Thea Alete Berg

  Research Notes:

1. source: www.tomren.org (www.worldconnect.rootsweb.com; contact: Holly Tomren)

[ 26 Jan 2012 - www.tomren.org no longer active; data still on rootsweb world connect, but it is not on ancestry.com Public Members Tree; has she died ??; note she has information on earlier generations, has contributed to Norway Digital Archives; ; there are a number of 'family trees' on ancestry.com - likely the most realiable are 'Russell Berg' and 'Grace Admunson' ; note, 7 Feb 2012: 'The Mudbrook Folks' follows the family of Alfred M Berg, BUT the owner has Alfred M Berg, son of Martin Anton Berg, mixed up with someone different ]


2. "Where the Wheatlands meet the Range", 1974 (community history book; Willow Creek / Claresholm, Alberta); Page 237

- Ole had one of the first sawmills at Robbie Coulee (in the foothills west of Clareshom) - many homes in the area were made of lumber from this sawmill
- had one of the first threshing outfits
- farmed the homestead until 1916 (same year that Olava Berg, Thea's mother died)
- retired and moved to Minneapolis, but came back in the fall for a few years for threshing with his nephew, Alfred
- moved to Seattle

3. 1900 US Census, Dunn, Dunn Co, WI

- Ole and Thea
- Josie, sister, age 12
- Olof Langren (sp), born 1879 in Wisconsin as a servant
- farmer, owns

4. 1906 Canada Cenus; 1911 - only Ole and Thea; 1916 - Ole, Thea, and Oliva Berg, age 78

- Ole, Thea, and Jose age 17, sister (to head of household)
- all emigrated 1903
- Sec 28, Twp 12, Range 26
- 3 horses, 3 milk cows, 4 other cattle, 8 sheep

5. Obit, The Seattle Times

Thea, 1950
- died at 74 years; died Tuesday
- lived at 2641 Plymouth St
- born in Wisconsin; came to Seattle 7 years ago <1943>
- survivors include her husband, Ole A Finstad and several nieces and nephews
- burial at Pacific Lutheran Cemetery
-- death and funeral notice - names the nieces and nephews

Ole; 23 Dec 1953, p 26, col 2 - death notice
- age 81 of 2641 Plymouth St
- brother of Mrs Josie Jacobson, Seattle and Mrs Mattie Grahn, Bremerton
- internment at Pacific Lutheran Cemetery

3. Claresholm Review-Advertiser, 17 Nov 1916, page 1 "Five Mile News"

"Mr. and Mrs. Ole Finstad will be leaving shortly for Minneapolis, where they expect in the future to reside.
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  Noted events in her life were:

1. Residence - 1900, 1 Jun 1900, Dunn, Dunn Co, Wisconsin, United States. ¹³⁶³

2. Land, 1904, Claresholm, Alberta, Canada. ¹³⁶⁴

3. Residence - 1906, 7 Jul 1906, Claresholm, Alberta, Canada. ¹³⁶⁵

4. Residence - 1911, 3 Jun 1911, Claresholm, Alberta, Canada. ¹³⁶⁶

5. Residence - 1916, 12 Jun 1916, Claresholm, Alberta, Canada. ¹³⁶⁷

Thea married Ole A Finstad on 26 May 1894 in Dunn Co, Wisconsin, United States.¹³⁵⁹ (Ole A Finstad was born on 30 Jun 1872 in Dunn Co, Wisconsin, USA and died on 22 Dec 1953 in Seattle, King Co, Washington, United States ^1368,1369.)