Even Svendsen Nygaard
- Born: 24 Jul 1847, Tolga, Hedmark, Norway 5541
- Baptized: 24 Sep 1847, Tolga, Hedmark, Norway 5541
- Died: 13 Jan 1872, Otter Tail Co, Minnesota, United States at age 24 1052,5351,5542
- Buried: Sarpsborg Lutheran Church Cemetery, Tumili Twp, Otter Tail Co, Minnesota, USA 5542
Other names for Even were Even Svendsen and Even Swenson.
Research Notes:
1. Confirmed 26 July 1863 at Os
2. 1865 Census at Røstbakken farm
3. Migration - 1869
- not recorded on the Norway Parish Register
- recorded on Emigrants from Throndhiem - same day and ship, etc as brother Nils and Sigrid Marie Prestlien and Mikkel N Prestlien etc
Norway Emigration Records on Ancestry ... age 19 [age is off]
https://www.ancestry.ca/imageviewer/collections/61757/images/61757_b1059897-00036?ssrc=&backlabel=Return
4. Death
a. Jake Langsjoen manuscript (page 8) - Even is not specifically named, but implication is that Even died "while cutting heavy timber for houses...", see below [ ++ NOTE: need to request the previous page to this 28 Feb 2015 ]
b. Østerdølenes Saga by K G Nilsen, 1938 - my translation under Peder N Langsjoen
- "Mrs. Langjoen's father [Nils Svendsen Nygaard] was killed in the woods when a tree fell in the second winter he was here in the country [in the US; likely 1871]. The winter after [1872], his brother Even Sensen [Swensen or Svendsen] was killed similarly, near the same place."
Noted events in his life were:
1. Residence - 1865, 1865, Tolga, Hedmark, Norway. 214 Servant on the Røstbakken farm (#184) - Iver Torgersen and Kirsti Olsdtr Røstbakken
2. Migration - 1869, 18 Mar 1869, Tolga, Hedmark, Norway. 5543 Leaving from Trondheim for St Paul (MN)
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