Mary Selnes

   Another name for Mary was Ragna Maria Selnes.⁶²⁴³

  Research Notes:

www.geni.com data for Tollef Egge records marriage to Ragna Maria Selnes (Sven Helsa's data links to Sigurd Pettersen with added data 28 Apr 2010)

- Sigurd's information links to Ragna Maria's brother, Olaf E Selnes, and includes a "biographical sketch for Olaf - this sketch is from Cottonwood Co, MN American History and Genealogy Project (AHGP) and available at rootsweb.ancestry; link, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mncotto2/ (click to Biographies)

- in relation to Ragna Maria, the following (my underlining):
" He [Olaf] was born in Racine county, Wisconsin, August 15, 1860, and is a son of Ole and Sophia (Lerbeck) Selnes, both natives of Norway, where they grew to maturity and were married. In the spring of 1860 they crossed the Atlantic to America, locating in Racine county, Wisconsin, where they spent one year, then moved to Allamakee County, Iowa, where the father bought a farm of forty acres, to which he added forty acres, and later another eighty, all of which he sold in 1871, and moved to Jackson county, Minnesota, and purchased a homestead claim of one hundred and sixty acres and homesteaded eighty four hundred acres. He finally returned to Norway, where his death occurred on October 16, 1911 at the age of eighty-one years. His wife died in Jackson county, Minnesota, in 1902 at the age of seventy-eight. Their family consisted of six children, namely: Lena, deceased; O. E., the subject of this sketch; Lena, the second, died in 1896; Mary died in 1914 at the age of forty-eight years; John died in infancy; Minnie, was born in 1870 and is still living"

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Burial - 1915, 24 Feb 1915, Windom, Cottonwood Co, Minnesota, United States. The US Evangelical Church Records do not record the location of burial, but is it likely Delafield Cemetery in Wiemer Twp, Jackson since this it the most likely burial location for husband, Tollef J Egge.

Mary married Tollef Johnson Egge, son of John Johnson Egge and Ingeborg Evensdatter Søndmør, on 7 Sep 1890 in Jackson Co, Minnesota, United States ^6229,6231.^,6241 (Tollef Johnson Egge was born on 17 Mar 1866 in Jackson Co, Minnesota, United States,^6233,6234 died on 27 Oct 1927 in Jackson Co, Minnesota, United States ⁶²³⁴ and was buried in Delafield Cemetery, Jackson Co, Minnesota, United States ⁸⁰⁵.)