Ida Anna Knudson

  Research Notes:

Note: 20 Aug 2016

I not have been able to find much information on Ida, other than what is posted on the 'beauhanks' family tree and as I have indicated on her data.

The 'beauhanks' tree has some added information, but the accuracy is very weak and I have not been able to find any collobrating evidence
- 1905 MN State - Ida Knudson, stenographer in Hennipen Co
- Ohio Deaths - Ida A Knudson, died 4 Apr 1969 age 90 at Cincinnati Ohio in a nursing home, single never married

- 1940 US Census from familysearch (link, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9M1-7WZ4?mode=g&i=11&wc=QZXY-BWT%3A790106001%2C793129901%2C802499501%2C953476701%3Fcc%3D2000219&cc=2000219)
- see 'event' notes for "disproven death"



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1900 US Federal: Zumbrota Twp, Goodhue Co, MN; Ed 0060; sheet 4b; dw 70 fam 70

Ida A Knudson, age 21 born Mar 1879 in MN; school Teacher
- head of household of Olaf O Nordvold born May 1844 Norway, emigrated in 1869 and wife Esther C born Oct 1850 born in Wisconsin; he is a farmer
- Ida is recorded as a niece to head of household, BUT I don't think this is right. Esther C Klevgaard was born 18 Oct 1850 (Dane Co, WI ??) married to Olaf O Nordvold from Zumbrota Twp, Goodhue Co. Father, John Klevgaard and mother Joren or Jane. John Klevgaard was a brother to Knud Klevgaard who went by the name of Knud Christy in the US. This Knud Christy was the father of Henry Knudson, born 1843 in Norway (married to Kersti Tollefsen, the daughter of Tollef and 'our' Ingeborg Evensdatter). Thus Esther C Norvold (the wife of Olaf
Norvold) was Henry Knudson's aunt and would have been Ida Anna Knudson's great aunt)

NOTE
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].



** of note: from An Illustrated History of Jackson Co, MN; page 366
- Henry Knudson's half siblings (Henry's father died in 1870 and his mother died in 1854 in WI. His father remarried sometime after 1854. The book doesn't name his second wife..., but it records, "from his father's second wife).... "Esther, Mrs Ole Tollefson, wife of properous farmer of Arville, North Dakota" [likely Arvilla, ND] ....
Stark Christy, farmer at Bellecreek, Goodhue Co ... Elias Knudson of McIntosh, MN; deceased (book written in 1910) - he was living with Ole Tollefsen in 1895 MN State at Graham Lakes, Nobles Co,

** From: A History of Goodhue Co, MN, 1878; link, https://archive.org/details/historyofgoodhue00wood

page 626, under the second for Zumbrota Twp
"Olaf O Nordvold, farmer, sec 9, P. O. White Willow. Was born in Norway, May 30, 1844. Attended Oscar Seminary, graduating in 1864; taught school until 1869. Came to America, remaining a short time in Iowa; came to this county, settled in Belle Creek township; engaged as a teacher in Norwegian Schools in that and Minneloa townships seven years. June, 1876, settled on present farm of 256 acres. Married Ester Christy Klegaard, [on] March 25, 1873; she was born in Wis., Oct. 18, 1850. Their children are: Olof M., Mary J. and Jessie C. They are members of N.E.L. Church [Norwegian Evangelical Church ?]." ¹⁹⁵

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Residence, 1900, 1 Jun 1900, Zumbrota Twp, Goodhue Co, Minnesota, United States. ⁶²²⁵
Ida A Knudson, age 21 born Mar 1879 in MN; school Teacher
- head of household of Olaf O Nordvold born May 1844 Norway, emigrated in 1869 and wife Esther C born Oct 1850 born in Wisconsin; he is a farmer
- Ida is recorded as a niece to head of household; she is the niece of Ester C, a half-sister to Henry Knudson, her father

2. Disproven death - 1969, 4 Apr 1969, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. ⁶²²⁴ Ida Anna Knudson is recorded in an index of Ohio Deaths. This records her as 90 years of age at death, and so the birth year corresponds. However, there is no other evidence on this index that this is 'our' Ida Anna

Ohio Death Index - Ida A Knudson, died 4 Apr 1969, age 90 at Cincinnati Ohio in a nursing home, single never married.

There is a person named Ida Knundson recorded in the 1940 US Census for Cincinnati. This person is single, age 61 (birth abt 1879) working as "organizing" Delphian Society (a Society that promotes education for women). However, this record notes that this person was born in Ohio. So, either there is a mistake in the record or this is the wrong person.