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Martin Gunderson (1894 - 1974)

Martin Gunderson
Born in Calderwood, Ontonagon, Michigan, United Statesmap
Son of and
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , [private son (1920s - unknown)] and [private daughter (1930s - unknown)]
Died at age 80 in Big Bay, Marquette, Michigan, United Statesmap
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Early Life

The son of August Gundersen and Inga (Halvorsen) Gunderson, both Norwegian immigrants. Martin was born in Barago, Michigan in 1894; his father was a "woodsman."[1][2] Martin was the oldest child in a large family that included a set of twins and a set of triplets:

  1. Albert (1897-1969)
  2. Elsie (1899-)
  3. Theodore (1904-1930)
  4. Margaret (1907-)
  5. Adolph (1907-1936)
  6. Harold (1909-)
  7. Ida Mary (1909-1967)
  8. Edward (1909-1947)
  9. Alvin (1913-1999)

Military Service

Martin registered for the draft when he was 23, in 1917.[3] His draft card described him as a man of medium height and build, with brown hair and light blue eyes. He was accepted into the United States Army as a Private First Class in the 55th Infantry, stationed at Fort McArthur, Texas.[4] There is no evidence that he served overseas in World War I; he was discharged on May 10, 1918. Martin also registered in 1942 for the World War II draft, but he did not serve.

Marriage, Family and Work

After his service, Martin returned to Onontagon County and took work, along with his younger brother, Albert, at a logging camp. They worked for Gauthier's Company, and lived at the camp.[5] Later that year, Martin married Alvina (McMeeken) Gundersen in Trout Creek, Michigan on November 10, 1920.[6] They began their family and made their home in Powell, in Marquette County, Michigan, where Martin continued to work as a sawyer at the lumber mill.[7] Theirs was a large household: four of his brothers lived with the family, three of them also working at the lumber yard; his divorced sister lived with the family, along with her four young children; and Alvina and Martin had four young sons of their own in 1940, all under the age of ten.[8]

  1. Merlin M. (1929-1997)
  2. Calvin Leroy (1923-1962)
  3. Leland Richard (1927-2007)
  4. Lyle (1929-)
  5. Caroline (1939)

Martin and Alvina divorced in the late 1930s, although no record of the divorce is found. Martin married again, marrying Pearl Elizabeth Barclay (1905-2003), a hotel keeper in Big Bay, in Marquette, Michigan on August 10, 1939. He was 44 and she was 34, but she had been married three times before.[9] She was first married to Joseph Wasser, marrying in Chicago in 1920; she next married Arno Dorow, marrying in Marquette, Michigan in 1926; she married Henry John Johnson in 1929, also in Marquette. Martin and Pearl lived in Marquette, where Martin was head sawyer at a lumber company there.[10]

Death and Burial

Martin passed away at the age of 80 in Bloomfield, Michigan in 1974, having last resided in Powell.[11][12] He and Pearl are buried at Big Bay Cemetery in Big Bay, Michigan.[13]

Sources

  1. ↑ United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. Year: 1900; Census Place: Ontonagon, Ontonagon, Michigan; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 0155: Carp Lake Township, Ontonagon Township excluding Ontonagon Village; FHL microfilm: 1240737. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Ancestry Record 7602 #25333085 with attached Image
  2. ↑ Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Year: 1910; Census Place: Carp Lake, Ontonagon, Michigan; Roll: T624_667; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0229; FHL microfilm: 1374680. Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Ancestry Record 7884 #198241511 with attached Image
  3. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6XJ-QNH : 24 August 2019), Martin Gunderson, 1917-1918.
  4. ↑ "Michigan, Census of World War I Veterans with Card Index, 1917-1919," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPR7-HF35 : 8 September 2019), Martin Gunderson, Texas, United States; citing Military Service, Texas, United States, Michigan Department of State, Lansing; FHL microfilm 008434785.
  5. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZQ1-ZR6 : accessed 8 July 2020), Martin Gundersen in household of Arche Lackie, Ontonagon, Ontonagon, Michigan, United States; citing ED 291, sheet 6B, line 77, family 64, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 791; FHL microfilm 1,820,791.
  6. ↑ "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N3BR-RGG : 2 April 2020), Martin Gunderson and Alvina Mc Meeken, 10 Nov 1920; citing Marriage, Trout Creek, Ontonagon, Michigan, , Citing Secretary of State, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 4032439.
  7. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQ17-1FR : accessed 8 July 2020), Martin Gunderson, Powell, Marquette, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 33, sheet 9B, line 54, family 93, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1010; FHL microfilm 2,340,745.
  8. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQ17-1FT : accessed 8 July 2020), Elvina Gunderson in household of Martin Gunderson, Powell, Marquette, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 33, sheet 9B, line 55, family 93, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1010; FHL microfilm 2,340,745.
  9. ↑ Michigan Department of Community Health, Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics; Lansing, MI, USA; Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952; Film: 145; Film Title: 52 Marquette 2251-5569; Film Description: Marquette (1932-1940). Ancestry.com. Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Ancestry Record 9093 #1914434 with attached Image
  10. ↑ United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. Year: 1940; Census Place: Powell, Marquette, Michigan; Roll: m-t0627-01787; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 52-43:POWELL TOWNSHIP, BIG BAY, BIG BAY HOSPITAL, HURON ISLANDS. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Ancestry Record 2442 #83405136 with attached Image
  11. ↑ "Michigan Death Index, 1971-1996," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ18-V3N : 4 December 2014), Martin Gunderson, 18 May 1974; from "Michigan, Deaths, 1971-1996," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 1998); citing Bloomfield, Oakland, Michigan, death certificate number 30384, Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records, Lansing.
  12. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VMXJ-YZF : 4 July 2020), Martin Gunderson, May 1974; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
  13. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKQ-1FK3 : 29 May 2020), Martin Gunderson, 1974; Burial. Find A Grave: Memorial #34953069

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Harold Gunderson, Martin's sibling, was born and also died in 1906. It appears there were 2 sets of twins in the family. Alvin, Martin's sibling, was born May 30, 1912. I know this because she died following childbirth on May 31, 1912.

Martin's military service included 18 Aug 1918 to 18 June 1919 outside the U.S. according to his Discharge dated 26 June 1919. Martin was divorced from Alvina in 1932 so Caroline is not his daughter. I am Martin and Pearl's daughter and I have documents to prove all of the above.

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