Gustaf Ephram Bonstrom

  Research Notes:

NOTE: I have used ancestry Family Trees as my starting point. However, most FTs do not record a complete outline of Gustav Ephram Bonstroms' children and their families. I have tried to provide a more complete picture under the research notes for each of his children, but there are still a number of gaps. More research is needed.

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DeLoach/McKinnon FT [JefferyAL7] ; accessed, 2 Apr 2021
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/24204804/person/1489147675/facts
- has some addtional information for his children

Norma Wing Coffman, Norma's side FT [Norma Coffman] accessed 2 Apr 2021
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/49164994/person/12962865350/facts
- info on some children; some photos
BUT: NOTE : Norma Wing Coffman, Norma's side FT [Norma Coffman] ; accessed 18 Apr 2021
INCORRECTLY records Harold's father as Ephriam Gustav Bonstrom (who was a son of Gustaf Nels Bonstrom, 1855-1939) and was declared missing in Action - during WW 2; BUT Harold Bonstrom was the son of Hjalmar Bonstrom (1890-1956)


Gary B Sahlstrom FT [Gary Shalstrom] last accessed 1 Apr 2021
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/113803995/person/210117783274/facts
- names children, but not spouse and their children

2. Modified Chronological

Ephriam Gustaff Bonstrom, b 3 Aug 1890, Buffalo, Wright Co; died 2 Oct 1956, Hennepin Co, MN
Married: 17 Apr 1912, Wright Co
Myrtle H. Bengtson, b 23 Oct 1893, Buffalo, Wright Co; died 4 Feb 1981, Tucson, AZ

Children:

[1] Clifford Raymond, b 27 Jan 1913, Wright Co; died 11 Sep 1978, Minneapolis. Married, 1 child
[2] Lorna Marion Bonstrom, b 29 May 1915, Wright Co; died 3 Jun 1993 in Hennepin Co
[3] Ardice Eleonara, b 22 Mar 1918, Buffalo, Wright Co
[4] Howard Warren, b 15 Mar 1921, Hennepin Co; died 20 Mar 1921, Hennepin
[5] Emilene Lucile, b 25 Nov 1924, Hennepin
[6] Charles Donald Warren, b 30 Apr 1923, Hennepin Co


1940 US Census, Minneapolis, ED 89-57; sheet 10A; household 1307
Ephriam Bonstrom, age 49 b in MN; same place Arp 1935; molder wholesale bakery
wife Myrtle, age 58 b in MN
son Clifford, age 29; single; janitor office buildeing
daughter, Lorna, age 29, single; maid private home
daughter, Elenora, age 22 single; clerk banking
son Charles, age 17
daughter, Emeline, age 15
daughter, Caroline, age 7 months


Ancestry's MN death index ; records death; Lorna Marion Wallo, b 29 May 1915 and died
3 Jun 1993 in Hennepin Co. birth location is not noted.
OBIT for Lorna Wallo, issue 4 Jun 1993 page 30; Star Tribune;
- survived by daughter, Darlene Wallo; brother Charles Bonstrom, St Petersburg;
sisters, Eleanor Ramsey from Tucson AZ; and Emilene Rockland, Minneapolis
[no mention of birth or age of death; nor parents]
but at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church record Minnesota, she is listed as a member [image 829] and records her birth as 29 May 1915 and confirmed in 1929; her name Lorna Marion Bonstrom



Swedish American Lutheran Church records: Zion Lutheran Church, Buffalo, MN
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61584/images/47830_554911-00081?pId=30217280
image 82:

Gustaf Efraim Bonstrom b 5 Aug 1890, Buffalo
wife Myrtle Henrietta (Bengtson) b 20 Oct 1893, Buffalo
dau Ardice Eleonara, b 22 Mar 1918, Buffalo
son Harold Warren b 15 Mar 1921, Minneapolis [bap 19 Mar 1921]; died 20 Mar 1921

Efraim is also noted on image 71, with his widow mother, Kristina Bonstrom and brother Lambert
- and here it is noted he married
Myrtle is referenced to image 54, with her parents and a sister
- her father, Lars Bengtson, b 22 Jun 1887, Östmark; married 10 Aug 1892 (MN); arrived 1866
- mother, Maria Berglund, b 15 Aug 1865, Fryksände; arrived 1871


Ephriam, OBIT: The Minneapolis Star issue 4 Oct 1956, p 34 [newspapers.com]
[Ephriam, born Gustav Ephiram]
- died 2 Oct 1956 at age 66; residence, 5201 28th Ave South
- born in Buffalo, MN; in Minneapolis for 37 years
- member of the Bakers Union
- survived by wife Myrtle H; sons Clifford R and Charles D from Minneapolis
4 daughters, Mrs Oliver Wallo [Lorna], Mrs Alvin Rockland [Emilene], Carolyn Bonstrom, all of Minneapolis, and
Mrs Frank Locke, Alamogordo, NM
survived by 2 brothers, Oscar and Lambert of Buffalo, MN

Myrtle H, OBIT: Star Tribune issue 8 Feb 1981, p 127 [newspapers.com]
- Myrtle H Bonstrom, died in Feb 1981 at [Minneapolis; residence 5201 2 Ave S ??]
- survived by son Charles, daughters Mrs Larry (Carolyn) Dean; Mrs Frank (Eleanor) Ramsey;
Mrs Alvin (Emilene) Rockland; Mrs Lorna Wallo

?? OBIT: Arizona Daily Star, issue 6 Feb 1981 [posted on ancestry by Norma Coffman 15 Jun 2019]
Myrtel H Bonstrom of Tucson, died 4 Feb 1981
- survived by on son, Charles of Minneapolis; daughters, Eleanor A Ramsey and Carolyn J Dean
both of Tucson, Lorna Wallo and Emilene Rockland, both of Minneapolis; ... grandchildren
[given and last names]

Gustaf married Myrtle Henrietta Bengtson on 17 Apr 1912 in Wright Co, Minnesota, United States. (Myrtle Henrietta Bengtson was born on 20 Oct 1893 in Buffalo Twp, Wright Co, Minnesota, United States, died on 4 Feb 1981 in Tucson, Pima Co, Arizona, United States and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, Minnesota, United States.)