Anderson and Christensen Ancestors
of Jeanette (Anderson) Sonnenberg (1926-2004)
Anderson - Second Generation

ENOCH ANDREW² ANDERSON (Soren¹) was born at Emmetsburg, Palo Alto County, Iowa, on 16 August 1894^[1] a son of Soren Anderson and his wife Lena Christensen. He died at Minot, Ward County, North Dakota, on 15 December 1965.^[2] He married at Burke County, North Dakota, on 27 June 1918 MARGARETHE MARIE CHRISTENSEN.^[3] She was born at Clay County, Iowa, on 12 January 1894, a daughter of Christen L. Christensen and his wife Andrea L. Nelson. She died at Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota, on 3 April 1983.^[4]

Enoch Anderson, the fourth of nine children, spent his earliest years on a farm in Iowa. Margaret Christensen, the second of nine children, also spent her earliest years on a farm in Iowa. Both moved with their families to North Dakota about 1900 when they were about five or six years old. They both continued to grow up on farms in Richland Township, Burke County, and after marriage farmed in that Township, not far from Margaret's parents.

Enoch registered for the draft on 5 June 1917. He requested exemption "by being more useful on farm than war." He was tall, medium build, with blue eyes, and light brown hair.^[5] When he registered for the draft of the next war, 27 April 1942, he was reported 5' 10" tall, 180 pounds, with blue eyes and blonde hair.^[6]

The 1920 Census reported Enoch Andrew Anderson, 25, grain and stock farmer, and his wife Margaret Marie, 25, living in Richland Township,^[7] recorded five intervening households away from her parents. At that time, married for a year and a half, they had no children.

The 1930 Census reported their growing family at Richland Township:^[8]

The son here called "Julian" is everywhere else called Sylvan. Sybil Jeanette always went by her middle name. This record further indicated that Enoch and Margrethe, when they married, were 23 and 24 years old, respectively. Only one household intervened between this family and Margrethe's parents.

By the time of the 1940 Census, another child had been born, and the eldest child had left. They continued to farm in Richland Township:^[9]

Further information on this census record; Enoch owned his home, valued at $1000. Sylvan had been unemployed for forty weeks; his was government work; over the past year he had worked 14 weeks and earned $124. The remaining four children were all in school.

According to the family, Curtis died in a tractor accident at the age of fifteen, Sylvan died in heart surgery at the age of thirty-seven, and Marcia died from liver cancer when she was fifty-seven.^[10] Marcia's death certificate said, "hepatic failure due to cholangio carcinoma."^[11]

Enoch Anderson and his wife Margarethe Christensen had the following children:

1. AUDREY LEA³ ANDERSON b. at Flaxton, Burke County, on 19 April 1920; d. on 1 February 2005;^[12] m. at San Francisco, California, on 24 April 1959 THOMAS E. COBB, b. about 1925-6.^[13]
2. SYLVAN R.³ ANDERSON b. at Flaxton on 27 March 1922; d. at Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, on 24 January 1959.^[14]
3. EUNICE MARGARET³ ANDERSON b. at Flaxton on 8 September 1924; d. at Minot on 21 October 2014; m. on 1942 JOHN G. MATTSON,^[15] b. on 25 October 1916, d. on 15 January 1962.^[16]
4. SYBIL JEANETTE³ ANDERSON b. at Flaxton on 5 January 1926.
5. CURTIS L.³ ANDERSON b. at Flaxton on 13 March 1929; d. on 1 June 1944.^[17]
6. MARCIA MAE³ ANDERSON b. at Kenmare, Ward County, on 27 July 1933; d. at Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, on 15 December 1990;^[18] m. DONN R. BESSELIEVRE. Children of Marcia and Donn:
   1. Ron E. Besselievre
   2. Scott S. Besselievre
   3. Todd R. Besselievre^[19]

¹"Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration," digital images, United States, Selective Service System, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 December 2019), Enoch Andrew Anderson; citing Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration: Records of the Selective Service System, Record Group Number 147. National Archives and Records Administration., no. U317.
²Flaxton Cemetery, Flaxton, Burke County, North Dakota, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 10 December 2019), Enoch Andreas Anderson; Created by: Herb Schwede. Information provided by informant.
³North Dakota, Marriage Records, 1872-2017, Burke Co., p. 28, Anderson-Christianson, 1918; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 30 January 2019); State Historical Society of North Dakota; Bismark, North Dakota.
⁴Flaxton Cemetery, Flaxton, Margrethe Marie Christensen Anderson; Created by: Herb Schwede. Information provided by informant. Social Security Administration, "U.S. Social Security Death Index," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 15 April 2017), Margaret Anderson, 502-82-7817.
⁵"World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," digital image, United States, Selective Service System, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 December 2019), Enoch Andrew Anderson, A-33-1-7; citing : National Archives and Records Administration. Washington, D.C., microfilm record group M1509: Imaged from Family History Library microfilm.
⁶"Selective Service Registration Cards, World War II: Fourth Registration," Enoch Andrew Anderson.
⁷Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population, Richland, Burke County, North Dakota, enumeration district (ED) 33, roll 1331, p. 3A, household 50, Enoch Andrew Anderson family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 4 January 2015); NARA microfilm record group T625, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
⁸Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population, Richland, Burke County, North Dakota, enumeration district (ED) 29, roll 1732, p. 2B, household 35, Enoch Anderson family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 23 December 2014); NARA microfilm record group T626; Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
⁹Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population, Richland, Burke County, North Dakota, enumeration district (ED) 7-29, roll 2994, p. 2B, household 27, Enoch Anderson family; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 23 December 2014); NARA microfilm group T627.
¹⁰Letter from Jenette Anderson Sonnenberg, to Charles A. Maxfield, 29 June 1997; held in by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
¹¹Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, Virginia, Virginia, Deaths, 1912–2014, Frederick Co., file 90-044517, Marcia Mae Besselievre, 1990; digital images, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 December 2019).
¹²"U.S. Social Security Death Index," Audrey L. Cobb.
¹³California Department of Health and Welfare, "California, Marriage Index, 1949-1959," database of index, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 December 2019), Cobb-Anderson, San Francisco, 1959.
¹⁴Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002," database, Ancestry (ancestry.com : accessed 12 December 2019), Sylvan R Anderson, Hennepin Co., 1959, certificate 005804.
¹⁵"Eunice Mattson," obituary, found at Find a Grave Lakeview Cemetery, Kenmare, Ward County, North Dakota, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 10 December 2019), Eunice Mattson; Created by: High Plains, Photo Added by D Kauffman.
¹⁶Lakeview Cemetery, Kenmare, Ward County, North Dakota,, Find a Grave, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 10 December 2019), John G. Mattson; Created by: Herb Schwede, Photo Added by D Kauffman.
¹⁷Letter, Jenette Anderson Sonnenberg to Charles A. Maxfield, 29 June 1997.
¹⁸Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, Virginia, Virginia, Deaths, 1912–2014, Frederick Co., file 90-044517, Marcia Mae Besselievre, 1990.
¹⁹"Marcia Mae Besselievre," obituary, Kenmare News Kenmare, Ward County, North Dakota; found at Find a Grave, Shenandoah Memorial Park, Winchester, Virginia, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 10 December 2019), Marcia M. Besselievre; Created by: Herb Schwede, Photo added by Gaither.

California Department of Health and Welfare. "California, Marriage Index, 1949-1959." Database of index. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2019.

"Eunice Mattson," obituary, found at Find a Grave Lakeview Cemetery, Kenmare, Ward County, North Dakota, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 2019), Eunice Mattson; Created by: High Plains, Photo Added by D Kauffman.

Flaxton Cemetery, Flaxton, Burke County, North Dakota. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2019.

Lakeview Cemetery, Kenmare, Ward County, North Dakota,. Find a Grave. Digital images. findagrave.com : 2019.

"Marcia Mae Besselievre," obituary, Kenmare News Kenmare, Ward County, North Dakota; found at Find a Grave, Shenandoah Memorial Park, Winchester, Virginia, digital images (findagrave.com : accessed 2019), Marcia M. Besselievre; Created by: Herb Schwede, Photo added by Gaither.

Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota. "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002." Database. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2019.

North Dakota, Marriage Records, 1872-2017. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2019.

Sonnenberg, Jenette Anderson. Letter. 29 June 1997, to Charles A. Maxfield. Privately held by Charles A. Maxfield, Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

United States Department of the Census. Fourteenth Census of the United States: 1920, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2015.

________. Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2014.

________. Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940, population. Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2014.

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