Anna Gustava (Annie) Martinusdatter BYE

Other Events and Attributes:

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

Notes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cedar Lake, July 30th, 1906

Dear Andrew,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best of everything to my dear husband.

Your Annie

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

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

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

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

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

Birth:
parish birth record found by Mark

Confirmation:
perhaps First English Lutheran Church

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

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

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Railroad fireman in 1920, driller
• Social Security Number: 234-14-9993 issued in West Virginia before 1951

Notes:

Shown as “Male Everson” on his birth certificate (#191) in St. Louis County.

Called EOE by some of his siblings. In particular, Lil called him Ole.

Iver registered for the WWI draft on June 5, 1917, in Deerwood. He lists his address as RFD #3, Aitkin, MN. He describes his occupation as farmer and bar keeper, employed on his father’s farm in Deerwood. He is single, claims no dependents, and does not claim exemption from the draft. He is described as tall and of slender build with brown eyes and black hair.

In November of 1920, Iver received a letter from one of his Army buddies, a Hans Jensen of Kansas City. Iver had been in the 3rd Pioneer Soldiers. Hans commiserated with Iver that they had not received their Soldiers Bonus yet. Iver at that time was working ”on the Iron Range.” Hans said, “... or maybe we don’t want to remind each other about the time you were eating slum and corn bill in France.”

In July of 1924, Iver wrote Harold a postcard from Indianapolis: “Indianapolis Ind July 23rd I am having a fine trip and every thing we can eat and that is all can expect from I. Everson.” The postmark was the Indianapolis and Peoria RPO.

In a postcard from Minneapolis dated October 18, 1926 or 1928, Harold writes to Iver: “Saw Longyear this A.M. They don’t need Jno at Ariz. now but will want him at some other job soon so get in touch with him. You may hear from them any day so be ready to go. They will have jobs in Ariz., New York, Michigan, and Sask. May go to Milwaukee tonite. Will write then.”

The Thursday, November 22, 1928, edition of the Crosby-Ironton Courier had an article saying that, “Iver Everson of Aitkin Township, Thor Anderson of Deerwood, and Pete Hanson of Crosby have signed up with Longyear Exploration Company for at least a two-year contract in exploring and drilling for copper in South Africa.” (Thor Anderson was the brother of Andy Anderson, a friend of John Everson.)

Harold and Iver were drillers. British incoming passenger records show that Iver arriving in Southampton from New York on November 20, 1928, aboard the S.S. Leviathan. He is shown as a miner whose intended address in the United Kingdom was Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd.

Mark found an entry record for Iver arriving in New York on August 14, 1929, aboard the S.S. Homeric which had sailed from Southampton on August 7th. Iver is shown as age 36 and residing in “Aitken”, Minnesota. He is also shown as married which may be a mistake. British records show that Iver had arrived in Southampton aboard the Arundel Castle of the Union Castle line which had sailed from Capetown, South Africa. He was returning to U.S. from Rhodesia. His occupation was shown as driller.

By September of 1929, Iver was in Mexico.

At the time of the 1930 census, Iver, 37, was a boarder at the White Hotel in Calderwood, Chilhowee township, Blount County, Tennessee. His occupation is diamond drill runner. He is shown to be a veteran, apparently (“aef”) of the American Expeditionary Force. Iver’s gravestone indicates that he was a Private in Company L of the 3d Pioneer Infantry in World War I.

Most of the “Pioneer” infantry regiments were formed from surplus national guard infantry regiments so it’s possible that Iver was initially in the Minnesota national guard. The 3rd Pioneer Infantry was formed partly from troops from the Massachusetts national guard. The 3rd Pioneer Infantry was organized in February of 1918 at Camp Greene, North Carolina, as an army troops unit and was moved overseas in August of 1918. It served with the U.S. 1st Army between September and November and was slotted for conversion to the 381st Infantry but the war ended before that occurred. The 3rd Pioneers returned to the U.S. in July of 1919 and demobilized at Camp Dodge, Iowa. (From Rinaldi’s “The U.S. Army in World War I - Orders of Battle.”) The Pioneers performed engineering tasks such as construction of field fortifications or military camps as well as repair of military railways.

In February of 1935, Iver got mail at 3621 3rd Avenue South in Minneapolis.

In the summer of 1936, Iver was accepting mail in Grafton, West Virginia.

In March of 1937, Iver was in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and received mail from a person name Roan or Haen at 3855 Portland in Minneapolis.

In November of 1938, he was in Bethlehem, PA, at the Eagle Hotel.

On 14 Feb 1938, Iver was receiving mail at 3855 Portland in Minneapolis.

In an October 10, 1939, post card sent to his parents, Iver had arrived in Port au Prince, Haiti. He said he would be sailing again “this afternoon at 2 PM” so Haiti was only a short stay.

Iver received a valentine from Mrs. Alice Olson (3132 4th Avenue South) in Minneapolis in February of 1940. At that time he was living in the Canal Zone.

In the 30s and 40s, Iver worked as a driller throughout the southern states or Central or South America (mentioned as being “in the south” by a couple of letters Harold had from the ‘40s). He may later have settled in Columbia, and later still lived in the Panama Canal Zone.

In the 1940 census, he lived Gatun, on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal Zone, probably in or near the Fort William Davis Military Reservation. He was the “partner” in a two-person household that included Woodford N Babbitt, 30, born in Alaska. Both men were diamond drillers in “special engineering.” Both men were employed full-time and both men had worked 52 weeks in the previous year.

Immigration records show that he landed in New York on May 3, 1941, aboard the S.S. Cristobal which had sailed from Cristobal, Canal Zone, 6 days earlier.

He was in the Canal Zone at the time of his father’s death in December of 1942; news accounts said that he returned for his father’s funeral.

He was described as “of Columbia, So. America” in an obituary for his mother.

In 1958, according to a letter that George received from Iver, Iver’s address was Box 583, Diablo, Canal Zone. In this letter, Iver asked George if he could borrow $30. (Apparently he had already borrowed money from Harold.) He said that his vision was blurry and that prevented him from working.

From a letter he sent to Harold in April of 1969, we learn that Iver was in Balboa in the Canal Zone and that he had been sick and hospitalized since the beginning of that year. From the symptoms, it sounds as if he was experiencing heart problems much like John would later have.

One of the brothers, probably Albin, received a handwritten letter dated June 19, 1969, from someone named R. T. Tweedy, apparently in response to a letter that Tweedy had received that day:

“I will give you what information I have, which was received by telephone since I am located fifty miles from the hospital. The information I received from another veteran is that he was admitted to the hospital. Evidentally (sic) he had a stroke, paralyzed right side with complete loss of speech. However, if he recovers this may be temporary. His condition is very serious and the information I received by telephone were that his chances of recovery were very slim.” Tweedy goes on to say that Iver’s address at the hospital was Ward 2, Room 204, Gorgas Hospital, Ancon, Canal Zone.

The SSDI shows his address at the time of death was 530, U.S. Consulate, Panama Canal Zone. The SSDI shows the date of death as June 30th. The Gorgas Hospital Mortuary records show the date of death as June 29th. The Gorgas records also show that the body was shipped to the US on July 3, 1969 and the cost associated with whatever the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary did was $331.58.

Iver’s funeral was at the Hasskamp Mortuary. Pallbearers were Ronald Everson, Jerry Everson, Andrew Everson, Robert Everson, Robert Foster, Donald Carlson. (These must have been honorary pallbearers. There is no indication in Cora’s diary that Donald H. Carlson or Bob Everson attended in person.)

Albin received a letter from DHEW (Social Security) in October of 1969 indicating that, per his request, the lump-sum benefit for Iver ($255) had been sent to Hasskamp Mortuary, Aitkin.

Died:
per NARA’s AAD website for the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1908-MN-002733

Notes:

Eight months old in the 1895 Minnesota state census (June 17 and 18).

John said that Astrid was born in Duluth. She is not listed in the St. Louis County index of births. If the Eversons were out of Duluth in 1893 (according to the interview of Andrew and according to the 1895 Minnesota census), then Astrid would have been born in Aitkin County.

A death certificate was issued in Minnesota as follows:
IVERSON, ASTRID MARGARY 
CertID# 1908-MN-002733   
 Date of Death: 12/04/1908
 County of Death:   CROW WING

Physically and mentally disabled. Suffered from severe cretinism, a genetic defect in which her head grew but not the rest of her body. DeAnn says: “Astrid was the second child, and got polio (we think) when she was about two years old.  She survived, but was severely paralyzed, and couldn't swallow. Her mother, Anna, chewed Astrid's food for her and poked it down Astrid's throat. While all of this was going on, Anna underwent several more pregnancies and miscarriages, and raised those awful Norwegian boys. At least they got another girl, Lillian, before Astrid was gone. When Astrid was about twelve, she died during the night, having strangled on her saliva.”

Astrid’s death certificate gives her cause of death as cretinism “since birth.”

In his letter to George Everson in 1943, the older Pastor Dahle’s son Anker says that he could not find any record of Astrid’s baptism. He suggests that perhaps she was baptized by someone else. The Dahles didn’t arrive in Aitkin County until 1895, when Astrid would have been 7 or 8 months old. Anker Dahle noted that “when John Holum’s first house burnt down the early church records went with it.”

Anker Dahle’s letter does have the death and burial dates for Astrid, December 5th and December 7th, 1908. Thus, even though we can no longer see a gravestone, and perhaps there never was one, we can be sure that Astrid was buried in the Dorris Church cemetery.

Died:
Anker Dahle said that the church record for her death was December 5th

Buried:
Dorris Church Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1976-MN-014379
• Occupation: Driller
• Social Security Number: 236-03-1177 issued in West Virginia.
• Confirmation: 11 Jun 1911, Deerwood Norwegian Lutheran Church, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

Called Harald Iverson in his confirmation book.

Harold and Iver were professional drillers outside of Minnesota. Albin and John also did drilling.

Harold registered for the WWI draft on June 5, 1917, in Ironton. He lists his occupation as drilling and his employer as Hill Mines Co., Ironton. He is single and claims no dependents. He does claim exemption from the draft on the basis of “bad wind.” He has never been in military service. He is described as tall and of stout build with dark blue eyes and light brown hair.

In a postcard from Minneapolis dated October 18, 1926 or 1928, Harold writes to Iver: “Saw Longyear this A.M. They don’t need Jno at Ariz. now but will want him at some other job soon so get in touch with him. You may hear from them any day so be ready to go. They will have jobs in Ariz., New York, Michigan, and Sask. May go to Milwaukee tonite. Will write then.” From this, we may deduce that Harold was the first of the brothers to go into drilling and that the others’ entry into that profession was due to Harold’s initiative.

In the 1930 census, Harold was still living at home as a farmer or laborer. John, who with Mabel and Elaine, was also living with the Andrew Eversons at the time, is shown as a drill operator, iron ore.

In a public notice in the April 24, 1933, edition of the Brainerd newspaper, Harold Everson is reimbursed $450 “for damages to his land and expenses incurred by him due to the negligence of the Game and Fish Department.”

The 1937-38 Brainerd city directory, which includes other communities in Crow Wing County, Harold is shown as having land in section 12 of Deerwood Twp but not owning it. In the 1939-40 city directory, he is shown as owning it. George also owns land in section 12. In the 1942-43 directory, Harold and George are shown as owning land in section 12 together. Neither George nor Harold are listed in the 1949 directory.

In the 1940 census, for which his sister-in-law, Naomi J Everson, was the enumerator, Harold is listed with his parents in Deerwood Twp although with the indicator “ab” indicating he was absent. His occupation was technical instructor in the diamond core drilling industry. He was fully employed, working 40 hours per week. Naomi indicated that Harold had earned $390 in wages in 1939 for 13 weeks worked.

In May of 1941, Harold was accepting mail in Eureka, Nevada.

From a box of pictures and letters found after Harold died, we know that Harold had a long-running (from the ‘40s through at least the late ‘60s) relationship with a woman named Libby (Elizabeth) Saffel who lived in Grafton, West Virginia and, in her later years, lived in Baltimore. Her address in 1965 was 232 Stonecroft Rd, Baltimore. Harold apparently met Libby when he worked for a drilling company headquartered in Grafton, W. Va. He was in Pennsylvania in 1939.

Also from these letters, we learn that Harold spent some time in England in the 1960s, probably on business for the Grafton company.

On June 11, 1944, Harold and Albin signed nine-month contracts with the Callahan Construction Company of Minneapolis (later the Grafe-Callahan Construction Company of Dallas) to do drilling work in Great Britain for the Ministry of Works. Callahan called it the UK of Great Britain project. (The project had at least some military men working on it because one of Harold’s British friends from the job mentions in a 1946 letter that he was now a civilian.) It appears that Harold and Albin flew to England, departing on a British Airways “flying boat” out of Baltimore, on June 29th or 30th, 1944.

Apparently in their first few months in England, Harold and Albin were stationed at Wigan, near Manchester and Liverpool in western England. At that time they made many friends, particularly with the barmaids at the Banks Arms pub in Wigan. Harold had a “little black book” in which he asked people to write their names and addresses. In that book, and in several of the letters, it’s clear that among Harold’s and Albin’s friends were several women (Peggy Adams, Blind Sally, Beatrice, Margaret, Jenny, and Jeannie) at “Bankses” and, later, at the New Inn near Bristol.

By December of 1944, Harold and Albin were in Scotland: Albin in Cardenden, Fife, and Harold nearby at Dunfermline, Fife. Harold received an affectionate letter from Jenny: “Have you found a pub with plenty of Scotch? Also a nice little barmaid to keep you company? Give Al my love and tell him to keep his eye on you for me.”

Albin writes to Harold in January of 1945 about the work and hard drilling and that he hasn’t had a letter from home in 3 weeks. Albin was already looking forward to going home in two months. He also mentions that he was “spending too much time at Jock Birds to save any money.”

In a letter to “Darling Harold” from Jeanie on February 15th, she mentions that she has learned that she would not be able to go to the states unless she was married to an American and “that is impossible.”

A letter from “little Jeannie” to “Harold Darling” on March 3, 1945, refers to the end of Harold’s and Albin’s stay: “You and Al finish your contracts on the 1st or 11th of March. I bet Al has been looking forward to seeing his wife and children soon.”

And another letter from “little Jeannie” on March 20th talks of her concern that Harold had another girl.

There was apparently some discussion at about this time of going home to visit but it didn’t happen because of safety concerns in crossing the ocean while the war went on. Harold had inquired about the terms of taking a leave from the contract. Safety may have been the major reason why Harold and Albin chose to renew their contracts and not come home in March of 1945.

Money was the other reason. Harold was sending home around $500 per month as we can see from his bank statements. Harold had nearly $7000 in the Deerwood bank at the end of 1945.



Harold’s decision to extend his stay must have been a disappointment to George. From his letters in early 1945, he was clearly looking forward to Harold’s return to give him some help with his mother who was becoming ill. George had sold off all of his livestock in the winter of 1944-45 and had gone to Minneapolis to find a carpenter job which he didn’t get. George even mentioned in his letters that Annie Everson would go to live with John Everson after George left home.

By mid-1945, Harold was in Merthyrr Tydfil, Glamorgan in South Wales. An undated letter from one of his buddies that must have been from this time: “So you had the girl to Cardiff? Now I’ll bet that was some night, hey? Who was the most pooped out the next day, huh?”

By September 13, 1945, according to the letter of that date from George to Harold, Albin was back and “drilling in Palisade.” So Albin must have gotten off a little early from his six-month extension. (According to his passport, Albin left England on July 11, 1945.)

Harold continued on until his formal separation on November 29, 1945. His letter of recommendation from Grafe-Callahan described Harold as “an exceptionally good workman and {we} are very glad to recommend him.” Another note from the company at this time said, “Be in London office Friday A.M. November 30th, sail from Liverpool December 3rd for New York City.”

There is an interesting letter from Albert Barrow of Toronto dated January 30, 1946, who was “Hal’s” cabin mate on the trip home and referred to their “awful trip” on the Empire Joy. Albert said in his letter that he got home to Toronto the day after Christmas. {The Empire Joy sailed from Newcastle, England, on December 10, 1945, and arrived in New York on Christmas Day. Albert and Harold are listed on the manifest.}

“Little Jeannie” sent a letter to Harold in Aitkin in mid-January of 1946: “I suppose you have forgotten all about Jeannie. If you see Al, give him my love and tell him I hope his family had not grown since he got back. Jack my husband came home just after Christmas. He is now demobbed {demobilized?} so I have to be a good girl and stay home the nights I am not working at the Bankses.” Her letter mentions Blind Sally.

In a similar letter, dated January 20, 1946, Peggy Adams of Bristol writes that she is “glad to hear you arrived home safely but sorry to hear your mother was ill.” Her letter refers to the gang at the New Inn and to Beatrice. It’s possible that the New Inn was Harold’s home base while he was on the South Wales job.

Ten days later, in a letter to Harold dated January 30, 1946, Peggy says that she received a letter from Beth Lowell in Aitkin asking for her measurements. The letter from Beth even included a measuring tape with instructions on how to take the measurements.

A letter from Beth Lowell of Aitkin, dated February 18th, asks how much Harold cares to spend on his gift to Peggy Adams. Beth also comments: “When Albin told us of your accident, I went up to Crosby {to the hospital, perhaps?} the next Sunday (2 weeks ago) to see how you looked when you were sober only to find you had gone home the day before.” On March 26th, Harold sent Beth a check for $30. Beth Lowell appears to have been a local seamstress that Harold hired to make a blouse or dress for Harold’s friend Peggy back in England.

A letter dated April 7, 1946, is from another English friend, John Anderson in Essex. After explaining that he wants to open a pub, he says, “I don’t suppose you hear anything from Beatrice now. She was a peculiar girl.” And a postscript: “The wife asked me to ask you if you have any spare candy.”

Apparently Harold returned to drinking when he got back to the states. In late September of ‘46, he had a car accident, perhaps not the first since he had been home, involving a Walter Linderud and had to have his insurance agent, Joe Best, write a letter to the insurance company attesting that Harold was “not a habitual drinking man.”

Also when he got back to the states, Harold subscribed to two or three services that provided names, addresses, and even descriptions of lonely women (mostly widows) apparently interested in finding a husband. He must have sent out several letters to names on these lists because there were nearly a dozen letters in response from these women, most with pictures of themselves. (Included in the material was a small photo of Harold of the type that he must have sent to them in his letter.)

Harold worked at a variety of places in the period 1946-1948 because he received letters addressed to him in several places. He received mail at addresses in Zimmerman and Babbit. Most notable was an extended stay in Palmer, Missouri, during which he received several letters from the various lovelorn. He received an offer for a job in Honduras, to begin in August of 1946, but nothing more seems to have come of that.

Harold was in Iron Mountain, Missouri, in June of 1947.

He was described as “of Nashwauk” in an obituary for his mother.

In the 1950 census, he is a driller for an iron mine. He lives in a rooming house in Crosby.

The most intriguing issue with Harold was his long-running relationship with Elizabeth (Libby) Saffel in West Virginia.

Elaine says: “I remember that Uncle Harold had a big picture of Libby on his dresser at Grandma's....she was a nice looking lady. I always wondered why he didn't get married to her.”

Harold lived and worked in Tucson during all or parts of 1955, 1956, and 1957.

In the summer of 1960, Harold was working for the Bear Creek Mining Company in Cooke City, Montana. This seeams to have been the Miners’ Ridge project in the Nothern Cascades of Washington. A photograph in the St. Cloud Times’s 27 Jun 1960 edition seems to show Harold with another miner holding a copper core.



Harold had surgery for something on 11 Feb 1970 in Duluth.

The informant for his death certificate was his brother John. John said that Harold was a driller in the mining industry and was never married. Harold died from a heart attack.

Confirmation:
by Pastor M. L. Höstager

Buried:
Arrangements by Koop; funeral at Koop’s chapel. Clergyman was Erwin Schroeder. Casket bearers were Ron, Gerald, Bill, Jack Davis, Jerry Redfield, and Carl Landstrom.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Addie (Libby) SAFFEL. Elizabeth was born in 1913 in West Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1973-MN-022880
• Social Security Number: 468-18-1038 issued in MN before 1951
• Baptism: 30 Oct 1898, Aitkin County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 18 May 1913, Deerwood Norwegian Lutheran Church, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

His middle name and his baptism date is from a letter to George from Anker Dahle in 1943. Called George Iverson in his confirmation book.

Took care of his parents on the farm. The only one who didn't leave.

George registered for the WWI draft on September 12, 1918, in Deerwood. He lists his address as RFD 3, Aitkin, MN. He is a farmer on his father’s (Andrew Everson) farm, Sec. 12, Deerwood Twp, Aitkin, Crow Wing County. He lists his nearest relative as his mother, Mrs. Andrew Everson. He is described as tall and of medium build with dark blue eyes and brown hair.

Godfather for his niece Elaine (Eva Gustad was godmother). Pastor Ole Dahle spelled George’s name “Georg” on Elaine’s baptismal certificate.

George somehow purchased some land in Florida in the ‘30s. Iver went with him in early 1937 on a road trip to check on the land which must have been near Tampa. A letter to George dated November 1, 1934, shows he had purchased land in the Mountain Park Orange Groves Company in Orlando.

The 1939-40 Brainerd city directory, which includes other communities in Crow Wing County, George is shown as owning land in section 12 of Deerwood Twp. His address is Aitkin 3. Harold also owns land in section 12. In the 1942-43 directory, Harold and George are shown as owning land in section 12 together. Neither George nor Harold are listed in the 1949 directory.

George sold off all of his stock in the winter if 1944-45 (he still had them as of October 15, 1944), apparently in hope of leaving home and getting a job. Albin notes, in a letter to Harold in March of 1945, that Naomi had said in recent letters that “Geo, Jno, Leon Mattson went to Mpls. to get a carpenter job but they didn’t get the job. George must be kicking himself for selling all the stock.” If and when George left, his mother would go to live with John and Mabel. It’s not clear that this ever happened. In his letters to Harold, George repeatedly mentioned his mother’s ill health and his and her reluctance to leave the old place.

In his September 13, 1945 letter to Harold, George writes that “When cattle get cheaper, I think I will buy a few milking shorthorns or white faces. That’s the only cattle to start in with.”

In December of 1946, George received a letter from the University of Minnesota Ag dept. in response to a question that George had apparently asked regarding the amount of hay he would need to winter cows.

In the 1950 census, he is shown as a retired farmer living in Deerwood Twp.

In the 1960s, while Ron was in the legislature, George sent a letter to the St. Paul newspaper that was printed in the paper:

“Sir: I agree with Pro Bono Me of St. Paul. Your letter was very good. I agree with you especially on this: a politician is a person who believes everything everybody else does should be regulated.

“About all our legislature did besides raising its own salaries and mileage was to tax the already too weary taxpayers another cent on gasoline and the seat belt law, a laugh. Too much dictator. It’s getting so a person can’t walk across the street without a uniformed character pushing you over and fining you from $25 to $100 because he didn’t think you were walking properly.

“I think it is about time the legislators gave a little thought to the taxpayers who are paying them instead of giving everyone who is on the state’s payrolls a raise, especially the highway patrol. That force could easily be cut in half and they could stand a cut in their salaries about half.”

His brother John was the informant for his death certificate. John claimed that George had been a driller in the iron mining industry. George died of heart failure brought on by peritonitis caused by a strangulated hernia. His body was autopsied.

Baptism:
by Pastor Dahle at the Dorris Church

Confirmation:
by Pastor M. L. Höstager

Died:
died at Cuyuna Range District Hospital

Buried:
funeral at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: DC-11958
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1972-MN-034979
• Occupation: Driller
• Social Security Number: 475-05-4142 issued in Minnesota before 1951.
• Confirmation: 15 Jun 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

His birth certificate identified him as Albin Everson, the fifth child. His father was a carpenter. His birth certificate was amended in some way in February of 1942 and required (and includes) his mother’s signature.

Albin was still living with Andrew and Annie, and shown as “single”, at the time of the 1930 census in early April.

The 1937-38 Brainerd city directory, which includes other communities in Crow Wing County, Albin is shown as living in Deerwood Twp and his address is Aitkin 3. Albin is not listed in the 1939-40 directory. In the 1942-43 directory, Albin is shown as living in Deerwood Twp but not owning land. In the 1946 Crosby directory, Albin is shown as living in Section 35 of Rabbit Lake Township, rural postal delivery on the Aitkin 3 route. In the 1949 directory, Albin is shown as living in Rabbit Lake Twp.

David says that his father “worked on jobs far away when he could get hired. He disliked working regular jobs like in the mines.”

A bill in the state legislature in January of 1939 (H. F. No. 226) was for an “Appropriation to Albin Everson for damage to real property by flooding due to the negligent operation of the Cedar Lake dam.”

In the 1940 census, Albin and his family live on a rented farm in Deerwood Twp. His wife, Naomi, was the census enumerator. Albin was a farmer with zero wages earned in 1939. He had an eighth-grade education. His wife, Naomi, had education through one year of college. Naomi was not employed at the time of the census (other than as enumerator). Albin had worked all 52 weeks of 1939 but with zero money wages. He did “receive income of $50 or more from sources other than money wages or salary.”

He and Naomi purchased the Rabbit Lake farm, previously occupied or owned by Martin Monson, in 1942.

According to David, after their marriage, Albin and Naomi lived in a house on Cedar Lake near Andrew and Anna Everson until 1943. Naomi was a schoolteacher at the Cedar Lake School (District 27) until Ron and David started school, then she was required to quit. The family moved to Iron Hub in 1943. David recalls, “The house we moved into was a miserable three-room, unpainted house. We stayed in that house for two years, then my mother built the new house on higher ground that she lived in for the rest of her life. The house was built with money my mother saved from my father’s wages during the year he worked in England.”



In the summer of 1943, Albin worked for the Miller Construction Co. of Edmonton on the Alaska Highway Telephone Line.

Albin was in England with Harold working on a drilling project in the 2nd half of 1944 and the first half of 1945. Albin spent most of his time in Cardenden in the Fife region of Scotland. (Harold was in Dunfermline, Scotland, in December of 1944.) This was called the U.K. Project of Great Britain conducted by the W.E. Callahan Construction Company of Dallas. According to Albin’s drilling notebook, the project was a series of test holes to locate coal.

Albin left England in July of 1945. We know from George’s letter to Harold of September 13, 1945, that by that time Albin was drilling “in Palisade.”

From September to December of 1946, Albin worked in Honduras as a diamond drill operator for P. W. Chase of Tegucigalpa and Joy Manufacturing Co. - Sullivan Division. The contract was for 4 months work at $300/month.

According to his passport, Albin was in Venezuela in February of 1948.

In the 1950 census, he and Naomi and their three youngest children live in Rabbit Lake Twp. Albin is a drill runner for an iron mine.

Albin worked as a wagon drill operator (W.D.O.) in the fall of 1952 (August through November) for North Atlantic Constructors.

An article in the Thursday, January 22, 1953, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that Albin was fined $100 for drunken driving and his drivers license was revoked.

Albin worked as a light equipment operator in Iceland in 1953 (May through November) on an Army contract with Metcalf Hamilton Smith Beck.

In 1956 and 1957, Albin worked as a wagon drill operator for Greenland Contractors in Thule, Greenland. His pay was $2.80/hour with a guaranteed 260 hours/month. Greenland Contractors was a joint venture of four construction companies: two from Omaha and two from Minneapolis.

Albin was also employed at some point by the Bureau of Mines as a core drill operator. This was through the Region V, Aitkin Mining Division, Development Branch.

Elaine remembers Albin as having debilitating lung condition. He received treatment at the Nopeming Sanatorium in Nopeming, Minnesota, for 52 days between December 11, 1967, and January 31, 1968. In May of 1969, a letter from the Nopeming Sanatorium indicates that Albin was still receiving quarterly X-rays there.

The informant for Albin’s death certificate was his wife Naomi who identified herself, as the name of Albin’s wife, as Naomi Landstrom Everson. She and Albin lived at Route 3, Aitkin, in Rabbit Lake. Albin was a driller in the mining industry. He died from cardiac arrest brought on, or complicated by, cirrhosis, emphysema, and bronchopneumonia.

Died:
died at Cuyuna Range District Hospital

Buried:
Funeral at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub. Arrangements by Koop. Honorary pallbearers: William Meacham, Fritz Dangers, Fred Knuppel, Edward Harms, and William Hamdorf, Sr.

Albin married Naomi Johanna LANDSTROM on 10 Jun 1930 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Naomi (daughter of Gustaf Jakob LANDSTRÖM and Klara Andersdotter WALLBÄCK) was born on 1 Nov 1906 in Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 3 Jun 1986 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 6 Jun 1986 in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1982-MN-011116
• Occupation: Driller
• Social Security Number: 475-09-6876 issued in MN before 1951
• Confirmation: 15 Jun 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

John, Mabel, and baby Elaine were living with Andrew and Annie at the time of the 1930 census. According to Jack Davis, John Everson purchased the Deerwood property in 1928.

One of the first meetings of John Everson and Maurice Carlson is recorded in the December 5, 1938, edition of the Brainerd newspaper: “Mr. Carlson of Minneapolis was looking over property here which he purchased recently. He spent the night at the John Everson home.”

The 1937-38 and 1939-40 Brainerd city directories, which include other communities in Crow Wing County, John E is shown as owning land in section 14 of Deerwood Twp and his address is Deerwood 1. John’s land is specifically shown as owned, although his father’s entries do not show ownership. This may mean that John’s is owned free and clear. Same in the 1942-43 directory. Same in the 1949 directory.

In the 1940 census, John and Mabel and their three children lived in Deewood Twp. Mabel was a high school graduate, John had an eighth-grade education. John was a farmer. Living with the Eversons, as a lodger, was Alaine Smith, age 22, a public school teacher.

Hospitalized with a “major operation” at the Community Hospital in February of 1949. Joanne believes that it may have been his appendix.



John says on the back of a postcard of Sonora, Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, that “was here in 1929.” John was in Tucson in that year, as well as Nogales. He was in Calderwood, Tennessee, in 1930-31. There is a picture notated with “Rudy and I” taken on the Potomac River in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He was in Amberg, Wisconsin, in 1925. He was in Orville, Ohio, on 3-6-1926 and Payter or Paytes, Virginia, in July of 1927. John was in Gouverneur, NY, in December, 1927.

In his letter to Iver dated 18 October 1929, John said that he was buying the Olson farm. Also, he had spent $100 on medicine and hospital for Mabel, who was with him in Mexico at that time.

John and Albin worked in Alaska on the Alaska Highway in the early 1940s.

In their letters to Harold in January of 1945, both Ron Everson and George mention that John is out of work but expects to get a job soon.

In the 1950 census, he and his family live in Deerwood. He is an ore drill operator for iron ore exploration.

John enjoyed traveling but Mabel didn’t. John went to Florida to Bill’s and to Arizona with Jerry Redfield.

The informant for his death certificate was his wife Mabel. John was a driller of water wells. He died “instantly” from ventricular arhythmia brought on by valvular heart disease with congestive heart failure.

John’s funeral was at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Iron Hub. Casket bearers were Jack Davis, John Davis, Jeff Davis, Jerry Redfield, Gerald Everson, and David Everson.

Birth:
Born in Everson home on west side of Cedar Lake. Not in MHS birth index.

Buried:
funeral at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub

John married Mabel Amanda LANDSTROM on 24 Jan 1929 in Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Mabel (daughter of Gustaf Jakob LANDSTRÖM and Klara Andersdotter WALLBÄCK) was born on 4 Jan 1909 in Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 18 Oct 1999 in Crosby, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 21 Oct 1999 in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Social Security Number: 344-40-6062 issued in Illinois between 1963 and 1964.

Notes:

Lillian graduated from Crosby-Ironton High School in the class of ‘24 whose commencement services were held on Thursday night, May 29, 1924. Also graduating in that class was Helga Landstrom (#110). Graduating from the Crosby-Ironton normal school for teachers in that same commencement program was Eva M. Gustad (#135).

In January, 1925, Lil was at college in St. Cloud. Agnes Gustad, better known as “Aggie” to Lil, was also at St. Cloud college at that time.

In April of 1929, Lil was in Hibbing.

At the time of the 1930 census, Lillian Everson was renting apartment #206 at 218 Mayfield Avenue in Chicago. Lillian, 25, was sharing the apartment with Katherine Anderson, 20. Their rent is $47.50/month and they had a radio. Both are single and both were born in Minnesota. Lillian’s parents were both born in Norway, Katherine’s in Finland. Lillian was a secretary in the lumber industry, Katherine a stenographer in the insurance industry.

The Friday, April 8, 1949, edition of the Brainerd newspaper notes that “Mr. and Mrs. George Graham, Jean, and David spent several days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albin Everson last week.”

Lil said, in a letter to Elaine in 1970:

"I did not live [at] home after I started high school and then only summers. Prior to that those things held no interest for me."



In his September 13, 1945 letter to his brother Harold, George Everson wrote: “Lil was home over a week. She bossed quite a lot, she also helped a lot.”

Died suddenly at her home while unpacking groceries.

According to her obituary in the Chicago Tribune, Lil moved to Chicago in the 1920s and worked for several years as a secretary before her marriage. She was a volunteer for many years for the Service League at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. Her son-in-law said that "she had kindness, love, and generosity. She would take food to a housebound person and drive another to church. She always kept jam and cookies to give someone who needed a pickup and she taught the little ones to sew. She did things for people."

Her son David was the informant for her death certificate.

Lil's SS# was issued in Illinois.

Birth:
Jean says 1905

Died:
“Lillian E.” in the Cook County death records

Lillian married George Wesly GRAHAM on 2 Aug 1932 in Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois. George (son of David GRAHAM and Minnie Augusta HERRMEYER) was born on 14 May 1901 in Hibbing, St. Louis County, Minnesota; died on 22 Mar 1983 in Sarasota County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1931-06366
• Occupation: Pilot, USAF
• Baptism: 1943, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

The August 7, 1944, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that Ron and David were visiting relatives in Park Ridge, Ill.

In the 1950 census, he is living at home with his parents and two younger siblings and working as a drill helper for an iron mine. He is shown as having worked 28 weeks in 1949 and having earned $1,025. He is also shown as having lived in Fort Knox, Kentucky, one year before (i.e., April of 1949).

An article in the June 17, 1963, edition of the Brainerd newspaper announced Captain Everson’s assignment to Itazuke AB in Japan following his graduation from the USAF training course for F-105 Thunderchief pilots at Nellis AFB in Nevada.

Air Force pilot. His F-105 Thunderchief Wild Wiesel was shot down by North Vietnamese and he was held prisoner for several years during the war. Released about 1973. Retired with the rank of Colonel.

David says that he “resisted going to college after high school and worked one winter with my father drilling for iron ore at Emily and Rabbit Lake. That was enough to convince me to start college.”

From veterantributes.org:

Colonel O-6, U.S. Air Force

Minnesota Army National Guard 1947-1951
U.S. Air Force 1954-1978
Cold War 1947-1951, 1954-1978
Vietnam War 1966-1973 (POW)

David Everson was born in 1931 in Brainerd, Minnesota. He enlisted in the Minnesota Army National Guard on September 22, 1947, and was trained as a Radio Repair Specialist. Everson received an honorable discharge from the National Guard on September 21, 1951. He was commissioned a 2d Lt in the U.S. Air Force through the Air Force ROTC program at the University of Minnesota on August 21, 1954, and went on active duty on March 27, 1955. After completing Undergraduate Pilot Training in 1956, Everson served with the 336th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina, until February 1961. He was stationed with the 80th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Itazuke AB and then Yokota AB, Japan, from February 1961 to December 1964, and then with the 562nd and then the 561st Tactical Fighter Squadron at McConnell AFB, Kansas, from December 1964 to November 1966. Maj Everson began flying combat missions in Southeast Asia with the 354th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Takhli Royal Thai AFB, Thailand, in November 1966, and he was forced to eject over North Vietnam and was taken as a Prisoner of War on March 10, 1967. After spending 2,186 days in captivity, LtCol Everson was released during Operation Homecoming on March 4, 1973. He was hospitalized to recover from his injuries at Scott AFB, Illinois, and then attended Air War College at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, graduating in August 1974. He then completed refresher flight training at Randolph AFB, Texas, followed by F-111 Aardvark upgrade training at Nellis AFB, Nevada. Col Everson's final assignment was with the ACEVAL/AIMVAL project at Nellis AFB, where he ran an independent analysis team in the Joint Test and Evaluations that took place at Nellis between 1974 and 1978. He retired from the Air Force on July 31, 1978. David Everson and his wife Karlene had three children together before her death-DeAnn, David, and Daniel.

The following is a recollection David wrote for Ann Jones’s book:

“After having learned my lesson, I started school at the University of Minnesota - Duluth in the fall of 1950. My academic career was cut short when the Aitkin Guard was called to active duty in December, 1950. We were supposed to be on active duty for two years but my enlistment was up in September 1951. I went back to school and continued until graduation in August, 1954. The army taught me that officers live better than enlisted men so I enrolled in Air Force ROTC. Midway through school the Air Force told me I was qualified for flight training and I was hooked. I never looked back.

“While in school I worked at a garage across the street from the Hotel Duluth. There we parked cars, washed cars, and supplied ambulance service to the entire city of Duluth. At the beginning of my senior year, I married Karlene Carpenter, daughter of Carl and Ellen Carpenter of Glen. Our first child, DeAnn, was born the week after I graduated.

“When I was called to active duty, we went to Florida and Texas for flight training. Then we were moved from one base to another like most of the Air Force. We spent four years in Japan from 1961 to 1964. By the time we returned to the states in December 1964, the Viet Nam war was heating up. In the fall of 1966, I was trained as a Wild Weasel pilot and sent to Takh Li, Thailand. I started flying missions in November 1966 and was shot down 50 miles north of Hanoi on March 10, 1967. I was on my 56th mission.

“My experience as a prisoner of war is typical of the stories most POWs tell. I was to suppress surface-to-air missile firing during a raid on a steel plant at Thai Nguyen, fifty miles north of Hanoi. We were hit in the left wing by gunfire and the aircraft came apart. We were going too fast for bailout at first but were pinned in the cockpit by G forces. By the time I could move, the part of the aircraft we were in had slowed and we ejected.

“I came down in a courtyard of a small factory. For a few seconds, no one saw me. I used this time to transmit a message on my survival radio that I was alive. Nobody heard it. The civilians in the factory saw me then and surrounded me. I took two serious hits on the head from rifle butts and rolled into a ball on the ground. Before the crowd could get organized and do me some real damage, some soldiers arrived and took me away.

“My left knee kept folding up when I tried to walk and I thought my knees had been injured. I found out after I came home that I had a spinal fracture because I was not sitting properly when I ejected. The soldiers who captured me took me to a small building where they stripped me down to my shorts and socks. I was blindfolded; my hands were tied behind me. A bandage was put around my head. I was kept in a gun pit until it started to get dark, then I was put together with my Electronic Warfare Officer and we were forced to run. We were running in a large circle because we passed the same noises over and over. The crowd was encouraged to throw stones, to hit us and whatever they could do while we were running by. It is difficult to dodge blows when blindfolded. I fell a lot because of my knee and had to get up myself every time. My back seater {Capt. José David Luna of California} was annoyed because I fell against him a lot and knocked him down too. After what seemed like hours, we were walked into a dugout and after a short while were put in the back of an open truck and taken to Hanoi.

“During my first two months as a prisoner I was kept in a block of cells we called Heartbreak Hotel. {This was a part of the larger complex known as the ‘Hanoi Hilton.’} I was in stocks for a large part of that time. The Vietnamese were not interested in military information but were attempting to destroy the morale of the prisoners and make them compliant. I was in solitary confinement during this time.

“After two months of this, I was put in a cell with my back seater and moved to a camp we called ‘The Zoo.’ It had this name because early in the war the guards had allowed the local civilians to tour the prison and harass the prisoners. I was with my back seater and another prisoner for about two weeks. Then I was placed in solitary confinement for one and a half years. During this time, the emphasis was on collecting ‘confessions’ from the prisoners with the intent of using the confessions in trials at a later date. We were also pressed for propaganda. This included meeting foreign journalists and delegations from ‘peaceful’ countries. In order to convince us to cooperate, they used things like the ropes and wrist irons. To do this, they tied our elbows tightly together behind our back, then put tight steel clamps on the wrists, then tied our feet to our wrists and tied a rope around our necks which was tied to our elbows tight enough so we could just breathe. For me, this lasted until the fall of 1968. By this time, I had lost forty pounds and didn’t look too good.

“I was finally put in a cell with another POW. We were mostly left alone after this but had some harassment. During this entire time, the food consisted of a plate of rice and a bowl of vegetable soup twice a day. We found out later that the prison staff was stealing a lot of the food provided for the POWs.

“In the summer of 1969 I was moved into a cell with three other POWs. This was quite nice because it actually had a window. After several months of quiet living, in October of 1969 our treatment improved dramatically. We got better food, improved medical care, and more outside time. The torture and harassment stopped. Walls in the building that had been built to make small cells were destroyed so prisoners were in a larger cell with more cellmates.

“In the fall of 1970, a large group of us were moved to a new prison miles from Hanoi. It was quite nice (relative to what we had before). We had the freedom of the courtyard during the day. It all ended when the Son Tay raid took place. We were all loaded on trucks and taken to the Hoa Lo prison {the infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’} in downtown Hanoi. The place was crowded because the previous prisoners (mostly South Viet Nam soldiers) had not yet been moved out.

{The Son Tay raid took place November 21-22, 1970. It was a rescue mission on a POW prison camp 20 miles west of Hanoi. The raid was unsuccessful; the prisoners had been moved.}

“The move to Hoa Lo prison got all the POWs together in the same prison for the first time. We were in cells that held about fifty people and had good communication with all the prisoners. Some POWs were later moved to other camps but I stayed in Hoa Lo until we were repatriated in March of 1973.”

Mark has found an article in the February 2006 issue of Air Force Magazine that describes the flight activities on that day in 1967 when David was shot down.

The description of David Everson's role that day starts here:

“The flight commander was Maj. David A. Everson, Lincoln 01, with Capt. Donald A. Luna, the electronic warfare officer (EWO), in the back seat. Capt. Bill Hoeft was Lincoln 02. The leader of the second element was Capt. Merlyn Dethlefsen, Lincoln 03, with Capt. Kevin A. “Mike” Gilroy as his EWO. Flying on his wing was Maj. Kenneth H. Bell, Lincoln 04.

“All six airmen in the Weasel flight had plenty of experience. Each of them had flown more than 50 combat missions and had been to North Vietnam many times.”

and concludes with this

“Lincoln flight approached Thai Nguyen in combat spread formation, the four aircraft almost line abreast with Everson and Hoeft on the right and Dethlefsen and Bell on the left. Two miles out from the target, the Weasels detected a SAM radar tracking them.

“Everson in Lincoln 01 attacked first. He swept wide to the right, dived through the flak, and launched a Shrike missile toward the SAM site. Seconds later, Lincoln 01 took a critical hit from the AAA. Chute beepers confirmed that Everson and Luna had bailed out. They reached the ground and were captured immediately. They spent the rest of the war as POWs, returning in the general repatriation in 1973.

“Hoeft, Lincoln 02, followed Everson into the flak. He was also hit and put out of action. An 85 mm shell blew a four-foot hole in his left wing, just outboard of the landing gear. He was lucky to make it to Udorn Air Base in northern Thailand, where he recovered.”

EVERSON, DAVID

Name: David Everson
Rank/Branch: United States Air Force/O4
Unit: 354 TFS
Date of Birth: 04 September 1931
Home City of Record: Aitkin MN
Date of Loss: 10 March 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 214400 North 1055000 East
Status (in 1973):
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105F #8335
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Jose Luna, returnee
Refno: 0612

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.

REMARKS: 730304 RELEASED BY DRV

SOURCE: WE CAME HOME copyright 1977
Captain and Mrs. Frederic A Wyatt (USNR Ret), Barbara Powers Wyatt, Editor
P.O.W. Publications, 10250 Moorpark St., Toluca Lake, CA 91602
Text is reproduced as found in the original publication (including date and spelling errors).

DAVID EVERSON
Lieutenant Colonel - United States Air Force
Shot Down: March 10, 1967
Released: March 4, 1973

The following is a bio David wrote for a POW network, apparently right after he returned to the U.S.

I was born in 1931 and graduated from the University of Minnesota in Duluth, Minnesota in 1954 and entered the Air Force in 1955. I went through pilot training and flew fighters at various bases in the United States and in the Far East until I was shot down several miles north of Hanoi. I was flying a F-105 Thunderchief out of Takhli, Thailand. I arrived back in the States on March 7, 1973, just three days less than six years from the day I was shot down.

I have three children. Daughter DeAnn is 18 and a freshman in college. Davy is 15 and a sophomore at Coon Rapids High School. Danny is 12 and in the 7th grade. My children waited for me in Coon Rapids, Minnesota.

The tremendous welcome that I had and the other returned POWs have received makes me feel very proud and at the same time very humble. I know many men have been killed or crippled in this war. Very few of the men who returned earlier received half the welcome accorded the POWs. I hope we will all remember the families of these men and try to insure that their children will have the same opportunities that your children and mine will have. I was very happy and proud on the day of my release because we were able to return home with pride. Thank you for all your kindness and God bless you all.

December 1996
David Everson retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel. He and his wife Ann reside in Minnesota.

The following is an article published in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune on Thursday, February 17, 2000:

Commentary: A character forged in the Hanoi Hilton

by Lori Sturdevant

One theory about the 2000 presidential election is that the guy most possessed of Clinton antimatter will win.

Buy it or not, that theory goes a long way to explain the rise of the meteor of the month, John McCain. Forget about issues for now. In comparisons of human raw material -- temperament, experience, style -- the Arizona Republican is more conspicuously not Bill Clinton than any other candidate still in the running.

That, says Dave Everson, has a lot to do with Hua Lo Prison in Hanoi. He shared a cell there with McCain for 15 months.

"He learned a lot in captivity -- we all did," said Everson. "They say that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I think there's truth in that."

Everson, 68, retired from the St. Paul Companies as a computer programmer several years ago. He lives a private, apolitical life in Inver Grove Heights. It's a world away from the torment he and some 600 other Americans endured three decades ago in North Vietnamese prisons.

Everson does not talk easily about those years -- especially when he's addressing a newspaper audience. But he recognizes that voters won't glimpse the president John McCain could be unless former POWs like him describe the McCain they knew and the circumstances they shared.

Everson, an Air Force major, was incarcerated at the infamous Hanoi Hilton in March 1967; McCain, a Navy lieutenant commander, arrived the following October. Both had been injured as they ejected from planes shot down during bombing missions. Everson's back was broken and his knees damaged. McCain broke both arms and one leg. Both were beaten with rifle butts, paraded for civilian abuse, bound in contorted poses and interrogated at exhaustive length before landing in solitary confinement.

Everson's isolation lasted a year and a half. His captors spiced his routine by beating him or binding his feet to his bed and one wrist to his ankles, then leaving him in twisted discomfort for days.

McCain had it worse. He was in solitary confinement for two years. The North Vietnamese offered McCain early release in 1968 when they learned that his father, Adm. Jack McCain, had been appointed commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific. When the younger McCain refused, citing the code of conduct that POWs should be released in the order in which they were captured, he was beaten savagely.

"Isolation is the worst thing that can happen to you," said Everson. "You get irrational after a while." He suspects McCain had the same mental crisis.

The nation would be right to worry that McCain left a piece of his sanity in Hanoi, had the POWs been suddenly released in 1969, at the time of Ho Chi Minh's death. A quick passage from isolated horror to normal society likely would have been too much for even the most disciplined military mind to take.

But the POWs were not released until early 1973. What changed after Ho's death was the treatment the prisoners received. Solitary confinement and beatings ended. Suddenly prisoners had cellmates, hot water, instant coffee, six rather than three cigarettes a day. "We sat and smoked until we got sick," Everson said.

In late 1971, he moved into a large communal cell with 49 other POWs. The ensuing 15 months before their release were a time of physical and psychological healing for every man in the cell. The men understood and supported each other as no one else could.

One of Everson's cellmates was John McCain, reputed to be the "toughest guy in the place" because of the torture he had endured.

McCain stood out -- but, Everson says, not for the extent of his injuries or for the cocky attitude he reportedly showed. "Most fighter pilots are that way. If you aren't a little arrogant and cocky, you're too passive to fly a fighter."

It was his intellect that distinguished McCain. The prisoners passed time by teaching each other what they knew of languages, literature and mathematics. McCain held forth on Roman history. He drew sharp, well-reasoned analogies between the decline of the Roman Empire and the threat that moral decline posed for the United States.

McCain was also the senior officer's choice for some undercover work involving information transfer from one cell to another. It was dangerous business, but McCain was never caught.

Everson remembers a man who knew the value of discipline and dignity as only someone who had clung to them for survival could. He remembers occasional displays of temper, like the day Everson teased that his Viking ancestors and McCain's Irish forebears might have known each other intimately. But mostly, he recalls a good soldier.

"Being in prison made John more steady. It taught him self-control. It gave him focus. When he left that prison, he knew what he wanted," Everson said.

McCain became a moderate Republican. Everson, whose political thinking borders on libertarianism, would call another candidate with the same views suspiciously liberal. But he's eager to support his cellmate.

"I trust him. He's a totally trustworthy person. If he says he'll do something, he'll move heaven and earth to do it. He's rock-solid."

A lot of Americans long to be able to say as much about a president.

-- Lori Sturdevant is a Star Tribune editorial writer.
© Copyright 2000 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.

From the Ancestry data base on returned Vietnam War Casualties:

Personal Information

Name: David Everson
Age: 41
Birth Date: 4 Sep 1931
Race: Caucasion
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Home Location: Aitkin, Minnesota
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Service Branch: Air Force
Discharge Date: 4 Mar 1973
Date Processed: Mar 1973
Component: Regular
Casualty Type: Hostile - Captured/Interned - Returned to Military Control
Country of Casualty: North Vietnam
Casualty Cause: Aircraft Loss/Crash Not at Sea
Casualty Air Type: Fixed Wing Air Casualty - Pilot

In August of 1966, the North Vietnamese aired a televised interview with David in which the voice track was done separately. The interview had David saying that he hoped that the war would end soon and that he wanted to get home and that he was sorry to have taken part in the war. In an article in the Minneapolis newspaper, David’s brother Ronald, then a member of Minnesota’s House of Representatives, said that neither the voice, nor the words spoken, were that of his brother. “His philosophy was to pursue the war and win,” Ronald said. Ronald, his wife, and his parents all saw the film and agreed that David “looked good.” It was the first time that they had seen him since his picture was shown following his capture. {In that picture, David is shown looking down and with a bandage around his head.} Ronald said that both he and his parents had been notified the Air Force that the filmed interview would be shown. At the time of the article, Karlene and the children were living at the McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita and apparently were not consulted by the reporter writing the article.

In January of 1968, the North Vietnamese released a picture of a captured American pilot that they said was David Everson. An article from the January 29, 1968, edition of the Minneapolis Star, datelined Wadena, has Ronald saying that the man in the photograph was not his brother.

The front page of the March 8, 1973, edition of the Minneapolis Tribune shows David being greeted by his family at Scott AFB in Illinois. The caption notes that David had not seen his family since his last visit home in October of 1966.

The Minneapolis Star had an article on David on its front page in May of 1973. The article was written by staff writer Stan Strick and included a photograph of David sitting on the front step of his home in Coon Rapids.

POW Life Fades from Everson’s Memory

The North Vietnamese prisoner of war camps are about as far from the mind of Air Force Lt. Col. David Everson as Hanoi is from Coon Rapids.

Everson was released just over two months ago after his airplane was shot down in early 1967. Now about two-thirds of the way through his readjustment period, the ordeal seems far away.

“It’s very difficult to sit here and believe I was really there,” Everson said in an interview yesterday. “It’s just two months and two weeks since I got out. It was so different over there than what it is here that it’s difficult to relate the two lives.”

He, his wife and three children are living at 2408 119th Avenue NW in Coon Rapids where his wife bought a home to wait out his imprisonment. Both are from Aitkin, Minnesota.

He says he has picked up his place in the family and now is looking forward to his next assignment, probably to the Air War College at Maxwell AFB in Alabama.

What’s it like to see your family after a six-year absence?

“Well, the first couple of days it’s a little goofy,” Everson said. “After that it seems we settled down to just like we’ve always been.

“I think the first couple of days the children were a little on guard. They didn’t know if they were going to say something that would offend me or if I would snap at them,” he said.

Everson spends his time reading, answering mail and visiting relatives until his new assignment comes through. He says he plans to order his life differently from his days as a fighter pilot when he was away from home a lot while on flying missions.

“I liked flying and I liked everything that went with it,” Everson said. “I can see now it probably wasn’t good for my family to be left alone so much and I plan that whatever job I get it’s going to be one that will allow me to be home so I can take my boys hunting, fishing, and doing the things I should have been doing for the last six years.”

He said he found the readjustment period without many difficulties or severe shocks. “During my last year in prison we had contact with people who were shot down in 1972. That did a lot toward helping us understand what was going on,” he said.

Between reports from newly-captured pilots and “interpreting” Vietnamese propaganda, the prisoners came to have a good picture of the world they were being denied, he said.

“There were a lot of discussions over there (on), ‘What are you going to do if....’ It helps a lot to think about these things while you’re there so you won’t make a snap decision when you get home and meet a bad situation such as losing your wife or finding that things have gone to pieces while you’re gone.

“I think most people had some decisions pretty well in their head (that) ‘If this happens, I’m going to do thus and so.’”

Everson said he was surprised at the depth of his family’s involvement in prisoner-of-war projects. His wife was state coordinator of the National League of Families and his brother, Ronald, was also active.

“My wife doesn’t agree entirely with me on the war,” Everson said. “She more had the attitude that we should get out (and) get the prisoners out. I’m really not that way. If we had to stay there an extra year to win the war, I wasn’t opposed to that.

“I’d rather stay there one more year and win it than come home a year or two early and blow the whole thing. I don’t know if we’re going to win it now.”

Still, there were some things that were unexpected, such as:

Long hair. “When we were shot down, the only people who wore long hair was the hippie crowd. Then we learned everybody was doing it.”

Frankness in sex. “Sex, I guess, is the biggest change. I don’t think the actual morals can change that fast. The ones who have been after sexual freedom feel free to talk louder.”

Movies. “When I was shot down movies that are now rated as G or PG wouldn’t have been shown anywhere. You know, ‘Pete and Tillie’ is supposed to be a comedy, and it’s really sick. It wasn’t funny except in a very few places.”

Television programs. “They’re a little duller than they used to be. I think when Sid Caesar and Jack Gleason went off the air, television never recovered.”

Gas stations. “They aren’t too worried any more about selling gas. If you want your oil checked, you have to ask. Sometimes you have to go in to find the guy to put gas in your car.”

But for himself, Everson believes the ordeal is over, the adjustment completed and life back on a routine path. “Maybe two years from now I won’t think it’s normal, but it sure seems to be normal now.”



DeAnne said that her dad enlisted in the Army and rose to Master Sargent at age 19 after being called to active duty. He took his GI Bill and went to UMD, was Cadet Captain in ROTC, married my mom and then was called up for flight training when I was 1. He endured six years in the Hanoi Hilton, came home and stayed in the USAF until 1978. He eventually went to Control Data programming school and worked for the St. Paul companies until his second retirement around 1996.

David married Karlene Elaine CARPENTER on 20 Sep 1953 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Karlene (daughter of Carl CARPENTER and Ellen SHERRETS) was born on 21 Nov 1932 in Winthrop, Buchanan County, Iowa; died on 29 Oct 1980 in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada; was buried on 3 Nov 1980 in Lakeview Cemetery, Aitkin Twp, Aitkin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married B.H. GAGE [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jean Marie MACDONALD. Jean was born on 11 Jun 1930 in Aitkin County, Minnesota; died on 16 Feb 2004 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried in Acacia Park Cemetery, Dakota County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1930-06504
• Baptism: 19 Aug 1930, Cedar Lake Lutheran Church, Farm Island Twp, Aitkin County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 27 Aug 1944, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

Carlson, Elaine M. 90, died at her home in Eagan, Minnesota, on June 25, 2020.

She was born on February 27, 1930, at the old Miners' Hospital in Crosby, Minnesota, as the first child of John and Mabel Landstrom Everson of Deerwood. Elaine attended the one-room Cedar Brook country school and attended ninth grade at Aitkin High School. In 1944 she moved to her aunt and uncle's home in suburban Chicago and graduated from Maine Township High School in Park Ridge, Illinois, in 1947. That same year she married Donald Carlson of Minneapolis.

She and her husband raised their family in east Bloomington and she and Don moved to Eagan in 2005. She was a devoted mother and wife, an excellent bridge player, and the greater Everson family's worrier-in-chief. She will be dearly missed by all who knew her and loved her.

Elaine is survived by her two children, Don (Mary) Carlson of Green Bay and Cheryl (Kevin) Fautch of Eagan, three grandchildren, Eric (Chris Hynes) Carlson of Portland, Oregon, Lindsay (Scott) Wing of Chicago, and Krista (Bobby) Bloch of Apple Valley, and two great-grandchildren, Logan and Preston Bloch. Elaine is also survived by her sister Judy Redfield, her brother Bill (Edna) Everson, and her close Everson cousins Ronald Everson, David Everson, Jerry Everson, Jackie Higby, Jean Haselhuhn, and David Graham, and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband in 2011 and by her brothers Andy Everson and Bob Everson and her sister Joanne Davis.

The family would like to thank Laura Nees, Elaine's cousin's daughter, who provided excellent care to Elaine during her final days.

In lieu of flowers, the family encourages donations to the charitable organization of their choice. Private burial at Sunset Memorial Park. Celebration of Life to be held later.

Birth:
6:25 AM, Miners’ Hospital

Baptism:
by Pastor Ole Dahle, founding pastor of the Cedar Lake church at Dorris. Baptismal sponsors were George Everson and Eva Gustad.

Confirmation:
Elaine’s memorized Bible verse was John 11: 25-26. Pastor George Boyer may have served two churches at one time: Immanuel and St. John’s in Aitkin.

Mabel married Donald Herbert CARLSON on 8 Nov 1947 in Aitkin County, Minnesota. Donald (son of Maurice Edward CARLSON and Cora Christena ANDERSON) was born on 13 Jul 1924 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; died on 15 Mar 2011 in Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota; was buried on 18 Mar 2011 in Sunset Memorial Park, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1934-06632
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2016-MN-015334

Notes:

The Wednesday, June 20, 1945, edition of the Brainerd newspaper notes: “Miss Joanne and Gerald Everson left Wednesday for Minneapolis and Park Ridge, Ill. for a week’s visit with relatives.”

She was runner-up in the Crosby-Ironton Homecoming Queen contest in September of 1951.

Jo and Jack were living in Cloquet in the summer of 1956.

According to the Faribault city directory, Jo was a teller for the Security National Bank in 1967 and a saleswoman for Ochs Brothers in 1972.



Joanne Clara Davis, age 82, of Hastings, passed away at Regions Hospital on May 7, 2016. She was born on April 11, 1934 in Deer Wood, MN to John and Mabel Everson.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jack, and daughter, Nancy Ann Davis. She is survived by her daughter, Jayne Davis - Pickart (Bryce Pickart); sons, John (Kris) Davis, and Jeff (Genny) Davis; grandchildren, Andrew, Heather, and Nicole; great grandchildren, David, Sam and Charlotte; other relatives and friends.

A memorial service will be held at Regina Memorial Chapel in Hastings on Thursday, May 12.

Birth:
probably in Miners Hospital, Crosby

Died:
Regions Hospital, St. Paul

Joanne married Jack Cecil DAVIS on 5 Feb 1952 in Day County, South Dakota. Jack (son of Rolland Cecil (Cubby) DAVIS and Fern Mildred CROWELL) was born on 15 Apr 1931 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 24 Nov 2015 in Dakota County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1937-MN-043946
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1972-MN-017788
• Occupation: Electronics Technician (Northwest Airlines)
• Social Security Number: 476-38-8820 issued in Minnesota in 1954.
• Confirmation: 15 Jun 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

The Monday, August 4, 1947, edition of the Brainerd newspaper notes that “Andy Everson returned from Minneapolis on Friday. He visited a week with Billy Marsh and while there he attended the water sports show.”

From the Wednesday, September 15, 1954, edition of the Crosby-Ironton Courier: “The land judging team from the Vocational Agriculture class at the C-I High School placed second among 12 teams in a contest held at North Branch. The boys on the team were Andy Everson, Paul Wynn, and Don Tysk. William Frey is the instructor.”

From the Wednesday, December 29, 1954, edition of the Crosby-Ironton Courier: “Andy Everson, 16, a member of the Cedar Lake 4-H Club, has been named this year’s champion horticulturalist in Crow Wing County.”

An article in the June 24, 1961, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that “Airman Second Class John A. Everson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Everson of Deerwood, recently graduated from the 36 week Radio Relay Equipment Repairman course at Keesler AFB, Miss. At Osceola AFS, Wisconsin, he will install, inspect, maintain and repair microwave radio relay and associated equipment.”

Later he worked for Northwest Airlines.

Died of a brain tumor. His death certificate said he died from cardiac arrest caused by a glioblastoma on the left frontal area of his brain which he had had for 2 years. His wife Edna was the informant. The family’s residence was 10949 Washburn in Bloomington.

His birth certificate information:

Name: John Andrew Everson
Birth Date: 8 Dec 1937
Birth County: Crow Wing
Father: John Everson
Mother: Mable Landstrom
File Number: 1937-MN-043946

Birth:
Elaine said December 8th, Funeral announcement said Dec 8th, SSDI said 7th

Died:
Fairview Southdale Hospital

Buried:
Funeral at Mt. Hope Lutheran Church, Bloomington

John married Edna Mae WYNN on 3 Jun 1961 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Edna (daughter of Gailand Beauregard WYNN and Viola Ferne MILES) was born on 17 Jul 1941 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 19 Oct 2020 in Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1949-MN-058696
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2011-MN-607797
• Occupation: Engineer
• Baptism: 4 Jun 1950, Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 1963, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

Baptized in his parents’ home by George M. Boyer of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. His oldest nephew was baptized at the same time.

Crosby-Ironton High School, 1967
Attended St. Olaf College, 1967-68
B.E.E., University of Minnesota, 1971

Everson, Robert Allen age 62, of Lakeville, died May 25, 2011. Preceded in death by parents, John and Mabel Everson; and brother, Andrew Everson. Survived by wife, Cheryl; daughters, Jennifer (Arik) Nesbitt and Courtney (Manuel) Betonio; grandchildren, Kellen and Amelia; siblings, William (Edna) Everson, Elaine Carlson, JoAnne (Jack) Davis and Judy (Jerry) Redfield; and many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Visitation Thursday from 9:45 A.M. until the 11 A.M. service at Grace Lutheran Church, 8700 Old Cedar Ave., S., Bloomington. Interment Resurrection Cemetery. Memorials preferred to American Liver Foundation or Fairview Hospice.

In his January 10, 2012, letter on Bob’s autopsy report, the Mayo Clinic physician noted: “… he indeed suffered from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).” The report also seemed to imply that the initial clinical diagnosis, of a “mixed syndrome of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and PSP,” was incorrect, or at least misleading, and that PSP was the principal cause of death. The physician noted that, “There was no evidence of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease, or any other additional neurologic disorder.”

Birth:
Draper Hospital, 9 lbs., 4 oz.

Baptism:
At home. DRC baptized at same time.

Died:
at home at 2:30 AM

Buried:
Funeral from Grace Lutheran Church in Bloomington, Pastor Steven Svoboda presiding. Pallbearers Arik Nesbitt, Don Carlson, Manuel Betonio, Jr., Jerry Redfield, Greg Ryan, Wally Jensen.

Robert married C.A. MERCIER [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1954-MN-001708

Notes:

Birth:
born at 9:00 PM according to Cora’s diary

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2013-MN-032787

Notes:

Nesbitt, Jennifer Ann (Everson) age 40, of Savage, passed away peacefully at home after a valiant fight with liver disease on October 19, 2013. Preceded by her father Robert Allen Everson. She is survived by her beloved husband Arik and son Kellen, as well as her mother Cheryl Everson, sister Courtney Betonio (Manuel), and many nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws, and caring family members. Special thanks to the liver transplant team at Fairview University Hospital and her angels, Courtney Betonio and Diana Goreki who donated parts of their livers to her.

Birth:
St. Luke’s Hospital

Buried:
cremated

Jennifer married A.W. NESBITT [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]