Elsie GUSTAD

1909 - 1929  (20 years)

• Name	Elsie GUSTAD
  Birth	11 Mar 1909	Farm Island Twp, Aitkin County, Minnesota
  Gender	Female
  MN Birth Cert Checked	Y
  MN Death Cert Checked	Y
  Minnesota Birth Certificate	1909-00088
  Minnesota Death Certificate	1929-MN-012996
  Death	16 Apr 1929	Rice County, Minnesota
  Burial	18 Apr 1929	Faribault Regional Center East, Walcott Twp, Rice County, Minnesota
  	the cemetery for the School for the Feeble Minded, 182 S-7 R-1
  Notes	Her birth certificate doesn’t show anything unusual about her birth. She was child #7, of which 4 were still living. Shown as age 1 and 2/12 in the 1910 census. In the 1920 census, poor Elsie was an 11 year old “inmate” at the Faribault School for the Feeble Minded and Colony for Epileptics. She had not attended school and was unable to read or write. Her death certificate said that Elsie had been at the Faribault institution for over 13 years. She died of pneumonia but is noted as having “mongolism.” The informant for her death certificate was Vera Phelps, presumably an employee of the School for the Feeble Minded. Elsie’s parents were shown as Ed Gustad and Lizzie Young. Elsie’s parents were interviewed two different times by WPA interviewers in the ‘30s. Elsie was not mentioned, or even indirectly referred to, in either one. Elsie’s mother’s interview, in particular, specifically omits Elsie but lists the four living children and cites “four children that died when very young.”
  Person ID	I2319	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2023

  
  

  Father	Edvard GUSTAD,   b. 6 May 1866, Kvernes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway d. 9 Feb 1942, Crosby, Crow Wing County, Minnesota (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Elise Marie JUNGE,   b. 24 Mar 1866, Bremsnes, Kvernes, Møre og Romsdal, Norway d. 5 Oct 1944, Irondale, Crow Wing County, Minnesota (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	27 Oct 1894	Aitkin County, Minnesota
  Family ID	F87	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart