1940 US Census - Lyle Elmer Sanderson

Here is the 1940 US Census for Lyle Elmer Sanderson, found on lines 55 - 56.

Lyle was living in Ward 3 of DeKalb, DeKalb county, Illinois with his wife, Harriet Ruth (Munch). Lyle was employed at a piano factory and Harriet was employed as a stenographer for the 'Ag assn seed House' which I would speculate was DeKalb Ag.

If you lived in the midwest you might be familiar with their logo, particularly in DeKalb, Illinois and surrounding counties. You may also have worked for them as a teenager detasseling corn. Monsanto bought DeKalb Ag in 1998 and sold it to Bayer in 2017.

Lyle was the son of Myrtle (Colby) and Stanley Harland Sanderson, grandson of Martha (Cody) and Seward Oscar Sanderson and the step-grandson of Ellen Marie 'Mary' (Vallem) Sanderson.

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Kenneth and Lillian Finnestad obituaries

I have had previously posted the obituary for my great great grandfather Ole Finnestad several posts back. I have not yet been able to locate an obituary for my great grandparents Oliver and Mary Finnestad, though here are the obituaries for my grandparents, Kenneth and Lillian Finnestad.

Ole Finnestad Jr obituary

Here is the obituary for my great, great grandfather, Ole Finnestad Jr from the Dixon Evening Telegraph of July 9, 1928. Note the misspelling of his first and last name, though Finnestad was spelled correctly within the content of the article. You will also note that his brother Rasmus had moved from Canada to Washington by the time of his brother's death. Oddly, there is no mention of the sisters that survived him, leading me to believe they may have lost touch by the time of his death.

Finnestad Farm - Stavanger, Norway

It was customary in Norway to take the farm name as the family name. Prior to arriving in America, Ole Finnestad was known as Ole Olson. According to the Regional State Archives of Stavanger, in 1862, Ole Olsen bought a farm from Bjørn Larsen. The following link provides some farm information along with the family members in 1865: http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&sidenr=59&filnamn=f61126&gardpostnr=582&sokefelt=vis “Merknad 387b” now means property nr. 16 of the farm Finnestad. (Please keep in mind that accuracy of records is less than perfect - so ages and other information are not always correct) For more information on Stavanger and a map of the area, please go to the following wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stavanger

Finnestad Ancestry

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