Monday, December 04, 2006

Research Log - Obit for Regina LERFALD

Heard back from Dave, a RAOGK volunteer for Eau Claire Co., Wisconsin. He could not find an obit for Regina LERFALD, but did find a death record and sent me a transcription in an Excel file:

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Wisconsin Death Record

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(not official or legal,

for genealogy purposes only)

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Name

Regina Lerfold

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Maiden Name


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Sex, Race, Status

F, W, widow

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Date & Place of Birth

April 2, 1860 Norway

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Date & Place of Death

Dec 23, 1943 Eau Claire, WI

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Address

Woodville, WI

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Age & Occupation

Age 83 yrs, 8 mns, 20 dys

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Spouse

Peter Lerfold

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SS#


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Informant & address

Mrs. Anna Nelson, Eau Claire, WI

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Parents & Birthplace


unknown - NORWAY

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Cause of Death

unknown chronic disease, 4-6 months duration

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Hospital or Doctor

Sacred Heart Hospital, J. W. Lowe, MD

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Burial

Woodville, WI

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Funeral Director

Lenmark & Sons, Eau Claire, WI

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Source

Eau Claire County Death, Vol 40 Page 529

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Miscellaneous

Had been in USA for 75 years

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Regina was Norm's great-great-grandmother, and she married her first cousin, Peder Johnsen LERFALD. Family records indicate she came to the U.S. in 1874, not 1868, as her death record infers. Peder immigrated in 1866, according to family records. I have not been able to find them in Ancestry's Immigration Collection. But Norwegian names can be complicated. They may have used a different last name, depending on the last farm their fathers worked before immigration. Or they may have used patronyms. Johnsen and Olasen/Olsen would be Peder and Regina's respective patronyms, and both are extremely common names.

The Anna Nelson referred to in the death record was their middle daughter. Norm's great-grandmother, Rena, was their youngest daughter and youngest surviving child. It appears that Anna cared for her mother after Peder's death.

My next plan is to have an obit search in the Woodville papers.

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