OBITUARY: Mrs. Iver (Nickolena Dahlum) Syverson, Worth County, Iowa


                  Mrs. Iver Syverson 1850-1927

Mrs. Iver Syverson (76) died on Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Theo. Folken in Scarville.  She had been in poor health a long time,
suffering from cancer.  She was a sister of Mrs. C.W. Wescott of Lake
Mills.  Her funeral was held at Salem Lutheran Church.  Nickolena Dahlum
was born August 10, 1850 in Oslo, Norway.  She died March 18, 1927.

She came to America when eighteen years of age.  She married Iver Syverson
in 1872 at Rock Creek, Mitchell Co., Iowa.  She came to Lake Crystal for
a few years, then Long Lake, MN and homesteaded.  Grasshoppers destroyed
three successive crops, forcing them to abandon their homestead, having
lost everything except their oxen and wagon that took them back to Lake
Crystal.  They then moved to a farm near Scarville where they lived
about half a century until three years ago when they moved to Scarville.

Her husband died twelve years ago.  She was mother of twelve children,
with three preceding her in death-Marie, in infancy, and Nickolai and
Harry in early manhood.  Surviving her are Simon, Minneapolis; Emil,
Minneapolis; Emil, Raymond, Montana; Oscar, Frost; Henry, Clarks Grove;
Otto, Preeceville, Canada; Martin, Anton, Mrs. Tom Sydness and Mrs. Theo
Folken of this area; 27 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild and one
sister, Mrs. C.E. Wescott, Lake Mills.  The funeral was held at Salem
Lutheran Church, with Rev. O.R. Sletten and Rev. S.J. Fretheim
officiating and burial in the Salem Lutheran Cemetery.



Copyright (c) 2001 by Eliane Bergan donelsprvf@wctatel.net
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