Josephine Johnson

  Research Notes:

1. The Immigrant Wagon, p 49-50

- "Pheenie" married a minister
- "the couple took up work in the home mission field at and about Churches Ferry, N Dakota"


2. ancestry.com --- Daniel Haglund database

- gives name of Husband, birth year, and names of children and their birth - nothing else; no sources BUT indicates the name of Valbourg, born 1897


3. 1900 US Census, Lemond Twp, Steele Co, MN

- Erik, wife (birth listed as Oct 1870), Ernest, Beatrice and Martin (difficult to read - ancestry has indexed as Mentor)
- Erik is listed as a Minister, emigrated from Norway in 1882
- Josephine - 4 children, 1 living


4. 1910 US Census, Marinette, WS

- Erik, Josephine, Ernest, Martin (difficult to make out - ancestry - Mentor), Caspara, age 7, Rudolph, age 4 - both younger children born in MN; Also in household is Breta Larson, sister, age 51, born in Norway, emigrated 1901, not working
- Erik is listed as a Clerygman, Church; rents home;

5. 1920 US Census, Dovre, Kandiyohi Co, MN

- Erik (Preacher and Truck ??? Farmer), Josephine, Ernest Lenard age 26, Mantor Conrad age 19, Caspara A V age 16, Rudolph William, age 14, Valborg S age 9 (born in WI), Ansel Enison age 6

6. 1930 US Census, Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, MN

- Josephine listed as a Wd
- owns home; value $5500; owns radio
- Rudolph W, Valborg S (listed as a Stenographer with the Lutheran Brotherhood), Hansel M age 16
- also listed in the same household are 4 people as "Roomer"


7. 1940; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9MT-W5FC?cc=2000219


8. Death +++++ NOT completely CONFIRMED


Josephine - MN Death - no date of birth - only option after 1945 with no date of birth (others birth does not match



9. Allie Roan's obit, April 1945 -- Mrs Josephine Larson living at Minneapolis



++++ [ 7 Dec 2010 ] can't find any more information on any of the children at ancestry - nothing indexed; not on MN death index; what happened ???? - moved to Canada ??? ¹⁷⁸²

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Residence - 1900, 1 Jun 1900, Lemond Twp, Steele Co, Minnesota, United States. ¹⁷⁸³

2. Residence - 1910, 15 Apr 1910, Marinette, Marinette Co, Wisconsin, United States. ¹⁷⁸⁴

3. Residence - 1920, 1 Jan 1920, Dovre Twp, Kandiyohi Co, Minnesota, United States. ¹⁷⁸⁵

4. Residence - 1930, 1 Apr 1930, Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, Minnesota, United States. ¹⁷⁸⁶

Josephine married Erik O Larsen about 1891. (Erik O Larsen was born in Dec 1861 in Norway ¹⁷⁸³ and died on 11 Nov 1927 in Hennepin Co, Minnesota, United States ¹⁷⁸⁷.)