Helen Mae POLITISKI

Notes:

Helen married Charley V NEELY on 11 Nov 1944 in Clay County, Minnesota. Charley was born on 16 Oct 1921 in Georgia; died on 7 Aug 2004 in Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico; was buried in Resthaven Memorial Park, Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1940 census, he and his wife and their three daughters lived in Moorhead, Minnesota. Clement was crate maker for a wholesale fruit company.

Clement married Ada SeEtta LIEN on 16 Jul 1921 in Clay County, Minnesota. Ada (daughter of Anders A LIEN and Emily May PATTERSON) was born on 16 Apr 1902 in North Dakota; died on 23 Jul 1977 in Clay County, Minnesota; was buried in Saint Joseph’s Cemetery, Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Orphaned when she was 16 according to her grandson.

In the 1940 census, she is shown as having had two years of high school.

Notes:

aka Anna Marshall

Notes:

In the 1910 census, he was a farmer in Steele County, North Dakota.

At the time of his death, he lived in Traill County.

There is a gravestone in Sarles, separate from the one he shares with Letitia, for an Andrew A Lien, b. 22 Apr 1873, d. 28 Jun 1917. The precision of these dates, and their discrepancy with Anders’s correct dates, suggests that there may have been another Andrew A Lien. There is no such record in the North Dakota death index.

Birth:
date from North Dakota PDI; his gravestone says 1873

Died:
mistakenly entered in the NDPDI as “Andrea” Lien, a 50 year-old female; his gravestone says 1917

Buried:
with Letitia

Anders married Emily May PATTERSON about 1897, and was divorced on 18 Aug 1914 in Cass County, North Dakota. Emily was born on 1 Apr 1879 in Canada; died on 17 Jul 1922 in Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called May E in the 1910 census. In that census, she had had 4 children, 2 still living.

In her divorce records and her marriage record she is Emily May.

In the 1920 census, she was Emily M, 41, the wife of Irvin Littig of Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota.

Died:
as May L Littig

Notes:

Came to the U.S. in 1854, unmarried. The bygdebok says that he had three illegitimate children while still in Norway.

He was called Anders Gundersen Septonejet in Knut’s and Berith’s birth records.

In the 1870 census, he is Anders Gunderson, a 45 year-old farmer in Warsaw Twp, Goodhue County. The household consists of Anders, 45, Sarah, 40, Betsy, 12, Ann, 10, Dorthie, 8, Emily, 6, Gunder, 3, and Anders, 1.

Birth:
Haugen, Øvre under Sørre Lien

Andris married Sigrid Andrisdatter ELTUN. Sigrid (daughter of Andris Eriksson ELTUN and Thora Iversdatter KJERSTEIN) was born on 13 Jun 1830 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 29 Oct 1901 in Freeborn County, Minnesota; was buried in Graceland Cemetery, Albert Lea, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Jul 1830, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

She is not in either of Jim’s databases.

In the 1880 census, she is Sarah Gunderson, age 49, apparently a widow. With her on the farm in Warsaw Twp, Goodhue County, are Gunder, 14, Anders, 11, Nels, 8, and Anton, 5. Her nephew Engebret Engebretson, age 18, is a laborer living with them on the farm.

Baptism:
Øye