Eleanor/Ellenore was born 28 November 1892 in Escanaba, Delta, Michigan. She is the daughter of Carl Albert Nelson and Charlotta Maria Foschman. She was baptized 8 January 1893 at the Bethany Lutheran Church. [1][2][3]
Eleanor married Harvey Andrew Ostrand on 19 January 1916 in Ashtabula, Ohio. [2]
Harvey and Eleanor were living in Chicago at the time of Robert's birth in 1919. She was 25.
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By the time of the 1930 census, the family was in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.
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Eleanor died young from cancer, possibly at age 37.
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Sources
↑Baptism:
"U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Swedish American Church Records, 1800-1947"
Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Elk Grove Village, IL, USA; Swedish American Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, and Burials; Parish: Bethany Lutheran Church; ELCA Film Number: A226, 227; SSIRC Film Number: A226 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 61584 #30070489 (accessed 22 April 2022)
Eleonora Nelson baptism on 8 Jan 1893 (born 28 Nov 1892), daughter of Carl Albert & Charlotta Maria.
↑ 2.02.1Marriage:
"Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774-1993" Ancestry Record 61378 #903621064 (accessed 22 April 2022)
Ellenore Nelson (22) marriage to Harvey Andrew Ostram on 19 Jan 1916 in Ashtabula, Ohio, USA.
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"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ38-K6R : accessed 12 July 2019), Ellenore Strand in household of Harvey Strand, Chicago Ward 8, Cook (Chicago), Illinois, United States; citing ED 523, sheet 12A, line 3, family 355, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 318; FHL microfilm 1,820,318.
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"Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7SC-D9S : 18 May 2016), Eleanor Nelson in entry for Robert Ostrand, 09 Jul 1919; Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, reference/certificate 21388, Cook County Clerk, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,308,889.
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"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ38-K6R : accessed 12 July 2019), Ellenore Strand in household of Harvey Strand, Chicago Ward 8, Cook (Chicago), Illinois, United States; citing ED 523, sheet 12A, line 3, family 355, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 318; FHL microfilm 1,820,318.
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"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9QW-CJM : accessed 12 July 2019), Ellenore Ostrand in household of Harvey Ostrand, Sturgeon Bay, Door, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 16, sheet 7A, line 4, family 163, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2569; FHL microfilm 2,342,303.
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