Anne Gundbjørnsdatter FÅREN

Notes:

Of Ness.

The Dødsregister for Verdal in Digitalarkivet has an Anne Gundbjørnsdatter dying 24 Nov 1831. She was married, b. 1774, and was an “inderstkone” (servant’s wife) on Trygstad.

Jerelyn Johnson’s tree has her dying in Verdal in 1849.

Anne married Halvor Olsen NESS in 1797. Halvor (son of Ole Olsen NESS and Marit Halvorsdatter LUNDEN) was born on 15 May 1776 in Ness, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 23 Jan 1831 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Marta.

She and Tarald were renters on Nestvoll until they received a deed on the Lorvoll farm. She and Tarald had six children.

Family/Spouse: Tarald Andersen NESTVOLL. Tarald was born in 1799 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She and Lars had 7 children.

In the 1875 census, she (shown as born 1799) and Lars live with a servant on Fyksveet Trygstad lillie. Lars is a husmand med Jord.

Family/Spouse: Lars Olsen TRYGSTAD. Lars was born in 1793 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died in 1888 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 1823

Notes:

He and Martha were of Hage when they married. He was native of Ness, she of Hage.

Died:
Haga

Ole married Marta Johannesdatter HAGA on 25 Mar 1830 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Marta (daughter of Johannes Pedersen HAGA and Berit Pedersdatter) was born on 17 Oct 1803 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 24 Aug 1874 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: “Kvinne” in Oleanna’s birth entry in Digitalarkivit

Notes:

Among the baptism sponsors listed for her were Guru Olsdatter Leerfald and Biret Olsdatter Ness, her aunts. Her name was entered in her birth record as Gürü.

The November 30, 1832, date is the marriage date shown in Olianna’s birth record. It is also the marriage date shown in the Verdal church book. Other sources suggest March 1, 1833.

Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as Gurru and having been born in 1809.

Shown in the 1875 Norwegian census as the widow Guru Halvorsdatter, b. 1809 in Vinne, Verdalen, “Svigermoder” and “for 2 Maal Jord”, living with Martinus and Olianna on Maritvoldvald.

Their first child was born out of wedlock.

None of the children remained in Verdal; four of them emigrated to the U.S.

In the listings of her children’s births in Digitalarkivet, her residence is shown variously as Folloe, Østvoldvald, Øhr, Maritvoldvald Øren, Øren, and Maritvoldvaldet.

A Guru Haldorsdatter, age 56, died in Verdal/Stiklestad on 30 Apr 1877. Farm name illegible.

Kari Yamane calls her Guru Halvordatter Folloe or Ness.

Gürü married Johannes Hansen ØREN on 30 Nov 1832 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Johannes (son of Hans OLSEN and Berit SVENDSDATTER) was born on 14 Dec 1806 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; was christened on 26 Dec 1806 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 26 Jan 1870 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

aka Marianne

Family/Spouse: Johan Lorents Olsen. Johan was born in 1830 in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 24 Oct 1890 in Whatcom County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also Mikal or Mekal. Gaardbruger og Selveier of Hage østre in Verdal in the 1875 Norwegian census.

Family/Spouse: Martha Johannesdatter NÆSVALD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Michael married Gurina Johnsdatter SKOGN on 12 Sep 1865 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Gurina (daughter of John Johnsen HALLAN and Guru Madsdatter) was born on 25 Dec 1846 in Alstadhoug, Skogn, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 24 Apr 1892 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; was buried on 5 May 1892 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Nov 1830, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 6 Oct 1844, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

In the Inderøy church book entry for her marriage, she is shown to be from Verdalen and her father is Johannes Hansen.

May have taken the surname Johnson. Called Anna Johnson in her son Martinus’s death certificate.

Shown as born illegitimate (before her parents marriage).

Confirmation:
this date is also entered in her birth record

Died:
inferred from Norway Burial Index, DIS-Norge, 1700-2010

Buried:
Norway Burial Index, DIS-Norge, 1700-2010

Anne married Bernt Andreas Monson AARFALD on 25 Nov 1853 in Saxhaug, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Bernt (son of Mons Aagesen AARFALD and Menthe Johnsdatter) was born on 4 Jul 1825 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died in Aug 1909 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; was buried on 31 Aug 1909 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Jun 1833, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 24 Sep 1848, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Strøm/Strømmen is surname she used for herself in her bible and Bereth is the spelling she used.

Or Beret. In the church book as Birit.

Or Beret Øren, Beret Strømmen, or Bestemor Næss.

FamilySearch gives her last name as Aarfald and her husband’s last name Stomen. She may have taken the surname Johnson somewhere along the line.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, she was living in Trondheim with her son Herman and his family.

Birth:
Bereth’s bible says 1 Mar

Died:
A note in her bible says she died at age 95. A Bertha Strøm was buried 12 Apr 1929 in Trondheim.

Bereth married Andreas Aagesen NÆSS on 11 Jun 1857 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Andreas (son of Aage Jonsen NOS and Ingebor Anna) was born on 5 Oct 1830 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died after 1900 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Mar 1836, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 10 Jun 1850

Notes:

Also spelled Oleanna (the way it’s spelled in her birth record). Called herself Olianna Bye in calling cards that she used in Fergus Falls.

Last name in Norway is also Martitvoldvald. Could not find her in the 1865 census. There was a 27 year-old Olianna Johansdatter who lived on Mikvoldvald and was the wife of the husmand Jørgen Andersen. That couple had two children.

She had 3 siblings living in Fergus Falls.

Oleanna Johannesdatter, 43, and her four children (Jon Martinussen, 11, Marie Martinussdatter, 7, Anna Martinussdatter, 9, and Hans Martinussen, 5) left Norway on 5 April 1882 on the feeder ship Tasso to Hull, England. Their destination was Fergus Falls, Minnesota. They are not listed among the emigrants in the Stiklestad church book.

Birth:
Øhr farm. Her gravestone in Oak Grove Cemetery has her birth date as 12 Dec 1835 (repeated in the Dalby Database), a date which is patently correct.

Died:
month and day from Dalby database

Buried:
she has a stone that says “Mother” near Martin’s at Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery

Olianna married Martinus Eliassen BYE on 18 Nov 1870 in Vinne, Verdal (Vårdalen), Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Martinus (son of Elias Eliassen BŸVALD and Guruanna (Guriana) Hansdatter BYVALD) was born on 18 Aug 1847 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; was christened on 10 Oct 1847 in Vinne, Verdal (Vårdalen), Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 29 Nov 1932 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 3 Dec 1932 in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Feb 1839, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 10 Feb 1853, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

“Soldat” in the remarks column of his birth entry.

Not in Verdal in the 1865 census. Not listed in the Verdal Death Register 1801-1922.

Birth:
Øren

Notes:

May have died at birth or in infancy. “Død” in the remarks column of his birth entry. Baptism entry is only shown as 1841 with no month. Listing indicates he was baptized at home.

His family was of Maritvoldvald at the time of his birth and death.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1918-MN-013126
• Baptism: 26 Jun 1842, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Went by the name of Anna. Had no children.

In the 1865 Norwegian census, she was Guru A. Johannesdatter, b. 1842 in Verdalens, a maid for the Hans F Muller family on the Brosvebakken farm in Frol, Nord-Trøndelag. Also a maid with that family was her sister, Julianna.

She is Mrs. Anna Stang, 52, a laundress, living with Lena Anderson in the 2nd ward of Fergus Falls in the 1895 Minnesota state census.

In the 1900 census, she is Anna Stang, 58, b. February 1842 in Norway, living with Lena Anderson in the 2nd ward of Fergus Falls near Whitford Street and Lincoln Avenue. Both women are “washerwomen.” Anna had been married for 15 years and had had no children. Both women emigrated from Norway in 1882.

In the 1903 Fergus Falls city directory, she was Mrs. Annie Stang who resided at the rear of 113 Whitford St S.

In the 1905 state census she is Anna Stang, 63, living on Whitford Street in the 2nd ward of Fergus Falls. Her occupation is washer.

In the 1907 and 1909 Fergus Falls directories, she was Mrs. Anne Stang, still residing at the rear of 113 Whitford Street S.

In the 1910 census she is Anna Stang, 68, living on her “own income” in a house that she owns, free of mortgage, near Whitford Street and Lincoln Avenue.

Guruanna married Christian A STANG on 9 May 1885 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Christian was born about 1843 in Norway; died before 1895 in Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 10 Jul 1860, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

In the 1865 Norwegian census, she was Julianna Johannesdatter, b. 1844 in Verdalens, a maid for the Hans F Muller family on the Brosvebakken farm in Frol, Nord-Trøndelag. Also a maid with that family was her sister, Guru A.

In the church book entry for her marriage she is called Julianna Johannesdatter Hansen. Of Marithvoldvald when she married.

She is probably the Julie Anna Johannesdatter, last name Wisth, who died on the Sole farm in Verdal on 10 April 1921. That woman was married and was not a widow and she had been born on March 9, 1844. She died of heart disease and old age.

In the 1900 census, Elling Whist and Julie Whist and their family lived in “Bjørgen Jernbanestation” in Singsås in Sør-Trøndelag. Elling was “stationsmester og postaabner.” Elling and Julie had both been born in “Wærdalen” but all of their children had been born in Singsaas.

According to Wikipedia, Singsås Station is a railway station located in the village of Singsås in Midtre Gauldal, Norway on the railway line Rørosbanen. The station is served three times daily in each direction by the commuter rail service Trønderbanen between Røros and Trondheim. The service is operated by Norges Statsbaner. The station was opened in 1876, one year before Rørosbanen was completed.

On January 1, 1964 Singsås was merged with the municipalities Budal, Soknedal and Støren to form the new municipality Midtre Gauldal.

Birth:
The 1910 census says 9 Mar 1843. The 1875 census says 1841.

Died:
Verdal death register on Digitalarkivet

Juliana married Elling Nilsen WHIST on 4 Jun 1872 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Elling was born on 18 Nov 1842 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 3 Oct 1931 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1925-MN-010522
• Baptism: 9 Apr 1848, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 4 Oct 1863, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

His parents’ farm was Maritvold Ørm (or Øren?) according to his birth record.

In the 1865 Norwegian census he was Teodor Johannessen, a 19 year-old male servant on the farm of the Olsens and Olsdatters (6 unmarried brothers and sisters) on Leirfald vestre in Vinne, Værdalens.

Emigrated to the U.S. in 1870; came to Fergus Falls in 1875 (the first of his siblings to do so). “He went into the butcher business and made a name for himself in town, at least with the Norwegian population. He was also a prominent figure in the free church congregation there.”



Notes in the remarks column of his birth entry: “Att. Amerika 17.04.1870.”This is correct. The church book records Theodor Johannessen Leirfald emigrating from Verdal to Amerika on April 17, 1870.

In the 1875 state census, Theodore, Martha, and Gilmer are living in Fergus Falls.

In the 1880 census (June 21st), Theodore Johnson was a butcher living in Fergus Falls. His family consisted of himself, 32, Martha, 34, Gitmer, 5, Conrad, 2, and Thorval, 3 months. Theodore and Martha were born in Norway, Gitmer in Wisconsin, and the other two boys in Minnesota. The family also had four boarders living with them, one of whom was Martinus E Bye, 32.

In the 1885 state census, Theodor, Martha, Gilmar, and Konrad are living in Fergus Falls. Living with them is 68 year-old Jens Evenson. Their next-door neighbor is Martin Orfal and his wife Marie. And living with the Orfals is 68 year-old Martha Aune.

In the 1895 state census, Theo, Martha, Gilmer, Conrad, and Sophie, along with Jens Evenson, are living in Fergus Falls. Theo and Gilmer, both shown as butchers, are shown as having lived in the U.S., and in Fergus Falls, for 19 years.

In the 1900 census, he and his family are living on Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls, just a few houses away from the newly-married Hans and Marie Bye. It’s just Gilmar and Conrad left of the kids. Also living with the family is Martha’s father Jens Evenson, a “nephew” Fonzio (sp?) Whist, 24, born in Norway, and an adopted daughter, Sophia.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he owns a meat market at 222 Bismarck Avenue E and resides there as well with his wife Martha C and Miss Sophie Johnson. His sons Gilmer and Conrad also live at 222 Bismarck.

In the 1905 state census, the household, at 222 Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls, consists of Theodore, Mrs. Martha, Gilmer, Conrad, Mrs. Lizzie (Conrad’s new wife), Ellen S. Johnson, 21, and Gyda Johnson, age 7.

He was the informant for the information on his wife’s death certificate. At that time he was living on Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls.

As Theo Johnson, he was one of the charter members of Trønderlag of America in 1908. This was (and still is) the bygdelag for emigrants and their descendants from the Trøndelag region of Norway. Theo claimed to come from the Lerfald farm. “Theodore Johnson (Leirfald)”, of Fergus Falls and from Vårdalen, was listed in the Trønderlaget’s 1910 yearbook. In that yearbook, Theodore is shown as having emigrated to the U.S. in 1870.

In the 1910 census, he is a widower living not far from his two married sons who are managing the butcher shop. Theodore is the “proprietor.” Sophia is still single and living with him and they also have 16 year-old Edward Johnson living with them. Edward is a wagon driver for the butcher shop.

In the 1920 census, he is a widower living on Washington Avenue, Fergus Falls, not far from his son Conrad. His occupation is owner, butcher shop.

He died of pneumonia. The informant for his death certificate was his son Conrad who had no idea who his father’s parents were. Theodore’s residence at death was 222 Washington Avenue. He was a widower.

There were no residences remaining on Washington Avenue in 2008. According to Chris, Theo’s butcher shop was torn down in 2007 and the location is now a parking lot.

Theo and his family belonged to the Norwegian Free Church in Fergus Falls, now known as Zion Lutheran Church. Theo was known as “Butcher Johnson.”

His granddaughter’s father-in-law, Elias Pederson, officiated at Theo’s funeral.

Died:
he died at home of pneumonia, the Dalby Database has his date of death as April 12th

Buried:
this cemetery is or was also known as Mount Faith

Theodor married Martha Catrine Jensdatter on 4 Jul 1872 in Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. Martha (daughter of Jens Evenson and Karen Hansdatter ØREN) was born on 30 Jan 1844 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 22 Oct 1908 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 27 Oct 1908 in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1916-MN-010235
• Occupation: Butcher
• Confirmation: 6 Oct 1867, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Known in the U.S. as Charles Henry Johnson.

Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as Charl Henrik Johannessen, the only child still living with his parents, born in 1851.

Married and had 12 children, 7 of whom died before he did.

Noted in the Remarks column of his birth entry: “Att. Levanger 25.0.”

In the 1895 Minnesota census he is Chas Johnson, 44, butcher. He had been a resident of Minnesota for 20 years and 1 month and a resident of “this enumeration district” for 5 years and 2 months.

In the 1900 census he is Charles H. Johnson, 48 (b. Dec 1851), living with his wife and family at 323 Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls. He was a butcher. He had come to the U.S. in 1872.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he, as Charles H Johnson, works for his brother and, with wife Mary, resides at 323 Bismarck Avenue E.

In the 1905 state census he is Charles S. Johnson, 53, a laborer living at 323 Bismark Avenue East with his wife and family. The family consists of Mrs. Mattie, 42, Constance, 13, Julia L, 11, and Ruth 4. Charles S. had been in Minnesota for 25 years and in this enumeration district for 14.

Charles Johnson, 58, is still living in Fergus Falls with his wife and family in the 1910 census. That Charles married his wife in about 1881 and came to this country in 1872. The children at home were four daughters: Constance, 17, Judith, 15, Gyda, 12, and Ruth, 9.

He died from chronic nephritis. The informant for his death certificate was his daughter Constance Johnson. His residence at death was 323 Bismark in Fergus Falls.

Carl married Mary Christine Marie BJERTNESS on 17 Mar 1881 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Mary (daughter of John BJERTNESS and Louisa) was born on 24 May 1862 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 5 Jul 1935 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 8 Jul 1935 in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1923-MN-017738

Family/Spouse: John WALLUM. John was born on 17 May 1879 in Norway; died about 1928 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lorents married Lena JOHNSON about 1881 in Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shown as “his son” in the 1865 census. Not shown with the family in the 1875 census.

He was confirmed 5 Oct 1879 and married 5 Sept 1890.

Notes:

Not listed with his parents and siblings on east Haga in the 1891 Verdal census.

The Compton/Strandberg tree has him arriving in North America in April of 1888.

He used the name Ole Martin Hagen in the U.S.

Family/Spouse: Julia NELSON. Julia was born on 3 Apr 1878 in Minnesota; died on 13 May 1975 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jeremiah Olsen SKAVHAUG. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Julie SKEI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1926-MN-011049
• Baptism: 9 Mar 1873, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 25 Sep 1887, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

She is the Grethe Haga, age 18, from Norway and headed to Minnesota, who arrived in Boston on 19 Jun 1892 aboard the Cephalonia. She had left Trondheim, as the 18 year-old Grethe Haga, on June 1st aboard the feeder ship Juno. She gave Boston, Massachusetts, as her destination.

She married her 2nd cousin.

She is Mrs. Gertie M. Bye in the 1905 state census. She had been in Minnesota for 13 years.

Although John is shown as a widower in the 1910 census (although not in the 1920 census), this is incorrect. Gertie spent her last years (perhaps her last 15-17 years) as an inmate in the county insane asylum. A Gertie Bye, age 37 and married, was in the Fergus Falls State Hospital at the time of the 1910 census. A Gertie Bye, age 46 and married, was in the Fergus Falls State Hospital for the Insane in the 1920 census.

She died of pneumonia brought on by septic tonsilitis. The hospital records showed her parents were Mekal Hoga and Gurena Johnson.

The coordinates of the Fergus Falls State Hospital:

461759N (=46.29972°)
0960452W (=-96.08111°)

Died:
her obit gives her death date as October 13th

Grethe married Johan Edvard Martinusson (John M) BYE on 4 Jun 1895 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Johan (son of Martinus Eliassen BYE and Olianna Johannesdatter JOHNSON) was born on 28 Dec 1869 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 2 Jun 1922 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 4 Jun 1922 in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Per Anne Grete.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1935-MN-013726
• Baptism: 30 May 1852, Saxhaug, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 22 Sep 1867, Saxhaug, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Emigrated from Inderøy in February of 1881. Martin Aarfald arrived in the U.S. at New York on April 14, 1881, aboard the Parthia.

In the 1885 state census, he and his wife Marie, along with 68 year-old Martha Aune, live in Fergus Falls next door to Theodore and Martha Johnson.

In the 1890-1891 Duluth city directory, there is an entry for Orfel & Co at 2101 W Superior for which the partners are Martin Orfel and Peter Aume. Martin Orfel lives at 2101 W Superior. Hans Bye is listed in that directory as a driver for Orfald & Aune. In the 1891-1892 and 1892-1893 Duluth city directories, there is an entry for “Orfald and Aune meats”, a business at “rear 2101 W Superior”, for which the partners are shown as Martin Orfald and Peter Aune. In that same directory, Martin Orfald of Orfald & Aune lives at 2230 W Michigan. In the 1891-1892 Duluth city directory, the particulars for Martin and the business are the same except that Martin lives at 2302 W Michigan.

In the 1895 Minnesota state census, Martin, 43, Mary, 44, and three month old George live in Duluth where Martin is a laborer.

In the 1895-1896 Duluth city directory, he may be the Martin Orfald, laborer for the Duluth Manufacturing Company, who resides at 211 60th Ave W. In the 1896-1897 directory, there is still a Martin Orfald, laborer, living at 211 S 60th Ave W.

Martin and Maria (Aune) Orfald lived in Mille Lacs County in 1900 and 1910 with a son George H. George H. married Dorothy Scott and together they had a daughter Sally Ann and, probably, a son George Scott. Maria and Martin died in St. Louis County in the 1930s.

According to the 1900 census, he came to the U.S. in 1880. In that 1900 census Martin’s occupation is day laborer.

He is probably the “Martin Orfold of West Duluth” mentioned in a brief note in the Minneapolis Journal in its 13 Nov 1901 edition. He had “returned from the Klondike where he cleared up $15,000 in two years.”

In the 1905 state census, Martin and his family live in Milaca. Martin is a butcher.

In the 1910 census, Martin is a laborer doing odd jobs.

Martin was a clerk in a general store. His brother John was the informant for his death certificate. Martin died from acute bronchitis.

According to the Iron Range Research Center’s database, Martinus B. Orfald applied for citizenship in Otter Tail County.

Birth:
birth record says May 4th, death certificate says May 4th; confirmation record says June 4th, emigration record says June 4th

Martin married Marie Lorenzdatter AUNE on 13 May 1883 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Marie (daughter of Lornts Haldorson SAXHAUG and Ingeborg Marth Johnsdatter) was born on 7 Apr 1851 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 25 May 1938 in Biwabik, St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried on 28 May 1938 in Biwabik, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 23 Mar 1856, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Birth:
According to her baptism record in FS’s Norway-EASy.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Mar 1859, Saxhaug, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

She emigrated on August 8, 1881, from Sakshaug as Gurine Berntsdatter Aarfold. According to the church book’s out-migration record, Gurine was born 27 Dec 1858 and was confirmed on 10 April 1874. She was traveling to America with two other young women, one of whom was her first cousin Grethe Oline Andreasdatter.

She was not the person of 1936-MN-012484.

Birth:
FamilySearch’s Norway-EASy Baptism record has the birthdate as 31 Dec 1858 as the birth date.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1915-MN-004676
• Occupation: Farm Laborer
• Baptism: 25 Jul 1861, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 8 Oct 1876

Notes:

Or Mortinus.

According to the Sakshaug church book emigration record, he left for Amerika in March of 1882 as Martinus Berntssen Aarfald.

He may have been the 23 year-old M. Orfald in Fergus Falls in the 1885 state census.

In the 1895-1896 Duluth city directory, he is probably the Martinus B Orfald, who lives at “e s 57th Avenue W 2 s of Gosnold.” That Martinus B is a butcher for C O Balstad. In the 1894-1895 city directory, there is a Martin Orfod, butcher, living at “e s 57th av 2 s of Gosnold.”

An article in the November 13, 1901, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune claims that Martin had just returned from the Klondike gold country $15,000 to the good. “However, that was acquired with much hardship as he remarked that he nearly starved for three months shortly after reaching Alaska.”

He was unmarried according to his death certificate. The informant was his brother John B. of Biwabik. He died from crupous pneumonia.

Birth:
His death certificate says 2 Jun 1862. His baptism record in FS’s Norway-EASy (for Mortinus Berntsen) says 1861.

Confirmation:
date according to his emigration record from Sakshaug

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Apr 1864, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

In the 1910 Norwegian census, she is probably the Julie Berntsdatter, b. 1-1-1864 in Inderøen, who is the wife of John Jakobsen, owner of the large farm Rol øvre 138 in Inderøen.

She died on Rol or, at least, resided on Rol at the time of her death.

Birth:
Her baptism record in FS’s Norway-EASy.

Died:
as Julie Marie Wibe, Norway Burial Index, DIS-Norge, 1700-2010

Buried:
Norway Burial Index, DIS-Norge, 1700-2010

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1947-MN-014408
• Occupation: cook, “Stationary furnace, iron mine”

Notes:

John married his first cousin.

Immigrated from Norway 1885, naturalized in 1892. He appears not to have emigrated from Trondheim.

In the 1890-1891 Duluth city directory, he is John Orfald, “boarding house 23 1st av E.” In that same directory, Mary Bye is shown as "domestic, John Orfald" and living in West Duluth. John is listed in the 1891-1892 Duluth city directory as John Orfald “boarding house Central Ave. sw corner N 3d W. Duluth.”

John’s brother, Martin Orfald, was a partner with Peter Aune in a meat store at 2101 W. Superior in Duluth. (Hans Bye is listed in the 1891 Duluth city directory as a “driver” for Orfald & Aune.)

In the 1895 Minnesota state census, John, 30, Mary, 23, and “Helma” 1, (with 20 year-old boarder Hans Westby) live in “Town 58, Range 19” in St. Louis County with Mountain Iron as their post office.

At the time of the 1900 census, John is living apart from the family and Marie is the head of houshold and is living in Missabe Mountain Township in St. Louis County. The family consists of Marie, 27 (born April 1873), Alma O., 5 (born Oct 1894), Marvin B., 3 (born April 1897), and Jennie M., 8 months, born in September, 1899. Marie is shown as married and having been so for 7 years. She had had 3 children, all still living. Her occupation is shown as cook. She emigrated from Norway in 1880.

John Orfald, 38, cook, and Petter Aune, 62, butcher, both of 2224 West Superior Street in Duluth, went to Norway in the early 1900s. They arrived back in New York on September 1, 1904, aboard the S.S. Baltic which had sailed from Liverpool on August 24th. Arriving in the U.S. with John and Petter was Ingvald Aune, age 9, a citizen of Norway, who is indicated on the Baltic’s manifest to be the “ward” of Petter. The child’s passage had been paid for by his grandfather. Petter had become a citizen by action of the District Court of St. Louis County on July 17, 1893, and John by that same authority on April 2, 1888. Ingvald is shown as going to join his mother.

In the 1905 state census, the Orfalds live in Biwabik. John is a cook.

In the 1907 Range Towns directory, Peter L. Aune has a meat business at 2224 W. Superior. In that 1907 Range Towns directory, there is no entry for Orfald.

At the time of the 1910 census, the family is together in Biwabik in a house they are renting. The family consists of John (“Jno”), 43, Marie, 36, Alma, 15, Marvin, 13, Jennie, 10, Myrtle, 6, Ruth, 4, Mabel, 2, and Roy, a few months old. John and Marie had been married 17 years. Marie had had 7 children, all still living. John is a cook at a logging camp.

He is Jno B Orfald in the 1912 Hibbing city directory, which includes Biwabik. He is an engineer for the Ruddy Mine, residing at the Duluth Location.

In the 1917 Virginia city directory, which includes Biwabik, he is Jno B Orfald, a fireman, residing ¼ mile n w of Canton Location.

In the 1920 census (January 20th), the family is in Biwabik in a house they are renting. The household consists of John Orfold, 52, a stationary fireman in an iron mine, Marie, 46, Marvin, 22, and a miner in the iron mine, Ruth, 14, Mabel, 12, Robert, 9, and Edna, 7. Also living with John and Marie’s family is Fred Goodman, 29, an iron miner, Jennie Goodman, 20, Marie Goodman, 2 and 7 months, Gladys Goodman, 1 and 2 months, and Harry Goodman, a 26 year old boarder who is an iron miner. John came to this country in 1885 and became a citizen in 1892. Marie came to this country in 1883 and became a citizen in 1892. Fred came to this country in 1912 and was not a citizen (Jennie, even though she was born in Minnesota, is shown as an alien in the census because of her husband’s status). Harry came to this country in 1914 and became a citizen in 1919.

In the 1922 Virginia city directory, which includes Biwabik, he is the only Orfald listed. He is still a fireman, housed ¼ mile n w of the Canton Location.

A January 13, 1922, article in the Duluth News-Tribune mentions that John was an officer of the Diamond lodge No. 262 of the International Order of the Odd Fellows. John was “district deputy grand warden.”

In the 1924 Virginia city directory, which includes Biwabik, he is a watchman at the Canton Location. His daughters, Mabel, Myrtle, and Ruth, are also listed in this directory, in all three cases still residing at home.

In the 1930 census, John and Marie and family were living on Chicago Avenue in Biwabik. The household consisted of John B., 63, Marie, 56, Myrtle (absent, but not to attend school), 25, Robert, 20, Edna, 17, Lawrence, 9, grandson, and Anton, 50, brother of John. Everyone is shown as single except John and Marie who were married when they were 27 and 20, respectively. John and Marie own the house, which is worth $4000, and they have a radio. John, Marie, and Anton were born in Norway. Lawrence’s father was born in England and his mother was born in Minnesota. (Lawrence is Jennie’s son.) Anton and John came to this country in 1888, Marie in 1893. John’s occupation is “cook” and the industry is illegible, may be “county”, and he is currently employed. Anton’s occupation is listed as “none” although the census-taker had one filled in initially and then crossed it out. Myrtle is a telephone operator for Bell Telephone and she is also currently employed. Robert is a sample-taker for the “Evith Furnace Co.” (Eveleth?) and he is unemployed. Neither John nor Anton are veterans.

In the 1940 census, John, Marie, Edna, and Anton lived in Biwabik. John was a janitor for the village hall. Edna was a stenographer for a school paper. John, Marie, and Anton had had an eighth-grade education. Edna was a high school graduate. None of the four were living at the same house in which they had lived in 1935. At that time they had been living elsewhere in St. Louis County.

John died of complications from Parkinson’s disease, which he had had for 9 years.

Johannes married Marie Othelie Martinusdatter BYE on 3 Apr 1893 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Marie (daughter of Martinus Eliassen BYE and Olianna Johannesdatter JOHNSON) was born on 27 Apr 1873 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 19 Jun 1966 in Virginia, St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried on 21 Jun 1966 in Lakeside Cemetery, Biwabik, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Jun 1870, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Family/Spouse: Jørgen Andersson KVISTAD. Jørgen was born on 28 Feb 1870 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not listed in Nord-Trøndelag in the 1910 Norwegian census.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1956-MN-015540
• Confirmation: 25 Aug 1895, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

His confirmation record in Inderøy is for Iver Anton Jonsen Aarfald, born in Gran, 29 June 1879, bapt. 27 July. He was living on Aarfald, “with Bernt.”

He is recorded in the Sakshaug, Inderøy, church book’s emigration records as Iver Anton Jonsen Aarfald, leaving the parish in 1900 for Amerika. He was not listed with Bernt and Ane in the 1900 Norwegian census.

In the 1905 census he was a mechanical laborer in Itasca County, Minnesota. He had been in the state for 5 years and in the local area for 3 years.

In the 1910 census he is a single, 30 year-old, diamond driller living in a construction camp, probably for a railroad, in Nashwauk Twp, Itasca County. He came to the U.S. in 1900.

Registered for the WWI draft on September 12, 1918, as Anton Jonson Orfold. His address was general delivery, Buhl, MN. He was a naturalized citizen and was employed by the Duluth Diamond Drill Co. as a diamond drill runner. He lists his nearest relative as John Orfold of Biwabik. He is described as short, of medium build, with blue eyes and brown hair.

In the 1930 census he was 50 years old and living with John and Marie Orfald in Biwabik. He had no occupation.

In the 1940 census, he was 66 and worked as a laborer in an ore mine.

Mrs. A. Cartwright of Biwabik was the informant for his death certificate. He was totally blind. He died of uremia. He had been a diamond driller in the iron mining industry.

Died:
Virginia Municipal Hospital where he had been for 1 day

Notes:

“Sypige” and living at home in the 1875 Norwegian census.

According to Nina, Julie and Elias lived in Skansegata, Trondheim.

Birth:
NÆSS says 1 Feb 1855, Bereth’s bible says 31 Jan.

Family/Spouse: Elias HAUGEN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

“Hjælper Moderen”, single, living at home in the 1875 Norwegian census.

Her father was on Nes when she was born.

She is listed as emigrating from Sakshaug on August 8, 1881, as Grethe Oline Andreasdatter Nes i Strommen, pige, confirmed 10 May 1873. She was apparently traveling with two other young women according to the church book, one of whom was her first cousin Gurine Berntsdatter Aarfold.

Travelled to Fergus Falls in 1881 and then supposedly lived in Fargo after her marriage, according to NÆSS.

According to the 1900 census, she had had 12 children, 11 still living. The child who died must have been born in about 1887, between Annie and Gustave. That’s what is shown here. In the 1910 census, the numbers were 13 and 12.

She died in Cass County, North Dakota, which is probably where the idea that she had lived in Fargo came from.

Died:
As Gertrude O Anderson, b. 20 Jun 1857 out of state and resided in Minnesota.

Grethe married Ingebret/Edwin O ANDERSON on 7 Nov 1881 in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. Ingebret/Edwin was born in May 1855 in Norway; died on 8 Mar 1934 in Clay County, Minnesota; was buried in Barnesville City Cemetery, Barnesville, Clay County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shown as “Fisker?” in the 1875 Norwegian census.

Born on Nes.

Came to the U.S. in around 1881 according to Nina. May have travelled with his sister Grete.

Notes:

Or Anne Beret. She is Anne Bergithe in the Sakshaug church book birth record.

Living with her parents and siblings in the 1875 Norwegian census.

According to Nina and NÆSS, Anne Bergithe travelled to Fergus Falls in 1884 or 1885 and married Andrew Grande. They lived in Virginia, Minnesota, and she had six children.

She is not listed in the Sakshaug emigration records. The 1900 census lists her year of immigration as 1885. The 1910 census lists her year of immigration as 1886. The 1920 census lists her year of immigration as “Un.” the 1930 census lists her year of immigration as 1884.

In the 1905 Minnesota state census, Andrew and Annie (as Grandy) and family live in Missabe Mountain Twp in St. Louis County. Andrew is a carpenter.

In the 1900 census, Annie (b. Jul 1864) and Andrew (b. Jun 1858) lived in Duluth. Andrew is a carpenter and came to the U.S. in 1882. Annie came in 1885. Their children: Mamie J (b. Apr 1890), Agnes (b. Jul 1892), John A. (b. Jan 1894), and Geda R. (b. Aug 1896). Annie has had five children, four still living.

in the 1910 census, the Grandes live in Virginia where Andrew is a building contractor. Annie B has had seven children, six still living.

In her April 24, 1920, passport application, she claims to have lived in the U.S. uninterruptedly for 35 years from 1885 to 1920, of which 15 years were in Duluth and 20 years in Virginia, Minnesota. She gives her name as Annie Grande and claims to be going abroad for no more than six months to visit relatives. She intends to leave the U.S. at the port of New York aboard a ship of the Norwegian-American line on June 20, 1920. She is described as 55 years old, 5 feet, 3 inches tall with blue eyes and gray hair. She lives at 105 N, Fifth Ave. W., Virginia, Minnesota.

The New York Passenger lists show that she returned to New York on September 7, 1920, aboard the SS Stavangerfjord which had sailed from Christiania on August 28th. She seems to have been accompanied by Christ and Sara Christofferson, of 512 2nd Street in Virginia. Christ’s passport number was 1 number higher than Annie’s (31048 vs. 31047).

In the 1930 census, Annie was a widow living in Virginia with her sons and daughter Mamie.

In the 1940 census, Annie and Mayme lived 107 5th Avenue North in Virginia in a house they owned worth $10,000 (!), the same house in which both had lived five years earlier. Neither Annie nor Mayme were employed but Mayme was a high school graduate. Living with them was a lodger, Florence Iverson, a third-grade teacher in the public school.

Birth:
her 1920 passport application asserts July 20th

Anne married Andrew GRANDE on 22 Nov 1890 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Andrew was born in Jun 1858 in Norway; died on 2 Aug 1924 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 8 Nov 1868, Saxhaug, Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway

Notes:

Not born on Nes.

As Johan Andreassen Ness, he emigrated from Saxhaug in late May of 1887. Nina says he came to Fergus Falls and then lived in Duluth.

In the 1900 census, a John Ness, b. July 1868 in Norway, was a single man rooming in Fargo. He was a laborer.

In the 1920 census, he was John A Ness, 51, a farmer in Berthold Twp, Ward County, North Dakota.

The family was still together and living in Berthold Twp in the 1930 census.

John, Hanna, and Lester lived in Berthold Twp in the 1940 census in the same house in which they had lived five years earlier.

Family/Spouse: Hannah JOHNSON. Hannah was born on 13 Feb 1875 in Sweden; died on 2 Sep 1974 in Ward County, North Dakota; was buried in Wild Rose Cemetery, Berthold, Ward County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Carpenter, merchant

Notes:

In the 1900 Norwegian census, Hermann Næss, b. 1870, and his wife Marie Næss, b. 1871 in Stenkjær, live in Trondheim.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, Herman Næss, b. 10 Oct 1870, and his wife, Marie Næss, b. 19 Mar 1871, live in Trondheim. Herman ran a grocery store. His widowed mother lives with the family.

Birth:
day and month from NÆSS

Died:
NÆSS

Buried:
Norway Burial Index, DIS-Norge, 1700-2010

Family/Spouse: Marie Amalie STAMNES. Marie was born on 19 Mar 1871 in Stenkjær, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 15 Feb 1960 in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway; was buried on 22 Jun 1960 in Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1900 Norwegian census, he lived in Trondheim with his brother Hermann and family. Olaf was a stone cutter.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Baker

Notes:

Spelled Osker in his mother’s diary. Unmarried, diabetic.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1922-MN-010119
• Occupation: Grocer in his brother’s business, dealer in farm products
• Baptism: 4 Mar 1870, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 4 Oct 1885, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

Oleanna Johannesdatter, 43, and her four children (Jon Martinussen, 11, Marie Martinussdatter, 7, Anna Martinussdatter, 9, and Hans Martinussen, 5) left Norway on 5 April 1882 on the feeder ship Tasso to Hull, England. Their destination was Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

He married his 2nd cousin.

In the 1895 census, J. M. and Gertie are living in Fergus Falls. J. M. is a clerk.

In the 1900 census, John is shown as 30, having been born in Norway in December of 1869. He and Gertie had been married 5 years. Gertie is 27, born in December of 1872, and has had two children, both still living. The children are Mabel, 3 (born June 1896) and George, 2 (born in August of 1897). John is shown as having emigrated in 1882, Gertie in 1892. John is a grocer. Gertie is shown as not being able to speak English. John owns his home without mortgage.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he and Gertie live at the west end of Channing Avenue. He is in business with his father as J M Bye & Co. at 103 Bismarck Avenue E.

In the 1903 Fergus Falls city directory, he was John M Bye, a grocer with his business at 103 Bismarck Avenue E. He and Gertie resided at the west end of Channing Avenue.

In the 1905 directory, he was John M Bye, a dealer in Groceries, Crockery, Glassware and Gents’ Furnishings at 103 Bismarck Avenue E. He and Gertie resided at 420 Channing Avenue W.

In the 1905 state census, he and his family live on Channing Avenue in Fergus Falls. John is a grocery merchant.

In the 1907 directory, his name is listed with bold letters but he has no occupation shown. He and Gertie still live at 420 Channing Avenue W.

As J. M. Bye, he was one of the charter members of Trønderlag of America in 1908. This was (and still is) the bygdelag for emigrants and their descendants from the Trøndelag region of Norway. J. M. Bye, of Fergus Falls and from Vårdalen, was listed in the Trønderlaget’s 1910 yearbook. In that yearbook, J. M. is shown to have emigrated to the U.S. in 1882.

In the 1909 directory, he is John M Bye, no bold letters or occupation or wife’s name shown. He lives at 420 Channing Avenue W.

In the 1910 census, he is shown as age 40 and a widower; apparently a fairly recent widower because he has a one-year old daughter. John is a dealer in farm produce. He owned his home without mortgage.

In the 1911 city directory, he is now in the grocery business with his brother Hans as part of the Hans P Bye & Co. with a store at 220 Lincoln Avenue W. He still lives at 420 Channing Ave W.

John, his brother Hans, and perhaps their uncle Theodor were original shareholders of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Fergus Falls when it was organized on May 22, 1915.

In the 1920 census, (incorrectly indexed as Beel) the family was living at 425 Channing Avenue in a home he owned without mortgage. The family is John, 50, no occupation, Mabel, 24, a school teacher, George M., 22, a clerk at the post office, John G., 19, a shipping clerk at a wholesale house, Myrtle T., 16, and Margaret, 10. John is shown as married. He came to this country in 1882 and is naturalized.

His obit noted that he had been 20 years with H P Bye & Company on Washington in Fergus Falls but had retired on account of ill health. “One of his daughters teaches school at Stanley, N.D.”

John M.’s Minnesota death certificate #1922-MN-010119. Another John Bye died in Otter Tail County on Jan 31, 1922.

There was no such house as 425 Channing in 2008.

John prepared his will on June 21, 1920. His brother was named as the executor of his will. That will was recognized by the probate judge of Otter Tail County on 6 Jul 1922. The terms of the will granted his wife a life estate on his homestead in the city of Fergus Falls. The rest of his property was to go to his children, “share and share alike.” The will notes that his wife is not included in the distribution of his personal property because John had a $2000 life insurance policy “payable direct to her.”

According to the obit, John died “at 6:45 PM, “from apoplexy.” According to his death certificate, he died from a cerebral hemorrhage for which cardiovascular disease was a contributory cause. The doctor filling out the death certificate said that he confirmed the diagnosis of cerebral hemorrhage by the fact of “paralysis.” The informant for the information in John’s death certificate was his brother Hans. John was a retired merchant. He was married but the death certificate did not include a name for John’s wife. Hans knew that John’s father was M. E. Bye but all he knew of his mother, or at least all he had included in John’s death certificate, was “Olianna” with no last name.

According to Mike, “John Bye put out ‘year plates’ for his grocery store and my mother has several of them with the dates.”

His naturalization records:

John M. Bye
Otter Tail County
Reel 2
Volume C
Code 4
Page 434

and

John M. Bye
Otter Tail County
Reel 6
Volume J
Code 18
Page 273

Died:
St. Luke’s Hospital. Find-A-Grave says June 1st.

Buried:
1:30 PM funeral at Bethlehem Lutheran Church

Johan married Grethe Johanna Mikalsdatter (Gertie) HAGA on 4 Jun 1895 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Grethe (daughter of Michael Olsen HAGE and Gurina Johnsdatter SKOGN) was born on 20 Dec 1872 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 12 Oct 1926 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 15 Oct 1926 in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1949-MN-003383
• Baptism: 26 Dec 1871, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 3 Oct 1886, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

Oleanna Johannesdatter, 43, and her four children (Jon Martinussen, 11, Marie Martinussdatter, 7, Anna Martinussdatter, 9, and Hans Martinussen, 5) left Norway on 5 April 1882 on the feeder ship Tasso to Hull, England. Their destination was Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Lived for awhile in Fergus Falls, later in Duluth. After marriage, she and Andrew lived in Duluth for a year or two, then moved to Cedar Lake.

Edna Cartwright, Anna's sister's daughter, said in a 1970 letter that her mother remembered Anna as a beautiful young girl. Edna herself remembered Anna as a lovely person whom she loved almost as much as her own mother. Edna said that she wished Anna could have had an easier life.

Died at the home of her son (Albin) where she had been for a week following two weeks of hospitalization at St. Joseph's Hospital, Brainerd.

In addition to, presumably, all of her living children, the following people attended Anna’s funeral according to a newspaper account: Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Graham and family, Oak Park, Ill.; Mrs. Marie Orfold and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Orfold, Biwabik; Mr. Conrad Skogen, Duluth; Mr. and Mrs. Knute Johnson and family, St. Louis Park; and Mr. and Mrs. Donald Carlson, Minneapolis.

David believes that there may have been some hard feelings in the family or among the siblings regarding the inheritance from Martinus after his death in 1932. All or most of it went to Hans Peter and little or nothing to Anna or Marie.

Anna rarely, perhaps never, got back to Fergus Falls to visit her father or brothers after she left for Duluth.

Anne’s letter to her husband, addressed to him in Deer River, Minnesota:
(translated from the Norwegian)

Cedar Lake, July 30th, 1906

Dear Andrew,

I received a letter from you on the 26th. You asked about the haying but I have already written two letters to you since we were through with the haying and with this letter it will be the 3rd. You must not be getting all the letters I write you.

We finished the haying on the 18th of July. We filled the hay barn and also made a big stack. There came a little rain on the last load but that didn’t hurt anything.

Mrs. Holem and Mrs. Rud visited me yesterday and last Thursday I was to a Ladies Aid at Mrs. Rom.

The pigs have grown a lot since you were home. We have so many flowers blooming. We had bad luck with our gander. He fell on his head in a deep bucket with water in and he drowned. Now the goose goes around here alone.

We are all well and hope that you are fine also. There aren’t many berries this year. We find only enough to eat.

Next year if we are all well and you work away from home I want to go with you. I am tired of being so alone in the wilds. Also it will be better schooling for the children. Greetings from all the boys, Astrid, and Lillie.

Write as soon as you can so we will hear how everything is with you.

Best of everything to my dear husband.

Your Annie

One of her granddaughters recalls remembers Annie as “incredibly sweet and kind.” In her last years, Annie’s legs were ulcerated and wrapped. “She would let me sit on her lap over my mother’s protests. She would frequently instruct me ‘Go get my handbag’ and she would fish out a quarter - great wealth back then!”

Death Certificate ID# 1949-MN-003383   
Date of Death: 03/22/1949
County of Death: CROW WING  

The August 21, 1947, edition of the Brainerd Daily Dispatch, probably referring to August 14, 1947, records: “Mr. and Mrs. Henry Norton of Chicago, Mrs. Arthur Cartwright and Mrs. J.B. Orfold of Biwabik visited with Mrs. Anne Everson and John Everson on Thursday.”

She died of cardiac failure. Her son Albin, of Aitkin, was the informant for her death certificate. Albin knew that Anna’s father was Martin Bye but he did not know the name of Anna’s mother.

She died intestate. The probate hearing was to be May 24, 1949, according to a notice in the edition of the Brainerd newspaper. Albin Everson, petitioner, asked that Naomi Everson be appointed “administratrix.” The probate judge was L. B. Kinder, the same judge who married John and Mabel.
 

Birth:
parish birth record found by Mark

Confirmation:
perhaps First English Lutheran Church

Died:
Her death certificate says that she died in Rabbit Lake Twp but usually lived in Deerwood Twp

Buried:
Her funeral was from the Seavey Funeral Home, not the Dorris church.

Anna married Anders (Andrew) EVERSON on 4 Mar 1892 in Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin. Anders (son of Iver Halvorsen GUSTAD and Ane Arntsdatter VINJE) was born on 15 Feb 1856 in Kvernes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway; was christened on 12 May 1856 in Kvernes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway; died on 15 Dec 1942 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 21 Dec 1942 in Dorris Cemetery, Cedar Lake, Farm Island Twp, Aitkin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1966-MN-015728
• Occupation: Cook
• Social Security Number: 474-58-3355 issued in Minnesota in 1965
• Baptism: 15 Jun 1873, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 2 Oct 1887, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

Marie married her first cousin.

Oleanna Johannesdatter, 43, and her four children (Jon Martinussen, 11, Marie Martinussdatter, 7, Anna Martinussdatter, 9, and Hans Martinussen, 5) left Norway on 5 April 1882 on the feeder ship Tasso to Hull, England. Their destination was Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Her death certificate, for which the informant was her son Robert, says that she was born in Trondheim.

Living in Biwabik, MN, at the time of Martin Bye’s death in 1932 and Anna Bye Everson's death in 1949. Living in Biwabik at the time of the 1920 census (January 20th). All five children were living at home at that time.

According to Edna Cartwright, she was 9 when the family emigrated and 15 when her mother died. These dates are only slightly inconsistent with other information. According to the 1920 census, Marie immigrated in 1883 and was naturalized as a citizen in 1892.

The 1890-91 Duluth directory lists Marie as Mary. Mary Bye is shown as "domestic, John Orfald" and living in West Duluth.

Lived with Edna in her later years and "was well into her '90s" when she died (according to Lil).

Marie was referred to as Mary by many in the family.

An article in the August 11, 1918, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune, datelined Biwabik, was headlined “Biwabik Woman and Daughter Found in Woods Following Prolonged Search.” Marie and one one of her daughters became lost picking blueberries. The Home guard and firemen found them “a few miles from the town of McKinley, wandering helplessly about the woods.” They had been lost for two days and a night.

The Thursday, October 18, 1945, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that “Mrs. J.B. Orfald, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cartwright and daughter, Linda, of Biwabik visited with the John Eversons Tuesday.”

The Thursday, August 21, 1947, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that “Mr. and Mrs. Henry Norton of Chicago, Mrs. Arthur Cartwright and Mrs. J. B. Orfold of Biwabik visited with Mrs. Anne Everson and John Everson on Thursday.”

Minnesota death certificate shows the date of death as June 19, 1966 in St. Louis County (Minnesota Death Certificate ID# 1966-MN-015728). The SSDI shows her date of death as August 15, 1966, with the indication “verified with family.”

Another Marie Orfald died in St. Louis County on May 25, 1938. (Death Cert # 1938-MN-013506)

From her obituary in the Biwabik newspaper:

Marie Othelia Orfald, a Biwabik resident since 1898, died early Sunday morning at Virginia Municipal Hospital. She had been in failing health since April and had been admitted to the hospital on June 3rd.

She was born in Trondheim, Norway on April 28, 1873.

She was a member of the Biwabik Community United Church of Christ.

She is survived by one son, Robert W. Orfald of Virginia, and five daughters: Mrs. Jennie Goodman, Biwabik, Mrs. Myrtle Lehto, Chicago, Mrs. Harry (Ruth) Saxhaug, Virginia, Mrs. Mabel Norton, Chicago, and Mrs. Arthur (Edna) Cartwright, Biwabik. She is also survived by 17 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren, and 31 great-great-grandchildren.

Her pallbearers were Vernon Saxhaug, Virginia, Richard Dane, Lakeland, Daniel Norton, Chicago, and Robert, John, and Rickey Goodman, all of Biwabik.

Her death certificate gives her usual residence as 322 2nd Ave N in Biwabik. She died of cerebral thrombosis.

Birth:
28 Apr in SSDI

Died:
Virginia Municipal Hospital where she had been for 16 days

Buried:
family plot

Marie married Johannes (John) Berntson ORFALD on 3 Apr 1893 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Johannes (son of Bernt Andreas Monson AARFALD and Anne Johannesdatter) was born on 1 Aug 1866 in Inderøy, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 23 May 1947 in Biwabik, St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried on 26 May 1947 in Lakeside Cemetery, Biwabik, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1946-MN-011782
• Occupation: Grocer, Shoe Salesman
• Baptism: 14 Nov 1875, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway
• Confirmation: 1889, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

Oleanna Johannesdatter, 43, and her four children (Jon Martinussen, 11, Marie Martinussdatter, 7, Anna Martinussdatter, 9, and Hans Martinussen, 5) left Norway on 5 April 1882 on the feeder ship Tasso to Hull, England. Their destination was Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

The 1891-92 Duluth directory lists two of the Byes. Mary Bye is shown as "domestic, John Orfald" and living in West Duluth. Marie Bye was also called Mary. Hans Bye is shown as "driver, Orfald & Aune" and his address as "boards 2330 W Michigan." Orfald & Aune was a meat store at 2101 W. Superior in Duluth that was a partnership between Martin Orfald and Peter Aune.

In the 1893-1894 Duluth city directory, a Hans Bye, laborer, lives at 2302 West Michigan.

“Mr. Bye took a prominent part in the affairs of the city during his lifetime. He was for a number of years employed in the flower mills of the city, and later operated a grocery store in partnership with his brother, the late J. M. Bye. He served as alderman from the Fourth ward for several terms and gave freely of his time in the interests of this city and its citizens. He was popular with his fellow-man and highly regarded in the community.”

In the 1900 census, the newly-married Hans and Marie were living at 208 Bismark Avenue in a home that they rented. Hans is 24 (born Sept 1875) and Marie is 25 (born Nov 1874). They had been married 0 years and Marie had had 0 children. Both had emigrated from Norway in 1882. Hans is shown as a millhand in a flour mill.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he was Hans P Bye, a miller for the F Flour Mills Co. He and Mary lived at 208 Bismarck Avenue E.

In the 1903 Fergus Falls city directory, he was Hans P Bye, an oiler for F Flour Mills Co. He and Mary lived at 108 Bancroft Avenue E.

In the 1905 Fergus Falls directory, he was Hans P Bye, still an oiler for the F Flour Mills Co. He and Mary resided at 823 Vine Street.

In the 1905 census Hans (29, a miller) and Marie, 30, live in Biwabik, Twp 58, St. Louis County. The census form that he and Marie are listed on calls their location the “Duluth Mine Location” and is part of a different set of forms from the one that lists John and Marie Orfald who were also in Biwabik at this time. Hans’s entry seems to indicate that he and Marie had only been in Biwabik for a couple of months.

In the 1907 and 1909 Fergus Falls directories, he and Marie live at 126 Channing Avenue W. He is still an oiler for the F Flour Mills Co.

Hans was one of the charter members of Trønderlag of America in 1908. This was (and still is) the bygdelag for emigrants and their descendants from the Trøndelag region of Norway. Hans Bye, of Fergus Falls and from Vårdalen, was listed in the Trønderlaget’s 1910 yearbook. In that yearbook, Hans is shown as having emigrated to the U.S. in 1882.

By the time of the 1910 census, Hans, 34, and Marie, 35, were living at 126 Channing in a house that they owned without a mortgage. They had been married for 10 years and Marie had never had any children. Hans is a workman in a carpenter shop. Marie appears to have emigrated in 1894.

In the 1911 directory, he has a grocery business called the H P Bye & Co., a partnership with his brother with a store at 220 Lincoln Avenue W. Hans and Mary still live at 126 Channing Avenue W.

Hans, his brother John, and perhaps their uncle Theodor were original shareholders of the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Fergus Falls when it was organized on May 22, 1915. The bank opened for business on August 2nd.

Registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Fergus Falls. His birthday is listed as September 24. He lives at 126 Channing Avenue N., Fergus Falls. He is a merchant for the H. P. Bye and Co. at 220 Lincoln Avenue N., Fergus Falls. His nearest relative is his wife, Marie, of the Channing Avenue address. He is described as tall and of stout build with blue eyes and grey hair.

In the 1920 census, Hans is listed as having no occupation (“none”). Hans is 44, Marie is 45. Hans emigrated in 1882 and Marie in 1893. They are still living at 126 Channing Ave.

In the 1930 census, Hans, 54, and Mary, 55, were living at 126 Chamin (sp?) Ave. in Fergus Falls with Anna Stangvick (“sister”) and Martin (“grandfather”) in a $4000 house that Hans owned. Hans is a salesman in a “shoe department.” The household had a radio. Anna was 38 and single; Martin was 82 and widowed. All four people are shown as having been born in Norway as were their parents. Hans is showing as having emigrated in 1882. The corresponding years of emigration for Mary, Anna, and Martin are shown as 1895, 1899, and 1880 respectively.

In the 1931 city directory, he and Mary live at 126 Channing Avenue W.

In the 1935/36 Fergus Falls city directory, he and Marie reside at 126 Channing Avenue West. In the 1939/40 Fergus Falls city directory, their telephone number is 937W.

In the 1940 census, he and Marie and Marie’s sister Anna live at 126 Channing in Fergus Falls. Hans has no occupation, is shown as unable to work, but earned $1200 the previous year. Hans and Marie were educated through the fifth grade.

In his September 13, 1945 letter to his brother Harold, George Everson wrote: “Hans Bye was here the last part of August. He stayed a whole week. He did not go to Biwabik. He said he enjoyed his visit very much.” In all likelihood, that was Hans’s last visit to Deerwood.

According to his death certificate, Hans died of stomach cancer which he had had for several months. He spent the last three-and-a-half days of his life at St. Luke’s Hospital in Fergus Falls. His “usual residence” was 126 West Channing, Fergus Falls. Hans did not have a social security number. Margaret Bye Ellingboe was the informant for his death certificate and she knew that Hans’s parents were Martinus Bye and Olianna Johnson.

Naturalization record:

Hans Bye
Otter Tail County
Reel 11
Volume H
Code 30
Page 152

Birth:
death date per death certificate

Died:
St. Luke’s Hospital, 11:45 PM, “of cancer”

Hans married Marie (Mary) STANGVIK on 22 Apr 1900 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Marie (daughter of Ole Olsson STANGVIK and Marit Martinusdatter TORVIK) was born on 6 Nov 1874 in Stangvik, Møre og Romsdal, Norway; died on 15 Jul 1941 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 17 Jul 1941 in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was living with his uncle, Theodor Johnson, in Fergus Falls in the 1900 U.S. census, employed as an “agent for cigars.” That census claims he came to the U.S. in 1880. As Fridthjof, or any variation, he doesn’t appear in any other U.S. censuses. However, a 33 year-old Fred Whist, born in Norway is recorded in Los Angeles in the 1910 census. Fred is a restaurant waiter and is married to Hilma, age 27, born in Sweden. That Fred and Hilma, now with a daughter Thelma, are still in Los Angeles County in the 1920 census. Fred is now 45, works as a salesman for a produce company, and claims to have come to the U.S. in 1890. By the 1930 census, Hilma, now as Helena, is a widow, still in Los Angeles. Hilma died in Los Angeles in 1959. Her daughter Thelma (born Edith) died in Los Angeles as Thelma Niederwerfer in 1993. Hilma’s maiden name is Andersen in Thelma’s death record; Hilma’s maiden name is Olson on Thelma/Edith’s birth record.

A 21 year-old “Axel” Whist was a land office clerk in St. Paul in the 1895 Minnesota state census. That Axel had been in Minnesota for two years.

Notes:

In the 1900 Norwegian census, in which he still lived at home with his parents, his occupation was shown to “overkonstabel.”

Notes:

In the 1900 Norwegian census, in which she still lived at home with her parents, her occupation was shown to “tjenestepige - husgjer.”

Birth:
birthdate in 1910 censu

Notes:

In the 1900 Norwegian census, in which he still lived at home with his parents, his occupation was shown to “kontorist ved station.”

Notes:

In the 1900 Norwegian census, in which he still lived at home with his parents, his occupation was shown to “kontorist ved station.”

Notes:

He was living with his parents in Verdal in the 1910 census. His occupation was skoleelev (pupil).

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1918-MN-013277

Notes:

Gilmer and Marie live not far from Conrad and Theodore in Fergus Falls in the 1910 census. Gilmer is the manager of the family butcher shop.

His obit in the 16 October 1918 edition of the Fergus Falls newspaper:

Gilmer Johnson, one of the well known residents of this city, died at 11 PM Tuesday evening at the home of his father, Theo Johnson, on Bismarck Avenue from pneumonia.

Mr. Johnson was born in this city and was 44 years of age at the time of his death. He had been in North Dakota engaged in wheat buying when he was taken ill. He is survived by his wife and one son who will have general and sincere sympathy.

His wife has been at International Falls on a visit with her brothers and it has been impossible to reach her by wire since he was taken ill, possibly on account of the derangements of the wire service owing to the forest fires. The funeral arrangements will be announced later.

Gilmer was a victim of the so-called “Spanish Flu” epidemic. His death certificate says that he died from influenza with double central and broncho-pneumonia.

Gilmer married Marie Margareta REHN on 30 Oct 1907 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Marie was born about 1885 in Sweden; died in Mar 1974 in Salem, Marion County, Oregon; was buried in Belcrest Memorial Park, Salem, Marion County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1946-MN-011614
• Occupation: Meat Cutter
• Social Security Number: 470-10-9556

Notes:

Conrad and family were living next door to his father on Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls in the 1910 census. Conrad is a butcher in the family butcher shop.

He registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Fergus Falls. He lives at 218 Washington Avenue East in Fergus Falls. He works in his father’s meat market at 222 Washington Avenue. His nearest relative is his wife, Lizzie Johnson. He is of medium height and build with blue eyes and brown hair.

In the 1920 census, Conrad and his family live on Washington Avenue in Fergus Falls, not far from Conrad’s father. Also living with the family is Lizzie’s sister, Ragna Lunde. Conrad is a shopman in a meat shop.

In the 1930 census, the family is still on Washington Avenue in Fergus Falls. Thora has left home but Margaret is still at home and living there with her new husband. Also living with the family is Ragna Lunde and boarder named Ernest Haeuser.

In the 1935/36 Fergus Falls city directory, he and Lisse reside at 218 Washington Avenue East. In the 1937/38 Fergus Falls city directory, his address is the same but his occupation is shown as meat cutter. In the 1939/40 Fergus Falls city directory, their telephone number is 126.

He was living at 218 Washington Avenue in Fergus Falls when he died of hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

His obituary from the May 13, 1946, edition of the Fergus Falls Daily Journal:

Conrad Johnson, 69, died Sunday at 11 AM at his home at 218 East Washington. He has been afflicted with a heart ailment for the last four years and, though unable to work, he has been up and around each day.

Mr. Johnson was born in this city on 24 August 1877 and would have been 69 on his next birthday. Conrad was associated with his father in the meat business and, after the business was discontinued, he was employed in other meat markets in this city. He was married on 29 August 1904 to Miss Liza (Lizzie) Lunde. He was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church. Funeral arrangements are pending word from the son in South America to whom a cablegram has been sent.

Conrad married Lisa LUNDE on 29 Aug 1904 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Lisa (daughter of Asle Nielsen LUNDE and Syverinde Monsdatter BJONE) was born on 12 Aug 1879 in Minnesota; died on 15 Apr 1968 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Single and living with Theodore’s family in the 1895, 1900, 1905, and 1910 censuses. In the 1905 census she is shown as Ellen S.

In the Fergus Falls city directories, she is Miss Sophie Johnson, never with an occupation.

She is not the person in Minnesota death certificates 1910-MN-009515, 1918-MN-012997, or 1918-MN-013677.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1963-MN-014803
• Baptism: 2 Mar 1884, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

He was an apprentice carpenter in the 1900 census.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he lives with his parents and works for the J M Bye and Co.

In the 1905 Fergus Falls directory, she was Miss Hilga L and was employed at the State Hospital.

A 21 year-old Gust Johnson, both parents born in Norway, was listed as a nurse at the state hospital in the 1905 state census.

Cecil Johnson of Pelican Rapids was the informant for his death certificate. Gustaf was a car man for the Great Northern Railway. Gustaf was a widower and his usual residence was 1006 Sheridan Street in Fergus Falls. He died of uremia and kidney failure.

In the 1910 census, he and Helga live in Devils Lake, North Dakota. The couple had been married for 2 years and had had no children. Gust was a tin smith in the “shops.” According to the birth record for Alice, he was a coppersmith.

In the 1920 and 1930 censuses, he and his wife and son lived in Minot, North Dakota. Gust was an air man for the steam railroad.

His obit noted that he was a carman for the Great Northern Railway for 41 years, and a member of the railroad carmens and pensioners association.

Birth:
His obit said 2 January.

Died:
Lake Region Hospital

Buried:
buried with Helga

Gustave married Helga L BYE on 19 Jun 1907 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Helga (daughter of Henry Hendrikssen BYE and Lena Christena SEVERSON) was born on 21 Sep 1881 in Minnesota; died on 8 Oct 1951 in Ward County, North Dakota; was buried in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gustave married Johanna GREFSRUD on 25 Apr 1961 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Johanna was born on 14 Jul 1887; died on 7 Aug 1961 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he lives at home with his parents but is employed by his father’s brother’s meat market. He is not listed in the 1905 directory.

He registered for the draft in San Diego on June 5th, 1917. He lived with his wife and child at 1543 7th in San Diego. He was a self-employed attorney with his office at 218 Owl Building in San Diego. He claimed 20 months of previous military service as a private in a hospital company in the U.S. Army. He was described as of medium height, slender build, with blue eyes and black hair.

In the 1910 census, he and his wife and son lived in Coronado City where he was a solicitor for a retail grocery concern.

In the 1920 census, he and his wife and son lived in San Diego. He was a criminal lawyer.

In the 1930 census, he and his wife and son lived at 3445 32nd Street in San Diego in a house that they owned. Edwin was an attorney.

From a highly affected profile of Edwin Johnson written about 1960, as posted with The Johnson Family Tree on Ancestry:

After coming to San Diego in 1907 his first appearance by name in the city directory was as "Teamster, Coronado Beach Company."  A few months later he was helping internationally famous Glen Curtiss build his first hydroplane on North Island.

The Johnsons lived on South Island. North Island and Coronado were connected by a very thin strip of sand.  The inlet on the bay side, protected on north and south by the two larger "islands", and by the sand strip from the open sea on the west, was known as Spanish Bight.  Here, Curtiss experimented with flying boats.

When Ed was 15 years old he was through grammar school and was working in his home state of Minnesota as a "printer's devil." Before E.L.J. came to San Diego, at the age of twenty two, he had just completed two years in the army.  Before that, in addition to printing-office experiences, he had been a miner in the Black Hills and a farmer.

As a young teamster in San Diego, working for John D. Spreckels and others who were developing Coronado, Ed Johnson kept a copy of Blackstone's commentaries under the seat of his wagon.

Law practice for the senior Johnson commenced in 1911.  It included the successful defense for murder charged against one of his former bosses of the Coronado Beach days; also experiences as deputy district attorney from 1923 to 1926. His most interesting case was the one written up in "Master Detective" in 1950.  The facts, which had occurred 27 years before, concerned a successful prosecution in San Diego of a first degree murder charge without the availability of a corpse. The victim had just disappeared--forever.

Birth:
other sources say November 1885

Edwin married Loretta Wilhelmina ACHENBACH on 2 Sep 1907 in San Diego County, California. Loretta was born on 6 May 1887 in Meade County, South Dakota; died on 29 Jul 1952 in San Diego County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Still living at home in the 1910 census.

Died:
Lake Region Hospital

Buried:
This cemetery may also be known as Zion Lutheran Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota.

Constance married Peter J BARRY on 27 Feb 1918 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Peter was born on 14 Mar 1892 in Minnesota; died on 21 Jul 1960 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1968-MN-007084

Notes:

Still living at home in the 1910 census. Living with her widowed mother in the 1920 census. Judith is a clerk in a dry goods store.

In the 1930 census she is the widow Judith L. Moe living with her mother and daughter at 323 Washington Avenue in Fergus Falls.

In the 1941/42 Fergus Falls city directory, as the widow of Elias, she is Judith L. living at 116 Bancroft Avenue East.

She was the informant for Elias’s death certificate.

According to her obit, she was a cashier at the J. C. Penney store for many years.

Referred to as Judith L in her daughter’s obit.

Buried:
apparently as Judith Moe

Judith married Robert S MOE on 29 Jun 1920. Robert (son of Paul MOE and Augusta Maud OLSON) was born on 30 Jun 1893 in Hanska, Brown County, Minnesota; died on 24 May 1929 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 27 May 1929 in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Judith married Elias PEDERSON on 5 Sep 1933 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Elias (son of Peder PEDERSON and Anna ERICKSON) was born on 14 Jun 1865 in Namdalen, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 25 Oct 1939 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 28 Oct 1939 in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Doesn’t seem to be listed in the 1905 state census but she is listed in the 1910 census.

In the 1905 state census she is listed with the household of her aunt and uncle: Theodore and Martha.

One source refers to her as Geda Eletta.

An obit:

Mrs. Geda E. Moe, 85, 116 E. Bancroft, died Friday, July 23, at Lake Region Hospital. Services are scheduled for 10 a .m. Wednesday, July 28, at Zion Lutheran Church with Rev. James Armstrong officiating. Burial will be in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery.

The daughter of Charles and Mary (Bjertness) Johnson, she was born July 16, 1897, in Fergus Falls. A life member of Zion Lutheran Church, she was baptized and confirmed there. On Dec. 1, 1917, she married Phillip J. Moe. The couple moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and she resided in Iowa while her husband was stationed in the military service there during World War I. She returned to Fergus Falls when her husband was sent overseas. Also spending a time in Wisconsin, she resided in Fergus Falls most of her life.

Her husband died in September 1978.

She had served as president of the ladies aid at Zion Lutheran Church, had been president and treasurer of the Pioneer Home Sunshine Society and was a member of the World War I Barracks Auxiliary. She was moderator of a local Saturday morning radio program, "The Christian Woman Speaks."

Surviving are a son, Phillip J. Moe Jr., Campbell, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Otto (Ruth) Kvernstoen, Fergus Falls, Mrs. Dwain (Nancy) Tollefson, Crookston; 16 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren; several nieces and nephews.

Visitation is this evening and all day Tuesday at the Olson Funeral Home, continuing at church one hour prior to services Wednesday morning.
 

Geda married Phillip Johannes MOE on 1 Dec 1917. Phillip (son of Paul MOE and Augusta Maud OLSON) was born on 19 Oct 1894 in Hanska, Brown County, Minnesota; died on 22 Sep 1978 in Cass County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ancestry trees call her Louise Camilla.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1916-MN-010169

Notes:

The informant for her death certificate was her sister, Constance Johnson. Ruth’s residence when she died was 323 Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls. She died of tuberculosis complicated by “la grippe.”