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Tinus Olsen
Bertha "Kaja" Chatherine Qvale Bakken Graduate of Carleton College Northfield, Rice, Minnesota Teacher in a public school [1930] Eaton, Weld, Colorado High school teacher Buffalo, Johnson, Wyoming La Grande, Union, Oregon |
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| Notes: | At the time of the June 4, 1900 U.S. census, Thelma was 4 months old and living in Dovre, Kandiyohi, Minnesota |
| with her parents, her 6-year-old half-brother Christian, Inger Hendrickson, a 58-year-old single woman servant from Sweden, and
Orville Quale, a 12-year-old laborer from Wisconsin (could be a cousin on her mother's side).
Her father was working as a farmer.
At the time of the June 18, 1905 Minnesota state census, Thelma E. was 5 years old and living at Bird Island, Renville, Minnesota with her parents, 11-year-old half-brother Christian, and two younger brothers in Dovre, Kandiyohi, Minnesota. Father Tinus was working as a farmer and her half-brother Christian was working as a laborer. At the time of the April 18, 1910 U.S. federal census, Thelma was 10 years old and living with her parents, two younger brothers Victor and Adolph, and roomers James and Matilda Baker, a couple in their 20s (he worked as a lawyer in general practice and she as an operator at the telephone company). Her father was working as a restaurant keeper in a restaurant. Her parents had been married 11 years. Thelma was attending school but her younger brothers weren't. At the time of the 1920 U.S. Census, Thelma was 19 years old and living with her now twice-widowed mother and three siblings in Northfield, Rice, Minnesota. Her 17-year-old brother Victor was working as a laborer on a farm. Thelma also was listed in the 1920 Northfield, Minnesota census on page 8B, Fam. No. 213, Enumeration District 126. At the time of the Apr. 14, 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Thelma was 30 years old and living in District 35 of Eaton, Weld, Colorado as a lodger with the John and Lulu Teague family along with three other single women who were working as either a secretary or teachers in the public schools. Thelma was one of the women working as a teacher. The Teagues owned their own home, valued at $6,500, and had a radio. In April 1942 when she was 42 years old, Thelma was living in Buffalo, Johnson, Wyoming. She was living in La Grande, Union, Oregon in 1949. Thelma died Aug. 12, 1968 in Breckenridge, Wilkin, Minnesota at the age of 68. |
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