Arthur Lawrence ESTREM

Notes:

He farmed in Holden Twp in the 1920 census,

Knute married Berit (Bella) SOINE on 2 Jun 1896 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Berit (daughter of Lars Christopherson SOINE and Anna Tomasdatter ELLESTAD) was born on 13 Mar 1868 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 26 Mar 1948 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1885 state census, she was the 17 year-old Berit Soine living with her married sister Bertha in Holden.

In Find A Grave, she is assigned to the wrong parents.

In the 1940 census, she is still living in Holden with her son Arthur.

Find A Grave has her having an additional child, Paul Gerhard, b. 20 Sep 1907, d. 24 Sep 1907. That would be consistent with her entry in the 1910 census which shows her as having had 7 children, 6 still living.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Jan 1810, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

His name as recorded in the parish register.

He is I11868 in Jim’s VS.

Jim’s notes:

Han vokste opp på Austreim og giftet seg i USA, ganske gammel. Se bilde med notatet om Estremfarmen i Holden twsh.

Don Estrem skriver i notatet sitt (se bildet):

Anfinn married the eldest daughter of Knut Tasa, also an early settler of Decorah, Iowa. Anfinn settled as a neigbour to his father-in-law in the summer in 1855 in Holden Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota. Then Anfinn sold his half of the farm in Iowa to his brother Christopher for $720.00 on April 21, 1856.

Andris og Marit hadde 4 barn. Den 10. januar 1888 solgte Andris 80 acres til hver av sønnen (Knut og Andris). Andris bodde på gården til han døde i 1910 og er begravet på en liten kirkegård som ligger på den opprinnelige delenen av farmen hans.

In the 1860 census, he is Amphim Anderson, age 50, living in Holden Twp, Goodhue County. His wife Mary is also shown as age 50 for some reason. Their children are Cornelia, 5, born in Iowa, Caroline, 3, born in Minnesota, Andrsn, 1, born in Minnesota, and Canute, one month, born in Minnesota. The household also has an 18 year-old farm laborer, Torston Olseson, and a 31 year-old domestic, Isabel Anderson.

In the 1900 census, as Anfinn Estrem, he is living with his son Knut in Holden Twp, Goodhue County.

Birth:
Austreim 72/2

Buried:
gravestone says 1810, white cross says 12-29-1809

Anfind married Marit Knutsdatter DE TASAIowa. Marit (daughter of Knut Thomassen LO and Kari Jonsdatter STEINDE) was born on 27 Feb 1825 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 11 Nov 1861 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried in Old Hauge Cemetery, Kenyon, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 9 Mar 1825, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Birth:
Tøso 19/2-3

Baptism:
Øye

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1917-MN-004721

Notes:

Traci’s tree refers to him as Lars Kristofferson Soine.

“Alias Lars Christopherson.” That’s what he was called in the 1880 census.

In the 1885 state census, he was Lars O. Støine of Warsaw Twp, Goodhue County. The household consists of Lars, 55, Anna, 57, Tom, 24, Gertrude, 19, Berit, 16, Christina, 9, Martha 7, “T.A.”, 25, Anna Austin, 27, Mabel A., 3, and Anna Maria, 20. From this and other information we can infer that “Anna Austin” is Lars’s oldest daughter, T.A. is her husband, Tom Austinson, and Mabel A. is Maybel Amanda Ellingboe.

As Lars Christopherson Soine, he is listed as one of the initial contributors to the start-up of St. Olaf College.

He was a farmer in Warsaw Twp in 1870.

in the 1900 census, Lars, Anna, and their single daughter Christina were living in Warsaw, Goodhue County, next door to their son and brother, Thomas Soine and his family. Lars is shown to have come to this country in 1853, Anna in 1856.

In the 1910 census, Lars and Anne are living with their son Tom and his family on Tom’s farm in Warsaw.

He is listed in “The Valdris Book”, a history of the Valdris Samband published in 1920 (available on Google Books) but his entry specifically says he was not a member of the Samband.

Shown as Lars A. on his death certificate.

From one of Lars’s descendants: "Lars Christophersen Soine was born on 14 June 1830 in Vang, Valdres Norway. He came to America with his parents in 1853, he was 23 years old. He went by the name Lars O Christophersen. He worked in the logging camps in Wisconsin. He rode the logs down the river to keep them from jumbling. Several times he was thrown, by the force of the swift current and the jerking logs, into the water. In 1856 he married Anna Ellestad. Three of their nine children were born in Wisconsin. In the early 1860's Lars and Anna went moved to Goodhue County in Minnesota where they rented a farm for a few years. Then they purchased 160 acres in Warsaw township in Goodhue County. At this time he returned to using the name Lars Soine. Lars and Anna lived in a small house on their land until 1884 when they built a 12 room house for two families. He planned this house for two families so that he would have a place of his own in their old age. Lars and Anna lived in four rooms, tworooms downstairs (12x14 and 14x16) and two rooms upstairs. Their son, Thomas, and his family of 12 lived in seven of the rooms, four big rooms downstairs and three upstairs. The room above the kitchen was used as a store room for both families. Both families used the same stairs and hallway to the second floor.Each family had their own cellar and stairs. The pump was on the porch between the two kitchens. (Don't you think many oldfolks would love this arrangement nowadays instead of the old folks home?) (Denne ideen hare nok Lars hatt med segfra Vang, han har nok tenkt på kårstuene der, da han bygde detstore huset.) These two families lived in Harmony for 24½ years. In 1916 Anna and Lars celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Anna died that fall at the age of 83 and Lars died the following April, 1917." (This is a transcript of a handwritten remembrance of one of Lars O Soine's grandchildren). Lars was a 'charter member' of the 'Valdres Laget' of Goodhue county.

Lars married Anna Tomasdatter ELLESTAD about 1856. Anna (daughter of Tomas Knudson TØRSTAD and Berit Johannesdatter ELLESTAD) was born on 4 Sep 1833 in Lomen, Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 6 Nov 1916 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1916-MN-004884
• Baptism: 8 Oct 1833, Lomen, Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

In the 1900 census, she is claimed to have had 10 children, 8 still living. Those numbers are 10 and 7 in the 1910 census.

Shown as Anna E. on her death certificate.

Buried:
252 HN 4 N

Notes:

Called Anders Torkildsen Qvale in his son Anfind’s birth record.

Vang B, p. 321

Birth:
Gåsedelen 29/-, Nå Steinsrud

Died:
Austreim 72/1

Andris married Gunhild Arnfinnsdatter BERGE. Gunhild (daughter of Arnfinn Håvardson BERGE and Ingebjørg Kristoffersdatter BERGE) was born in 1771 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1837 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Berge 22/1

Died:
Austreim 72/1

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

He is I8053 in Jim’s VS.

Jim’s notes:

Noen år etter at Kari døde tok han med seg barna Marit de, Anne Kari, Thomas, Jon og Knut og dro til USA. Knut Thomassen var en av de få som er døpt i den gamle St.Thomas kirken på Fillefjell.

In the 1860 census, he is the 62 year-old Canute Thompson living in Holden Twp, Goodhue County. His married son John and his unmarried son Canute are next on the list on the census form.

Birth:
Lo (B) under Skjøre 19/4-5

Baptism:
døpt i den gamle St.Thomas kirken på Fillefjell

Knut married Kari Jonsdatter STEINDE. Kari (daughter of Jon Håvardsen STEINDE and Marit Larsdatter TASA) was born in 1803 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1845 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Tøso 19/2-3

Died:
Tøso 19/2-3

Notes:

Shown as Christopher Larssen Heen on Lars’s birth record in the Vang church book. Traci’s tree refers to him as Kristoffer L Haenseiga.

In Jim’s Valdres Slekt tree, he is Christopher Larsen Heenseiga Søyne, #I11511.

Jim’s notes: For a time he was a postman. Born on Hensbakka and took over as a tenant farmer from his father until 1833, when he became a tenant farmer on Øvre Søyne. from 1833-1848. Left for America in 1853 with wife and five children on the "Olave Kyrre." In the church book emigrant list, his name was "Soyne," but he used the surname "Hen" or "Heen" after immigration. Included in his household in the emigration list was a servant, Marit Håvardsdatter Lajord ( his wife’s niece, #23240), whom he married after his first wife's death. {Which would not seem to be possible unless there was a fair amount of time between his wife’s death and his death which are supposedly in the same year.}

Traci’s tree has him dying in Michigan in 1853. This makes sense from the notes for Sigurd.

Christopher Larssen Söine, 52, and his wife Anne Syversdatter, 49, emigrated from Vang on 12 March 1853 with their children Lars, 23, Anne, 20, Marith, 17, Syver, 11, and Ole, 10. Apparently traveling with them was a Marith something (maybe Klausdatter) Lajord, 23.

Christopher married Anne Sjugurdsdatter LAJORD on 1 Apr 1830 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Anne (daughter of Sjugurd Madsson LAJORD and Anne Madsdatter MYHRE) was born in 1805 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died in 1853 in Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Anna Syversdatter.

Greg Fearon says that she died in Michigan of diphtheria with her husband and their daughter Marith.

Birth:
Lajord 51/3 Berget

Notes:

Called Thomas Knutsen Tørstad, I12971, in Jim’s VS.

The FamilySearch entry is for Tomas Knutson, born in 1795 in Torstad II, Vang, Oppland, Norway.

In the 1865 census, shown as Thomas Knudsen, born in 1794 in Wangs, living with son Anders at Høine. His occupation is shown as “Føderaadsmd.”

The bygdebok says he moved to 26/3 Høyne or Sør-Ellestad in Vestre Slidre.

He married his first cousin.

Birth:
shown as age 23 when he got married

Tomas married Berit Johannesdatter ELLESTAD on 1 Aug 1819 in Vestre Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Berit (daughter of Johannes Anderson ELLESTAD and Beret Amundsdatter LOMEN) was born on 30 Jul 1796 in Slidre i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died after 1865. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shown in the 1865 census as Berit Thomasdatter born in 1794 in Vestre Slidre. Living with her husband on the Høine farm with her son Anders.

In his VS, Jim also shows her incorrectly as Berit Thomasdatter. She was definitely Berit Johannesdatter in her marriage record.

Shown as age 24 when she got married.

She married her first cousin.

Birth:
Lommen