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- Her great-grandniece Brit Lankaas (granddaughter of Anna Marie's youngest sister Lydia Kristine, in email message from Norway February 2002] says " We used to call her [Anna Marie] only by one name, Marie, and that was the name she also used herself in her letters to my grandmother." Anna Marie's daughter Alma (Eritsland/von Tettenborn) confirmed this: "Apparently my mother was always called Marie."
Alma wrote: "She came to the USA in 1888 [a year before Lars] but they were engaged in Norway. They took up residence in Ridgeway, Iowa, where they lived about 13 years."
Betty (Lowe) Wulff forwarded a note written by Hilda (Eritsland) Stratton:
"Lars Pederson and Marie Hanson met as teenagers when they went for religious intstruction at their church. Lars was then apprenticed to learn the painting trade -- had a year to finish. My Aunt Johanna -- my mother's sister -- had gone to America in 1887 or 1888 -- auntie was disappointed in love. Their mother said it would be better if the two of them (my mother and my aunt) went over together. Whether they left at the same time I don't know. Anyway I can only know that papa and mamma were married in 1889 - they lived in St. Paul Minnesota for a while then moved to Iowa, to a place a couple of miles north of Ridgeway - Iowa -- Mamma had worked there with Auntie the year bef ore."
Earlier in the same note Hilda says "Papa's father was Peder from Eritsland place in Norway. Norwegian custom was to call the children by father's name which made papa Pederson -- but in Iowa there were so many Pedersons - Peter sons & so on their mail got mixed up. When Uncle Peder and Papa bought land in Minnesota they decided on Eritsland the name of the farm they came from in Norway. Our cousins in Madison Wisconsin knocked the IT out of Eritslanda nd called it Ersland."
Alma Eritsland wrote: "My mother's mother [Agota] had brown eyes and wavy auburn hair. Her father's eyes [Hans] were very blue. All the children had hazel eyes. When my mother was still a young girl, her father died. My mother s aid she overheard her father and mother talking before he died. Evidently they had been much in love and had vowed never to marry any other, but since there were so many children, he advised her to marry again, which she did lat er.
Alma also wrote: "My mother said she had scarlet fever when 10 years old and 'died.' At least everyone thought her dead, though she was aware of what went on. She said they even measured her for her coffin (all home-made then.) I don't know how they discovered she was not dead. Anyway she grew up to raise a large family and live to be almost 97 years old.
"My mother came to America in the spring of 1888 on the ship 'Eldorado' from Bergen to Hull, England one or 2 days, arriving on a Saturday, then by train to Liverpool. She admired the fields of England, such a contrast to rocky Norway. After a week in Liverpool, left on a Saturday morning on the ship 'Etruria' came to New York on a Sunday night one week later. Came by train to Ridgeway, Iowa, May 6 where her sister Johanne was already working at Aakre. Johanne had come over at least a year before. I heard a rumor she had left Norway because of a disappointed love affair, but am not sure. Anyway, Johanne probably helped with her fare. Aakre was not a town but a family, fairly enterprising and well to do. / After a few weeks my mother went to St. Paul Minnesota and worked (housework) for about a year." [see continuation on Lars Andreas' entry]
Alma continues "... he [Lars Andreas] and my mother were married in St. Paul, May 28, 1889. That fall they went back to Ridgeway (Winneshiek County) - lived there till 1901 or so. [Note: in 2002, according to http://www.usacitie sonline.com/, Ridgeway had a population of about 295 (127 families); so who knows what size it was in 1901!)
"Children born in Ridgeway: Lydia (died), Lydia, Hilda, Oscar, Emma, Paul. Then they moved to Nassau, Minnesota, where they had 4 more children: Ida, Agnes, Alma & Esther. [Nassau is about 4-5 mi north of Marietta, MN and in 200 2 is even smaller than Ridgeway: its population is under 200, with 50 families. Nassau is about 320 mi NE of Ridgeway -- and in 2002 Mapquest estimates this as a 10-hour drive! Wonder how long it took in 1901!]
Note: apparently they moved first to Marietta -- where they lived with Anna Marie's sister Johanne and husband Andrew Dahle before buying Peg Lake farm in Nassau in 1902. (email from Iris Nast, May 2002 -- based on note written on photo of the house they lived in in Marietta, by Kimary Nast when she visited that house and the Nassau house in August 1982 with Mel and Myrtle Dahle.)
more from Alma: "In Nov 1909 they moved to Eugene Oregon, then in July 1916 to Alberta Canada. In Eugene they had a 100 acre farm, and 2 houses in the city, but one was small. This they traded, sight unseen, for 2 quarter sectio ns in Alberta.
"My mother enjoyed telling that after they were married, my father had 3 cents left in his pocket. He had wages coming at the end of the week, but it made a good story anyway."
email from Betty (Lowe) Wulff, January 2002: "the house they lived in in Nassau still stands, well kept by owners who welcomed us in to see the 'L.P. Eritsland' carved on a basement ceiling beam. He has shown others who came to ask, and has kept the beam that way. Nice man....
"Anna Marie had been a house maid, cook, laundress, seamstress, babysitter, etc. etc., as all good Scandinavian immigrant ladies generally were, but she stopped to "look after her man and have a family herself." They bought a fa rm at Nassau, Lac Qui Parle county, Minnesota, and moved there, had the four more children, and attended church in Marietta, MN.
In 1909, when Esther was a 4 month old baby and Alma just 2 1/2 years old, and Ida only 6 years, they sold the Nassau farm, had an auction, and moved to the city of Eugene, Oregon, living near the University there. A minister fr iend from Minnesota recommended that they purchase a farm 9 miles out of Eugene, as he had a farm there also. He wanted Lars to lend him $1,000.00 but instead Lars offered to purchase the ministers farm, and they made a deal. Th ey travelled into Eugene by train, but only lived on the farm for two years until they rented it and purchased two houses in Eugene. They lived at 855 Agate St., but these numbers have now changed to 1355 - Agate Ave., but the h ouse is long gone from that address now. In 1916 they "traded" ?? the two houses and farm for two quarter sections of farmland at Leslieville--North of Alhambra, AB. When I asked, "Why?" I was told that John Eggen, (who turned o ut to be my mother's brother-in-law, because he was married to Clara Lowe, my papa's only sister) and his father-in-law, Per or Peder H. Lowe ( my paternal grandpa) convinced Lars and Anna Marie to come up to Blackfalds andwork for John Eggen and make some $$$$ for three months. Lars liked it around central Alberta, made the deal to buy the Leslieville place, and went down to bring his family up by train. Anna Marie and the four younger childrencame, coming across the "line" at Kingsgate (BC), where they first met with the wee pest called, mosquitoes, and 'bulldog" flies, also called "horseflies." They had never had them down south.... Anna Marie died December 3, 1963--96 y ears of age, and with Lars is buried in the Leslieville Cemetery, 1 mile E and 1/2 mile S of Leslieville, Alberta. I have a clear picture of their headstones--quietly resting under the branches there." (all in Jan 2002 email fro m Betty (Lowe) Wulff, granddaughter of Anna Marie]
Document on microfilm in the National Archives in Ottawa says that Mrs. L.P. Eritsland entered Canada at Kingsgate B.C. by train on July 12, 1916, accompanied by Paul, Ida, Agnes, Alma and Esther, travelling from Eugene Oregon t o Blackfalds Alberta. The declared value of their cash and effects was $150. The document has some errors: it spells "Alma" as "Elma," and though Paul's age is correctly given as 15, the girls' ages are confused. Ida was 13 att he time (given as 11), Agnes was 11 (given as 9), Alma was 9 (given as 7) and Esther was not quite 7 (given as 8). However, the date and port of entry at least is presumably correct, and matches Betty Wulff's report.
Her granddaughter Carol Wait (Oscar's daughter) says Anna Marie drove to Chicago in 1954 with Oscar, Mildred and Carol. "Yes Grandma was with us in 1954. She didn't go to the Madison reunion [Erslands] with us. We had gone to Ch icago to visit Esther and family and went to Madison from there. Grandma thought she would be too tired and it was extremely hot in Chicago. She wanted to stay at the farm with Aunt Lydia."
There is a photo from 1956 -- the year Anna Marie was 89 (published in Red Deer paper, Carol Wait has a copy) of a 5 generation photo taken in Minneapolis. The photo has Anna Marie, Lydia, Agnes (Aggie), Joan, and Diane Dooley a s a baby. (Diane was born July 1956). It says Anna Marie moved to Alhambra five years before, ie 1951.
More About ANNA MARIE HANSDTR ALVSVÅG:
Burial: 1963, Leslieville Cemetery, 1 mile E and 1/2 mile S of Leslieville, Alberta
Immigration to Canada: July 12, 1916, Kingsgate BC(fr Eugene OR to Blackfalds BC)
Immigration to USA: 1888, landed in New York (steamship fr Liverpool)
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släkten Alfsvåg-Jonsson-Sehlberg
1867 - 1963 (96 år)
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