Nels Larson Mikkelson

  Research Notes:

1. Source: www.worldconnect.rootsweb.com; Contact: Terrill Hayes (terrill.hayes@verizon.net); 20 May 2005

- provides birth and death dates for Nels and Grete Sophie
- provides names of children and their birth and death dates
- provides burial information

NOTE; Terrill Hayes also has a geni.com Family Tree, access 17 Jun 2022
https://www.geni.com/people/Lars-Sylen-Sr/6000000006388252001

AND; an Ancestry FT
MikkelsonHayes-2020-02-06 [Terrill Hayes]; access 17 June 2022 [he is from Mount Vernon, Skagit Co, WA]
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/166913791/person/152165425855/facts
- Mikkelson's , Grues'

AND, another Johnson/Markrud/Burrill/Ulven FT [bbsea]; access 20 Jun 2022
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/115248281/person/212156752028/facts
- re; Nels Mikkelson family photo - can use the "tumbnails" for the children to identify who is who
- additional re; Nels children
- nothing on ancestors of Lars or Berit Sophie


1. b. marriage:
Norwegian Lutheran Church Records:
Solem Lutheran, Hawley, Clay Co, MN; marriages:, image 18
Nils Mikkelson b 20 Jun 1868; parents Lars and Berit Mikkelson
married: 12 Nov 1899 to Greta Sophia Erickson, b 31 Sept 1879, parents Bernt and Marie Erikson, in Inshingin MI [sp]

[Greta Sophie Erickson was a sister to Bertha Marie Erickson who was married Martin L Mikkelson, brother to Nels ]


2. Source: ancestry.com; Public Member Trees, Cheryl Lessman, Los Vegas [ 13 Mar 2010 ]


3. US Census: Eglon Twp, Clay Co, MN

a. 1900

- Nels and Grete

b. 1910

- Nels and Grete, Luartz B, Joseph M, Marie S, Gerhard N (age 2) (Peter Hanson, age 19, Norwegian, as a hired hand)
- married 10 years; mother of 4 children, 4 living
- Nels, emigration 1870
- general farm

c. 1920

- Nels and Grete S, Luartz B, Joseph M, Inga M S, Gerhard N (age 11), Ester L, Agnes M, Lars S, Hartvig M
- general farm

d. 1930

- Nels (age 31 at first marriage) and Grete Sophie (age 20 at first marriage), Joseph M, Marie S, Gerhard N, Ester L, Agnes M, Lars S, Hartvig M, Ellen J
- mixed farm

e.

f. 1950 US Census
1950 US Census, Eglon Twp, Clay Co, MN; ED 14-9; sheet 7; dw 71
Nels Mikkelson, age 81 b in Norway; farmer
wife S. Grete, age 71, b in Michigan
son, N. Gerhard age 40 b in MN - never married; farm helper
son M. Hartvig, age 31 b in MN; farm helper
his wife, Betty Jean age 24 b in MN
his son, Harley Jean, age 3 b in MN [Harley Gene b 17 Dec 1946, Clay Co - Ancestry MN birth index collection]
his dau, Bonnie Mae, age 1 b in MN [Bonnie Mae, b 7 Jan 1949, Clay Co; - Ancestry MN birth index collection ⁶⁶⁸

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence - 1900, 1 Jun 1900, Eglon Twp, Clay Co, Minnesota, United States. ⁶⁸⁹

2. Residence - 1910, 15 Apr 1910, Eglon Twp, Clay Co, Minnesota, United States. ⁶⁹⁰

3. Residence - 1920, 1 Jan 1920, Eglon Twp, Clay Co, Minnesota, United States. ⁶⁹¹

4. Residence - 1930, 1 Apr 1930, Eglon Twp, Clay Co, Minnesota, United States. ⁶⁹²

Nels married Grete Sophie Erickson on 7 Nov 1899 in Clay Co, Minnesota, United States ⁶⁸⁴.^,685 (Grete Sophie Erickson was born on 31 Mar 1879 in Ishpeming, Marquette Co, Michigan, United States, died on 27 Jul 1967 in Moorehead, Clay Co, Minnesota, United States and was buried in Solem Lutheran Church Cemetery, Elgon Twp, Clay Co, Minnesota, USA ^284,693.)