Dear Listers! Can someone with access to online newspaper files please help me locate these obituaries from Nebraska: * Charles C. BERCK, born Jan. 11, 1866, died July 22, 1925 - either on his farm in Cleveland township, Howard Co., NE or at Hastings, Adams Co., NE * Susan C. BERCK, born Dec. 8, 1866, died Oct. 5, 1941 - either at Dannebrog, Howard Co., NE or at Hastings, Adams Co., NE. Susan's mother Anna Marie Ludvigsdotter Elvethun (1831-1874) emigrated from Hafslo parish, Luster Co., Norway in 1856! Thanks a million in advance for your great assistance in this matter! Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane

I don't have the obituaries, but Charles C. Berck was my great grandmother's brother so I do have information on him. He was born Johann Conrad Carl Berck in Erzhausen, Hesse Darmstadt/Germany, 11 Jan 1866, during a three-year time when his parents Johannes "John" Berck and Catharina Elizabeth Seibold returned to Germany. He was the only one of their children to be born in Germany, though he was the 6th of 10. John and Elizabeth were from Erzhausen but had gone to the U.S. separately in the 1850's and married there, in Chicago in 1855. They returned to Germany at the request of John's mother about 1864 or 1865 and Charles was born while they were there. They returned to the U.S. when Charles was a baby and lived in Grand Rapids, La Salle Co., Illinois until 1881 when they moved to Howard County. Charles and Susan Hunt married in Chicago 22 July 1890 In 1910 they must have been living in Hardy, Nebraska (Nuckolls County) because their daughter Gladys was born there - here is her obituary. and they moved to Dannebrog in about 1913. It also gives Charles and Susan's children's names - five boys and two girls, all deceased before 1999. Area deaths Gladys Jensen LOUP CITY- Gladys M. Jensen, 88, of Loup City, formerly of Dannebrog, died Thursday, Dec. 2, 1999 at the Rose Lane Nursing Home in Loup City. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the First Baptist Church at Dannebrog in the family center. The Rev. Rob Pearson will officiate. Burial will be in the Oakridge Cemetery at Dannebrog. Visitation will be from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the church. Memorials are suggested to the Gideon Bible Society or the church. Jacobsen Funeral Home in St. Paul is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Jensen born Dec. 16, 1910, at Hardy to Charles and Susan (Hunt) Berck. At the age of three her family moved to Dannebrog, where she attended school and graduated from high school. She attended beautician school in Omaha. She returned to Dannebrog and worked as a beautician. She married Frode Jensen Nov. 10, 1933 at Dannebrog, where the couple lived. They traveled and stayed in various places throughout the state while Mr. Jensen worked in bridge construction. Mr. Jensen died March 31, 1975. In 1989, Mrs. Jensen moved to the Lakeview Nursing Home in Grand Island. In October of 1993 she moved to the Rose Lane Nursing Home in Loup City. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Dannebrog. She is survived by one daughter, Sharon (Mrs. Warren) McMullen of Shoreview, Minn., one son, Stanley of Dannebrog, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Other than her husband, Mrs. Jensen was preceded in death by five brothers, Arthur, Charles, Burdett, Lloyd and Clyde and one sister, Pearl Good. Grand Island Independent - obituary I have written to a lady who has helped me in the past with obituaries in Howard County and if she comes up with anything I will pass it along. Let me know how much information you want on the family. I do have a little about their children. It isn't a branch I've done a lot of research on, but I'll be happy to send what I have. Lenise On Mar 28, 2015, at 11:46 PM, Lars E. Oyane via wrote: > Dear Listers! > > Can someone with access to online newspaper files please help me locate these obituaries from Nebraska: > > * Charles C. BERCK, born Jan. 11, 1866, died July 22, 1925 - either on his farm in Cleveland township, Howard Co., NE or at Hastings, Adams Co., NE > > * Susan C. BERCK, born Dec. 8, 1866, died Oct. 5, 1941 - either at Dannebrog, Howard Co., NE or at Hastings, Adams Co., NE. > > Susan's mother Anna Marie Ludvigsdotter Elvethun (1831-1874) emigrated from Hafslo parish, Luster Co., Norway in 1856! > > Thanks a million in advance for your great assistance in this matter! > > Very sincerely yours, > > Lars E. Oyane > > > > > Norwaylist Archiveshttp://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=norway > > RESUBSCRIBE UNSUB > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NOR/NORWAY.html > > guidelines http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/guidelines.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Lenise and other Listers! Thank you very very much, Lenise, for your wonderful message about the Berck family! Charles Berck's birth has indeed been a rather "confusing" topic, various census records gives his birth in Darmstadt/Hessen, Germany with emigration year 1867, on the Atlantic ocean or even in Illinois, so I didn't quite know what to believe! Thank you, Lenise, for clearing this up for me! My interest in this family comes thru Susan (Karen Susanna) Berck, nee Hunt, whose mother Anna Marie "Mary" Ludwigson Hunt emigrated from Luster Co., Norway in 1856. In my biography work I try to give a more-or-less complete description of all emigrants as well as of their children, the first generation born in the US, including spouses. Tracing all descendants of all 6,500 emigrants from Luster Co., Norway would mean tracing more than 300,000 individuals in the US (and other places), and that's a task I would never be able to complete, but for our County files I also include information about later generations, so you are welcome to send me what you have, maybe off-list to lars.e.oyane@sdsl.no? Thanks again, Lenise, for writing. Gladys Jensen's obituary gives a good view of the family life after 1910, but I would still love to see Charles and Susan's obituaries, so if you can manage to obtain those, I would be very grateful! Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mar 30, 2015, at 6:48 PM, Lenise Cook via wrote: > I don't have the obituaries, but Charles C. Berck was my great grandmother's brother so I do have information on him. > > He was born Johann Conrad Carl Berck in Erzhausen, Hesse Darmstadt/Germany, 11 Jan 1866, during a three-year time when his parents Johannes "John" Berck and Catharina Elizabeth Seibold returned to Germany. He was the only one of their children to be born in Germany, though he was the 6th of 10. John and Elizabeth were from Erzhausen but had gone to the U.S. separately in the 1850's and married there, in Chicago in 1855. They returned to Germany at the request of John's mother about 1864 or 1865 and Charles was born while they were there. They returned to the U.S. when Charles was a baby and lived in Grand Rapids, La Salle Co., Illinois until 1881 when they moved to Howard County. > > > Charles and Susan Hunt married in Chicago 22 July 1890 > > > In 1910 they must have been living in Hardy, Nebraska (Nuckolls County) because their daughter Gladys was born there - here is her obituary. and they moved to Dannebrog in about 1913. It also gives Charles and Susan's children's names - five boys and two girls, all deceased before 1999. > > Area deaths Gladys Jensen LOUP CITY- Gladys M. Jensen, 88, of Loup City, formerly of Dannebrog, died Thursday, Dec. 2, 1999 at the Rose Lane Nursing Home in Loup City. > Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the First Baptist Church at Dannebrog in the family center. The Rev. Rob Pearson will officiate. Burial will be in the Oakridge Cemetery at Dannebrog. Visitation will be from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday at the church. > Memorials are suggested to the Gideon Bible Society or the church. > Jacobsen Funeral Home in St. Paul is in charge of arrangements. > Mrs. Jensen born Dec. 16, 1910, at Hardy to Charles and Susan (Hunt) Berck. At the age of three her family moved to Dannebrog, where she attended school and graduated from high school. > She attended beautician school in Omaha. She returned to Dannebrog and worked as a beautician. > She married Frode Jensen Nov. 10, 1933 at Dannebrog, where the couple lived. They traveled and stayed in various places throughout the state while Mr. Jensen worked in bridge construction. > Mr. Jensen died March 31, 1975. > In 1989, Mrs. Jensen moved to the Lakeview Nursing Home in Grand Island. In October of 1993 she moved to the Rose Lane Nursing Home in Loup City. > She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Dannebrog. > She is survived by one daughter, Sharon (Mrs. Warren) McMullen of Shoreview, Minn., one son, Stanley of Dannebrog, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. > Other than her husband, Mrs. Jensen was preceded in death by five brothers, Arthur, Charles, Burdett, Lloyd and Clyde and one sister, Pearl Good. > Grand Island Independent - obituary > > > I have written to a lady who has helped me in the past with obituaries in Howard County and if she comes up with anything I will pass it along. > > Let me know how much information you want on the family. I do have a little about their children. It isn't a branch I've done a lot of research on, but I'll be happy to send what I have. > > Lenise > > > On Mar 28, 2015, at 11:46 PM, Lars E. Oyane via wrote: > >> Dear Listers! >> >> Can someone with access to online newspaper files please help me locate these obituaries from Nebraska: >> >> * Charles C. BERCK, born Jan. 11, 1866, died July 22, 1925 - either on his farm in Cleveland township, Howard Co., NE or at Hastings, Adams Co., NE >> >> * Susan C. BERCK, born Dec. 8, 1866, died Oct. 5, 1941 - either at Dannebrog, Howard Co., NE or at Hastings, Adams Co., NE. >> >> Susan's mother Anna Marie Ludvigsdotter Elvethun (1831-1874) emigrated from Hafslo parish, Luster Co., Norway in 1856! >> >> Thanks a million in advance for your great assistance in this matter! >> >> Very sincerely yours, >> >> Lars E. Oyane