Immigrants from Norway,
The Family of
ALBERT L. PETERSON*
born on February 7, 1892
rural Jamesville township,Yankton County, South Dakota
&
RANGVIE "MARIE" NIELSON*
born on January 9, 1896 in
Sioux Valley Hospital,
Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
Married on August 21, 1919
Settled first in Sioux Falls, and
later in rural Jamesville township, Yankton County
where they farmed and raised their son and three daughters.
Pictures of what was the Albert & Marie Peterson farm in the 1940s-'50s, taken in the summer of 2008.
Albert and one of his grandsons, probably Garry Clark, taken in the early 1950s.
Albert & Marie's Marriage
August 21, 1919
In the mid-1950s Albert retired from farming, and they moved to Sioux Falls,
where Marie worked at the Crippled Children's Hospital.
Albert & Marie returned to Yankton County in the 1960s and were residents of Yankton for the remainder of their lives, but they traveled frequently between the West Coast and Wisconsin to spend time with their children and grandchildren.
Their children gave them 11 grandchildren, two of whom died in infancy.
Caroline, Albert, Opal, Tommy, Mildred, Marie Taken circa 1946
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Reverend John Levorson officiated. Marriage registered at Mayfield township
Post Office, Yankton County
Albert & Marie grew up in farming families in the rural area between Jamesville's Hutterite (Mennonite) Colony and Midway, northwest of Yankton, part of a close-knit network of extended Norwegian immigrant families whose lives centered around the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, which the immigrant settlers founded in 1875.
Courtship
& Engagement
Married Life & Children
Albert & Marie initially settled in Sioux Falls at 1428 South Duluth Avenue, where Albert was listed in January 1920 on that year's U.S. Census as a farmer working in general labor, and Marie as a housewife.
In February 1920 their first child, Thomas Edward, was born at the Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls, 5 blocks away at the corner of Minnesota Avenue & West 19th Street.
Albert & Marie's Grandchildren Having Fun at the Farm
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* Louis Peterson's sons often used the middle initial L.,
which stood for their Norwegian patronymic "Louison"
(in Norway, "Lasseson"). Rangvie went by her middle
name Marie, & would have been known in Norway as
"Rangvie Marie Nielsdatter."
Albert passed away in 1977 in Yankton just short of his 85th birthday.
Marie passed away at age 94 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, where she was visiting her daughter.
Albert and Marie at their farm in 1956 with all of their grandkids except Jay, who had not yet been born.
JOHANNAH BREDESDATTER ERICKSON (BAKKEN), b. 1850
Pioneer Settlers of
Wisconsin &
South Dakota
Ancestors & Descendants of
LOUIS PETERSON (ØYE), b. 1847 &
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