This week I am definitely bending the anticipated outcome of transcribing a document for Amanuensis Monday. I am continuing to provide the obituary for each of Olaus and Toline Ostrom's children and spouse that I have available. My idea was that we would learn of this entire family unit through the obituaries. This week I have run into a minor problem in that I don't have a copy of the original newspaper article for the obituary that was printed for Theodore "Ted" Ostrom and then another for his wife, Anna Louise Anderson Ostrom, who preferred to be called Louise.
Even so, I am going to proceed with their articles so we can learn about Ted and Louise. These articles were transcribed by my cousin Ed Ostrom. It is possible that both articles were printed in the "McClusky Gazette," McClusky, North Dakota as they farmed and lived nearby. Any comment I make with be surrounded in square-brackets [ ].
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| IMAGE: Theodore "Ted" Ostrom and his wife Anna Louise Anderson Ostrom, circa 1955. From the Edwin J. Ostrom family collection. |
-------- Unidentified, undated newspaper article:
Theodore Ostrum
Drake -- The funeral for Theodore Ostrum, 80, of Drake, who died Wednesday 07 Apr 1961 in Minneapolis of a cerebral hemorrhage, will be Monday at 2 in the McClusky Memorial Auditorium. Pastor Hellekson of the Grace Lutheran Church in McClusky will officiate and burial will be in the McClusky Cemetery.
Mr. Ostrom was born Aug. 28, 1880, in Elbow Lake, Minn., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Olaus Ostrum. He grew to manhood there and attended rural schools in the area, and Park Legion Lutheran College in Fergus Falls, Minn. He was married Dec. 27, 1907, to Louise Morkved at Elbow Lake and worked as a logger until moving to Devils Lake where he homesteaded and served as a foreman on a “bonanza farm.”
In 1908 he moved to Drake, where he was employed by Harold H. Thorson. He moved to Skogomo in 1910 where he farmed and ranched. He moved again to McClusky and back to Drake where he lived until his death. He was a member of the West Scandia Lutheran Church of Skogomo.
Survivors include his wife: three sons, Harold of Drake, Leonard of Kief, and Lawrence of Fresno, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Ervin (Evelyn) Running of Harvey and Mrs. Clifford (Tolene) Kensmoe of McClusky; 15 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; three brothers, Oscar of Woodburn, Ore., Carl of Viking, Alta., and Bertil of Vancouver, B.C., and two sisters, Mrs. Olena Ehlers of Barrett, Minn., and Elsie Lims [Nims] of Los Angeles, Calif.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two sons, two brothers and two sisters. Pallbearers will be Kenneth Jensen, Murdock Haibeck, Jack Engel, Gaylord Hegney, Hartvig Hanson and Nick Michalenko. Honorary pallbearers will be O. A. Refling, Henning Rossebo, Bencer Kjos, Ray Murray, Carl Knutson and Charles G. Neff.
Funeral arrangements are by the Berg Funeral Home in McClusky.
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Note: Ted's and his parent's name last name should be been spelled as OSTROM. Louise's maiden name is written as MORKVED, records tell us that her name was ANDERSON, it is possible that reference to Morkved was from her birth location in Telemark, Norway.
-------- Unidentified, undated newspaper article:
Mrs. Louise Ostrom
McClusky -- The funeral will be Tuesday at 2 in Grace Lutheran Church, McClusky, for Mrs. Louise Ostrom, 85, who died Wednesday 21 Dec 1966 in a Turtle Lake hospital.
Pastor E. Froiland will officiate and burial will be in the McClusky City Cemetery. Berg Funeral Home, McClusky, has charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Ostrom was born in Norway Dec. 24, 1880, and came to the United States in 1889. She married Theodore Ostrom at Elbow Lake, Minn., in Dec. 1907 and they moved to the Skogomo area in 1910. Mr. Ostrom died in 1961 and she moved to McClusky three years ago. She was a member of Grace Lutheran Church.
Surviving are three sons, Harold of Fargo, Leonard of Kief and Lawrence of Fresno, Calif.; two daughters Mrs. Irvin (Evelyn) Running, Harvey, and Mrs. Clifford (Tolene) Kensmoe, McClusky; 15 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren. Two sons and an infant brother preceded her in death.
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| IMAGE: McClusky Cemetery entrance. Photo from FindaGrave.com and used with permission by the photographer and Find A Grave member volunteer, JerryReisberg-82ndAirborne. |
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| IMAGE: Ostrom gravemarker. Photo from FindaGrave.com and used with permission by the photographer and Find A Grave member volunteer, JerryReisberg-82ndAirborne. |
Credits:
- My thanks to FindAGrave member and volunteer Jerry Reiswig for allowing me to use the photographs he took at the McClusky cemetery.
- I also want to thank "cousin" A. Running for the information he provided about his grandparent's obituaries and confirmation of his grandmother's surname.
- As always, I want to thank my late cousin Ed Ostrom for his work on transcribing these two articles and saving the digital files for us.
Note to self--Darlene, obtain a copy of the Ostrom's obituaries. It is always better to have a hard copy of the original record or document to work from.
I too was wondering about "Bonanza Farms." According to Wikipedia, these were large farming operations that were created towards the end of the nineteenth century. Most were started in the Red River Valley in Minnesota and the Dakotas and their primary crop was wheat. Factors that encouraged these large farms to be developed included new-for-the time efficient farm machinery, abundant inexpensive tracts of land and the newly completed railroads. As stated in Ted's obituary, for a while he was a foreman on one of these large farms.
I too was wondering about "Bonanza Farms." According to Wikipedia, these were large farming operations that were created towards the end of the nineteenth century. Most were started in the Red River Valley in Minnesota and the Dakotas and their primary crop was wheat. Factors that encouraged these large farms to be developed included new-for-the time efficient farm machinery, abundant inexpensive tracts of land and the newly completed railroads. As stated in Ted's obituary, for a while he was a foreman on one of these large farms.
I hope you enjoyed today's article and found my deviation from usual Monday article acceptable. I am wishing you have a good day and thank you for stopping by.
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