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Thomas Henry ELLINGBOE

Male 1882 - 1978  (96 years)


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  • Name Thomas Henry ELLINGBOE 
    Birth 27 Mar 1882  Granite Falls, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • confirmation record says Renville County
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 5 May 1882  Granite Falls, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Granite Falls Lutheran
    Confirmation 30 May 1897 
    • as Thrond Ellingbo
    MN Death Cert Checked
    Minnesota Death Certificate 1978-MN-018259 
    Social Security Number 475-03-6099 
    Death 16 Jul 1978  Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Minnesota Odd Fellows Home
    Burial 18 Jul 1978  Oaklawn Cemetery, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • Zip Code of last known residence: 55057 {Northfield}

      Shown as Thron in the 1900 census.

      In the 1910 census, as Thomas H. Ellingboe, he is a hired man on the Halverson farm in Eidsvold Twp, Bottineau County, North Dakota.

      Shown as Thomas H. on his death certificate.

      His mother’s maiden name is shown as Sparstad on his death certificate.

      Registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Montevideo as Thomas Henry Ellingboe, of Maynard, born March 27, 1882. He is employed as a carpenter by the Great Northern Railway. He lists his nearest relative as Marit Ellingboe of Maynard. He is tall, of medium build, with blue eyes and light brown hair.

      In the 1920 census, Thomas is living with his mother and sisters in the village of Maynard. He is a laborer who works out.

      In the 1930 census, Thomas Ellingboe, 48, single, Mary H. Ellingboe, 82, “mother”, and Mary Ellingboe, 44, single and “daughter”, are living in the village of Maynard in Chippewa County, Minnesota. The older Mary is a widow and was first married at age 24 and came to this country in 1866. The younger Mary has no occupation; Thomas is a truck driver for a gas company. Living with the family as a “lodger” is 23 year-old Charlotte Mostrom, a school teacher born in Iowa.

      In the 1940 census, he and his wife and daughter lived in Maynard with his sister Mary in the same house in which they all had lived in 1935. Thomas was a WPA laborer for a sewer disposal project. He had an eighth-grade education, Rose had a sixth-grade education.

      The Dalby database incorrectly claims his spouse was Grace Thorson. (She is the wife of Thomas Oscar Ellingboe.)

      His death certificate, for which Walter Ellingboe of Maynard was the informant, says, incorrectly, that Thomas never married. He died from a heart arhythmia and from gangrene of his extremities.

      According to Joann, who remembers Thomas at the Odd Fellows Home, Thomas had been a “rubber man” in the circus. He had many tattoos, was very thin, and had few, if any, visitors.

      His brief obit in the Northfield News, via the Dalby Database:

      Ellingboe Thomas Jul/1978 Thomas Ellingboe, 96, died Sunday, July 16, at the Minnesota Odd Fellows Home in Northfield. Services will be held Tuesday, July 18 at 2 p.m. at the Bierman Funeral Home in Northfield. The Rev. S. L. Almlie will officiate. Burial will be in Oaklawn Cemetery, Northfield. Visitation will be held at the funeral home on Tuesday, one hour prior to services. He is survived by two sisters, Thea Ellingboe of Northfield and Mary Ellingboe of Minneapolis.
    Person ID I3262  Don Carlson's Tree
    Last Modified 10 Mar 2022 

    Father Helge (Henry) Trondsen ELLINGBOE,   b. 23 Sep 1849, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jun 1895, Wang Twp, Renville County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years) 
    Mother Marit (Mary) Torsteinsdatter SPARSTAD,   b. 23 Feb 1848, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Aug 1934, Maynard, Chippewa County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Marriage 14 Oct 1870  Goodhue County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2875  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Rose B DOERHOEFER,   b. 24 Apr 1892, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jun 1977, Hot Springs National Park, Garland County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage 14 May 1935  Milbank, Grant County, South Dakota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • both were of Maynard, Minnesota, in Chippewa County; they were married by a Justice of the Peace
    Divorce Yes, date unknown 
    Children 
     1. Mary Lou ELLINGBOE,   b. 7 Jan 1935, Anoka County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Feb 1995, Hot Springs National Park, Garland County, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
    Family ID F6265  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Apr 2010