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George Alvin EVERSON

Male 1898 - 1973  (75 years)


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  • Name George Alvin EVERSON 
    Birth 30 Jun 1898  Aitkin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 30 Oct 1898  Aitkin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • by Pastor Dahle at the Dorris Church
    Confirmation 18 May 1913  Deerwood Norwegian Lutheran Church, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • by Pastor M. L. Höstager
    MN Death Cert Checked
    Minnesota Death Certificate 1973-MN-022880 
    Social Security Number 468-18-1038 issued in MN before 1951 
    Death 28 Aug 1973  Crosby, Crow Wing County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • died at Cuyuna Range District Hospital
    Burial 1 Sep 1973  Dorris Cemetery, Cedar Lake, Farm Island Twp, Aitkin County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • funeral at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub
    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.
    Person ID I47  Don Carlson's Tree
    Last Modified 13 Jun 2022 

    Father Anders (Andrew) EVERSON,   b. 15 Feb 1856, Kvernes, Averøy, Møre og Romsdal, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Dec 1942, Crow Wing County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Mother Anna Gustava (Annie) Martinusdatter BYE,   b. 29 Sep 1871, Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Mar 1949, Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage 4 Mar 1892  Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F32  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart