Karen Olsdatter

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 8 Oct 1826, Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

A Karen Olsdatter, daughter of Ole Knudsson and Anne Tostensdatter, and born 24 Jun 1812, was confirmed in Land 8 Oct 1826. Her residence farm appears to be Masvoldssjo or Marvoldssjo. The Land birth records for this date are unavailable on Digitalarkivet.

Birth:
Karvoldie

Karen married Christian Christiansen SKOGSTAD on 10 Nov 1836 in Land, Oppland, Norway. Christian (son of Christian Amundsen and Berte Sÿversdatter) was born on 30 Apr 1812 in Land, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Apr 1838, Vestre Toten, Oppland, Norway
• Confirmation: 3 Oct 1852, Vestre Toten, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She was born Christiana according to the birth record in the church book. Her birth farm seems to be Fjeldstadhagen. Her confirmation record (as 14-1/2 year-old Christiane Christiansdatter, residence farm name starts with Gr) shows her birth farm as Fjelstad.

Her farm name in the marriage record seems to be Ianmark. She was 25 years old.

Shown in the 1865 Norwegian census as Kristiane Kristiansdatter, born in 1838 in Toten vestre. Sources that say that she was born in Aflangrud are incorrect. She is shown as born in Vestre Toten in the entry in the Ness parish record for her marriage to Ole.

Supposedly a singer in Oslo.

According to Cora, "not a well person as she had asthma."

Cora says, "she was very well liked, had a lot of friends, belonged to the Norwegian Lutheran Church in LaCrosse. Her funeral was so big [and] had so many flowers. I haven't seen so many flowers at a funeral (until Maurice's). In those days they had special built carriages for choirs, etc. It impressed me so I will never forget it."

An article in the April 13th La Crosse newspaper called her Christina Anderson. She died in the afternoon at her home, 603 South Eighth Street, “after long suffering with bronchial asthma.” The article said that she came to La Crosse in 1870.

According to the article in the La Crosse Chronicle on Saturday, April 14, 1906, the funeral (for “Christine Anderson”) was held on Sunday, April 15, 1906, “at 2 o’clock from the residence, 603 South Eighth Street and at 2:30 o’clock from the Norwegian Lutheran church, corner West Avenue and Ferry streets. The Rev. R. Anderson will officiate and interment will be made in Oak Grove cemetery. {This church was St. Paul’s Norwegian Lutheran Church, identified in the city directory as being at the corner of West Avenue and Division Street.}

“Carl Anderson, a son, of Viroqua, and Carl Skogstad, a brother, of Grand Meadow, Minn., are in the city and will remain to attend the funeral.”

The Friday edition of the La Crosse Chronicle referred to her as Mrs. Christina Anderson and mentions that her son Ole C. is living in La Crosse (“of this city”).

From the La Crosse city directories of the time, as well as the 1906 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, the church on the NW corner of West and Ferry was called (and still is called) the English Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity. The nearest church to the Andersons that was identified as a Norwegian Lutheran Church was on the SE corner of 6th and Division. The nearest church to the Andersons was then a German Methodist church (it’s still standing but its denomination has changed) a block away at Ferry and 7th.

Christiana had relatives in Grand Meadow, MN, by the name of Jorgens and Skogstad. Cora met some of them at her grandmother's funeral. The cemetery records list her as Christiana (Skogstad) Anderson.

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. Christiana is shown as owning her house, free and clear without mortgage. The census enumerator apparently started to write “37” for years married for Christiana before, apparently, realizing that Christiana was a widow. Christiana’s year of immigration is confirmed on the census form as 1867 and “32” is indicated for her as her number of years in the United States.

Most interestingly, Christiana is shown as having had had six children, only two living.

In the 1900 city directory, she is Mrs Christiana Anderson, widow of Ole, living at 604 S 8th Street. Listed in the 1901-02 and 1905-06 La Crosse city directories as “Mrs. Christina, widow of Ole.” The 1907 city directory points out that “Anderson, Christian” died on April 12, 1906.

In the 1905 Wisconsin state census, she is living in the 17th ward of La Crosse, not far from her son Ole and his family. Also nearby, apparently, is the St. Anna Orphan House. She is shown as Christina, 67, a widow, and her occupation appeares to be “landlady.”

From the Wisconsin Deaths database:

Wisconsin Vital Records Death Index.
Name: Christina Anderson
Death Date: 12 Apr 1906
County: La Crosse
Volume: 03
Page: 0385
Reel: 045
Image: 1374
Index Volume: -
Sequence #: 005491

otftoo calls her Christianna Krogstad.

Baptism:
as Christiana Christensen in IGI

Died:
died in the afternoon according to newspaper records, of bronchial asthma Vol 03 p.0385 Reel 45 image 1374

Buried:
Sec 45, Lot R4, Gravesite G25

Kristiane married Ole Christian Anderson FLØTTUM on 14 Apr 1863 in Næs, Hedmark, Norway. Ole (son of Anders Eriksen /AFLANGRÜD FLØTTUM and Johanne Johnsdatter) was born on 11 Mar 1834 in Aflangrud, Næs, Hedmark, Norway; died on 25 Nov 1898 in La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin; was buried on 27 Nov 1898 in Oak Grove Cemetery, La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Feb 1841, Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

His parents were of Narums when he was born according to the birth entry in the Land parish record.

He and Berte were 26 in the 1865 census and were on the Jenserud farm in Land. Ole was an inderst and day laborer. The owner of the farm (a husmann med jord) was Mikael Ellingsen, the husband of Ole’s wife’s older sister Mari Endresdatter.

His son Martin’s death record in Minnesota Deaths and Burials refers to him as Ole Haugern.

In the 1900 Norwegian census, he is probably the Ole Haugerud, b. 1841, a husmand med jord on Haugerud nedre (“under 9”) in Søndre Lands. Living with him on that farm are his wife Berthe, b. 1842, son Johan, b. 1883, son-in-law Kristen, b. 1877, daughter Marie, b. 1886, daughter Andrine (wife of Kristen), b. 1877, and two grandchildren: Kristine, b. 1898, and Oskar, b. 23 Nov 1899.

The plass referred to as Haugerud was referred to in birth records as Ründtomeie, part of Farm 9. The children and grandchildren from Emil on were born on Ründtomeie. There may have been more than one husmannsplass associated with Ründtom so the designation Ründtomeie may encompass many plasses.

The plass Nordraak, where Karoline was born, is also on Farm 9.

He and Berte were living on Haugerud nedre in the 1910 Norwegian census. The head of household was their son-in-law Kristen Pedersen.

Ole married Berte Endresdatter JENSERUD on 13 Nov 1861 in Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway. Berte was born on 5 Jul 1841 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Feb 1844, Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Andreas was born 3 Feb 1844, bapt 25 Feb 1844, in Land to Christian Christiansen and Karen Olsdatter of Narums.

Andreas is shown as unmarried in the 1865 census.

Sometimes confused with him (e.g., Giblett Family Tree) was another Andreas Christianssen in Land, b. ca 1836, to Christian Pedersen and Anne M Petersdatter of the Bakken farm.

Birth:
gravestone says, incorrectly, 1845

Died:
Lisa Hessler family tree

Buried:
as Andreas C Skogstad according to the Dalby Database

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Dec 1845, Hov sokn, Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

According to the 1900 census, he came to the U.S. in 1866.

In the 1880 census, he was Bernt Christiansen, age 32, living with his family in Moody County.

Family/Spouse: Mathea. Mathea was born on 26 Dec 1839 in Østre Gausdal, Oppland, Norway; died on 8 Jun 1884 in Moody County, South Dakota; was buried in Lone Rock Cemetery, Flandreau, Moody County, South Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1926-MN-008958
• Confirmation: 26 Sep 1869, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

If we go by the biography in the History of Mower County, he and Ragnild were married on December 29 of some year, probably not 1882, probably 1881.

His confirmation entry in the Søndre Land parish record shows that his father was Christian Christiansson and his mother was Karen Olsdatter.

In the 1880 census, Carl C. Skogstad, born in Norway in 1855, is a farm laborer on the farm of Simon Simonson in Frankford Township, Mower County, Minnesota. (In an 1896 land ownership map of Frankford Twp, the Simonson farm is directly north of the C. C. Skogstad farm.)

In 1883, he bought land from Carrie L. Olmsted and husband described as “E half of SE quarter of Section 8 and North half of NE quarter of Sec 17, all in town 103, range 14.”

In the 1885 state census he is C.C. Skogstad living with his wife and son in Frankford Twp.

In the 1895 state census he and his wife and three children live in Frankford Twp. He has been in Minnesota for 18 years.

An 1896 land ownership map shows that Carl’s 160 acre farm consisted of the east half of the southeastern quarter of Section 8 and the north half of the northeast quarter of Section 17. In a 1915 land ownership map, Josephine Olson is shown as owning the 80 acres in Section 17 and the southern 10 acres of the 80 in Section 8 leaving Carl with only a 70 acre farm by that time.

In the 1900 census, Carl, born in January of 1855, and his wife Ragonild (sp?), born in June of 1850, live in Frankford Township, Mower County, Minnesota, on a farm they own, but is mortgaged. They have three children: Clarence, born April, 1882, Ottis, born October, 1886, and Cora or Cara M., born March, 1890. Carl and his wife were born in Norway; all of the children were born in Minnesota. They had been married 19 years and Ragonild had had 3 children, all 3 still living.

Attended his sister’s funeral in 1906. Resided in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. (East of Austin, south southwest of Rochester.)

In the 1910 census, Carl and his family were still in Frankford Township. The family consisted of Carl C. Skogstad, 55, his wife Raginald, 59, and their daughter Cora M., single and 21. Carl and his wife had been married for 30 years. She had had 3 children, all still living.

In the 1920 census (January 10), Carl, 65, and Ragnild, 69, were living with their daughter Cora, 30, and son-in-law, John Jorgens, 35 on a farm in Frankford Township. Carl came to this country in 1872 and Ragnild in 1863. Both were naturalized in 1897. Living next door was Oscar Skogstad, 28, his wife Nora, 25, and their son Clifford, 2 and 5 months. This Oscar may have been related but, apparently, was not a child of Ragnild.

His son-in-law, John Jorgens, was the informant for his death certificate. Carl died of aortic regurgitation. He had quit farming in 1915.

A biography from the History of Mower County published in 1911:

Carl C. Skogstad, one of the supervisors of Frankford township, is a native of Norway, born January 3, 1855, son of Christian and Caren Skogstad, both of whom spent the span of their years in Norway. Carl C. attended the public schools in Norway, and in 1872 came to America. For five years he did farm and saw-mill work in various places, and then came to Frankford township, where he worked out as a farm hand for seven years. In 1884 he purchased 160 acres of land in sections 8 and 17, developed the land, erected a fine home and the necessary outbuildings, and carried on general farming. He has recently sold ninety acres, leaving him seventy which he conducts with much success. He is a Republican and aside from his town office has been director of his school district for several years. He is a stockholder in the Farmers' Co-operative Creamery at Grand Meadow, and also has other holdings. Mr. Skogstad is a member of the M. W. A. and a communicant of the Lutheran church. He was married December 29, 1882, to Regnald Florrend, born in Norway, June 10, 1850, daughter of Olaf and Martha Steffens, who came to America in 1852 and in 1856 located in Frankford. Mr. and Mrs. Skogstad have three children: Clarence was born April 11, 1883, and is a clerk in Grand Meadow; Otis was born October 10, 1886, and is a student at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn.; Cora M. was born February 20, 1889, and lives at home.

Carl married Ragnild FLORAND about 1881. Ragnild (daughter of Ole FLORAND and Martha OXNABURG) was born on 10 Jun 1850 in Norway; died on 23 Jun 1936 in Mower County, Minnesota; was buried on 26 Jun 1936 in Bear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery, Frankford Twp, Mower County, Minnesota. [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.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Apr 1862, Fluberg, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Birth:
Nordraak 9

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1913-MN-008059
• Baptism: 26 Nov 1865, Fluberg, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He came to the U.S. in 1887 according to his obit.

He was a farmer in Frankford Twp in the 1910 census.

In the 1915 land ownership map of Frankford Twp, M. O. Skogstad’s farm is 150 acres, mostly in the southern half of Section 9 but with 40 acres in the northern half of Section 16.

Birth:
Nordraak 9

Martin married Caroline DALEN on 12 Mar 1891 in Mower County, Minnesota. Caroline (daughter of Gullik Erlandsen DALEN and Kari Syversdatter KIRKEBERG MOEN) was born on 16 Mar 1862 in Racine Twp, Mower County, Minnesota; died on 25 Jul 1913 in Frankford Twp, Mower County, Minnesota; was buried on 28 Jul 1913 in Bear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery, Frankford Twp, Mower County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1947-MN-009618
• Baptism: 11 Feb 1872, Fluberg, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Emil was a farmer in Racine Twp, Mower County, in the 1910 census.

In a 1914 land ownership map of Frankford Twp, Emil owned a 40 acre parcel in Section 7.

Emil was a farmer in Frankford Twp in the 1920 census. He came to the U. S. in 1893.

Emil died from a stomach hemorrhage.

Birth:
Ründtom 9; some sources have 17 Dec 1872 which is wildly incorrect. His gravstone says 1873.

Emil married Emilia SEVERSON on 4 Nov 1896 in Mower County, Minnesota. Emilia (daughter of Erick SEVERSON and Anna Marie) was born on 8 Apr 1876 in Minnesota; died on 13 Nov 1952 in Mower County, Minnesota; was buried on 16 Nov 1952 in Bear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery, Frankford Twp, Mower County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Dec 1877, Fluberg, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Birth:
29 Sep in the 1910 Norwegian census

Family/Spouse: Kristen Pedersen. Kristen was born on 4 Mar 1877 in Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 24 Jul 1881, Fluberg, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Came to the U.S. in 1900. Was staying on his brother Martin’s farm in Mower County at the time of the 1900 census.

In the 1910 census, he is Louis Skogstad, age 28, a farmer in Kickapoo Twp, Mountrail County, North Dakota. He is just very recently married to Anna, age 22, also from Norway, and who came to the U.S. in 1901.

In the 1920 census, the family is still there.

In the 1940 census, Louie and Anna are still farming and Arthur and Obert are still home and single. Mildred and Clifford live just a few farms away.

Family/Spouse: Anna. Anna was born on 18 Feb 1888 in Norway; died on 14 Oct 1981 in Ward County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Dec 1883, Fluberg, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Birth:
Ründtomeie 9

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Mar 1886, Fluberg, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She was an unmarried tjenestepike on Haugerud nedre, with the rest of her family, in the 1910 Norwegian census.

Birth:
Ründtomeie 9

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 Apr 1870
• Confirmation: 23 Nov 1884, Lone Rock Congregation, Flandreau, Moody County, South Dakota

Notes:

In the 1900 census, he and his wife were lived in Union Twp, Moody County, South Dakota. Carl was listed as head of household but living in the household were Carl’s father and both of his brothers.

In the 1910 census, he and Chloa live in Grovena Twp, Moody County. He was the manager of the county poor farm. They had no children.

In the 1920 census, he and Chloe A or Chloa A lived in Flandreau. He was a laborer in a creamery.

Carl married Chloa Annette MEEKER about 1900. Chloa was born on 21 Jul 1879 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 10 Mar 1948 in Moody County, South Dakota; was buried in Union Cemetery, Flandreau, Moody County, South Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 15 Jun 1880
• Confirmation: 28 Jun 1896, Our Saviour’s Lutheran congregation, Flandreau, Moody County, South Dakota

Notes:

Baptized as John Albert.

In the 1900 census, he was unmarried, living with his father and brothers in Union Twp, and working as a well driller.

He and his wife and sons live in Happy Valley, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, in Canada’s 1916 census. Also on that census page, and, thus, living nearby, were Albert’s brother Syvert and his wife.

He registered for the draft in Sheridan County, Montana, on 28 Sep 1918. At that time he was a farmer, apparently married, and living in Beugaugh, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was tall and slender with grey eyes and brown hair.

In the 1921 Canadian census, he and his family lived in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Included in the household was his mother-in-law, Caroline Elizabeth Knoble, age 80.

The notes for him in Find A Grave:

Albert John Skogstad was born in South Dakota. He married Ida E. Noble, the daughter of Alexander and Caroline "Carrie" E. Lemons Noble. Albert and Ida were the parents of three sons, Everett W., Wilbert G., and Norman C. Skogstad. In 1910, Albert and Ida, along with Ida's parents, applied for and obtained a homestead at Paisley Brook, new Bengough, Saskatchewan. Albert was moved to the hospital at Fort Qu'Appelle where he died in 1929. Due to distance he was unable to be buried in the area he had resided, so his body was interred in the Fort Qu'Appelle Cemetery. Cemetery officials confirm the burial location, and it has also been determined that no tombstone exists on the grave site.

Buried:
according to Find A Grave, there is no tombstone

Family/Spouse: Ida Evelyn KNOBLE. Ida was born about 1888 in United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 26 Mar 1882, Lone Rock Congregation, Flandreau, Moody County, South Dakota
• Confirmation: 28 Jun 1896, Our Saviour’s Lutheran congregation, Flandreau, Moody County, South Dakota

Notes:

In the 1900 census, he was unmarried, living with his father and brothers in Union Twp, and working as a well driller.

In the 1910 census, he and Nellie and her daughter live in Mountrail County, North Dakota.

He is a farmer in Happy Valley, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, in Canada’s 1916 census. He and his wife (name illegible, maybe Nellie) are on the same census page as his brother Albert.

He is still in Happy Valley with Nellie in Canada’s 1921 census.

Syvert had no children. He is sometimes confused with a different Severt Skogstad who was born in Norway in early 1881.

Syvert married Nellie about 1908. Nellie was born about 1868 in Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1917-MN-008108
• Baptism: 30 May 1882, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

The Carl Skogstad biography incorrectly shows Clarence’s birth year as 1883.

According to his death certificate, for which his brother “Otto” was the informant, he was single, never married, and was a clerk in a general store. He died of tuberculosis.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Social Security Number: 391-18-8745 Issued In Wisconsin Before 1951
• Baptism: 25 Nov 1886, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

Graduated from St. Olaf College, class of 1911.

Registered for the draft on June 5, 1917, in Mower County. Living in Grand Meadow, MN. Says he has no trade or occupation at the present. He is single, has no dependents, and does not claim exemption from the draft. He is of medium height and build with gray eyes and black hair.

In the 1920 census (January 6th), Otis, 33, and his wife Mabel, 27, were living in Wyndmere Village, Denton Township, Richland County, North Dakota. They were renting an apartment in a house on Fourth Street owned by Myron Sargent. Otis was an assistant cashier in a bank.

In the 1930 census, indexed as Skorpted, Otis and Mable were in the city of Barron, Wisconsin. Otis was a cashier in a bank.

In the 1940 census, he and Mabel and an absent Norman are shown as living in Barron. Otis is a cashier at a savings bank.

In his draft registration for World War II, he was employed by the First National Bank of Barron, Wisconsin.

Birth:
Grand Meadow

Otis married Mabel SIMONSON on 25 Jun 1919 in Mower County, Minnesota. Mabel was born on 13 Jan 1892 in Minnesota; died in Dec 1979 in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1976-MN-028387
• Baptism: 20 Feb 1889, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

The birth date shown here is what was entered on her death certificate. The 1900 census showed March of 1890 for her birthdate.

Cora married John JORGENS on 2 Jul 1913 in Mower County, Minnesota. John (son of Halvor JORGENS and Ragnhild SEVERSON) was born on 31 Jul 1884 in Minnesota; died on 27 Jan 1975 in Fillmore County, Minnesota; was buried on 30 Jan 1975 in Bear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery, Frankford Twp, Mower County, Minnesota. [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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1939-MN-020787
• Baptism: 14 Feb 1892, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

He registered for the draft in Thief River Falls in 1917. At that time, he was a section man for the Great Northern Railway, was married, and lived in Thief River Falls. He was of medium height and build with blue eyes and dark hair.

Living next to, or perhaps with, the John Jorgens family in Mower County in the 1920 census.

In the 1930 census, Oscar and his family lived at 941 14th Avenue in Minneapolis. Oscar was a grain shoveler at an elevator.

According to his death certificate, he died from a skull fracture after he fell from a moving car in Bloomington. Oscar was an engineer at a grain elevator. He and his wife, who was the informant for his death certificate, lived at 4349 40th Avenue S.

His death is described in an article in the 21 Jun 1939 edition of the Minneapolis Star:

Police and deputy sheriffs Tuesday were investigating the death in General Hospital of Oscar Skogstad, 43, of 4340 40th Avenue S who died of a fractured skull. Skogstad’s son, Clifford, said his father leaped out of the rear window of an automobile near 94th Street and Lyndale Ave Sunday night. Clifford said he was driving the automobile, which contained Mr. and Mrs. Skogstad, their two daughters and a friend. The father did not give any indication of his intent to leap, Clifford said, and no reason could be given for his action.

Died:
Minneapolis General Hospital

Family/Spouse: Nora Amanda HANSON. Nora was born on 24 Apr 1894 in Minnesota; died on 23 May 1969 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1967-MN-016764

Notes:

He registered for the draft in Grand Meadow on June 5, 1917. At that time he was single and was a laborer for A Odden of Grand Meadow. He was tall and of medium build with light blue eyes and light brown hair.

He was the informant for his brother Bert’s death certificate.

George was a general laborer living in the village of Grand Meadow in the 1930 census.

George N. Skogstad was a veteran of WWI according to the Minnesota Veterans Registration Index. He is buried in Mower County.

George married Palma E BJERKE about 1923. Palma was born on 25 Aug 1892 in Norway; died on 19 Apr 1961 in Olmsted County, Minnesota; was buried on 21 Apr 1961 in Bear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery, Frankford Twp, Mower County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1933-MN-009891
• Baptism: 14 Mar 1897, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

He registered for the draft on May 28, 1918, in Pennington County. At the time, he was employed in Thief River Falls by the Minneapolis Bridge Company although he gave his home address as Grand Meadow. He had blue eyes and brown hair. His nearest relative was Oscar Skogstad of Thief River Falls.

He was a hired man on a farm in Frankford Twp in the 1920 census not far from the farm of his uncle Emil.

He married his first cousin, the daughter of his uncle Emil.

In the 1930 census, Bert and Marie were living with her parents and her two siblings in Mower County.

At the time of death, he lived in Grand Meadow where he had been an agent for the Shell Oil Company for two-and-a-half years. He died of pneumonia. George Skogstad of Grand Meadow was the informant for his death certificate.

Bert served in WWI according to the Minnesota Veterans Graves Registration Index. He is buried in Mower County.

Birth:
per his draft registration

Baptism:
as Bernt

Died:
St. Mary’s Hospital

Bert married Maria SKOGSTAD on 30 Mar 1922 in Denver, Colorado. Maria (daughter of Emil SKOGSTAD and Emilia SEVERSON) was born on 7 Jun 1900 in Mower County, Minnesota; died on 14 Aug 1986 in Olmsted County, Minnesota; was buried on 18 Aug 1986 in Bear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery, Frankford Twp, Mower County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1911-MN-007965
• Baptism: 29 Mar 1899, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

She died of a cerebral abscess, a complication of diabetes.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1902-15698
• Baptism: 14 Sep 1902, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

She is listed with her parents as 2 year-old Myrtle C in the 1905 Minnesota state census.

She is the 7 year-old Myrtle C listed with her parents in the 1910 U.S. census.

In the 1940 census Bert (indexed as Bert Astendorf, at least in FS) and Myrtle lived in Los Angeles. They had both lived there in 1935 but not in the same house. He was a cab driver, she was a cashier at a produce market. He had been educated through the fifth grade, Myrtle was a high school graduate.

Died:
California Death Index

Myrtle married John GLATZ about 1928. John was born about 1902 in Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Myrtle married Burd Carl OSTENDORF on 17 Jan 1939 in Los Angeles County, California. Burd was born in Jan 1902 in Missouri; died on 22 Feb 1976 in Multnomah County, Oregon; was buried in Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Oct 1897, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

Baptism:
Bear Creek Lutheran Church

Bertha married Clarence E SIMONSON on 12 Nov 1919 in Mower County, Minnesota. Clarence was born on 5 Jan 1900 in Mower County, Minnesota; died on 31 Jul 1979 in Mower County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1900-15346
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1986-MN-021661
• Baptism: 11 Jul 1900, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

In the 1940 census, she and Dolores lived with Emil and Emelie Skogstad (indexed as Skrogstad) in Frankford Twp, Mower County. Included in that household was a 24 year-old lodger named Walter Rasmussen.

She lived in Grand Meadow and died as the widow of Walter Rasmussen. The cause of her death was cardiomyopathy.

In her first marriage, she married her first cousin, the son of her uncle Martin.

Died:
St. Mary’s Hospital, Mayo Clinic

Maria married Bert SKOGSTAD on 30 Mar 1922 in Denver, Colorado. Bert (son of Martin Olsen SKOGSTAD and Caroline DALEN) was born on 11 Feb 1897 in Mower County, Minnesota; died on 29 Apr 1933 in Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota; was buried on 2 May 1933 in Bear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery, Frankford Twp, Mower County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maria married Walter RASMUSSEN on 19 Oct 1942 in Mower County, Minnesota. Walter was born about 1916 in Minnesota; died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1903-16427
• Baptism: 6 Dec 1903, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

Shown as child #3.

Evelyn married Clifford Henry SWEEN on 5 Jul 1923 in Mower County, Minnesota. Clifford was born on 11 Mar 1899 in Minnesota; died on 31 Dec 1987 in Mower County, Minnesota; was buried in Bear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery, Frankford Twp, Mower County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 29 Jul 1906, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

Still single and living at home with his parents and little sister in the 1930 census.

In the 1940 census, he and Helen and their two daughters were living with his parents in Frankford Twp.

Ole married Helen Margaret RASMUSSEN on 20 Mar 1933 in Mower County, Minnesota. Helen was born on 19 Aug 1910 in Minnesota; died on 29 Apr 1994 in Mower County, Minnesota; was buried on 2 May 1994 in Bear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery, Frankford Twp, Mower County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 May 1909, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

Baptism:
as Eda

Ada married Reno JACOBSON on 23 Oct 1929 in Mower County, Minnesota. Reno was born on 6 Nov 1902 in Mower County, Minnesota; died on 28 Oct 1981 in Mower County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1973-MN-000415
• Baptism: 17 Dec 1911, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

Called Cora R. in the 1930 census.

Baptism:
as Cora Ruby

Ruby married John M MYERS on 22 Apr 1931 in Mower County, Minnesota. John died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1919-19399
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1919-MN-008558
• Baptism: 30 May 1919, Mower County, Minnesota

Notes:

Ardis Powlin in cemetery records as well as death record.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 29 May 1898, Fluberg, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Birth:
Haugerud; 5 Apr in the 1910 Norwegian census

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Dec 1899, Fluberg, Søndre Land, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Birth:
Haugerud for the father, Ründtomeie for the mother; 23 Nov in the 1910 Norwegian census

Notes:

Birth:
1910 Norwegian census

Notes:

Birth:
date from 1910 Norwegian census

Notes:

Birth:
1910 Norwegian census

Notes:

She lived in Blaisdell, North Dakota, at the time she announced the engagement of her daughter.

Mildred married Clifford I RINGOEN on 29 Mar 1934 in Stanley, Mountrail County, North Dakota. Clifford was born on 11 Aug 1905; died on 30 May 1962; was buried in Shell Creek Lutheran Cemetery, Blaisdell, Mountrail County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1940 census, he is still single and living at home. He’s shown as a barber.

Our dad, Obert Benjamin Skogstad, went to be with his Lord and Savior Monday, April 27, 2009. Dad was born July 30, 1914, at Blaisdell, N.D., to Louis and Anna Skogstad.

His older sister, Mildred Ringoen, preceded him in death in 2006, and a younger brother, Auther Skogstad, in 2003.

Dad was 19 when he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps for three years; at age 22 he went to barber school in Fargo, N.D. At age 25, Dad left North Dakota and worked in Wenatchee for a short time before moving to Seattle. Dad worked for Boeing from 1941 until 1945. He then enrolled at Seattle Bible Institute. Dad met our mother, Ellen Mae McNutt, there and they were married July 26, 1946.

Dad graduated as an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God in 1948, and he and Mother moved to the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley. They became pastors at the Assembly of God Church in Lapwai in August 1951. During this time Dad also was a full-time barber in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley. In 1961, they resigned from the church in Lapwai and moved to Clarkston. He continued as a barber and minister in different churches in the region.

Dad also ministered for the Clarkston Police Department as a chaplain for many years. He and Mom would conduct Sunday church services at the Clarkston jail, as well as in many of the nursing homes in the area.

Dad preached, played his guitar and sang. His whole life was with a vision of serving God with everything he had.

He loved to take his family camping, fishing and huckleberry picking. Dad loved to garden and work in his yard. He was inventive and very creative, and loved to work with his hands.

Our dad was a loving and tenderhearted man who loved Jesus with all of his heart. He prayed for others and served God with faithful diligence. He was a good husband, and wonderful father and grandfather. Although dad lived his last year in an Alzheimer's facility, he never forgot to pray and read his Bible. He would pray for other patients there; they loved him and referred to him as their resident pastor.

Now that Dad has gone to be with Jesus, we are left with many wonderful, loving memories.

Dad is survived by his loving wife, Ellen; his daughters, Roseanne Cowles and her husband Ed of Lake Stevens, Wash., and Charlene Montgomery and her husband Clyde of Clarkston; his sons, Larry Skogstad and his wife Linda of Allyn, Wash., and Ken Skogstad and his wife Luz Marina of Tukwila, Wash.

A memorial service will be conducted at 1 p.m. May 19 at Faith Tabernacle Church in Lewiston.

Obert married Ellen Mae MCNUTT on 26 Jul 1946 in Deer Park, Spokane County, Washington. Ellen was born on 30 Aug 1924 in Nez Perce County, Idaho; died on 22 Feb 2017 in Asotin County, Washington; was buried in Vineland Cemetery, Clarkston, Asotin County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arthur L. Skogstad, 82, Lincoln, formerly of Plaza, died Dec. 3, 2001, at his home. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at Thompson-Larson Funeral Home, Minot. Burial will be in Rosehill Memorial Park, Minot.

He is survived by his wife, Pansy; three sons, Ardell and Marlin, both of Minot, and LeVern, Colorado; one stepson, Larry Hargiss, Bismarck; one stepdaughter, Bonnie Fisher, Mandan; five grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; one brother, Obert Skogstad, Clarkston, Wash.; and one sister, Mildred Ringoen, Minot.

Family/Spouse: Gladys A HANSON. Gladys was born on 29 Jan 1924 in North Dakota; died on 13 May 1996 in North Dakota; was buried in Rosehill Memorial Park, Minot, Ward County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ethel WALKER. Ethel was born in 1911; died on 21 Sep 1998 in Bengough, Weyburn Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in Bengough Cemetery, Bengough, Weyburn Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Grace Lamira. Grace was born on 1 Apr 1914; died on 11 Jan 2009; was buried in Bengough Cemetery, Bengough, Weyburn Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Norman enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 2 Apr 1942 in New York City as a Private. He had four years of college. He rose to the rank of Captain and received the Silver Star.

He was probably the Norman Skogstad, student, living in Northfield at 708 W 2nd Street in 1939. Norman graduated from St. Olaf in 1941.

He served in the Army Air Force during World War II.

He was a lawyer in Indianapolis.

His obit in the Milwaukee Journal:

Skogstad, Norman C. Age 80. Greenfield, IN, died May 12. A prominent trial attorney for 35 years, retiring in 1982, he was a partner in the law firm of Wickham, Borgelt, Skogstad & Powell, Milwaukee. He was an Ace Army Air Forces veteran of WWII. Services: private. Burial: Washington Park East Cemetery, Indianapolis. He was preceded in death by his "beautiful bride", Marilynn Carlson Skogstad, August 30, 1999. Survivors: children Leif, Britt Skogstad, Sigrid Luther, Ingrid Dinsmore, Lisa Goetz, 12 grandchildren; a great-grandchild.

Norman died from the complications of Alzheimer’s.

Died:
Brandywine Nursing and Rehabilitation

Family/Spouse: Marilynn Joyce CARLSON. Marilynn (daughter of Frank W CARLSON and Zaidee K JUDD) was born on 6 May 1923 in Lansing, Michigan; died on 30 Aug 1999 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana; was buried on 1 Sep 1999 in Washington Park East Cemetery, Indianapolis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1920-20856
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2002-MN-008828
• Social Security Number: 471-72-1536 issued in Minnesota in 1972

Notes:

Referred to as Catherine Jorgens in the cemetery records for Richard R. Runkle. Her gravestone calls her “R. Catherine.”

Ruth Catherine Runkle, 81, of Grand Meadow, died Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at the Grand Meadow HealthCare Center where she lived.

She was born May 5, 1920, in Frankford Township, to John and Cora (Skogstad) Jorgens.

She graduated from Grand Meadow High School in 1936.

On March 15, 1939, she married Richard Runkle at the Bear Creek Lutheran Church. Together they farmed in the Bear Creek area.

She was an accordion player and was very active in her church. She enjoyed visiting, traveling, gardening and flowers.

Survivors include sons, David C. Runkle, Lakewood, Colo.; Steven P. (Diane) Runkle, Minnesota City; daughter, Marcheta (Richard) Allen, Grand Meadow; nine grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband in 1999, a great-grandchild, a daughter-in-law.

Ruth married Richard Roy RUNKLE on 15 Mar 1939. Richard (son of PATTEN) was born on 13 Jul 1916 in Mower County, Minnesota; died on 14 Nov 1999 in Fillmore County, Minnesota; was buried on 17 Nov 1999 in Bear Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery, Frankford Twp, Mower County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]