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Linda Tollefson Therkelse
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 Posted - 14/06/2010 : 04:55:53
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Rachel,
Yes, that is Ansten and Kari. The family put up that marker much later, it is way too new for that time. The family did later use the name Natesta -- and they pronounce it "Na-TEST-a." I have a photo of the marker that I took.
We have actually been making some progress on this, but have been working in private e-mail. I wanted to wait until there was a little more info to post -- it is slow going through church records.
I feel I have Halsten's date of death narrowed to between 1871-1873 -- partly because I finally figured out from marriage records that Halsten's brother Ole, a widower, married Halsten's widow, Marit Aslaksdatter 19 May 1874 in Black Earth. So his second wife Mary who died here in Renville County -- was also Halsten's wife Mary. I put her death as estimated 1882-1884 from his obituary ("his second wife died about 15 years ago" from Dec. 1898). From church records, Halsten and Marit had one more baby, Martin, born and died in Jan. 1871 (Perry Evangelical). Since I believe the baby would have been named Halsten if his father were already deceased, he must have been alive then.
Halsten and Marit's daughter Mary married Nels P. Nordquist 25 April 1874 in Black Earth (Dane Co.).
The information about Marit being from Dane Co. was on the marriage record, both in index on the one from Iowa County clerk's office that Mary had obtained earlier. |
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Linda Tollefson Therkelse
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Posted - 14/06/2010 : 05:07:34
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Re Marit --
BTW, Marit born 28 May 1828 in Sør-Aurdal, Oppland immigrated on bark Augusta dep. Bergen 06 May 1848 is a very good fit. In census, she most closely comes out to born about 1828. This Marit's parents are Aslak Knudsen (Lien) and Kari Halsteinsdatter. Halsten Halvorsen and Marit Aslaksdatter's first children, we know only through census are Mary and "Albert", appropriately named for Halstein's parents. But from church records from Dodgeville (Book 1, pp. 12-13), not only is it very clear her name is Marit Aslaksdatter, in 07 Nov. 1855, they had twins, Aslak and Karine Marie, matching Marit's parents, as the next children we know about.
In Perry Church Records, we find Alla born 07 Feb. 1858 (Book 1, p. 10) |
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Kåarto
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Posted - 14/06/2010 : 22:58:26
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Hi, you are right Rachel.
Anstein Nattestad married Kari Høljesdatter Wammen b. Nov. 7. 1820, see right page #61
Kari emigrated with Anstein Nattestad on his 2. journey in 1839, see#3
I do not know when Anstein died, A. K. Natestad you find April 8. 1888, it must be him.
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Linda Tollefson Therkelse
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Posted - 15/06/2010 : 00:45:22
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| I do not have a place to post this photo, but I just looked at photo of Ansten Nattestad's grave marker, and it looks like 1889 to me. If you send me e-mail address, I will e-mail to you. It is in the East Jefferson Prairie cemetery; Ole Nattestad's is in the West Jefferson Prairie Cemetery. |
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Linda Tollefson Therkelse
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Posted - 26/06/2010 : 20:39:11
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Marit (Mary) Aslaksdatter, wife of 1)Halstein Halvorsen 2) Ole Halvorsen
I have found a death date for Marit, but it will not help much more. I went through newspapers on microfilm for Renville County for estimated date, finding there were many, many missing issues. The last one I looked at turned out to have the date, but was a newspaper that existed for less than a year.
Bird Island Blizzard, Bird Island, Minn., April 6, 1882, p.1, col. 4.: Mrs. Ole Halvorsen, of Preston Lake, died very suddenly last Thursday night, of heart disease. She was buried on Monday.
There is another paragraph of interest next to it:: Mr. & Mrs. O.A. Dolven, of Watson, were down to attend the funeral of Mr. Dolven's sister, Mrs. Halvorsen.
Now I had already been taking a few notes on O.A. Dolven as I went through the newspapers, because I had been through some church records for Black Earth & Mt. Horeb in Dane County a few days before, and I had thought that some of Marit's family definitely lived there, including her mother Kari Halsteinsdatter. Also all the Lie & LIen families we had talked about. But we knew from Mary's marriage record to Ole Halvorsen, her parents were using name Dolven. So when I saw O.A. Dolven, I thought it must be Ole Aslaksen Dolven. This has turned out to be the case when it is confirmed it is her brother. I will be going back to look a little more at that microfilm. It did not have any funeral records at all, and the records are a bit sketchy here and there, for all congregations in area of Mt. Horeb and Black Earth.
It did make sense to me that Halstein found a wife nearby in Dane County.
I looked up Dolven in the Stedsfortegnelse, and found that this is, indeed, a farm in Sør-Aurdal in Oppland, correct spelling Dølven. In U.S. records also seeing Dolvin and Dalven. It would appear this family moved around in Sør-Aurdal, so last place for the parents & sons must have been Dølven; note below on baptism for Ole they are "of Lofterud". I found some trees online for Ole Dolven, but they seem not to know where he or his parents were from. Interestingly, the father, showing up as Asleg Dolven, several trees have as died 20 Aug. 1852 on Lake Erie. I haven't looked at all the census or anything, but on 1880 Ole Dolven lists year of immigration as 1852. It sounds like the father may have died on the journey. Kåre, I am not sure if you know, it is the usual immigration route at that time after arriving in New York, to take a smaller ship up the Hudson River, then a canal boat on the Erie Canal, then a ship across Lake Erie and Lake Michigan to Chicago or other port on Great Lakes.
I found a baptism record for brother Ole Aslaksen, which matches exactly birthdate in trees found for Ole A. Dolven.
http://www.arkivverket.no/URN:kb_read?idx_kildeid=9380&idx_id=9380&uid=ny&idx_side=-141
These are same parents I had felt were most likely parents for Marit.
Apparently Marit was the first or one of the first from her family to immigrate, and is the case so often, other family members followed. Ole A. Dolven, has original land patents in McLeod County, Minnesota, as early as 1864, so he must have gone from Dane County to McLeod quite early, and Marit and her second husband followed much later.
O.A. Dolven had been mentioned several times in both Blizzard and Renville County Union in that period in early 1880s, though I did not keep detailed notes. I made one he was mentioned as "the genial & gnerous host of the Sherman House..." and he had some ads for the Sherman House in the Blizzard. This was a hotel, but he sold somewhere around 1883, I think.
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Linda Tollefson Therkelse
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Posted - 26/06/2010 : 20:50:31
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Mary and Halstein's children
I have to say, I do not think it is looking good for survival of any of Mary and Halstein's children. There are no children mentioned in one line death notice in newspaper, although it is possible there are some adult children somewhere else. After all, her son Ole was still alive, didn't die until 1888, and was not mentioned. We have baptisms and some funerals for babies, and some others just missing because of lack of records. Ally who appeared in 1875 state census not there after that, Ole died 1888, and he did get a better obituary, but no mention of siblilngs. The stepfather, Ole Halvorsen, who is identified as father on obituary, died leaving his farm to his nephew Ole C. Halvorsen, son of his brother Erick. I would think that if any of his other stepchildren were alive, he would have at least made a bequest in his will. (Note to follow on Mary Otnes.) That name Ally -- her brother Ole Aslaksen Dolven also has a son named Ally, born 1862, so it is what they are using for "Aslak."
Nels Nordquist, the husband of Halstein and Mary's daughter Mary, is consistently there from at least 1880-1883, but there is never any sign of Mary -- it seems like she must be deceased. (More newspaper notes to follow)
I would still like to look and see if there are any records for Palmyra Lutheran church, to see if there are any marriages or funerals for any of these. |
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Linda Tollefson Therkelse
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Posted - 26/06/2010 : 21:00:02
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Additional newspaper notes, Ole Halvorsen & Nels Nordquist; Erick Halvorsen
mention in Renville County Union (Bird Island, Minn.), Jan. 04, 1883, p. 3: Nels Nordquist & Ole Halverson spent New Years at Glencoe & Preston Lake. (Not clear if this is younger Ole.)
18 Jan. 1883, Renville County Union, p. 3: Ole Halverson left for Watson, on a business trip last Monday. (Not clear if this means Ole or Ole C., son of Erick)
1883, May 3, in Renville County Union, p. 3 O.E. Halverson, of Wisconsin, brother of Ole Halverson of this city, remained here over Sunday with his two carloads of Horses & cattle on his way to Aberdeen. (Refers to his brother Erick)
1883, May 17, in Renville County Union, p. 4: Nels Nordquist left Saturday for a short sojourn in Arlington.
1885, Jan. 22, mentioned in Renville County Union (Bird Island, Minn.) p. 4, Ole C. Halverson of Aberdeen, looked in us Monday.
1888, April 27 in Renville County Union: Mrs. O.C. Halverson took her departure for Minneapolis Tuesday where she will reside. (Hmm, what does that mean? Most people like to go to the country for the summer.)
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Linda Tollefson Therkelse
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Posted - 26/06/2010 : 21:05:55
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Mary Otnes
I had found Mary Otnes buried in Palmyra Cemetery in Renville County, as Maren Olson Otness, b. Jan. 17, 1858 d. June 17, 1894. From Hector Mirror, June 21, 1894: On Sunday, June 17th, 1894, Mary, wife of E.O. Otnes of Baudon, breathed her last. For several months she had been suffering from that dread disease consumption, her friends knowing that it was only a question of time when she would be called to her home above. The funeral was heald at the Norwegian Lutheran church Palmyra, on Wednesday the 20th inst. A husband and several young children have the sympathy of the entire community, Hector having been the home of the family for many years, are left to mourn.
So it seems my guess of one possibility of why Ole Halvorsen left a bequest to her children is probably true, that she did die of tuberculosis (consumption). Possibly she got this from taking care of his stepson and nephew, Ole M. who died of the same in 1888 on the Otnes farm, and the two Ole's were living with in 1885 state census.
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Linda Tollefson Therkelse
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Posted - 27/06/2010 : 19:53:25
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What happened to Marit's father Aslak (Asleg)
As is the way of these things with the early immigrants, suddenly it connected again to the great site here. It was the ship that was sunk on Lake Erie!
Immigrating to America, Asleg Dolven, his wife Kari and their two young sons departed their hometown of Aurdal in Norway's Valdres basin in mid-June, 1852 for the seaport city of Christiania, where they boarded the bark Argo for a long voyage to Quebec. Continuing on to Buffalo, they boarded the steamer Atlantic for passage to Detroit. Enroute, the Atlantic was rammed by the Ogdensburg at 2 a.m., August 20, in the eastern reaches of Lake Erie. The Atlantic sank, drowning Asleg and Kari and more than 300 of the ship's 574 immigrant passengers, according to "The Disaster on Lake Erie in 1852: The Collision Between the Steamer Atlantic and Ogdensburg," by Nanna Egidius, Trond Austheim & Borge Solem, 2001. The Dolvens' 14-year-old son Ole and his younger brother, age 4, were rescued. The name of the younger boy was not recorded.
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Linda Tollefson Therkelse
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Posted - 30/06/2010 : 23:13:20
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More on shipwreck
On this part of Norway-Heritage site is the whole story http://www.norwayheritage.com/articles/templates/norwegian_settl.asp?articleid=32&zoneid=17
Note the link at the bottom to Amund O. Eidsmoe's story in Holand's Norwegian Settlements History. And his destination? The same area as Halstein and Marit lived -- that Springdale area and Moscow, Wisconsin, the border area of Iowa and Dane counties, Wisconsin. |
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Linda Tollefson Therkelse
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Posted - 30/06/2010 : 23:24:30
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Death of Halstein Halvorsen
From Black Earth Advertiser, Black Earth, Wis., June 22, 1871, p. 3, col. 5: (Died)
At Denison, Crawford Co., Iowa, on the 14th day of June, 1871, Mrs. Halstine Halvorsen, age 56 years. The decease was a brother of Ole Halvorsen, of the firm of Isaacson Halvorsen & Co., of Black Earth Wis.
I don't know what he was doing down in Iowa, will check further, including get newspaper for that area as possible. I think his family still lived in Black Earth, perhaps he was working as blacksmith or delivering supplies (some would act as teamsters). I did not see an ad for firm of Isaacson & Halvorsen in newspaper for that time, but in later years there was an ad for H. Isaacson's dry goods store.
Also found: Black Earth Advertiser, Sept. 26, 1871, p. 3, col. 6: (Died)
Halvorsen - In Black Earth, Sept. 14, 1871, Carrie M. Halvorsen, aged 16 years.
I believe this to be their daughter, Karine b. Nov. 1855, known as Carrie in census.
Also found: Black Earth Advertiser April 30, 1874, p. 3, col. 6: (Married)
Nordquist - Halverson -- At the residence of the bride, on the 25th inst., by Rev. M.M. Martin, Mr. Nels p. Nordquist and Miss Mary Halverson, both of Black Earth.
May 21, 1874 p. 3, col. 4 (Married)
Halverson-Halverson -- At Black Earth, Wis., May 19th, by M.C. Burnett, Esq., Mr. Ole Halverson and Mrs. Mary Halverson, all of Black Earth.
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Linda Tollefson Therkelse
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Posted - 30/06/2010 : 23:44:50
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Notes -
Rev. M.M. Martin is not the Norwegian Lutheran minister for that area, who was Rev. Fjeld at that time. M.C. Burnett was a justice of the peace.
I would still like to see the will for Halstein Halvorsen, which I would still expect to find in the regional archive in Wisconsin -- there are several minor children, one would expect to see some mention.
I have received permission also to look at the church records for Palmyra congregation in Hector, Minn. although the film has not yet been catalogued by the Minnesota Historical Society. |
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Linda Tollefson Therkelse
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Posted - 04/07/2010 : 00:02:45
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Can't quite believe I found this -- it's got to be Halstein Halvorsen. I looked over history for Crawford County, Iowa, wondering what a Norwegian is doing there at that time, it wasn't really a Norwegian area. Though he was maybe looking to set up a new blacksmith shop. I found a History of Crawford County, Iowa, a Record of Settlement, etc...Vol. I from 1911, S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. Used blacksmith as search term. In reference to the township of Nishnabotny which was getting going in 1871, p. 424, "The first death recorded was that of a blacksmith named Holverson. He was an acquaintance of the Slater's and Walker's. Meeting them when they were in Denison trading, he was persuaded to move on to the Nishnabotny with them. Almost the first day of his arrival he was taken sick and died the same day. He was buried at Denison."
I did not find anything more in Palmyra congregation -- I'm not sure this family of Ole Halvorsen was going there at all.
Halstein's wife Marit Aslaksdatter Lien also Dølven was a pioneer also. I did a little more on Ole Aslaksen Dølven, her brother, and found their father was from Dølven from working in the Digitalarkivet. I also found this information from a different work by Martin Ulvestad, Norsk-Amerikaneren, 1930 on the Valdres Samband site regarding the First Emigrants from Søndre Aurdal who left in 1848. Marit is listed in the first line, and these are the same folks of the passenger list for the August Kåre found before.
http://www.valdressamband.org/stories/emigrants.html
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Posted - 11/07/2010 : 05:55:57
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I found this short biography of Ole Halverson, Halstein's brother, on a database - the Dalby Database .
Ole Halverson - Biography - BOOK - HISTORY OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY, PUBLISHED IN 1882. RENVILLE COUNTY. Halverson, Ole. Ole Halverson, native of Norway,was born April 2, 1817, and immigrated to Illinois in 1839. Removed to Iowa county, Wisconsin; worked at mining and farming, also conducted a store several years. In 1862 he went to Dane county where he was in mercantile business ten years. His first wife died in that state and he married Mrs. Mary Halverson, whose maiden name was Dolven. In 1874 he came to Preston Lake; has held several town offices. Mrs. Halverson had one son by her first husband: Ole.
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Linda Tollefson Therkelse
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Posted - 11/07/2010 : 19:12:56
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Excellent -- it all fits together the same and confirms it. And Ole was the last child surviving of Mary and Halstein, and since he died later in 1888, there are no surviving children. It is altogether a sad story, for one of those who led from Numedal.
I forgot to mention before that once I knew from the Black Advertiser that he was a merchant for a time, I found Ole in the 1870 census - Ole Halvorsen, 48, b. Norway, merchant, living Black Earth, Dane Co., Wis., in boardinghouse of Sarah Slater, value of real estate $2,000, personal $300; (U.S. Census 1870, Dane County, Wisconsin, Black Earth, E.D. 22, p. 23 (image 22), line 21). So his first wife had to have died before 1870 census. I thought looking through the church records, that she MIGHT be Anne Tollefsdatter, but that there is just no way to say for sure. |
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The first "Amerika-brev"
