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brejohns
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 Posted - 01/03/2014 : 04:09:47
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I have a copy of the tax records for Rice Township 159 Range 71 for the year 1896. It lists each tax payer on separate lines with each of the applicable general and special taxes and the total paid that year. It lists 12 landowners on the page and Gust Johnson, Borre Johnson and Bernt Johnson are each listed separately. The Ox Creek Church Centennial Book lists Bernt Johnson, but not a Gust or Borre Johnson. Here is Bernt Johnson's history:
"The first members of the Mikkelson family came to the US in 1882. They were Hans (Mikkelson) Lokken, his wife and two children, and Bernt (Mikkelson) Johnson. Hans took the name of Lokken, the place he had worked at in Norway. Bernt took the name of his father, Johanas. Bernt worked his way over helping on the cattle boat they came on. It took them three weeks to land in the USA.
The rest of the Mikkelson family (except a son, Mathias) came two years later in 1884. They settled at Pelican Rapids, Minnesota.
Bernt married Nikoline Thorstenson at Pelican Rapids. In 1886-87 they came to ND with their infant daughter and settled near Rolette. They had nine children: Thora, born April 14, 1887, died October 20, 1943. Julius, born December 31, 1888, died October 15, 1966. Melvin, born October 12, 1890, died February 3, 1919. Albert, born October 12, 1892, died November 3, 1954. Thorvald, born December 22, 1894, died November 18, 1970. Emilia, born November 28, 1896, died April 30, 1981. Bernard, born January 17, 1899, died February 27, 19--. Thomas, born January 12, 1901, died November 14, 1970, and Norris, born August 1, 1903.
Nikolina passed away September 5, 1904. Bernt married Karen Hanson, and nine children were born to this union. Anna was born October 31, 1907 and died July 5, 1977. Clarence, born February 1, 1911, died February 1919. Alvin, born December 28, 1912, died February 1919. Henry, born December 31, 1914. Clara, born October 23, 1916. Twins, Thorlaf and Myrtle, born October 17, 1918, Myrtle died August 8, 1936. Arthur, born April 6, 1920 and Harry, born May 1, 1923.
They had 14 grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren. Bernt died at Rolette, ND in 1942. Bernt Johnson was one of the charter members of the Ox Creek Lutheran Church.
Let me check the 1910 atlas for both Gust and Bernt Johnson. |
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AntonH
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Posted - 01/03/2014 : 04:23:47
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This is likely Bernt Mikkelssen Johnson in a Family Tree from Ancestry.com.
Bernt Mikkelsen Johnson
Birth 3 May 1861 in Ringsaker, Hedmark, Norway
Death 25 Jul 1930 in Rolette, Rolette, North Dakota, United States
And the family from the 1865 Norwegian Census.
Data on domicile:
Census year: 1865
Municipality: Ringsaker
Municipality number: 0412
Name of domicile: Otterstueløkken
Number of persons in this domicile: 7
Name Family status Marital status Occupation Birth year Place of birth Ethnicity
Johannes Mikkelsen Husf g Husmd med Jord 1820 Ringsaker Prgj.
Agnethe Haagensdatter hans Kone g 1827 Ringsaker Prgj.
Hans Johannesen deres Søn ug 1852 Ringsaker Prgj.
Mathias Johannes.* deres Søn ug 1855 Ringsaker Prgj.
Bernt Johannes.* deres Søn ug 1863 Ringsaker Prgj.
Marie Johannesdatter deres Datter ug 1858 Ringsaker Prgj.
Johanne Johannesdatter deres Datter ug 1861 Ringsaker Prgj.
Does not seem to much connection to Borge and Just or Borre and Gust.
Although the Family Tree shows a connection to Otter Tail County for the father
Johannes Mikkelsen
Birth 30 May 1822 in Ringsaker, Hedmark, Norway
Death 24 Sep 1893 in Pelican Rapids, Otter Tail, Minnesota, United States
Link to the census.
NHDC 1865 |
Edited by - AntonH on 01/03/2014 04:38:47 |
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brejohns
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Posted - 01/03/2014 : 04:40:39
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| Laura Thompson Law's Book on Rolette County history only listed August Johnson on page 125 as settling in Oxford Township Section 17. I'm not sure that is the same as "Gust Johnson." |
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brejohns
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Posted - 01/03/2014 : 04:56:48
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| The 1900 US Federal Census has a Gust Johnson with a birthdate of April 1867 born in Norway and living in Ox Creek Rolette ND. It says he immigrated to the US in 1884 and he is 33 and single. |
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AntonH
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Posted - 01/03/2014 : 05:08:12
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Yes, and interesting is that on the same census page is likely the family of the wife of your Borre Jonson. It might be worth while for you to go back to page 4 and look at all the info there.
1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Carl Hanson
Age: 56
Birth Date: Oct 1843
Birthplace: Norway
Home in 1900: Ox Creek, Rolette, North Dakota
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year: 1875
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Engebur Hanson
Marriage Year: 1869
Years Married: 31
Father's Birthplace: Norway
Mother's Birthplace: Norway
Occupation:
Household Members:
Name Age
Carl Hanson 56
Engebur Hanson 55
Alfred Hanson 20
Julia Hanson 12 |
Edited by - AntonH on 01/03/2014 05:11:29 |
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JaneC
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Posted - 01/03/2014 : 05:11:54
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Working on a chronology...
Ox Creek Lutheran is in Rice Township. Rice Township is in Rolette County, North Dakota.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ndrolett/roletcem.htm
Timber Culture Act of June 14, 1878 requires you to plant and protect trees on 40 acres of a quarter section (160 acres) for 10 years and then it would be deeded to you.
Barny Samson and Alma H Samson were deeded tree claim land on 10/9/1897
Chronology
May 1882 * Arrival, port of New York * per First Papers #2 * Ramsey county, ND (south of Rolette county)
1886 * First Papers #1 (Declaration of Intent To Become US Citizen) * Black River Falls, Jackson, Wisconsin * this first filing is according to 1892 Naturalization papers
1887 * Tree Claim on quarter section in Section 1 Township 159 Range 71W * Rice Township * B Samson/Johnson? must have filed tree claim and commenced to plant and protect
1888 * Marriage of B and A * Rolette county ND * says B born 1859
1888 * First Papers #2 * Ramsey county ND (southeast of Rolette county) * Barny Samson filed Declaration of Intent to become US Citizen
1888 * First Papers #2 * Ramsey county ND * says he was born 1859
1888 * First Papers #2 * Ramsey county ND * says he arrived New York on or about May 1882
1892 * Final Papers/ Naturalization * Rolette county ND * Barney Sampson or might read "Borry"
1896 * Tree Claim Taxes on quarter section, Section 1 Township 159 Range 71W * Rice Township Rolette county ND * B Johnson paid taxes
1897 * Tree Claim Deed on quarter section, Section 1 Township 159 Range 71W * Rice Township * Barny Samson and Alma H Samson were deeded this land.
1897 * Tree Claim Taxes on quarter section, Section 1 Township 159 Range 71W * Rice Township * Berry Jonsen paid taxes
<<-------------------------------Tree Claim Taxes, Barney Johnson crossed off and Thos. Flynn paying taxes?
1898 * Tree Claim Taxes on quarter section, Section 1 Township 159 Range 71W * Rice Township * Borre Johnson paid taxes
1899 * Tree Claim on quarter section Section 1 Township 159 Range 71W * Rice Township * Barney Johnson paid taxes
1900 * US census says he emigrated 1882
1907 * Homestead Act CLAIM Filed, Section 19 Range 163N 73W * Willow Lake Township * Barny Samson FIRST filed ?
About 1907 * MOVE * to Willow Lake Township land. (Homestead Act requires residency and improvements on the land)
1910 * US census lists Berry Sampson * first written as Johnson, with the Johnson lined out and Sampson written over the last name
1910 * US census says he emigrated 1880
1913 * Homestead DEED * Section 19 Range 163N 73W * Willow Lake Township * Barny Samson and Alma Samson are deeded this land.
1910 Map, Rice Township, Rolette county, North Dakota:
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/501987/Rice+Township%2C+Page+029/
In the 1953 history it says this: "In 1888, she [Alma Hanson] was married to Berry Johnson, who had filed on land in Rice, but gave up his right and filed on land in ...section 19 of Willow Lake [Township]." Records posted show he did file a Tree Claim in Rice Township and gave up his right to it sometime after 1899. |
Edited by - JaneC on 01/03/2014 20:58:14 |
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JaneC
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brejohns
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JaneC
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Posted - 01/03/2014 : 05:28:22
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Right, we're not sure there's a connection. We're poking at the May 1882 record for Borge Justesen Siem registering in the parish to leave Eid; and the matching emigration registration for the same young man leaving from Ålesund 04 May 1882, and the seemingly matching immigration arrival record for Borre T Sieon (could read Borre J) landing in New York 25 May 1882. If - IF - he has a brother in Rolette county, North Dakota, that's food for thought.
I am going to go to Norway Digital Archives and try to find Just's birth record, maybe not tonight - it's late.
brejohns, Thanks for the Gust Johnson additions. Just a note about format - Ancestry links won't work unless a person is a subscriber, which most Norway Heritage researchers aren't. Transcriptions are great (copy and paste the information into this thread), and also Family Search links should presumably work for everybody. The Ancestry links are also making this page go wildly wide and unwieldy and hard to read. Sorry. |
Edited by - JaneC on 01/03/2014 05:34:04 |
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AntonH
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AntonH
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Posted - 01/03/2014 : 05:46:46
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Digging throough Ancestry.com, I come up with this for Adam Seim. Looks like he is really Adam Sime and maybe not related.
Adam Ellendson Sime
Birth Dec 1863 in Norway
Death 21 May 1916 in Rolette County, North Dakota
Married to
Bertha Undie
Birth Jan 1871 in Norway
Death 1912 in Willow Lake, Rolette, North Dakota
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JaneC
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Posted - 01/03/2014 : 05:47:54
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quote:
Originally posted by brejohns
The 1900 US Federal Census has a Gust Johnson with a birthdate of April 1867 born in Norway and living in Ox Creek Rolette ND. It says he immigrated to the US in 1884 and he is 33 and single.
> "Yes, and interesting is that on the same census page is likely the family of the wife of your Borre Jonson." -- lyndal40 <
Just Justesen was born in April. A long shot, but haven't been able to rule out the possibility that Gust could be Just.
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AntonH
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Posted - 01/03/2014 : 05:58:21
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I wonder if this is the other Seim. And I also wonder if the E stands for Ellendson as in the other Seim (Sime) above.
1930 United States Federal Census
Name: John E Seim
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1866
Birthplace: Norway
Race: White
Home in 1930: Holmes, Rolette, North Dakota
Map of Home:
Marital Status: Married
Immigration Year: 1868
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Ingrid Seim
Father's Birthplace: Norway
Mother's Birthplace: Norway
Household Members:
Name Age
John E Seim 64
Ingrid Seim 47
Arthur M Seim 22
Bernice R Seim 10
Elmer J Espe 25 |
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jkmarler
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Posted - 01/03/2014 : 17:10:11
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quote:
Originally posted by lyndal40
Digging throough Ancestry.com, I come up with this for Adam Seim. Looks like he is really Adam Sime and maybe not related.
Adam Ellendson Sime
Birth Dec 1863 in Norway
Death 21 May 1916 in Rolette County, North Dakota
Married to
Bertha Undie
Birth Jan 1871 in Norway
Death 1912 in Willow Lake, Rolette, North Dakota
Probably belongs to this family in the 1865 Norway census:
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/WebCens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=5&filnamn=f61417&gardpostnr=152&personpostnr=701&merk=701#ovre
John E. Seim's birthdate from the N.D. Public Death Index:
21 Jan 1866 so he just misses the census. |
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brejohns
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Posted - 01/03/2014 : 20:02:34
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The chronology listed by JaneC is a great summary. You asked "when" the taxes were paid by Thos C Flynn. This is on the tax statement for the year 1897 page 201. Barney Johnson is crossed out and Thos C Flynn is written above the name of the land owner for Section 1 in Township 159 Range 71. Taxes of $10.87 were paid on January 4, 1898 by Thos C Flynn.
It is interesting that Borre settled in Willow Lake Township and Gust Johnson moved to Holmes Township as these townships border each other. I asked my husband (he does have a very good memory) if anyone ever spoke of Borre Johnson's family. He said that none of the family members mentioned or referred to Borre's siblings. However, Borre did die in 1914 so some of the children were not very old and may not have had heard much history. Do we have a death date for Gust Johnson?
Interesting to note that the 1930 US Census for John Seim in Holmes Township is only 2 miles from where our farm is today. The son Arthur (age 22) farmed the land until his death. The Dunseith History Book lists John Seim - Homesteader with this information.
"Looking for homestead land, John Seim left his native state of Iowa to come to ND. He left Iowa in June, 1900, coming to St. John by train. He came to his brother, Adam Sime, who had squatted on land in Willow Lake Township in 1897.
After looking for several weeks he chose Section 25 Township 163N Range 73W, now part of the International Peace Garden. After making a small clearing for a cabin, he walked to St. John to catch the train to Devils Lake to file, which was July 3, 1900. After proving up in 1903 he sold his household furnishings to the late Henry Miller, another homesteader for $7.50. He then went back to Iowa. There he met Ingrid Espe, who became his wife in 1906. In the spring of 1908 they moved to ND and located in Holmes Township Section 29-163-72. He still owned the homestead land until in 1931 when it was sold to the state for the Peace Garden.
While clearing land close to where the Chapel is now, located in the Peace Garden, a forest ranger and a mounted policeman came along and asked him if he would clear the land six rods wide on the Canadian side, he could have the use of it. He asked them "Why?" They told him they wouldn't have to plow a fire guard every year. So for 30 years he had free rent and no taxes on the six acres of land.
He hauled the first load of grain from Little Prairie to St. John in the fall of 1900 for Joe Millang and Adam Sime, taking three days to make the trip.
John Seim was also the last one to deliver the last load of wheat to the Bottbreht Mill before the mill burned. That was in 1913. Interestingly the check was signed by the late Ole Evans.
The Seims had a family of three sons and a daughter: Arthur, Elvin, Morris and Bernice. Arthur married Eva Berube and they had three children, Edwin, Marion and Margaret. Morris married Victoria Smith and they had one daughter, Dorothy. With his second wife there four children: Shirley, John, Donna and Sheila. He passed away August, 1968. Elvin married Alice Miller.
Bernice married Archie Metcalfe and they had a son, Conrad. Archie passed away. Then Bernice married Elmer Lindberg."
Also in the history book under "Leslie Irving Sime" it only has a couple of sentences - "John E. Undi born 1844 died April 17, 1902, wife Bertha born 1834.
Adam Sime born 1862 died 1916, married Bertha Undi born 1871-1912. Adam homesteaded in Montana around Havre area anad there as a drought, so they moved to Cass County and lived for awhile, before coming to the Turtle Moutain area, and they homesteaded west of Kelvin in 1898. He was one of the first settlers to produce a load of wheat on Little Praire, and the first one to sell grain at St. John, ND. Children were: Ellend, Janet (Nettie), Leslie, Emily and Russell."
It appears "Seim" and "Sime" are interchanged quite often. |
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