Ben E KNUTSON

1852 - 1902  (50 years)

• Name	Ben E KNUTSON
  Birth	Mar 1852	Iowa
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Dec 1902	Iowa
  Burial	Deer Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery, Carpenter, Mitchell County, Iowa
  Notes	In the 1900 census, he, as Ben Knudtson, and his family were farming in Barton Twp, Worth County, Iowa. From D M Scott’s contribution to Find A Grave: #1 BEN KNUDTSON FROZEN TO DEATH The Christmas festivities of our neighboring town of Carpenter were sadly broken into by the tragic death of one of her citizens, Mr. Ben Knudtson, who died about noon from the effects of having spent the night out - lying beside the railroad track in that awful cold. Mr. Knudtson came back from Lyle on the 8:20 train Christmas Eve. He had not been up to Lyle to buy either hardware or dry goods, but had already celebrated too much for his own good. When he got off the train he started for his home, which was about a mile northwest of Carpenter; but instead of going around the road, he started cross lots intending to go north on the railroad till he crossed the bridge, then take a path through the woods for home. He only got across the bridge when he fell and rolled down the high embankment, striking on a lot of rocks which lay at the bottom. It is quite evident that he was considerably injured by the fall or he could have managed to have gotten up and out of there. But there he lay during all that bitter, cold night. At about eleven o'clock Knudtson's son, Ed, about 17 years of age, in company with Ed Edwarson, a boy of about his own age crossed the bridge and heard someone calling to them to hold on but they thought it was a tramp trying to waylay them and they ran as fast as their legs could carry them, and went over to Gilbert Severson's close by and stayed all night. The next morning Severson and Edwards went back to the bridge and, alas, there lay Knudtson, not dead but pretty near it, though he was still conscious and in fact, remained so until just before he died. They took him home and immediately called Dr. Culmsee. The doctor arrived there about eleven o'clock, but alas he was beyond the reach of medical aid. His injuries were too severe to be helped and he died within an hour. His hands, face and legs were frozen terribly, and he was suffering from internal injuries, evidently caused by falling down the embankment. The funeral was held on Saturday, conducted at the Deer Creek N. L. Church by Reverend J. Olsen. It was just eight years ago to a day, that his brother, Theo, came to an untimely death in the same woods, and not a mile from the same place. [St. Ansgar Enterprise, Dec., 1902, St. Ansgar Iowa Museum Collection] #2 Ben E Knudtson was born March 1852 in Iowa, son of Even Knudtson, born June 14, 1824 Norway…died August 3, 1902 Iowa (Buried First Lutheran Cemetery, Saint Ansgar (as per Mitchell Co., Grave Records: Ancestery) and Gerhardine Boyesdatter Heile..according to a tree found on Ancestry: born February 3, 1828 in Norway…died January 27, 1911 Carpenter. Ben E Knudtson was buried in Deer Creek Lutheran Cemetery according to a tree found. According to the tree found, Ben Knudtson married Ingeborg Aslaksdtr. Ellingboe who was born March 5, 1865 Noway and died July 5, 1956 in Dickey Co., North Dakota. After Ben's death she married Hans Hanson in 1907. The son Ed mentioned in Bens obit was Edwin Ben Knudtson 1888-1929 died Minnesota. (name on Minn. Death record has last name spelled Knutsen His brother Theo mentioned in the obit was Theodore E Knudtson born December 1, 1863…died December 25, 1894…buried First Lutheran (burial from Mitchell Co., Grave Records, Ancestry) #3 1900 US Census: Deer Creek, Worth, Iowa Ben Knudtson 48 born March 1852 Iowa Ingeborg 35 born March 1865 Norway Edwin 12 born February 1888 Iowa 9died November 3, 1929 Minnesota) Melvin 8 born March 1892 Iowa (died Montana December 1963) Antone 6 born October 1894 Iowa (Antone Leonard..his Minn. Death record shows his mothers maiden name as Ellingboe)
  Person ID	I11462	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	24 Mar 2016

  
  

  Father	Even Knudsen HEEN,   b. 14 Jun 1824, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  Mother	Gerhardine Bøyesdatter HEILE,   b. 3 Feb 1828, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  Family ID	F16447	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ingeborg Åslaksdatter ELLINGBÖ,   b. 4 Mar 1865, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 5 Jul 1956, Dickey County, North Dakota (Age 91 years)
  Marriage	5 Feb 1887	St. Ansgar, Mitchell County, Iowa
  	according to the Iowa Marriages database in FamilySearch
  Children	1. Edwin Ben KNUTSON,   b. 17 Feb 1888, Carpenter, Mitchell County, Iowa d. 3 Nov 1929, Olmsted County, Minnesota (Age 41 years)   2. Melvin KNUTSON,   b. 18 Mar 1892, Iowa d. 25 Dec 1963, Deer Lodge County, Montana (Age 71 years)   3. Anton Leonard KNUTSON,   b. 28 Oct 1893, Carpenter, Mitchell County, Iowa d. 24 Sep 1965, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F8061	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2011