Erick Nilsson Bonstrom

  Research Notes:

Summary: Erick N Bontrom was not married, but I believe he continued to live on the farm of his parents.


MN wills and probate: image 174 and 179 are family related
https://www.ancestrylibrary.ca/imageviewer/collections/9070/images/007668484_00156?pId=2441581
image 179 - lists individuals who are heirs of his estate; and image 174 records dollar amounts [right column below]
Nils N BonstromBuffalo, MNBrotherremainder of property to be shared with Gust N Bonstrom
Christ N BonstromBuffalo, MNBrother$1,000
Gust N BonstromBuffalo, MNBrotherremainder of property to be shared with Nils N Bonstrom
Halsten N BonstromCaluenet, MIBrother$1,000
Bernard A BonstromBuffalo, MNnephewage 38 [1881]$1,000
Mrs Alice M BergTempleton, Calnieceage 34 [1885] $561.00
[daughter of Anders B]
Clarence E Bonstrom, Grangeville, IDnephew age 32 [1887]$1,000
[son of Anders B]
Axel E Bonstrom*Hanks, NDnephew age 22 [1893]$1,000
Everett BonstromBuffalo, MNgrand-nephew age 7$100.00
[son of Bernard A Bonstrom]
Astrid BergTempleton, Cagrand neice age 12 $100.00
Philip BergTempleton, Cagrand nephew age 10$100.00
Nana Frisendahl**Buffalo, MNchild Celia age 14 $100 to be shared all of the Frisendahl children
Fringel FrisendahlBuffalo, MNas above, age 10
Bertil FrisendahlBuffalo, MN as above, age 8
Eskil FrisendahlBuffalo, MNas above, age 3

NOTE: that the Bonstrom family was quite a large extended family, so I am not sure why there are only a few nephew/nieces mentioned.

** Maria Celia [daughter of Gustav Bonstrom] b 1885, married to Frederick Otto Frisendahl b 1874
- image 63 of Zion Lutheran Church records

* Ancestry FT; Kevern FT
https://www.ancestrylibrary.ca/family-tree/person/tree/170642255/person/392214591510/facts?_phsrc=NEk216&_phstart=successSource

Zion Lutheran Church, Buffalo, MN; image 119 and his family on image 65

Erik Bonstrom, b 20 Jun 1842 in Östmark; came in 1866; died 6 May 1919

Note that 2 of the sons of Erik Bonstrom's brother Anders may have been living with Erik or near by
Brother Anders, son Edvard Clarence Bonstrom, b 1 Aug 1886; image 65 references that he moved to Idaho in 1913; image 33 with his father *
Brother Anders, son Axel Emanuel Bonstrom image 65, 64, and 33

* 1920 US Census, Grangeville, Idaho Co, Idaho; Ed 103; sheet 10A; dw/fam 3
Clarence Bonstrom age 33 b in MN married
wife Frankie, age 28 b in MO
dau Clarice F, age 6 b in MN
son Kenneth E [?], age 4 b in ID


1895 MN State Census - Erik is recorded with his brother Andrew in Rockford Twp, ⁹²⁴⁹