"This history of the SHELVER family has been made possible through the personal time, expense, and dedicated efforts of Mrs. Helen Shelver Swanson, Moorhead, Minnesota. Aunt Helen has devoted untold hours at reviewing family and cemetery records. She has also absorbed the financial burden of many personal trips, telephone calls, and mail expenses necessary to gather the information to compile this report. Speaking for myself and the many others who will read this, I wish to express my thanks to her.
Publisher:
Peter L. Schneider
Milton Shelver’s additions and corrections are in italics.
Nils Nilson Hornbek
(est. 1775)
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NILS NILSON and his wife of Hornbek, Norway had two sons. They were CHRISTIAN and JACOB.
CHRISTIAN was born in 1803 and died in 1880. He was married to Kirsti Bergersdatter. To CHRISTIAN and Kirsti were born six daughters and one son. They were MARTHA, MAREN, HANNAH, MARIE, CLARE, OLIANA, and OLAF. Three daughters came to America. As CHRISTIAN purchased more land he added estate names, so he became CHRISTIAN NILSON GJETERUD SANDER. The three daughters who came to America were:
MAREN SANDER was born August 12, 1835. She married Lars Oleson Guldlin in Oslo, Norway. She and her husband came to the United States and eventually settled in Valley City, North Dakota. She died in 1924 and is buried in a cemetery in Valley City. Her husband is buried there also.
OLIANA SANDER married an Erickson and they had one son named Thorwald. they lived in Oslo. They also came to America.
KAREN SANDER (Karen must be a second name for one of the six) made her home in the United States and married a pastor, the Rev. Refling of Chicago, Illinois.
JACOB NELSON was born in 1798 at Hornbek, Norway and was married to MARTHA IVARSDATTER. MARTHA was born on the Skjaelver farm near Grue that Jacob purchased. This farm is in Akerhus County. It is northeast of Oslo. This is good timber country and much of the timber on the Skjaelver farm was shipped to the U.S. for furniture making. JACOB and MARTHA had three sons and one daughter. they were JACOB, JOHANNES (great-grandfather to Peter Schneider), NELS and ELI.
NELS took the name of Jacobson. In Norway a man could take the name of the family, farm, locality, surname or if in the Army you were given their name. NELS chose the surname of Jacobson. He was born in 1826 near Grue. He married Johanna Kristiansdatter. When he purchased the Gaard farm he took that name. NELS and his wife had five children. All the children came to America. Their children were Brady, Jacob, Martha, Rikka and Karen. NELS passed away February 7, 1886.
BRADY GAARD took a homestead south and west of West Fargo. he was married to Pauline Paulson. Their children were Joseph, Harold, Norton and Betsy. Joseph married Ida Johnson and they had three daughters. Harold remained single. Norton married and lived in Michigan. Betsy married Ingvald Vangerud. They had a son and a daughter, Betsy and Paul.
JACOB GAARD married Olivia Solberg. They had two sons, both named Norton. The first son died when young. Jacob had a furniture store in Fargo. Then he added a funeral parlor but the business was too much to handle so he gave up the furniture business and concentrated on mortuary work only. The embalming fluid was too drastic for his lungs, which killed him in 1913. His son Norton took over his father’s business but it was not to his liking and with his wanderlust he gave up the business. He was married and divorced. He lived in Texas and died there. His body was shipped to Fargo where he is buried on the cemetery lot with his folks.
MARTHA GAARD daughter of NELS was married to Emil Kiel. he was a brother of Mrs. Jacob Shelver. He came to the U.S. and had to change his name from Skjitren to Kiel as it was not a dignified name in America. Martha was born in July, 1860 and died in 1935. Emil was born in August 1856 and died 1887.
Their children were Jennie, Emma, Oscar and Emil. Jennie was born in 1882. She married Knute Johnson and they had two daughters, Elsie and Florence. Elsie married Al Lawrence was divorced and went to New York City where she became a model. She married Fred Kennedy and had two children by him, Robert and Joyce. Florence married a Witzki.
EMMA KIEL was married to Charles Johnson. she was born in 1883. She and her husband had two children, Clifford and Myrtle. Clifford was married and divorced. He had two children. he is living at the Fargo Mission now. Myrtle married Leo Rock and they had a daughter Gloria. They were divorced and Gloria married James Lundstrom. Myrtle lives in Texas and so do her daughter and grand-daughter.
OSCAR KIEL was born June 25, 1885. He remained single. he was never a well man and had many surgical operations.
EMIL KIEL was born June 10, 1888 and remained single. he is the only surviving member of his family. His father passed away before he was born so his mother named him after his father. The two brothers Emil and Oscar made the farm home of their sister Emma their home for many years. At 99 years of age Emil with his keen mind and interest in life keeps himself occupied with his “dogs and cats” as he tells folks. he makes dogs and cats out of yarn while o=living out his old age at the lovely Bethany Towers in Fargo.
RIKKA GAARD daughter of NELS married Emil Olson. They had 11 children. Four boys and seven girls. They were Nels, Ole, Edward, Torstein, Jennie, Agnes, Nina, Mabel, May and Rhoda. See Genealogy Chart for further generations.
KAREN GAARD daughter of NELS was born in 1863. She also came to America. She never married and lived with brothers, sister and a niece. she was born with short legs, club feet and minus some fingers, but it didn’t stop her from taking blue ribbons for her fancy work at state fairs. In spite of her handicap she had a congenial personality and lived to a ripe old age.
ELI the only daughter of JACOB NELSON SKJALEVER came to America. Her nephews built a house for her in Liberty township and she livered there until she was unable to care for herself. her nephews in Liberty township and Jacob Shelver near Kindred cared for her until they put her in a rest home where she passed away. She had either asthma or a bronchial condition, there being much coughing connected with it. some people thought she had tuberculosis and feared for their children whom Eli just wanted to hold and love.
JACOB SHELVER married Maren Skjitren in Oslo, Norway. They came to the United States in 1863 and settled at Decorah, Iowa. With them was their first born daughter Eli. They lived in Decorah for nine years. Daughter Martha was born there … they then moved to Cass County near Kindred, North Dakota which was at that time Dakota Territory. They took a homestead there. This was in Norman township, northeast of kindred along the Sheyenne River Red River of the North. To Jacob and wife Maren were born six more children. They were Julia, Julius, Christine, Clara, Otto and Albert. Julia was born in 1876. Julius was born in 1878. Both died during the Diphtheria epidemic. Julia was 4 ½ and Julius 2 ½. Martha Shelver was born March 17, 1865. She was married to Lawrence Vangerud. Their children were Carl, Mentz, Ingvald, Lauris, Melvin, Laura and Selma. Ingvald was married to Betsy Gaard. They had two sons and two daughters, Isel and Lien, Beverly and May. All deceased except Selma who is married to Melvin Simonson and they live in Texas.
CHRISTINE SHELVER was married to Elias Gubrud. She passed away in 1936. They had one son and eight daughters. They were Joseph, Minnie, Selma, Alma, Mabel (Alma and Mabel were twins.), Ellen, Gladys, Olga and Eli.
MINNIE CLARIS was born November 17, 1898. She married Axel Flaa in 1925. They had two children .. Joel who is single and Mary Ann who is married to Harold Anstrup. Their children were Randy, Mark and Charles.
SELMA CHRISTINE died when young.
ALMA was born in 1904. She married Andrew Flaa. He passed away in 1962.
MABEL ELISE (twin of Alma’s) born on March 30, 1904. Mabel and her husband farmed the homestead of her grandfather, Jacob Shelver northeast of Kindred, North Dakota. It’s a lovely farm on the banks of the Red River. An old granary still stands in good condition that JOHANNES SHELVER built in the 1800’s. Johannes’ wife and two sons made their home on that farm until he got a house built on his homestead south of Enderlin, North Dakota.
ELLA KARINE was born on August 2, 1905. She married Orville Touissant.
GLADYS GENEVA was born May 18, 1913. She married Jacob Schleisman.
OLGA PALMER was born August 5, 1902 and died in 1918.
ELI married Olaus Bakke. She was the daughter that came to America with her folks. She had a daughter Clara born March 30, 1904. Clara married a Friese. They had a son and a daughter. Arlowe married Primrose Wagner and they had five children. Eli passed away in 1908. Clara was raised by her Aunt Martha Vangerud.
CLARA SHELVER another daughter of Jacob Shelver was married J. Hellickson. She was the youngest daughter of Jacob and Maren Shelver and moved to Badger, Minnesota with her folks. She is deceased but they did live in Montana.
OTTO and ALBERT took a homestead in Badger, Minnesota.
JACOB AND MAREN SHELVER moved to Badger, Minnesota in 1900 with sons Otto and Albert. Jacob and wife are buried there.
THE JOHANNES SHELVER FAMILY
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JOHANNES SKJAELVER was born in 1826 at Grue, Solar, Akerhus County, Norway to Jacob Skjaelver and wife Martha. He was married to Thea Skjiteru in 1854. Thea was born in 1825 at Solar. He took up the tailor business in Oslo. He went back to the farm to take over the farm for his father. To the couple were born seven sons .. Hans, Peter J. (Peter Schneider’s grandfather), Jacob and Martin (twins), Thorval, Iver and Nels.
JOHANNES, his wife, son Iver (15 yrs.) and son Nels (13 yrs.) came to the United States, Dakota Territory, near Kindred in 1880. His brother and family lived there. While there he did carpenter work. In 1881 he went to Ransom County and filed for a homestead in Liberty township on section 34. This land joined his sons, Peter, Jacob and Martin. Peter and Jacob put in his first crop. Johannes went back to Kindred and in 1882 he brought his family to Liberty Township. He and his sons built a house for his family. He spoke no English but at that time very little English was spoke n as it was a Norwegian settlement. Coming from timber country in Norway he loved to make things out of wood. Being a tailor at one time he made the fancy dress his wife wore for family pictures (picture in this book Transcriber’s note—no photo’s in my copy but what a treasure that photo must be. Johannes must have been a wonderful husband.). He was a versatile man and much loved by everyone. He turned over his homestead to his son Iver for farming the land and for caring for him and his wife in their old age. He died February 1, 1905 and his wife died July 3, 189-04. Funeral write-ups state there were over forty teams in the funeral procession for both parents.
THE HANS SHELVER FAMILY
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HANS the oldest son of Johannes and Thea, was killed by a train leaving three young children .. Mentz, Harold and Thea. Mentz never came to America. He was married and had a large family but there is no information on them. He was an old man when William Shelver and wife were in Norway and called on him. There is no record of Thea. Harold came to the United States and took a homestead near Devils Lake, North Dakota. Harold took the name of Huseby while in Norway. He was born in 1874 and died December 133, 1932 at Devils Lake.
Thea married Trygve Kleppen. (Transcriber’s note on Milton Shelver’s note: not sure of the spelling. Could be Trygre, but it looks like a ‘v.’)
THE PETER J. SHELVER FAMILY
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PETER J., 2nd son of Johannes and Thea was born February 11, 1858. He came to the United States and Dakota Territory in 1879. He staked a claim near Kindred, in the Red River Valley but someone jumped his claim while he was working in the woods at Eau Claire, WI, over the winter months. He went west and south of Kindred and took a homestead on section 34 in Liberty township, Ransom County. The Skjaelver name was now changed to Shelver. This was due to two additional letters in the Norwegian language .. AE and O: Transcriber’s note: Could that “O” be Ø or maybe Ö? He built a claim shanty on his homestead. He and h is neighbor Jacob Trangsrud had each a horse so together they farmed one day for one and the next day for the other man. In the fall both men went back to the woods and earned enough for each a horse plus necessary things for the farm. Peter bought two more quarters of land. In 1888 he married Lena Johnson and to them were born two sons, Julius and Helmer. His wife Lena died in 1892, and Julius’ uncle Jacob and wife took him and Helmer’s grandmother kept him. On June 6, 1894 Peter married Martha Gullickson Bordahl. She was born at Voss, Norway on April 6, 1872. To the couple were born ten children. They were Edwin, Jennie, Oscar, Iada, Helen, Florence, Edna, Maelon and the twins Mildred and Melvin.
Julius Arthur was born January 12, 1889, and died in the summer of 1908 from appendicitis. At that time the local doctors knew little about appendicitis.
Helmer Tobias was born August 7, 1890 and died October 16, 1959. he never married. He farmed his father’s farm for seventeen years after his folks retired and moved to Enderlin in 1920. he then bought his own farm, also in Liberty Township and lived there until cancer and Parkinson’s disease forced him to retire and be hospitalized until his death in 1959.
On June 6, 1894, Peter married Martha Gullickson Bordahl. She was born at Voss, Norway on April 6, 1872. To them were born 10 children.
Edwin Hartwig oldest son of Peter and Martha was born march 24, 1895. he was married to Selma Aasheim on June 5, 1917. She was born February 23, 1894. Ed worked in several banks, was Ransom County’s youngest County Treasurer, farmed and worked in fruit Packing Houses, and worked in an employee owned pulp mill. He died in Kirkland, Washington and was buried beside his wife who died July 2, 1957 at Vancouver, WA.
Jerome Everett was born ion his grandfather Aasheim’s farm near Nome, ND, on October 10, 1918. He lived in several towns in Florida before they moved West. He married Marie Howell.
James Richard was born and married Joanne Lessley.
Jennie Amanda was born February 1, 1897. She worked three years in Fargo, ND, and 48 years in the fur industry in Minneapolis, MN. She never married and is now retired and living in Moorhead, MN.
Oscar Thomas was born may 3, 1889. He married to Dorothy Campbell on June 21, 1933. They had no children. Oscar died July 11, 1971.
Iada Louise was born December 8, 1903, and is a graduate of St. John’s Hospital School of Nursing in 1926, Fargo, ND. She worked in Florida and Worland, Wyoming hospitals. She married Dr. Donald Harney Porter March 15, 1936. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska (DDS) in 1930. He practiced dentistry for 41 years in Worland, WY.
Alice Joyce was born. She married Dr. John Cecil Leadbeater.
John William was born. He married Carol Behm. She graduated from the University of Ohio in 1964 as a teacher. She passed away August 16, 1974 of Hodgkin’s disease.
Thomas Shelver was born. He is married to Jane Hefner.
Helen Luella was born. She married Andrew Swanson of Roslyn, SD on January 9, 1937. He was born at Tollarg, Sweden July 23, 1885. He passed away October 9, 1962 from a heart attack. She moved to Moorhead, MN and was employed at Concordia College for 13 years when she retired.
Florence Hazel was born February 28, 1907. She attended secretarial school in Denver, CO. She worked in FL< Fargo, Denver, and San Francisco, CA where she married William Nolan and was divorced. She later married Kenneth Cunningham February 6, 1947 at Toledo, OH. Florence contracted cancer and died January 13, 1969, in California. They had no children.
Edna Margaret was born September 4, 1908. She married Barney Landsem August 15, 1936. He died July 23, 1955. On November 4, 1957 she married Clifford Jackson of Ketchikan, AK. He retired and they moved to Brentwood, Canada where he passed away September 9, 1967.
Maelon Sophia was born. She married Levern Michael Schneider.
PETER SHELVER died December 28, 1933 and his wife Martha died November 1, 1960.
THE JACOB SHELVER FAMILY
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JACOB SHELVER (Transcriber’s Note: twin to Martin) was born at Grue, Norway August 7, 1860 and died March 15, 1925. he married Hulda Olson in 1883. He came to the United States in 1879 and worked in the woods at Eau Claire, WI until 1881 when he came to Ransom County, Liberty township. He staked a claim on section 34 and lived on the homestead until his death. He purchased two more quarters as he had sons to help farm the land. Jacob was connected with affairs in his township, school and church until his health failed. To the couple 13 children were born … Henry, Thorval, Louis, William, Minnie, Alma, Ruth, John, Philip, Glen, Ina and Nevelle, and Hilda.
CHILDREN
Dr. Henry Julius was born March 24, 1884 and died January 3, 1954. He practiced medicine at Ortonville and Appleton, MN for 30 years. He was married to Hannah Johnson of Appleton in 1913. To them was born one daughter, Mary, on May 26, 1920 Mary Jane on Jan. 26, 1920. She married Glenn Crane. She took up nursing at the Minnesota University and served overseas during the war years.
Thorval was born January 13, 1885 and died February 25, 1968. He took a homestead at Parshall, ND, farmed there and near Enderlin, did custom grain threshing for years. He bought his grandfather’s homestead and another quarter of land from his Uncle Iver. This land was willed to John and Ina, his sister and brother. He never married.
Louis Konrad was born on October 9, 1887 and died March 12, 1960. He was married December 1, 1915 to Agnes Hanson, who was born December 1, 1915 July 18, 1895. Louis farmed and was an active man in his community affairs. Died 11/6/77. Transcriber’s note: death date could belong to either Agnes or Louis; it is written between the two.
Robert was married to Jean Oldfield.
Raymond Howard was born and married Janet Werner.
Wallace Merle was born. He married Marion Kirmis.
Milton Victor was born. He married Elaine Jones. Milton owns and operates his Great-grandfather Hans Olson’s homestead. Hans Olson donated land for the St. Olaf Cemetery where 5 Shelver brothers and their wives and some of their children are buried.
William Jacob 4th son of Jacob Shelver was born November 28, 1889 and was married to Manga Johnson August 2, 1926. He passed away March 5, 1972.
William Henry was born and married Patricia Schmidt.
Elizabeth Ann was born.
William Jacob was a pharmacist and operated a drug store in Staples until retirement. He served in WWI.
Minnie Helene oldest daughter of Jacob Shelver was born June 28, 1892. She was married to Frans Anderson and had one stepdaughter. Minnie was a registered nurse. Her husband passed away in 1963 in November. She passed away August 16, 1975.
Alma Therese was born May 22, 1894 and married Ingwald Moe on June 26, 1924. Alma was a school teacher for many years. He passed away December 12, 1973.
Hilda Amelie was born May 5, 1896 and was married to Melvin Hove May 18, 1939. Hilda taught school for many years. They farmed until his health prohibited it, moved to Fargo where she worked at St. Luke’s Hospital until retirement. Melvin passed away June 14, 1953. They had no children.
Ruth Otilie was born February 17, 1898 and died during the influenza epidemic, June 8, 1919.
John Frederik was born March 4, 1900. He farmed his father’s farm, then purchased it from the estate. He retired in 1975. He was a very strong and ambitious man. He never married. Died in 1976.
Philip Ralph was born December 9, 1901 and married Dorothy May Wold July 18, 1934. He died suddenly from a heart attack at Enderlin in 1954 where he worked for Bjerke and Nygaard hardware. He worked ten years at Minot, ND.
Jack D. was born. He married Sandra Hayes.
Gaylord Alan was born and is married to Nancy Wynn.
Thomas Woodrow was born.
Glen David was born March 17, 1904 and married Annabelle Lea on November 27, 1929. He is a pharmacist and owned a drugstore in Dunseith until he retired not long ago. Transcriber’s note: Glen David Shelver passed away 1985.
Barry Lea was born and married Lynn Bedard.
David Glen was born and married Linda Klug.
Ina Evelyn was born December 13, 1906 and remained single. She cared for her parents on the farm and later kept house for her brothers Thorval and John.
Nevelle Bernhard was born March 9, 1909. He married Wilma Severson on November 9, 1940. Nevelle is a farmer.
Marilyn Kay was born and is married to Clarence Miller, Jr.
Arleene Marie was born and is married to Robert Knecht.
THE MARTIN SHELVER FAMILY
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MARTIN J. SHELVER (twin to Jacob) was born August 7, 1860 at Grue, Norway. He was married to Anna Odegaard. She was born October 15, 1865. he died October 26, 1927 and she died March 3, 1933. He came to Dakota Territory in 1878. He was the first of his brothers to take a homestead on section 34. He built a small house on h is land and when he bought another quarter, moved his house across the road onto his newly bought land. They had five children .. Agnes, Walter, Myrtle, Esther and Alice.
Agnes was born in 189c and was married to Anton Johnson. She passed away in 1972 in Washington state where they had lived.
Walter Rudolph was born on September 17, 1897 and died December 11, 1913 at Fargo.
Esther Therese was born July 17, 1899 and died March 31, 1906.
Myrtle
Esther (Terry) married to Walter Howard. They have three children.
Patricia married Robert Clopton. They have four children .. William, Susan, Thomas and Donald. Susan married Thomas Nelson. Thomas married Debra Zurney and they have one daughter, Laura Jean. Donald and William are single.
Michael Brucquer married Sandra Nealson. They have three children .. Kathy, Kristi and Neal.
Alice married Samuel Willard Cobb. He is deceased. They had no children,. She was a school teacher in North Dakota and in the state of Washington.
THE THORVAL J. SHELVER FAMILY
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THORVAL was born in Grue, Norway February 19, 1863. He worked two years in Oslo and stayed with his father’s cousin Oliane Sander Erickson before he came to the United States in 1880. He came to Ransom County and settled there until he took a homestead in Ramsey County in 1886. He farmed until he retired. His first wife was Anna Davidson. To them were born five children … Martha, Julia, David, Mabel and Joseph.
Martha was born July 12, 1888 and died January 1, 1925. She was married to Clarence Kray. She died leaving two children (twins) Lola and Lloyd. Her sisters Julia and Mabel reared the twins. One infant son died previously.
Julia was born on October 4, 1889. She married Arthur Omdahl. She had two sons, Russell deceased and Eldon and Lyle, Martha’s son. Her husband passed away and later she married Louis Leet. They lived in California.
David was born in 1892 and died June 10, 1909, age 17 years.
Mabel was born October 8, 1893 and married John W. Blume. They had two sons, Howard and Warren. Warren married and divorced and had two daughters, Barbara and Elizabeth and one son, Allen. Blumes had a bakery in Valley City, ND, until retirement.
Joseph was born in the summer of 1900. He married Helen Hein. They had one daughter. He was divorced, is retired and living in California.
THORVAL SHELVER remarried. His wife Thea was born in Norway February 25, 1882. They had one son, Theodore, born 1921. Theodore married and had three children .. Randy, David and Joan. Divorced twice and his third wife was killed in an auto accident. Remarried his first wife. They farmed his father’s farm near Devils Lake, ND.
THE IVER SHELVER FAMILY
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IVER J. SHELVER was born April 27, 1865 at Grue, Norway and came to Dakota Territory and to Kindred, ND. He came with his folks, and brother Nels when he was 15 years old. Moved with his folks and brother to Enderlin in 1881 on his father’s homestead. He married Hannah Christine Jahrland. She was born in 1866 and died November 22, 1890. to them were born two sons .. Joseph O.T. age one when he died in 1897 and Ivan Harley Truman age one year and twenty months when he died in 1899. Iver’s mother cared for him until he passed away.
IVER married his second wife Bertha Christianson in June 1906. She was born in Liberty township July 9, 1880. To them were born four children . Gladys, Clifford, Dorothy and Merlin.
Gladys was born in 1907 and was married to Maurice Aasheim. They have two sons, Lyle and Ralph. The Aasheims farmed in Iowa, now retired.
Lyle was born. He married Bonnie Haversten. To them were born six children .. Linda Jolene – Robert Leslie – Larry Dean – Ronald Lee – Lori Jean – and Lisa Dawn. Lyle and Bonnie were divorced. He married Pam Garret.
Ralph is a dentist in Denver, CO. He married Sandra Helman and they have three children .. Michael Scot – Shannon Paige and Patrick Black.
Clifford married Eleanor Ostlie. To them were born three daughters .. Beth Ann, Kay Marie and Arlowene Fay.
Beth Ann married Joe Duran. They have two children – David and Christian.
Kay Marie married Richard Klotz. They have two children .. Trevor Joseph and Stephanie Beth.
Arlowene Fay married Terrance Thomas. They have two children .. Andrew and Erin Leigh.
Clifford works for a big machine firm in billings, MT.
Dorothy the second daughter of Iver and Bertha was born in 1911 and passed away in the summer of 1916.
Merlin youngest son of Iver and Bertha Shelver has been married and divorced and they had nor children. He is a trucker in Minneapolis.
IVER and his wife were retired from farming. He died October 28, 1931 from cancer. She passed away September 21, 1963. Her father donated the land that the West St. Olaf church and horse barn were built on in the early late 1800’s.
THE NELS GRAN SHELVER FAMILY
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NELS GRAN youngest son of Johannes and Thea Shelver was born December 2, 1867 at Grue, Norway. He came to the Dakota Territory with his folks and brother Iver in 1880. He was 13 years old at this time. They came to his Uncle Jacob who lived near Kindred. He attended school at Decorah, Iowa, the Lutheran College there. Transcriber’s Note: The world is so small. My Mother taught math a Luther a century after Nils’ matriculation at Luther. He also worked on the farms until he purchased a farm in section 1 give miles north of Lisbon, ND, the county seat of Ransom County. He married Oline Amanda Anderson June 1, 1896. She was born May 16, 1876. To them were born nine children. They were … Ethel, Rubie, Norton, Lawrence, Roy, Ernest, Pearl, Lester, and Sidney.
Terese Ethel was born December 21, 1897. She and her sister Rubie kept the family intact when their mother died in 1917 leaving the youngest child but four years old. Ethel married Nimmie L. Severson on November 17, 1932. She is a widow now and living in Enderlin, ND.
Rubie Selma was born January 7, 1899. She married Wayne Webster on October 6, 1928. They farmed his folks’ farm and moved to Denver, CO due to his asthma condition. They moved back to Lisbon, ND where she passed away. Their children were Shirley, Lorna, Ethel, Joyce and Vernon.
Shirley Lorraine was born. She married Willard Maire. Their children are .. Michael Wayne – Janell Lorraine – Gayle Marie and a son David.
Vernon Wayne was born June 20, 1941 and died February 12, 1942.
Lorna Maybelle married Donald Col. They have four children .. 1) Steven who is married to Patricia Sullivan .. they have one daughter. 2) Jerry Ross. 3) Linda Joyce married Richard Davis. 4) Pamela Jo.
Ethel Joan married Ronald Coven. Their children are .. Stacy Jo – Julie Rinae and Alene Marie (Transcriber: Arlene? Marie).
Joyce Arlene was born and married Richard Heuther. Their children are Richard Scott – Timothy Lee – Cindy Kay and Dana William.
Norton Jeffrey oldest son of Nels Shelver was born February 15, 1900. He married Lorna Aasheim June 24, 1935. Their children were Sidney and Paul.
Sidney Kenneth is married and has one son, Steven.
Paul Randolph was born.
Norton farmed his father’s farm after his father’s death in 1925. He later farmed another farm. He and his family moved to Washington. He was in the Fern business with his brother Lester. He is now retired and living in Concrete, WA.
Chester Lawrence was born May 7,1902 and married Mildred Brennan December 1, 1931. Their children were Patricia, Donald, Norma, and Carol, and Cheryl.
Patricia Joy is married.
Donald Le Roy drowned when small.
Norma Irene is married to a Hall.
Carol Ann and married William Rinio. Their children are Catherine Louise – Kristy – Jennifer and Thomas Mathew.
Cheryl, daughter of Lawrence is married and has a son Eric.
Lawrence farmed, worked in a Creamery in ND and moved to Aberdeen, SD where he worked for monument business. He passed away in South Dakota July 3, 1970.
Roy Fremont was born November 6, 1903 and married Hilda Severson. She was born on November 2, 1929. They had one daughter Myrna Lavaune. She is married to Robert Heppe. They have three children .. David, Lynne and Christopher. Roy farmed and did moving and remodeling of houses in Auburn, W’n. Now retired.
Ernest Clifford was born February 8, 1906 and married Betty Jackson. They had a daughter named Arlene. He is deceased. He was a retired navy man.
Sidney Elton was born may 20, 1909 and was married to Mildred Moberg. They had one son Steven who is married to Ellen Lundquist. Sidney was a teacher and superintendent of schools at Bloomington, MN from where he retired. They moved to Arizona.
Pearl Luella was born April 6, 1911 and passed away June 19, 1911.
Lester Gordon married Nancy Fosmark. They had one son Lawrence Gordon. He married Artha Peterson. Lester was in the Fern business in Washington. He passed away in December 1975.
NELS SHELVER died January 13, 1925 and his wife Oline died March 30, 1917.
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