FOSHOLDT, Thorvald Syversen 1882-1951

FOSHOLDT

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 9/30/2009 at 10:58:39

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OSAGE, IOWA — Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. at the Champion funeral home here and 3 at the Rock Creek church near Meroa for Thorvald Fosholdt, 69, who died Sunday in Mercy hospital at Mason City; was born in Rockwell township, Floyd county, on a farm near Rudd.

His life's occupation was farming. For the last two years he had been ill of a heart ailment; he recently spent two weeks at a Rochester hospital, and Wednesday night suffered a heart attack at the home of his nephew, Ira Nelson in Osage. Friday evening he was taken to Mercy hospital.

He leaves three brothers: Gabe Fosholdt, Long Beach, California; Harold, Osage, and John, Rudd; four sisters: Mrs. O. C. Christiansen, Osage; Mrs. Mary Nelson; and Misses Elizabeth and Isabelle Fosholdt, Long Beach, California.

Waterloo Daily courier
Tuesday, June 12, 1951
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Thorvald Syversen Fosholdt was born April 3, 1882 at Rock Grove, Floyd, Iowa to Syver Johnsen Fosholdt and Johanna Haraldsdatter Grov, the fifth of their eight children. He was baptized April 23, 1882 at the Rock Creek Lutheran Church, Meroa, Cedar, Mitchell, Iowa. His baptismal sponsors were: Jens Johannesen; Bernt Larsen and wife; and Johanne Gulbrandsdatter. He was confirmed at RCLC on June 13, 1897. He never married, nor had children. He was a farmer. He died June 10, 1951 at Mason City, Cerro Gordo, Iowa and is buried at the RCLC Cemetery, Meroa, Iowa.
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Found in the 1885 - 1930 censuses at Rock Grove, Floyd, Iowa:
1885: Syren J Foshold 44, Johana Foshold 37, Sarah Foshold 22, Martha M Foshold 16, Mary Foshold 9, John Foshold 7, Harold Foshold 6, Thervald Fosholdt 2, Gabriel Fosholdt 0.

1895: Thorwald Fssholdt age 12.

1900: Sever Fosholdt 60, Martha Fosholdt 29, Mary Fosholdt 24, John Fosholdt 23, Harold Fosholdt 22, Thoroald Fosholdt 18, Gabriel Fosholdt 16, Ingeborg Fosholdt 14, Lizzie Fosholdt 12.

1910: Syver Johnsen Fosholdt 70, John Fosholdt 33, Harold Syversen Fosholdt 32, Thorvald Syversen Fosholdt 28, Ingeborg Fosholdt 24, Lizzie Elizabeth Lise Fosholdt 21.

1920: John Fosholdt 42, Thorval Fosholdt 38, Isabelle Fosholdt 33, Seevar J Fosholdt 80.

1925: S J Fosholdt 85, John Fosholdt 47, Thorwald Fosholdt 42, Isabel Fosholdt 38, M J Peterson 50.

1930: John Fosholdt 53, Thorvald S Fosholdt 47.

(Censuses transcribed as found without fixing spelling errors.)

(Credit: Deidre Badker, 1/2013)
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