-------- Original Message -------- Subject: PML Search Result matching Lutheran ANDNOT LUTHERAN-ROOTS Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 04:21:54 -0800 From: Pat Hampton <hamptdr@earthlink.net> To: mdtaffet@mailbox.syr.edu ============================================================ A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ ============================================================ Source: GC- Watonwan Co. Mn Obituaries URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/WatonwanObits?read=3 Subject: Truls Ulvestad Obituary Surname: Ulvestad ------------------------- 05 May 1916---TRULS OLSON ULVESTAD AND MR. JAMES M. TRAVIS HAVE ENDED LIFE'S JOURNEY Last Friday evening the spirit of Mr. Truls Olson Ulvestad, one of the oldest and best known citizens of Watonwan county took its flight, as the result of an attack of pneumonia from which he had suffered only a few days. [snip] Deceased was born in Sogn, Norway, May 2, 1840, and came to America in 1850, settling in Dane county, Wisconsin. The family moved to Fillmore county, Minnesota in 1863, and on Feb 3rd, 1867 he was united in marriage to Miss Unni C. Hagen. In 1870 Mr. and Mrs. Ulvestad moved onto a farm in Rosendale township, this county, where they lived for 29 years. The moved to Madelia village in 1899. They were the parents of four boys and one girl, but only two of the children, Ole A. Ulvestad of Butterfield and Mrs. Anna D. Ellertson of Rosendale, are left with their mother to mourn his loss. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. L. P. Thorkveen of St. James and Rev. A. A. Reece of Madelia, at the West Lutheran church and at the Rosendale church. Interment was in the Rosendale cemetery. Those from out of town who attended the funeral are: Mrs. Gertrude Mondale of Minneapolis, Peter Ulvestad and Miss Martha Ulvestad of Whalen, Minn., Mr. Benjamin Campbell of Utica, Minn., Dr. Geo. Ulvestad of Chicago, Reuben Ulvestad of Minneapolis and Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Thompson of Fort Dodge, Iowa.