Turi Larson Nelson, 1839-1916

NELSON, LARSON

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 2/28/2009 at 09:22:47

PIONEER LADY AT REST
MRS. LARS NELSON DIES FRIDAY, JULY TWENTY-EIGHTH [1916]
WAS LIVING IN WASHINGTON
Aged Lady Resident of Emmet County Fifty-five Years
Funeral in Church at Wallingford Last Wednesday

Miss Turi Larson [maiden name] was born in Aal, Hallingdal, Norway, May 12, 1839. [Her parents were Lars Peterson Turkarstad and Anne Torchilsdatter, both of Aal.] From Aal parish she came to Spring Prairie, Wis., in 1857. The following year (1858) she was married to Lars Nelson Brujeld, a prosperous pioneer farmer of Spring Prairie. In 1861 they came to Emmet county, Iowa, and located on the farm southeast of Estherville near the Des Moines river, where they lived until Mr. Nelson died, Jan. 10, 1907. Since then Mrs. Nelson has lived with her children, part of the time on the old homestead, part of the time in North Dakota and the last years in Washington [state], where she passed away Friday, July 28, last, aged 77 years, 2 months and 16 days.

Funeral services took place Friday, August 4th from the home of L. L. Nelson and the Lutheran church, of which she was a member. She leaves three sons, Nels of North Dakota, Lars and William of Wallingford and three daughters, Soneva of North Dakota, Bertha of Washington and Thea of Estherville, with a number of grandchildren to mourn the loss of a mother and grandmother. A daughter, Anna, having passed away. [Her parents preceded her in death as did her brother, Peter Larson of Wallingford who died of burns in 1906].

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa; August 9, 1916.