Ole Thronsen TØRSTAD

1806 - 1886  (80 years)

• Name	Ole Thronsen TØRSTAD
  Birth	1806	Norway
  	The (very incorrect) date on his gravestone is 16 Aug 1799. Jim has him born on Bunde 97/1, Høre parish.
  Gender	Male
  Birth	Abt 1806	Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  Baptism	28 Sep 1806	Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  Death	8 Oct 1886	Iowa
  	Find A Grave has his death location as Hills, Rock County, Minnesota
  Burial	13 Oct 1886	Silver Lake Lutheran Church Cemetery, Silver Lake Twp, Worth County, Iowa
  	as Ole T. Ellingboe
  Notes	Vang C, p. 331. Jim calls this person Ole Trondsen Ellingbøe, I5827, in his Ellingboe tree. Jim calls this person Ola Trondsen Tørstad (Bunde) (Ellingbøe), I1856, in his VS. The researcher finneylinda on Ancestry calls him Ole Thompson Ellingbo. Listed right before Ole Evensen (#3683) in the Vang churchbook birth records. On 6 Jan 1838 Ole Tronson Torstad, 32, married Ingebor Andersdatter Ellingboe, 23, in Vang. His father was Tron Olssen Torstad and her father was Anders E. Ellingboe. He is called Ole Thronsen Torstad in the birth records of all of his children except Ingeborg. For her he is called Ole Thronsen Tvedt. He is called Ole Thronsen Torstad in his family’s emigration record. The Vang church book shows that Ole, 53, and Ingeborg, 45, emigrated from Vang with their children in March of 1858. The children leaving with them are: Marith, 18, Sigrid, 16, Anders, 11, Randi, 8, Endre, 4, and Ingeborg, 3/4. (Sigrid must have changed her mind or else the scribe got confused. Sigrid did not emigrate. Nor did Marith.) In his letter to Norway in 1866 (see Jim Ellingboe’s site), Ole offered to pay for Helge Olsson’s (#6218) passage to America by guaranteeing any loan that Helge had to secure. Helge never emigrated. In the letter, Ole Thronsen signed his name Ole Throndsen Ellingböe. In the 1870 census, he, as Ole Thompson, and his family are farming in Silver Lake Twp, Worth County, Iowa. Ole’s real estate is worth $1500 and his personal property $860. The family consists of, Ole, 68, Isabel Thompson, 57, Andrew Thompson, 22, Rachel Iverson, 19, Nels Iverson, 22, Henry Thompson, 16, Isabel Thompson, 13, and Nels Anderson, 9. Everyone had been born in Norway. Ole’s agricultural holdings are recorded in the 1870 census’s “non-population” schedule. He owns a total of 115 acres, 30 of which are “improved.” The cash value of his farm is $1500 and, for its implements, $200. He has four horses, 2 “milch” cows, 1 other cattle, 9 sheep, and two swine, the total value of which is $550. For the year ending June 1, 1870, he produced 259 bushels of spring wheat, 100 bushels of Indian corn, 80 bushels of oats, 35 lbs. of wool, 50 bushels of Irish potatoes, 100 lbs. of butter, 30 tons of hay, and 8 gallons of molasses. The value of animals slaughtered or sold for slaughter was $40 and the total estimated value of all farm production was $480. This value was neither particularly high nor particularly low when compared to other farms on the same page of the Silver Lake Twp census schedule. Katherine locates Ole and Ingebor Thompson in Rock County in the 1875 Minnesota state census. The family lives in Martin Twp, not far from the farm of Nels and Randa Iverson. Ole, 73, and Ingebor, 64, are living with Henry Thompson, 21, Viljir, a 19 year-old female, and Belle Thompson, 17. In the 1880 census, Ole, 87, and Isabelle, 67, are living in McCook County, South Dakota, with their daughter Isabelle, 22, and next to or with their son Andrew and his family. In the 1885 Minnesota state census, he is probably the 84 year-old Ole Thompson living with or next door to H O Thompson in Nunda Twp, Freeborn County. The following was originally prepared by Katherine and can be found at Find A Grave: Ole Thurston Trondsen & his wife Engeborg Andersdatter both lived at Vang in Valdres, Norway. He worked as a farm hand and at the carpenter trade in this area. In the month of June 1858, Ole and his family sailed from Christiana (Oslo) to America. The children who made the trip were Anders (Andrew), Henry, Rachael and Engeborg. A daughter Mary remained in Norway. Their sail ship furnished its passengers only with water and no fires for cooking were permitted, so all food had to be cooked or prepared before boarding and was eaten cold. When they arrived at Milwaukee, WI, via Quebec, the St Lawrence river and the Great Lakes, their food and money was all gone and the parents had to work at anything and for what they could get to sustain the family. The entire family walked by stages to Calmer, Iowa, working for food as they journeyed. At Calmer, Ole found steady work and here they remained until in 1869, when the family moved by oxcart to Worth County Iowa, near the Minnesota line and northwest of the present village of Northwood, Iowa. Ole took up a claim on government land. It is near that farm that the Silver Lake Lutheran Church is located and the family were probably charter members of the original church. The children in the family decided that they needed a more Americanized name so they called themselves "Thompson" from their fathers "Trondsen", while Ole took the name Ellingboe from the estate in Norway from which he came. This was often done by Norwegian immigrants on the premises that it helped identify them with others from the same area and also added some importance to the bearer of the name. About 1874, the family moved on to Rock County (Hills), Minnesota, in the southwestern part of the state. Here Ole bought a farm and remained until his death. Henry Thompson remained in Iowa where he became a prosperous farmer with lands and elegant farm home near Northwood, Iowa. Ole was over six feet tall and a large boned powerful man. He had curly dark brown hair and blue eyes. He was an easy going, pleasant and always helpful individual.
  Person ID	I12055	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	9 May 2022

  
  

  Father	Trond Olssen TØRSTAD,   b. 1776, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 1847, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Marith Håvardsdatter BØE,   b. 1784, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  Family ID	F8999	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ingeborg Andersdatter ELLINGBOE,   b. 24 Apr 1814, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 17 Mar 1905, Hills, Rock County, Minnesota (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	6 Jan 1838	Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  	as Ole Throndsen Tørstad and Ingeborg Andrisdatter Ellingbøe.
  Children	1. Marit Olsdatter TØRSTAD,   b. 16 Jul 1840, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway   2. Sigrid Olsdatter TØRSTAD,   b. 16 Jul 1840, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 27 Oct 1840, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (Age 0 years)   3. Sigrid Olsdatter TØRSTAD,   b. 18 Sep 1842, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 16 Jun 1865, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (Age 22 years)   4. Thron Olsen TØRSTAD,   b. 12 Mar 1845, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 1857 (Age 11 years)   5. Anders Olsen THOMPSON,   b. 4 Oct 1847, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 1920, Washington (Age 72 years)   6. Rangdi Olsdatter ELLINGBOE,   b. 25 Sep 1850, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 27 Nov 1929, Martin Twp, Rock County, Minnesota (Age 79 years)   7. Endre (Henry) Olsen THOMPSON,   b. 13 Jan 1854, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 19 Jan 1926, Lake Mills, Winnebago County, Iowa (Age 72 years)   8. Ingeborg Olsdatter THOMPSON,   b. 16 Jun 1857, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 1 Jun 1936, Minnehaha County, South Dakota (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F8977	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2014