma’s. She always had such good smelling spices from baking goodies (rolls, etc.). And all those flowers! [She had a] big room full of house plants. She sold one plant to a doctor for $20 which was big money in those days. I also remember his place but I can’t remember his name. My mother had to take a young lady that lived on the next farm from us on the farm at Viroqua to this doctor in La Crosse for a couple of weeks. (This was a cancer doctor.) I would go with Mother and this girl when she these treatments. He had a big machine about 12 or 14 feet wide from floor to ceiling with lights, not like lights we have in our house. I haven’t seen anything like it: red, blue, green, yellow, all mixed up, moving. There was heat from it. I looked at it and fainted. I’ll never forget it. But the girl was cured. She married, had kids, full of pep.

I was six years old when we moved to Viroqua. I was 20 years old when I married and came to Minneapolis so I was only 14 years on the farm. But it seems much longer. Now I will try to remember what took place in my childhood.

My childhood on the farm in Viroqua, Wisconsin, was very lonely. I didn’t have anyone to play with and had to be so quiet. I remember I always thought it was my mother’s fault that we had to live on the farm. I felt sorry for myself and my dad. I had no one to play with or talk to so cats were my friends. But I couldn’t have them in the house although they could be in the summer kitchen.

My grandpa Bowe went to La Crosse to see his daughter Martha who lived there so he went to see my Grandma Anderson and she sent a bird called Petie, cage and all, with him for me. She always was such a good person: always giving you things and goodies. I remember when we went to La Crosse she gave me a pretty yellow crocheted shawl. I remember I took such good care of it but I can’t remember what happened to it.

Aunt Bertha and her family lived in Soldiers Grove, Wis, and we would drive down once in a while. Those days you rode in a wagon or buggy. But most of the time it was a light wagon, we would be so many going. Aunt Bertha loved to dance and have fun so they would get a party going. Uncle Sever (her husband) would play the violin. Carl, Clara, and I would watch them dance and have a good time. My uncle Sever Bowe played the violin also so it was plenty music. Sometimes we would stay a couple of days and I could go to school with the kids (its kindergarten). We made some things cut out of paper. I liked that so when we got home by myself, I would play school with dolls. I had lots of dolls.

Later, Aunt Bertha and her family bought a farm next to Grandpa’s. Then I had Clara and Carl and Tillman to play with once in a while. When I started to go to school, my mother took me up to a farm which joined Grandpa’s farm up on the hill in back of us. They had a boy a little older than I by a couple of years, Alfred Olson. He was supposed to take me to school and take care of me. He was so bashful that he would either be in back of me or in front of me but not too far away. Then I had to walk alone from their house to my place. It must have looked funny. When I got older, I would walk over to Clara and Carl and go to school with them. The other kids would join us. It was a one room school house with a stove in the center. We hung our clothes on the back wall and put our lunch pails on the floor. We had two in a seat, big kids in the back, little ones in the front. At noon, after we had lunch, we had to carry water from a half mile away. I used to have nose bleeds a lot so we had to have lots of water to stop it with. And of course we had to have water to drink with our lunch.

This same farm we got water from had a press drive by horse to press out juice from sugar cane. The farmers all around us grew sugar cane to make sorghum. We had fun watching the the two horse pull this pulley around in a circle. Then we would cook the juice which was a big deal with us kids.

In the winter we would skate and slide in tubs across a big pond near the school. Also sleds. There were big rocks we climb over and around. There were also caves we crawled into. Some were so big they were arches. Near school we picked flowers in the woods, played baseball, threw the ball over the school house to catch. We would get caught in snow storms in the winter, some so bad that the biggest boy would go first and then we would follow in his steps. Sometimes the wind would blow it in before we could get in his steps. The wind would blow and we could hardly see. We hung on to each other so we wouldn’t get lost. Then I had to go on alone but it was all down hill into the valley. The wind would blow so bad. Once I came to a low spot in the road where it had drifted across so much that I stood and wondered how I was going to make it across. But I waded in up to my armpits. After that the roads were fine and when I got home they didn’t know anything about any storm. Everything was fine. I lived in the valley; the school was on the prairie and the roads were closed.

In the spring the snow would melt [and we would get] floods. Sometimes I wondered how I was going to make it home. Once I had to cross a creek that was flooding but I couldn't make it so I walked through a pasture along a hillside until I got to the road that went by the cave. I saw it was flooded so I couldn’t make it so I had to go over the top of the cave to get to Grandpa’s house. You really had to have your wits about you to win out back in those days.

The floods weren’t something you could wade into. The current was so strong it would sweep [away] bridges, chicken coops, whatever happened to be in the way, down the valleys to the Miss River through Readstown which was four miles down from Grandpa’s farm.

[The Mississippi River, of course, is a long way from Readstown. Various branches of the Kickapoo River flow through the Readstown area, including Reeds Creek which Cora may be referring to. The Kickapoo River ultimately reaches the Wisconsin River thirty miles south of the old farm. The Wisconsin then reaches the Mississippi at Prairie du Chien, about 35 miles southwest of the farm.]

When I was 14, I was confirmed in a church in Viroqua. I wouldn’t go to the one out in the country because the minister couldn’t talk very good English (he had just come from Norway) {this must have been Martin Finstad who was installed as pastor at Kickapoo Lutheran Church in April of 1906} so I went to the one in Viroqua. (You saw the new church when we were down there.) The old church burned down and I guess they lost all of their records. I had the minister from Viroqua when Maurice and I were married six years later. {The in-town church, then called the Viroqua Lutheran Church, burned to the ground on Christmas Day, 1946. The new stone church building was begun in the spring of 1949 and dedicated on November 19,1950. The congregation has been called Good Shepherd Lutheran Church since 1964.}

Now back to my childhood. It wasn’t all hard luck or bad. We had parties, picnics, sleigh rides, boy friends. The only thing was we had to walk to parties if we wanted to go to them. My first boy friend was the kid that used to take me to school when I first started going to school. But that was later. (?) I was 16 when I could go to parties. My mother and all the other mothers would be there too. This time Alfred took me home and my mother had to go home without me. (Ha.) After that, Alfred took me to parties. He got the first car down there. He took me for the first long ride in a car, all over the country and small towns. Great day! Then he went away to college and he told me who I shouldn’t go out with so Peter, his brother, used to take me to parties. He got a car but he would take a bunch of us kids. We would have a good time.

Then Aunt Martha came down there for a visit and she wanted me to go back to Minneapolis with her so I did. Dad said if I could stay two weeks he would eat his hat he was so sure I would get homesick. I stayed three months so I wrote and told him he better start eating his hat.

I met Maurice three days after I got to Minneapolis. He was with the kids that met at my aunt’s place to go to church. They all sang in the choir. He had a girl friend named Helen Hall. I liked him the first time I met him. Three days later, he called my aunt and asked her if he could take me to a show. She said yes, he could ask me so he did and that was how I met Maurice. Maurice’s dad had a hardware store on 38th Street and Chicago Avenue at the time. They had an old car they delivered things in. One day he drove by and stopped so I said why don’t you take me for a ride. He said not in this old car so he went home and said he wanted a new car so his dad bought him a car. Then he called my aunt to see if she would let me go with him in his new car with his folks but that I would have to come stay over night at his house as they were going to go early in the morning. So I told him he had to have his mother invite me to come and stay over night which he did and she did. That was the beginning. From that day on until I went back home we were together all the time.

Don, your mother told me to tell you this: I don’t remember saying anything about it, that Grandpa Al, Maurice’s dad, was part French. He told me one day about his folks in Sweden. His dad had horses, race horses, and he was killed by a horse. And about his mother. He said they were rich, she wore silks and satins, but it all changed after his father was killed. And that his mother was part French. He was rather proud of that. Then she met this fellow Fogelquist and married him. They had a son by the name of Sandy Fogelquist, Irene’s father, who was married to Mary .... I can’t remember her last name right now. Anyway she was related to John Everson. She was from up there and John Everson knows her name.

Irene married a fellow by the name of Dawson in California. They had two sons: Duane Dawson, youngest son, and Darrell Dawson. They live in California. I lost touch with them after Irene died.

The Fogelquists lived in Superior, Wisconsin. They had a hardware store. They were both living when I came to Minneapolis. My dad was up to see them and I was up to see them. They were very nice people. Even Grandpa Al couldn’t find fault with them. In fact, he was rather proud of them.

Your Grandpa John knows more about Mary’s people. I believe John Everson was a cousin of Mary’s. Well, anyway John knows how the relation hangs together.

By the way, off the record, I told Vivian about Grandpa Al being part French and she also is rather proud of being part French. She even took French when in school. She even started a French club. I have forgotten the name of it. It was a fancy name.

An Only Child’s Memories

Cora Christine Anderson Carlson
Written in the early 1980’s

My first memories are of a home in La Crosse at [age] 4, sitting in a sun-filled bedroom with my mother, sewing bonnets for dolls while my mother was sewing. I have loved to sew ever since. This home must have been very happy as I can remember even the way it looked inside. I especially remember the large clean kitchen, the arrangement of furniture, even to the doors. There were six doors, each seeming to lead to another room from the kitchen. It was a sunny room as it faced both east and west (an L-shaped house). I used to sit on the front porch and I could see the hospitals a couple of blocks away. I also saw the catholic nuns go by to and from church. I used to be very impressed at Easter when they carried their palms.

My grandmother (father’s mother) lived a few blocks away. She was a good Christian woman but not a very well person as she had asthma. I remember the house well in every detail: the good smells from her baking all these good Norwegian cakes and cookies, all her beautiful house plants, and her canary birds. I can still see her sitting in her rocker crocheting all kinds of lovely things. I remember one yellow wool scarf I loved so well and which I got from her. She was a very generous person, always giving things. She sang in the church choir and was a good singer. When she died I told people my grandmother went to heaven and I wanted them to come and see her before they took her away. She died when I was eight years old. Grandmother Anderson had so many friends. When she died there were so many people and so many beautiful flowers that they had to haul them in two buggies.

I always seem to remember sunshine in La Crosse such as shining in the church.

When I was six years old, we moved to Viroqua to live with my mother’s folks as mother was the only one with one child and my grandparents were old and needed someone to live with them and they didn’t want any noise. I was a very quiet little mouse, playing with dolls, sewing, even to making dolls when I needed more. I would build doll houses out of orange crates, and make furniture copied out of catalogs. I had a little dog named Punch (a neighbor killed him). I used to dress him up and wheel him in my doll buggy.

When I first came to live there, I would follow my grandmother wherever she would go. She only spoke Norwegian, I spoke English, but we got along fine. I learned Norwegian in three months.

They lived on a farm. My grandmother used to raise sheep. I loved them. Grandmother made candles. I used to watch her. I can’t remember that I ever could help. I guess I just kept out of the way.

I used to climb the rocks and imagine big castles. I also used to find big sparkling rocks, read books. A short while after I got there, my grandmother from La Crosse sent me a yellow canary. I wonder if she felt sorry for me, a lone little girl that had to be quiet. I had that bird twelve years. It died when I went away for three months (I was 18 then).

My grandmother was a little woman, a very quiet and serious person. Every day she would go into the living room (we called it the front room) by herself and read her Bible and other religious books. When the minister and his family would come and see her, she would always give him cream, butter, and all kinds of vegetables and apples. His buggy would be loaded. Those days a minister wasn’t paid much.

I remember Mother made me red dresses and white pinafores. I had black patent leather slippers which I was so proud of. If they would get dusty, I would wipe them with my hanky. I would never get dirty. I remember one of my aunts asking her little girl why she couldn’t stay clean like me. She always said I was as clean when I got home from school as when I left in the morning. She asked my cousin if she rolled in the dirt. We would walk home from school together. My cousin and I were together always after I started school.

My folks moved away from grandfolks’ farm for one year as one of my aunts (Martha) got divorced which was a disgrace in those days. She had nowhere to go, she and her little boy, but I guess she and the boy were too much for my grandparents so we moved back. My aunt was a bossy woman and her boy wild and noisy. We stayed there until grandmother died (I was 12 then). My grandfather went to stay with one of my aunts (Louise in Viroqua). My uncles hired a girl to keep house. We had built a house on a farm next to grandfather’s. We stayed there until I was 15. One uncle (Sever) wanted us to move back to grandfather’s farm. I was married in grandfather’s farm house. My folks moved back to their home after I married. My uncles moved to live with my aunt Louise in Viroqua. I moved to Minneapolis.

At six, after we moved to grandfather’s farm, I got sick with pneumonia. The thing I remember is I found myself in the pantry where I had sleep-walked. It was in early spring.

One day I saw some kids climbing a hill we called Hog’s Back. I guess I was very lonesome. I got dressed and took my doll and buggy over to them but I didn’t know a soul. I did think one of our neighbor kids was there but she wasn’t so I came home a forlorn little girl. I never tried to get acquainted with anyone after that. It’s still hard for me to get to know people. My cousin Clara was my best friend. She lived about one-and-a-half miles away. She had two brothers. She moved from Soldiers Grove to this farm which joined grandfather’s when I was about 9 years old. I remember we used to go to Soldiers Grove to see them at the 4th of July and also to parties. It was fun. It was high above the river. We would drive home in the moonlight; we could count the stars.

Then one day my Aunt Susan and her five children came back from California to live with us at Grandma’s. Grandpa found a farm for them about two miles away. We used to play train as they knew so much about trains. We also played with dolls. We would cut paper money and play store and we would fight. My grandma would side with me. I guess it was because they were bolder and noisy. After they moved to their home, we formed a newspaper and the older boys were the mailmen for us when they would come to see my uncles and grandparents.

In the summertime we would always have noon dinner outdoors. Grandpa had planted trees and built a table and bench just like a park right outside of the summer kitchen. We never lived in the big house in the summer other than sleep there. I remember on rainy days I would play upstairs with my dolls. We would have church, preach and sing, have Baptism, Confirmation, and weddings. I would sit and read a big book of my uncle’s with pictures of Jesus and people of Bible time. Then, after the rain, the sun would come out and I would watch the floods go swirling by, washing out the bridges. The men had to get busy and rebuild them after the flood.

I remember going to school with my cousins. I walked alone through the woods to my cousins’ house. It was a long way to school but I did have company about two and a half miles to school. I remember right before Christmas, and it was almost dark, I was coming home carrying all my books as it was Christmas vacation and we never left them there. I heard wolves howling and I got so scared I could hardly move. But I did run when I saw one of my uncles coming from the barn. Was I glad! What a welcome sight. He said that the wolf was a long way off but we found out later he wasn’t more than half a mile away. Someone shot him.

Another time I came home from school I came over a road home which was closer. It was in the spring of the year. We lived in the valley and I had to cross a couple of flooding creeks (from melting snow). There were bridges but sometimes they were covered with water so I had to try some other way. There was a cave alongside of the road we called sand spring. The spring flowed into the creek which was on the side of the road and was flooded so I had to climb a wooded hillside and go over that cave to get home. It was such a long walk home. I would get home about 5 o’ clock. I was so weak I could hardly drag myself along, up hill and down hill. I was a small and delicate child.

I would go early to school. There were south slopes along the road and I would stop and pick violets in the spring to bring to school. Other times I would cross fields and pastures to save time. It would be closer but there would be cows and horses. One morning I saw the herd of horses (20) way off so I thought I could make it across the pasture. When I was half way, the horses saw me. It was down hill for them, up hill for me. Did I run! I just made it under the fence as they came at me. One just missed me. He turned and kicked but I rolled away. I felt safe but not for long as there were young cattle in the new pasture but no mad bulls. I would try and time it before the cattle would leave their pens but then I would get to school and hour early and that hour would seem ages. Some time I would think maybe there wasn’t any school that day. In those days we didn’t have watches for kids.

The windows were up too high for me to look through the school house windows. It wasn’t much of a school house. One teacher for all 8 grades. The stove was in the middle of the room. There were about 30 children. Some of the teachers were very young and not very good. They would have their boyfriends come and get them. The kids would sit and make fun of them. We had a couple of good teachers otherwise we would never have learned anything. I remember one teacher was an old crab. She had everyone in an uproar, some kid was always mad at her. They would stage riots against each other to see which side she would stick up for. There was one girl that always started them. This girl had a brother the teacher was crazy about so she thought she could get by with it.

{The school Cora attended is referred to as “The Ole Torger School - District #8” in the Vernon County 150 Years book. A description of the history of the school, by Wesley Clayton Slack, is as follows:

“The Ole Torger School started in a white wood frame one-room building with pillars on the front porch on land obtained from Ole Torger, hence the name. Many of the students spoke Norwegian so had to learn English.

“The teachers earned $24 a month at the earliest records we have to $257 in 1961. The early teachers had as many as 36 students. Reading, Arithmetic, Spelling, Art, Music, Language, Geography, Agriculture, and Physiology were subjects taught. Children got a very good education because they reviewed anew each year by listening to the lower grades recite. In 1913 a new brick building was put up. There was a considerable controversy over the location of the new school and wives were brought in to vote for the first time. It was decided to stay near the original spot but east a bit. In 1938, the school was remodeled to add restrooms, water, and a small kitchen.

“The teachers from 1904-1962 were: Emelia Johnson, Alice Anderson, Hatie Dickson, Emma Swiggum, Rachel Josvanger, Susanna Sherry, Frances Fish, Agnes Sherry, Beatrice Erickson, Ella Hanson, .... Some of the teachers roomed at the Peter Solverson or Louis Hanson homes. The last school board members were Victor Anderson, Ernest Ekum, and Earl Kvale.”}

Cora’s teachers at the Ole Torger school, and their monthly salaries, were as follows:

1902-1904 ??
1904-05 Emelia Johnson, $25
1905-06 Alice Anderson Johnson, $24
1906-07 Hattick Dickson, $25
1907-08 Emma Swiggum Rice, $30
1908-1911 Rachel Josvanger Thompson

Cora made a death claim against Maurice’s Social Security on June 26, 1956, at the Minneapolis field office.

Seh made a “life claim” to Social Security in January of 1962.

Cora intended to live to be 105 years old so that she could say that her life spanned three centuries. {Note that this means that she understood that the 21st century started in 2001 and not 2000.} She survived breast cancer, with a radical mastectomy, in the late 1950s. She also survived another cancer operation past the age of 90 and even a knee scoping in her late 80s. She spent the last five years of her life at the Martin Luther Manor nursing home in Bloomington. (She was in Martin Luther Manor, and receiving cards, by November of 1989 when she received a card from Darley March.)

Baptism:
Among the sponsors were Louise Bowe and, apparently, Charley’s mother, “Christine Christiansen.”

Cora married Maurice Edward CARLSON on 2 Sep 1916 in Vernon County, Wisconsin. Maurice (son of Johan Alfred CARLSON and Brita (Bessie) ERICKSON) was born on 30 Aug 1895 in Wabasha, Wabasha County, Minnesota; died on 17 Jun 1956 in Bloomington, Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried on 20 Jun 1956 in Sunset Memorial Park, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1975-MN-010861

Notes:

Although he is listed with his parents and siblings in the 1930 census, he is designated “AB” for absent. His occupation is radio operator for a steamship.

In the 1938 Bismarck, North Dakota, city directory, Herbert C Anderson, apparently unmarried, lived at 513 Rosser Avenue W. He was a radio operator for the U.S. Bureau of Air Commerce.

In the 1940 census (April 26th), he is probably the Herbert Anderson, 36, born in Wisconsin, living with his wife Lorraine, 22, in Grand Forks, North Dakota. In 1935, Herbert had lived in Cavalier County, North Dakota, and Lorraine had lived in Duluth. Herbert’s occupation was civil aeronatics. Herbert and Lorraine rented an apartment from the George Leng family and lived at 1120 University Avenue. Herbert had had two years of high school, Lorraine was a high school graduate.

The 1940 Bismarck, North Dakota, city directory shows Herbert C and Lorraine Anderson living at 921 5th. He was a radio operator for the Civil Aeronautics Authority.

He served in the Navy in World War II as an RM1.

He may be the Herbert C Anderson, age 41, arriving in Honolulu aboard the S.S. Permanente in August of 1945. The Permanente had departed from San Francisco on July 30, 1945.

In the 1950 census, he and his family lived in Fargo. He was a communications officer for the Civil Aeronautic Administration.

In the 1957 Duluth city directory, a Herbert C Anderson, with wife Lorraine J, lived at 20 W 5th, apartment A. He was a laborer.

Herbert’s residence at the time of his death was 3712 Tower Avenue, Superior.

Of Superior at the time of his sister Marion’s death.

His death certificate gives his occupation as engineer, civil aeronautics.

Herbert died of heart failure. The informant for the information on his death certificate was Dorothy Anderson of 1915 North 58th Street, Superior.

His obituary was published on p. 04:3 of March 14, 1975, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune:

Herbert C. Anderson, 71, of 3712 Tower Ave., died Thursday in a Duluth hospital. He was born in La Crosse and was a retired civil aeronautics engineer. He had served in both the U.S. Navy and Army. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Duane (Dorothy) Anderson, Superior; three sisters, Mrs. Doris Campbell and Mrs. Ethel Fairchild, both of Duluth, and Mrs. Gertrude Marshall, St. Cloud; a brother, John, Duluth, and three grandchildren.

Birth:
The Anderson Family Tree on Ancestry has him born 30 Oct 1903 in Burnett, Wisconsin.

Died:
died at St. Lukes Hospital; cemetery record gives date of death as March 19th which may, instead, be date of burial

Buried:
Block 11, Lot 00

Family/Spouse: Lorraine Jane MARSHALL. Lorraine (daughter of Michael Martin MARSHALL and Clara Ann SZCZYGIELSKI) was born on 9 Oct 1917 in Minnesota; died on 3 Dec 1958 in Minnesota; was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1968-MN-030262

Notes:

Cora called her Mariam.

“Marion C” is how she was listed in the 1930 census. At that time she was single and living at home with her parents and siblings. Her occupation was filer for a wholesale hardware company.

In the 1940 census, she and Walter and their four children, plus her brother John and her mother, live at 2902 West 2nd Street in Duluth. This is the same house in which she and Walter and their oldest child had lived five years earlier. Walter was a dispatcher for the police department. Walter was a high school graduate, Marion had an “8+” grade education.

In the 1950 census, she and her children lived in Duluth at 805 E 13th Street. Marion was an assistant supervisor in the service department of the telephone company. Living with her and her children was her mother, Ella C Anderson.

Her son Walter (of 2873 Virginia Avenue, St. Paul) was the informant for her death certificate. She worked for Northwestern Bell and her usual address was 4520 Arnold Road, Duluth. She died from a stroke.

Her obituary was published on p. 05:2 of the October 8, 1968, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune:

Mrs. Marion A. Johnson, 62, formerly of 805 E. 13th St., died Sunday in a Duluth hospital. Born in La Crosse, she had lived here 60 years. She was a retired employe of Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. and was a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America. She attended Alliance Community Church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Robert (Janice) Shrader, Los Angeles, and Mrs. Dale (Gail) Carlson, Duluth; two sons, Walter, St. Paul, and William, Los Angeles; her mother, Mrs. Ella C. Anderson, Duluth; three sisters, Mrs. Robert (Gertrude) Marshall, Newport News, Va.; Mrs. Ethel Fairchild, Duluth; and Mrs. James (Doris) Campbell, Ashland; two brothers, Herbert Anderson, Superior, and John J. Anderson, Duluth; and eight grandchildren.

Died:
St. Mary’s Hospital

Marion married Walter William JOHNSON on 17 Sep 1932 in Carlton County, Minnesota. Walter (son of Martin JOHNSON and Hilda JAVANAARD) was born on 15 Aug 1902 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; died on 7 Oct 1947 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried on 9 Oct 1947 in Bethany Cemetery, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1909-34244
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1909-MN-021455

Notes:

Not acknowledged in the 1910 census. Mother’s maiden name is Nordrum on his birth certificate.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1910-33956
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1993-MN-020254
• Social Security Number: 475-09-3669 issued in MN

Notes:

Gertrude is also Cora's cousin but on her father's side.

Arthur Hendrickson and Gertie had three children, according to Cora, before they divorced. This ignores Joyce.

She was Mrs. Robert (Gertrude) Marshall of Newport News, Virginia, at the time of her sister Marion’s death in 1968. She was Mrs. Robert Marshall of St. Cloud at the time of her brother Herbert’s death in 1975. She was Gertrude Marshall of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, at the time of her sister Doris’s death in 1989.

MARSHALL, GERTRUDE NELLIE 
Minnesota Death CertID#  1993-MN-020254   

 Date of Birth: 06/13/1910
 Place of Birth: MINNESOTA
 Mother Maiden Name:  NORDRUM
 Date of Death: 07/24/1993
 County of Death: STEARNS 

Residence at death according to the SSDI: Sauk Rapids, Benton County, MN

From her obituary in the St. Cloud newspaper:

Gertrude N. Marshall, 83, Russell Arms Apartments, Sauk Rapids, and formerly of Duluth, died Saturday at St. Cloud Hospital. She lived most of her life in Duluth and moved to the St. Cloud area in 1972. {She was living in Newport News, Virginia, at the time of her mother’s death in 1971.} She is survived by her children: Robert Marshall of Duluth, Terry and Greg Marshall of Sauk Rapids, Art Hendrickson of Anchorage, Alaska, and Barbara Elliot of Graham, Washington. She was preceded in death by her husband, her son David Dale Marshall, her daughters Patricia Hendrickson and Carol Hendrickson, her brothers Herbert and John, and her sisters Ethel Fairchild, Doris Campbell, and Marion Johnson.

Her obituary on Find A Grave:

Gertrude 'Gertie' Marshall, 83, of Russell Arms Apartments, Sauk Rapids, and formerly of Duluth, died Saturday, July 24, 1993, at St. Cloud Hospital. She lived most of her life in Duluth. Gertrude was the daughter of Ole Christian Anderson, Jr, and Ella Kristine (nee Nordrum) Anderson; her parents both originally from LaCrosse, Wisconsin.

Gertrude and her husband, Robert David Marshall, had relocated from Duluth to Newport News, Virginia, for several years prior to his passing in 1972. While in Virginia her own mother passed in 1971. Gertie returned to Minnesota in 1972 to the St. Cloud area.

Gertrude is survived by her children, Barbara (nee Hendrickson) Elliott of Graham, Washington, Arthur Charles Henderson of Anchorage, Alaska, Robert M. Marshall of Duluth, and Terrence Marshall and Gregory Marshall of Sauk Rapids. She is also survived by her grandchildren.

Gertrude was preceded in death by her husband 'Bob', son David Dale Marshall, daughters Joyce Hendrickson and Patricia Lee (nee Hendrickson) Bates, brothers Herbert Anderson and John Anderson, and sisters Ethel Fairchild, Doris Campbell, and Marion Johnson.
 
Her son Terrance was the informant for her death certificate. Her usual address was 315 Division in Sauk Rapids, Benton County. Gertrude died of heart failure brought upon by stage 4 lymphoma. She had had nine years of education.

Died:
St. Cloud Hospital

Gertrude married Arthur Clarence HENDRICKSON on 11 Feb 1928 in St. Louis County, Minnesota, and was divorced about 1937 in Minnesota. Arthur (son of Karsten Henrik (Charles) HENDRICKSON and Martha BOWE) was born on 17 Jan 1908 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; died on 8 Aug 1974 in Onamia, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota; was buried in Foster Cemetery, Cove, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gertrude married Robert David MARSHALL on 1 Aug 1938 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Robert (son of Michael Martin MARSHALL and Clara Ann SZCZYGIELSKI) was born on 13 Aug 1915 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; died on 18 Jun 1972 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: DC-69261

Notes:

In the 1940 census, he was single and lived with his sister Marion and her family. He was a fireman on a lake boat. He had had two years of college.

In the 1944 Duluth city directory, he may be the John J Anderson, “USA”, wife Marjorie E, who lived at 211 Garden. That is assumed here.

He called Cora in the evening of 12 Feb 1946 according to her diary.

In the 1950 census, he and his family lived in Duluth. He was an insurance salesman.

Of Duluth at the time of his sister Marion’s death and his brother Herbert’s death. Of Sun City, Arizona, at the time of his sister Doris’s death.

He was living in Duluth (1425 Woodland Avenue) at the time of his mother’s death in 1971 and was the informant for the information in his mother’s death certificate. (In which Ella’s maiden name is “Nordnum.”)

Died:
This date from the Anderson Family Tree on Ancestry.com. The death is not in the SSDI.

John married Marjorie Edith NOLAN on 7 Mar 1941 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Marjorie was born on 29 Apr 1918 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; died on 7 Feb 2009 in Sun City, Maricopa County, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1916-55238
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1991-MN-004935
• Social Security Number: 469-24-4937 Issued In Minnesota Before 1951

Notes:

Last residence Duluth 55803. SSDI says, incorrectly, that her death date was 1-17-1991 (combining her birth and death dates).

In the 1950 census, Ethel, indicated as still married but with no husband listed, and her four sons, were living with her mother-in-law, Mary Fairchild, in Duluth.

Mrs. Ethel Fairchild of Duluth at the time of her sister Marion’s death and her brother Herbert’s death. She was Ethel Fairchild of Duluth at the time of her sister Doris’s death.

She was living in Duluth at the time of her mother’s death in 1971.

Ethel’s obituary says that she died at her home on East St. Marie Street (66 East St. Marie Street, #303 according to her death certificate) in Duluth. She was a lifelong Duluth resident and a 1934 graduate of Denfield High School. She was a secretary for various offices at University of Minnesota - Duluth and had retired in 1980. She was a member of Glen Avon Presbyterian Church. Of her siblings, only Gert survived her. She was also survived by 8 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.

There is no mention of her husband in her obituary.

She died at 5 AM of Wegeners granulomatosis. Her body was not autopsied. Her death certificate says that she was buried at Park Hill Cemetery in Duluth.

Buried:
her death certificate says Park Hill Cemetery

Ethel married Francis Leroy FAIRCHILD on 2 Aug 1936 in Hennepin County, Minnesota, and was divorced. Francis was born on 2 Mar 1914 in Clearwater County, Minnesota; died on 3 Nov 1991 in Nye County, Nevada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1918-56525
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1989-MN-002236
• Social Security Number: 474-03-6473 Issued In Minnesota Before 1951

Notes:

Living in Duluth at the time of her mother’s death in 1971.

Her middle name is shown as Elaine on Jacqueline’s birth certificate.

Mrs. James Campbell of Duluth at the time of her sister Marion’s death. Mrs. Doris Campbell of Duluth at the time of her brother Herbert’s death.

The informant for her death certificate was her daughter Susan Hessevick of 402 Colonial Circle, Young America, Minnesota. Doris was or had been a secretary for the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation. She was a widow but no spouse’s name was included. Doris died of a spontaneous cerebral aneurysm.

Doris’s obituary was published on p. D01 of the January 11, 1989, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune:

Doris E. Campbell, 70, of North 60th Avenue West, died Monday, Jan 9, 1989, in St. Luke’s Hospital. She was a lifelong Duluth resident and most recently worked for 12 years as secretary for the Minnesota Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, retiring in 1982. She is survived by three daughters, Susan Hessevick of Young America, Minn., Penny Milostan of Torrance, Calif., and Jacqueline Morkved of Lake Mary, Fla.; two sisters, Ethel Fairchild of Duluth and Gertrude Marshall of Sauk Centre, Minn.; a brother John Anderson of Sun City, Ariz.; eight grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Bell Brothers Chapel. Burial will be at Bethany Cemetery.

Died:
St. Luke’s Hospital, Duluth

Buried:
obit said she was buried at Bethany Cemetery

Family/Spouse: James Raye CAMPBELL. James was born on 30 Sep 1905 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]