Mathea "Mattie" Jensdatter Kleven

1848 https://www.digitalarkivet.no/view/255/pd00000037871681

the daughter of Jens Fredriksen Johnsgard (1813) and Ronnaug Jørgensdtr (1816). Mathia emmigrated to WI and married Ole J Kleven (1848) in Menomonie, WI . Ole was a husmann on the Johnsgard farm. 

Birth: Oct. 28, 1849 Oppland fylke, Norway Death: Jun. 20, 1935 Dunn County Wisconsin, USA

Born in the Gudbrandsdalen Valley, Oppland, Norway, she came to America in 1873. In September, 1874, she married Ole Kleven in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Eight children. John, Adolph (first), Reinhardt (first),Anna M., Rosa J., Reinhardt (second), Jerry, and Adolph (second). John, now a substantial farmer in Eau Claire County, married Andreana Screeden, but has no children. Adolph, the first of that name, died at the age of five years, and Reinhart (first), at that of two and a half. Anna M., who is Mrs. Ole Torgerson of the town of Peru, is the mother of five children, Charlotte, Raymond, Arnold, Truman and Julia. Rosa J., wife of Orrin Hanson of the town of Colfax, has four children, Leroy, Margaret, Norma and Omar. Reinhardt (second), now a farmer in Eau Claire County, married Laura Leer and has three children, Maxine, Omar and Elizabeth. Jerry manager of the farmers Store at Rusk, married May Hart and has two children, Loraine and Jerome. Adolph ( second), proprietor of the old home farm of 200 acres in Section 21 and 22, town of Peru, and a prominent citizen of this town, married Luella Myre and has four children, Alice, Obert, Marion and Lyman, the two latter being twins. The Kleven family has always stood high in the community and the younger generation are showing the effects of the good training they received from their parents. Source. History of Dunn County published in 1925.Pages 912-913.

Find a Grave Mathia “Mattie/Martha” Johnsgaard Kleven BIRTH 28 Oct 1849 Oppland fylke, Norway DEATH 20 Jun 1935 (aged 85) Dunn County, Wisconsin, USA BURIAL Rock Creek Cemetery Meridean, Dunn County, Wisconsin, USA MEMORIAL ID 94648046 Children
Adolph Randall Kleven 1876–1881

John J Kleven 1876–1954

Melvin Kleven 1879–1881

Reinhart Kleven 1879–1881

Anna Mathilda Kleven Torgerson 1880–1942

Adolph P Kleven 1883–1966

Reinerth Melvin Kleven 1888–1957

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