Brit "Bertha" ARNESON^[1]

1844 - 1924  (79 years)

• Name	Brit "Bertha" ARNESON
  Birth	7 May 1844	Marsteein-Eie, Lom, Oppland, Norway
  Christening	23 Jun 1844	Marsteein-Eie, Lom, Oppland, Norway
  Gender	Female
  Death	30 Mar 1924
  Burial	Oak Hill Cemetery, Hammond, IN, USA
  Notes	When Ole and Bertha arrived in Chicago she went to keep house for a Halsted Terresen, whom she married a year later. Celia (Mrs. Hector Weeks) was their only child. Bertha was a widow for some time before she married Emil E. Fischer, a veterinary surgeon. Bertha moved to the city when her daughters were young and the girls all married into the printing trades. A.B. Collins worked for the Consolidated Paper Company at Wisconsin Rapids, WI at the time of his death. Jerry Eldridge worked for the W.B. Conkey Printing and Publishing House at Hammond, IN for over forty years and Eugene Clark was a printer and publisher. [2]
  Person ID	I145	Ancestors
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2004

  
  

  Father	Arne CHRISTOPHERSON,   b. Abt Dec 1795, Rustahaugen, Norway d. Bef 1865, Norway (Age < 69 years)
  Mother	Gunnhild ELLEFSDTR,   b. 10 Jul 1808, Kollerøen, Lom, Oppland, Norway d. 5 Feb 1899, Arena, Iowa Co., WI, USA (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	18 Mar 1830	Norway
  Family ID	F174	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Halsted TERRESEN   d. ?
  Children	1. Celia TERRESEN   d. ?
  Family ID	F1052	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Emil Ernst FISCHER,   b. 1857   d. 30 Jun 1936 (Age 79 years)
  Children	1. Voleska “Vollie” FISHER,   b. 1881   d. 21 Dec 1923 (Age 42 years)   2. Theresa Anna FISCHER,   b. 1883   d. 1973 (Age 90 years)   3. Emma Julia FISCHER,   b. 1887   d. 1965 (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F379	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2025

  
  

• Event Map		Burial - - Oak Hill Cemetery, Hammond, IN, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos		Arneson Siblings Top row left to right: Bertha, Christ, Elef, Elef (Ole's son) Bottom row left to right: Leva, Ole and Christopher
  		Arneson group photo Back row: man in hat unknown; Julia (Olson) Hanson; Bertha (Arneson) Fischer; Gunnhild "Julia" (Spaanem) Arneson; Lady in checkered dress unknown; Man in hat unknown. Front row: Tena (Arneson) Williams; the two men unknown. Photo taken in or before 1922.

  
  

• Sources

  [S239] . [S8] Lila Hendrickson and Mabel Nelson, assisted by Tena Williams, Julia Hanson and Arne Arneson, History of the Arneson Family 1803 - 1942, (Atlas Printing Company, 11 East Hubbard Street, Chicago, Illinois, ca 1944).