Esther Christie ⁸⁴⁰

  Research Notes:

1. Geni.com data records birth date and location as Goodhue Co, but this is NOT likely correct

- her birth is Wisconsin
- link to 1870 US Federal from familysearch, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-XX6S-6N1?i=10&wc=922H-TQK%3A518658101%2C519338101%2C519026801%3Fcc%3D1438024&cc=1438024

2.

There are two people named Esther Klevgaard / Christy.

Firstly, Esther Christine Klevgaard born 18 Oct 1850 (Dane Co, WI or Rock Co, WI) and she was married to Olaf O Nordvold from Zumbrota Twp, Goodhue Co. Her father was John Klevgaard and mother Joren or Jane.

Secondly, Esther Christy (Christie) born 25 Nov 1857 in WI (likely Blue Mounds, Dane Co,). She was married to Ole Tollefsen, the son of Tollef Olsen Slaabakken and Ingeborg Evensdatter S They lived Jackson Co, MN and ND and then IL.

[see Christie / Christy / Klevgaard document dated, 14 Nov 2016].

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Residence - 1920, 1 Jan 1920, Zion (Ward1), Lake Co, Illnois, United States. ⁶⁵²⁰ Esther, wd; works as a Domestic; wth son Clarence, laborer (houseman) and daughter Esther in School.
Esther is indexed on family search as Esther Tallefson.

Theodore C Tollefsen and wife Bertha are recorded: Zion ward 4; dis 0244; sheet 11b; house 2719 Elizabeth Ave.

2. Resdence - 1930, 1 Apr 1930, Zion City, Lake Co, Illinois, United States. ⁶⁵²¹ Esther Tollefsen age 72, wid; not working (appears to be renting a room)

3. Residence - 1940, 1 Apr 1940, Zion City, Lake Co, Illinois, United States. ⁶⁵²² Zion (Ward 5, Ed 49-115), Lake Co, IL; sheet 2B, family 39; Esther Tollefsen age 81, wid; not working; same residence in 1935

4. Death - 1944, 26 Oct 1944, Waukegan, Lake Co, Illinois, United States. ⁸⁵¹ Esther record notes that she is the wife of Ole Tollefsen. Her birth date and location (Blue Mound[s], Wisconsin) is noted, as well as, the cemetery.

Esther married Ole Tollefsen, son of Tollef Olsen Slaabakken and Ingeborg Evensdatter Søndmør, on 25 Dec 1884 in Goodhue Co, Minnesota, United States ⁸⁴⁰.^,841 (Ole Tollefsen was born on 3 Feb 1861 in Wisconsin, United States,^203,842,843 died on 27 Apr 1917 in Benton Twp, Zion City, Lake Co, Illinois, United States ⁸⁴³ and was buried on 30 Apr 1917 in Mount Olivet Memorial Park, Lake Co, Illinois, United States ^843,844.)

  Marriage Notes:

Geni.com data base managed by Sven Helsa and added in Mar 2013 records Ole and Esther's marriage as 25 Dec 1883 in Minneapolis, MN citing the source of "Egge Family History" (no other information on this source).

However, the Minnesota Official Marriage System (MOMS) records marriage of Ole Tollefson and Esther Christie as 25 Dec 1884 (cert # M9-525)