I have an Anne Gulbrandson registration of death certificate which states she died in town of Preston Nov. 1892. Burial ground in which interred in Fagernas Norway Lutheran Cemetery, Town of Preston in Trempealeau Co. This was dated at Frenchville by a minister of the gospel on March 15th, 1893.

Turns out Anne is not interred at the Fagernas Cemetery according to the keeper of the burial grounds there. The Zion Lutheran Church was also checked and not there.

Anne's husband Even Gulbrandson died 1875 and supposedely is interred in Pigeon Creek Lutheran Church Cemetery but what I have of him is the Ministerial Record of his death date only. Haven't check exactly where Even is as of yet.


I have written Pigeon Creek Church by email, but no answer yet. I'm not sure who takes care of the area.

Could I please get some advise or help where I should go from here? So is Anne's registration of death telling me she is interred in Frenchville?

Thank You Much,
Rachael (Nelson) Gehringer
Michigan

Another possible source for info on this might be their obits in the Blair Press. Many are reproduced in freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/wisobits/naame --- I've got the double "a" in "name" but it probably should be spelled properly! If this doesn't work by itself, put "www" in front of it. Someone transcribed many many old obits from that newspaper, arranged alphabetically. Mine was from the 1920s, so I don't know if you'll find ones that far back. But it is definitely worth a shot. The obit for my ancestor told who performed the funeral, at what church, and in what cemetery he was buried. I've been told by someone who's been there to check it out, that her ancestor, supposedly buried there in 1889, can't be found in the U.N. Lutheran Cemetery in Blair though the cemetery records show he is--same one my ancestor is in, according to his obit. But the reason in that case is that a new road cut across part of the cemetery. Did you check out the possiblity that development may have infringed on part of the Fagermas cemetery?

The minister on the registration of her death certificate may have been serving more than one church at the time, so he may have been based at Frenchville but also served the Fagermas church. He may have filled out the record at Frenchville. Did you try the cemetery there, just in case?

Back in the late 1970s I went to Blair hunting family church records and gravestones. I was a newbie and didn't know what I was looking for. Besides, I had a very common family name--Johnson. I did find a very kind pastor at the church in Trempeleau, who found a set of records that showed my grandmother's baptismal record from 1879. It was in the only book he had. "Someone" had taken it home, and when they died, a descendant found it in the attic and returned it to the church. He told me church records disappear all the time, for one reason or another, and he was very lucky to have this one, which was in excellent condition. Something like that may be why you haven't heard. Also, church staff are overworked, and they may just not have been able to get to your request. Old churches get many genealogical requests. Be patient. You may yet hear from them.

Doris Waggoner
Seattle