SEVERSON, Julia (Golberg) 1852-1934

SEVERSON, GOLBERG, HANSEN, KUNTZ, FAUSETT, THOMPSON, HESGARD, CHRISTIANSON

Posted By: Karen L. Robertson (email)
Date: 9/22/2012 at 19:00:00

RITES HELD FOR MRS. SEVERSON
CAME TO SAINT ANSGAR IN A COVERED WAGON IN THE PIONEER DAYS OF 1854

Funeral services for Mrs. Julia Severson, 82, who died at the home of her son, Nick Severson, at Lyle, were conducted at the Evangelical church at Carpenter on Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Olaf A. Langehough officiating. Burial was made in the First Lutheran church cemetery, St. Ansgar, Iowa.

Mrs. Julia Severson was born on March 8, 1852 in Rock Prairie, Wisconsin. In the year 1854, when 2 years old, she came with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Narve C. Golberg, in a covered wagon, to St. Ansgar, being among the second colony of the pioneer minister, Rev. C.L. Clausen, to join the first colony which located there the previous year. Here she resided on a farm with her parents about a half mile north of St. Ansgar and attended school, although opportunities for education were rather limited at that time. She was baptized in infancy and later, in 1867, she was confirmed by Rev. Clausen at the St. Ansgar Lutheran church.

She continued to live on the farm with her parents, where she grew to womanhood. June 14, 1870, she was united in marriage to Ole Severson. The same year she and her husband moved to a farm eight miles west of St. Ansgar, in Barton township to what was then wild prairie. The endured the hardships of the pioneer life and the family lived there until 1897 when she and her husband and the younger members of the family moved to St. Ansgar. They lived there for 12 years. In the year 1910 they moved to Carpenter where Mr. Severson passed away December 9, 1918. She continued to make her home there until about five years ago when her health failed. She would spend the winter with her son Nick at Lyle, with the exception of the winter of 1930, when she stayed with her daughter, Mrs. Hansen. However, when spring came she would enjoy the summer in her own home at Carpenter.

Mrs. Severson was the mother of seven children: Andrew, Sam and Mrs. Lena Hansen, all of Carpenter; Nick of Lyle, Mrs. Wm. Kuntz of Northwood, Henry of Enderlin, N.D., and Mrs. Annie Fausett, who preceded her mother in death in the year of 1909. Besides her own children she also had the responsibility of bringing up a granddaughter, who was left motherless at the age of four.

She leaves 24 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren; also three sisters, Mrs. Annie Thompson of St. Ansgar, Mrs. Belle Hesgard of Buxton, N.D., Mrs. Christina Christianson of Enderlin, N.D., and two brothers, Colbern Golberg of Carpenter and Amos Golberg of Fargo, N.D. There are also two half brothers, Geo. N. Colbertson of St. Ansgar and Olaf Colbertson, who resides in North Dakota.

During her last illness she was confined to her bed for about two and a half months at the home of her son, Nick, where she was tenderly cared for. She was a member of the Deer Creek Lutheran church.

Date of Death was September, 1934

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