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Scandinavian Cemetery    Montrose Township
Norwegian Burials

Scandinavian Immigrants to Sugar Creek
Norwegian Settlement in Iowa, at Sugar Creek



Our Scandinavian settlers left their homeland parish,  family and friends to emigrate to America.  Their dream was for a better life,  they were poor,  lacked enough food and they were tired of submitting to a rigid church and the political climate of their homeland.  There were also those who were adventurous and wanted to see the world.

Here they found a place much like home. The southern part of the county has one of the largest wooded areas in the state of Iowa. Lee counties eastern border
is the Mississippi River and the western border is the Des Moines River.  These large bodies of water compared to the great lakes of Norway and Sweden.

ROW I
 
Lot 66 near SE Corner
Owned by M. Larson
 
 
B.A. Nelson burial shown
 
 
Lot not numbered, SE corner
 
NELSON 
Marjorie Helen 02 14 1923 01 13 1927
 
 
 
ROW II
 
Lot 59
Information: WPA, Family, Other Sources
 
VIDAL 
Fred Died 09 15 1927
73 years 
Pedro 
Pauline 
James S. Died in Wyoming 09 26 1909
(Mother was from Norway)
 
 
Lot 57 
Owned by Engstrom, no stone 
 
 
Lot 52
Unknownn grave S.E. side
 
 
Lot 51 
Owned by Stonewall
(Stonevall on 1880 Census) 
 
 
Lot 50 
Owned by Erickson and K. Olson 
 
ERICKSON 
Engebret 01 21 1874 03 10 1902
28yr. 2mon. 10day. 
 
 
OLESON 
Ollie 
Carrie, wife of Ollie Died 12 13 1887
69 years 
 
 
Lot 49
Sjure Pearson 11-24-1872 
23y 9m 25d
 
 
Lot 48 
JACOBSON 
Andrew 01 29 1843 01 29 1913
Anna (Munson) his wife 01 26 1842 10 08 1906 (Lars Munson)
Carolyn, daughter of A ∓ A 08 13 1868 12 11 1939
Tomene, daughter of A ∓ A 1866 1867
 
 
Lot 47 
OLESON 
Ommund 02 17 1817 09 24 1889
Signa, wife of O. Oleson 03 07 1807 02 07 1888
 
 
Lot 45
LIND ?? 
Two stones, unreadable 
 
 
Lot 44 
RUNGSTROM (Swedish??) 
Charles G. 07 11 1841 07 24 1894
 
 
 
ROW III 
 
Lot 37 
LARSON 
Berant C. 02 01 1832 12 28 1906
Gertrude, his wife 08 12 1825 01 29 1898
Both born in Norway 
Corneluis B. their son 06 21 1864 03 04 1889
Bertha ANDERSON 03 1884
Other Source 
 
 
Lot 35 
HANSON 
Lewis, Father  09 04 1850 10 05 1930
Mary Ann, Mother (Oleson) 09 25 1855 03 22 1938 
 
Ralph S., Brother 03 06 1899 05 13 1917
 
Caroline 11 18 1844 07 06 1910
 
Bertha M. 03 19 1877 01 09 1962
 
Anna L. 12 21 1874 09 28 1953
 
Ella Amelia 12 03 1882 01 22 1927
 
Hans 03 10 1845 03 26 1896
Martha, his wife 01 23 1852 10 31 1909
 
Edward, son of H. ∓ M. 1880
 
 
Lot 34
TESTMAN 
Stone unreadable 
Stone unreadable 
 
Sjsan, daughter of H.P. ∓ Lucy 03 19 1850
5yr, 6mon, 2day 
John E., son of H.P. ∓ Lucy 03 06 1876
3yr, 5mon, 14day 
Lucy, wife of H.P. Testman 01 07 1885
36yr, 3mon, 9day 
 
Christine, wife of 03 15 1824 12 31 1887
Hans Testman 
Hans 1813 1860
 
 
Lot 32 
NELSON 
Bertha C., daughter of Christen ∓ Anna 01 08 1886
29yr, 9mon, 6day 
Christen Born in Norway 1820 08 03 1887
Anna, wife of Christen 1818 03 30 1882
 
 
Lot 30 
JOHNSON 
Andrew M. 12 24 1839 08 22 1921
Caroline 11 23 1848 06 05 1928 (Hans Testman)
his wife 
 
 
Lot 29 
TESTMAN 
Samuel 09 28 1851  12 08 1934
Marie C. 04 12 1871 09 14 1895
Two Sons 
 
 
Lot 27 
OLESON 
Sjur 11 20 1819 05 02 1888
Juliane, his wife 01 05 1845 05 16 1908
Jennie N. 05 26 1874 01 26 1913
Charles, 10 Days
Carrie Serena 05 15 1880 07 20 1881
Theresa 06 09 1882 
 
 
Lot 26 
ANDERSON 
Andrew 05 01 1845 02 28 1926
Carrie N., his wife  11 05 1854 09 07 1876 (Brudewold)
Martha, his wife 12 15 1871 03 08 1911 (Olson)
 
Serena, Sister 05 27 1848 11 17 1917
 
Anna, wife of K., Our Mother 12 01 1889
  
Knute, Born in Norway 10 1798 01 10 1867
 
Melinda, daughter of K. 03 27 1844 12 29 1854
Martha, daughter of K. 08 10 1850 12 28 1854
 
Unknown Grave 
 
 
Lot 24 
OLESON 
Edward 1815 1888
 
Canute 02 15 1832 06 13 1906
Anne, his wife 05 18 1842 07 21 1907 (Knute Anderson)
Isabel, their daughter 09 21 1869 01 08 1875
Rachel 1867 1943
Andrew 1875 1951
Irving 1879 1955
Biana 1872 1960
 
 
Lot 23 
NELSON 
Nels 09 26 1834 11 04 1905
Bertha, his wife 02 18 1841 03 06 1915 
 
 
Lot 22 
NELSON  
Aad 04 02 1818 03 21 1889
Chierstin, wife of Aad 05 10 1819 03 11 1907
Both Born in Norway
 
Ann Died 1858
Ann E. 08 07 1861 01 13 1866
Children of A. ∓ C. 
 
 
Emila, on Nelson or Jacobson? 
 
 
ROW IV
 
Lot 21 
ELSTER 
Nellie C. 05 27 1869 03 29 1951
Ole 06 06 1819 05 02 1878
Mary, wife of Ole 03 25 1826 10 24 1907
Mary J., daughter of O. ∓ M. 01 20 1871 08 09 1876
 
Other Source 
Lewis G. 
Minnie 11 05 1860 08 30 1949
 
 
Lot 17 
HELLEIKSON 
G. Jermund, born in Norway  11 12 1809 03 08 1887
Ingeborg, wife of G., born in Norway 03 09 1805 10 03 1886
Marie, their daughter, born in Norway 05 15 1836 04 21 1890
 
 
Lot XXXX
TESTMAN 
Hans Peter 01 09 1844 02 28 1924
Julia  06 18 1852 05 21 1928
 
 
Lot 3 
LIND 
Jacob 03 07 1831 07 15 1899
Rundy, his wife 08 07 1843 07 06 1910 (Lars Munson)
Martha 05 18 1879 10 25 1879
 
Mable  09 06 1880 11 19 1913
 
 
Lot 2 
JACOBSON 
Carolyn, daughter of A. ∓ A. 
 
Tomeme, daughter of A. ∓ A. 1866 1867
 
Andrew 
 
Unreadable
 
KNUDSON 
Karen, born in Norway 12 23 1881 07 15 1888
daughter of A. ∓. A.
 
 
ANDERSON
Berge 07 05 1799 06 30 1875 
 
 
Lot 1 
LARSEN 
Christian 09 26 1827 05 08 1902
Severine, his wife 01 02 1831 08 29 1910
Grandmother SANDSTROM 09 30 1802 10 31 1869
Emilea 06 12 1866 09 30 1867
Marie 01 30 1856 09 15 1869
Martin 01 07 1872 08 26 1872
Andrew W. 07 15 1861 02 17 1879
One Infant 
Children of C. ∓ S. 
 
 
Lot one was the first lot when you entered the cemetery from the old road. 
 
BRUDEWALD from other sources 
S.E. 77yr, 8mon, 23day 06 12 1851 03 05 1929
 
ALVIS 
Jobe 01 21 1833 05 01 1891
Siveranna, wife of Jobe 
Other Source 
 
John J.  1879 1945
Gladys G. 09 14 1904 08 09 1906
daughter of J.J. ∓ Mable
 
 
OTHER SOURCES 
 
Oleson, Evelyn Ruth WPA 01 08 1927
Peterson, Sjuro  1799 11 25 1872
Moberg, Albert, son of Anna Swan 1881 03 11 1907
Nelson, Margory Helen, daughter of 02 14 1923 01 13 1927
Benjamin A. Nelson 
 
 
NEW SECTION WEST SIDE OF CEMETERY 
 
NELSON 
Lawrence Edward 07 19 1915 09 05 1997
Elizabeth M. 11 14 1915 
 
LIND 
Merton J. 11 11 1911 2000
Marjorie A. 03 11 1914 
  
TESTMAN 
Walter C. 12 05 1925 10 17 1970
 
TESTMAN 
Waldemere C. 10 23 1888 04 15 1961
Carrie M. (Peterson) 07 11 1884 11 15 1964
 
TESTMAN 
Glenn E.  08 01 1914 08 23 1998
Margaret V. 06 16 1910 12 21 1991
 
 
HANSON 
Walter Andrew 1886 1966
Mable C.(Peterson) Hanson Jeffers 1896 1986
 
HANSON 
Harvey O. 06 14 1881 04 18 1964
 
 
This early stone is in the oldest area. There is a Viking head carved in the stone.
 
JOHNSON
John Died 10 05 1869
Son of K ∓ R Johnson (Rundy Munson)
 
There is a John Peterson listed in the 1856 Census, born in Norway
PETERSON
John Peterson 05 05 1817 09 23 1895
 
 
Its been reported that stones had been thrown into a deep ravine near this oldest section of the cemetery. 
 
It's been reported there was a cemetery on the Lauman farm, the farm of an early Norwegian Immigrant. 
 
Burial stones have also been reported on or near another early Norwegian farm
 
 
BARLIEN
Hans Died August 1842
was reported as being buried at Sugar Creek
 
Other names the historians say are buried at Sugar Creek are
 
LAUMANN
Joseph Johan 09 02 1792 12 11 1842
most likely buried on his farm
 
OLESON 
Jacob (Hetletvedt) Died August 1857
 
ERICKSON
Knute 1801 1863
 
MUNSON
Lars (Ygre) 1856 or 1857

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