Even Jacobsen Søndmør

  Research Notes:

Sonmor FT [Judith A Amundsen]; last access 13 Mar 2024
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/12993932/person/-142678292/facts
- includes some photos
- 1st wife's dates from this FT

[23 Mar 2024 ..... I haven't researched this family in any detail


1.
1880 US Census, Tumuli Twp, Otter Tail Co, MN; ED 154, page 18;
line 43:
Even Sonmor age 37 born in Norway, farmer
wife Kari, age 38 b in Nor
dau Hanna, age 10, b in Nor
son Jacob Julius, age 8 mos, b in MN
sister, Ingeborg Anna, age 40 b in Nor - see her and Gea's research pages
niece, Gea, age 13 b in Nor

Note: it appears thaat Even is living in dw 149 and with fam 158, line 32
- this is Ole A Minge [??] family - he was born in Nor

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6742/images/4241845-00613?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=24275754


1900 US Census ;;; https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6824-RQB?cc=1325221
1900 US Census: ED 195, Tumuli; page 1A and 1B, dwelling, fam 10
Even Sonmor, b Sept 1842 Norway ; married 9 years <1891>, farmer, emigrated 1866, in NA for 34 yrs
wife, Ingebor, b Nov 1851, em 1880, mother of 1 child [Carl], living
son, Jacob Sonmor, b 1878 in MN
daughter, Gina, b Jun 1882 in MN
son, Carl, b Apr 1892 in MN
then, Erick Lockstad, b Jun 1848 in Nor, brother-in-law; emigrate 1867

MN marriages (MOMS); Otter Tail

name indexed as Erven Sonmor married 29 Jun 1891 to Ingeborg Moen (cert G-225, Otter Tail)

son, Carl Sonmor married 3 May 1912 to Inga Estvold (cert Q-227, Otter Tail)

son, Jacob J Sonmor married 3 Sep 1904 to Betsy Mickelson (cert C-343, Grant) [ not sure ???? ]

2.
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see my document, re, his father [???], Nils Jacobsen Sønmør [ written 18 Mar 2015 ]

1875 MN State Tumuli Twp, Otter Tail; page 165 (ancestry), family 32
Even J Sonmor, age 32 born in Norway
Marit J Sonmor, age 42 born in Norway
then ?? the family of John Anderson 27 and next Margarte, age 21 (both born in Norway)
and Gina age 1 (born in MN)

1905 MN State Tumuili Twp, Otter Tail; 679 (ancestry), person 55, 56, 57
Even J Sonmor, age 63 born in Norway; in state and jurisdiction 38 yrs (1867)
Engeborg Sonmor, age 53 born in Norway; in state and jurisdiction 25 yrs (1880)
Carl Sonmor, age 13 in MN <1892>; in state \endash 13 years

1910 US Census, Tumuili Twp, Otter Tail, ED 195; sheets 1A and 1B; dw/fam 10
Even J Sonmor, born Sept 1842 in Nor; em 1866; own farm
wife Ingeborg, b Nov 1851 in Nor; mother of 1 child, 1 living; em 1880
son Jacob, b Sep 1878 in MN; farm labor
daughter Gina, b Jun 1882 in MN
son, Carl John b Apr 1892 in MN
thenm Erik Lackstad, b Jun 1848 in Norway; em in 1867

3. Ancestry Family Tree, Roe Standal FT [accessed 24 Nov 2020]
link, https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/162450711/person/132154977912/facts
- birth of son Carl Johan on 27 Apr 1892, Tumili Twp, Otter Tail; image 10
- parents Even Sonmor and Ingeborg

but this records his first wife as

4. Ancestry, MN Wills and Probates, collection' Vol F, 1919-1925; image 100
Even J Sonmor
- this implies that Ingeborg was his second wife, and that they had a child who married Halvor K Brandvold
- $300 to step daughter, Mrs Martin O Halvorsen **
- his wife retains the land
- son Jacob and Carl Johan and daughter share the rest of the proceeds

** born 1870 on board sailing ship, but

4. see his brothers family, Elias Jacobsen Sonmor - re homesteaded in SK - to a descendant Glen Sonmor - hockey player and coach in Minnesota

Even married Kari Hansdatter on 5 Mar 1879 in Otter Tail Co, Minnesota, United States. (Kari Hansdatter was born on 9 Nov 1841 in Norway and died on 20 Jan 1889 in Otter Tail Co, Minnesota, United States.)