Astrid Margary EVERSON

1894 - 1908  (14 years)

• Name	Astrid Margary EVERSON
  Birth	25 Sep 1894	Aitkin County, Minnesota
  Gender	Female
  MN Death Cert Checked	Y
  Minnesota Death Certificate	1908-MN-002733
  Death	4 Dec 1908	Crow Wing County, Minnesota
  	Anker Dahle said that the church record for her death was December 5th
  Burial	7 Dec 1908	Aitkin County, Minnesota
  	Dorris Church Cemetery
  Notes	Eight months old in the 1895 Minnesota state census (June 17 and 18). John said that Astrid was born in Duluth. She is not listed in the St. Louis County index of births. If the Eversons were out of Duluth in 1893 (according to the interview of Andrew and according to the 1895 Minnesota census), then Astrid would have been born in Aitkin County. A death certificate was issued in Minnesota as follows: IVERSON, ASTRID MARGARY  CertID# 1908-MN-002733     Date of Death: 12/04/1908  County of Death:   CROW WING Physically and mentally disabled. Suffered from severe cretinism, a genetic defect in which her head grew but not the rest of her body. DeAnn says: “Astrid was the second child, and got polio (we think) when she was about two years old.  She survived, but was severely paralyzed, and couldn't swallow. Her mother, Anna, chewed Astrid's food for her and poked it down Astrid's throat. While all of this was going on, Anna underwent several more pregnancies and miscarriages, and raised those awful Norwegian boys. At least they got another girl, Lillian, before Astrid was gone. When Astrid was about twelve, she died during the night, having strangled on her saliva.” Astrid’s death certificate gives her cause of death as cretinism “since birth.” In his letter to George Everson in 1943, the older Pastor Dahle’s son Anker says that he could not find any record of Astrid’s baptism. He suggests that perhaps she was baptized by someone else. The Dahles didn’t arrive in Aitkin County until 1895, when Astrid would have been 7 or 8 months old. Anker Dahle noted that “when John Holum’s first house burnt down the early church records went with it.” Anker Dahle’s letter does have the death and burial dates for Astrid, December 5th and December 7th, 1908. Thus, even though we can no longer see a gravestone, and perhaps there never was one, we can be sure that Astrid was buried in the Dorris Church cemetery.
  Person ID	I49	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	21 Nov 2017

  
  

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

  
  

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  Astrid Everson