Hulda (Torgerson) Skjefte (1891 - 1981)

Born 7 Mar 1891 in Freeman Township, Freeborn, Minnesota, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Andrew Skjefte — married 24 Oct 1910 in Dunn County, North Dakota

Descendants

Died 13 May 1981 at age 90 in Mayville, Traill, North Dakota, United States

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Biography

Hulda Torgerson was born March 7, 1891 at Albert Lea, Minnesota; daughter of Hans and Christine Torgerson.^[1]

Andrew and Hulda were married in the sod house of Hulda's parents - Hans and Christine Torgerson. She had moved to Taylor, Stark County, North Dakota to join the men on her family. Hulda and Andrew met there in 1908. Andrew built a sod house there and two years later in 1910 they were married. Rev. J. Larson from Taylor, North Dakota officiated. In 1911 there was a severe wind storm that took the roof off the sod house and tore through the house boards; nobody was hurt. Sometime later they purchased his neighbors farm, Tonnes Likness, and they moved there the spring of 1912.^[2] There they lived until some time during the latter part of the 1930's during the dust bowl, when crops couldn't be grown in western North Dakota. The couple had 4 living daughters and 3 sons; all born on their farmstead near Dunn Center, in rural Clay Butte, Dunn County, North Dakota. Their children were:

1. Gladys Alvina, born May 7, 1911
2. Arnold Helman, born March 1, 1913
3. Clarice Hilda, born December 24, 1914 and died young
4. Christine, born June 16, 1916 and died young on June 1916.
5. Hazel Luella, b. June 1, 1917
6. Ina was born May 22, 1919
7. Violet was born in 1921 and died young
8. Viola Eleanor, born July 14, 1924
9. Evelene was born in 1926 and died in 1926. died young
10. living, name withheld
11. Merlin Norman, born May 24, 1930. He died in September 1953 at Minto, Walsh County, North Dakota in a car crash accident.
12. Milton Eugene "Micky;" born January 29, 1933 and died November 28, 2008 at Bagley, Clearwater, Minnesota. He lived near Zerkel, Clearwater, Minnesota.

During the dust bowl of the 1930's the family moved to Blabon, North Dakota where the farm land wasn't quite as dry. Later Hulda, Andrew along with Ina, Viola, their youngest daughter (who is still living so her name is with held,) Merlin, and Milton moved to a farm a few miles south of Bagley, Clearwater, Minnesota; near Zerkel, Clearwater, Minnesota. In their elder years they moved to Portland, Steele, North Dakota.^[3]

Hulda died May 13, 1981 at Mayville, North Dakota. Funeral service was Saturday, May 16, 1981 at 2:00 p.m., Bang Lutheran Church; Pastor Terry Cosier, officiating. Music was Mrs. Orien Klath, organist; Mrs. Bennie Lee, soloist. Pall Bearers were Sandford Strand, Melvin Johnson, Arlan Wisted, Martin Thorstad, Alfred Antonson, Kenneth Wendlick. Ushers: Conrad Kensrud and Oscar Knudson. Hulda was buried at Rice Cemetery, Zerkel,^[4] Clearwater, Minnesota.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} in the files of [[Aldrich-908|Cheryl Skordahl
2. ↑ "North Dakota Census, 1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVR9-WDG9 : 17 March 2018), Hilda Skjefte in household of Andrew Skjefte, Dunn, North Dakota, United States; citing family number 13, line number 55, State Historical Society of North Dakota; FHL microfilm 1,731,414.
3. ↑ Knowledge of Cheryl Skordahl
4. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKL-YJD5 : accessed 9 June 2016), Hulda Skjefte, 1981; Burial, Zerkel, Clearwater, Minnesota, United States of America, Rice Free Lutheran Cemetery; citing record ID 50218069, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKL-YJD5 : accessed 9 June 2016), Hulda Skjefte, 1981; Burial, Zerkel, Clearwater, Minnesota, United States of America, Rice Free Lutheran Cemetery; citing record ID 50218069, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• "North Dakota Census, 1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVR9-WDG9 : accessed 14 June 2016), Hilda Skjefte in household of Andrew Skjefte, Dunn, North Dakota, United States; citing family number 13, line number 55, State Historical Society of North Dakota; FHL microfilm 1,731,414.
• "North Dakota Census, 1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVRM-T4JQ : accessed 14 June 2016), Hulda Skjefte in household of Andrew Skjefte, Clay Butte, Dunn, North Dakota, United States; citing sheet number 2, family number 7, State Historical Society of North Dakota; FHL microfilm 1,731,397.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM9R-NQ1 : accessed 14 June 2016), Hulda Skjefte in household of Andrew Skjefte, Sherbrooke Township, Steele, North Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 46-22, sheet 1B, family 16, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 3014.
• Obituary in the files of Cheryl Skordahl The obituary contains only facts, no biography.
• Knowledge of Cheryl Skordahl