Stanley Stengrim HELGESON - 7 (1853)

Stanley Stengrim HELGESON is the patriarch of the Helgeson decendants of this geneological page.

Spouse: Nellie Aribelle RANDALL -8 (1863)

Father: Helge Aslagen ASSELSON - 77 (1822)
Mother: Barbo Halversen D. STEIMGRIM - 78 (1826)

Siblings: Engebret Helgeson BERG - 2224 (1851)
Siblings: Christian D. HELGESON - 2225 (1857)
Siblings: Halvor Albert HELGESON - 2226 (1860)
Siblings: Knut HELGESON - 2227 (1864)
Siblings: Karl Helgeson BERG -2228 (1867)
Siblings: Olaf HELGESON - 2229 (1872)

Children: Henry Stephen HELGESON
Children: Caroline C HELGESON
Children: Anna Barbara HELGESON
Children: Cora HELGESON (twin)
Children: John HELGESON (twin)
Children: Nettie Grace HELGESON (twin)
Children: Ettie Belle HELGESON (twin)
Children: George Stanley HELGESON
Children: Roy Christian HELGESON
Children: Arthur Raymond HELGESON
Children: Maymie HELGESON
Children: Nellie Juanita HELGESON
Children: Lulu Percy HELGESON
Children: Lester Melvin HELGESON

Paternal Grandfather: Aslag ARNESON
PaternalGrandmother: Datter Anne CHRISTIAN
Maternal Grandfather: Stengrim HALVORSEN
Maternal Grandmother: Datter Kjerste (Kristi) KNUTS

Stanley Helgeson, his mother Barbara (Barbo) Steimgrim, and his paternal grand-mother Anne Christians. The Steimgrem's lived in an inland town called Gol, in the valley of Hallingdal, Buskerud county, Norway, about 100 miles from the city of Christiana, later changed to OSLO, Norway, where the Helge Aslagen family lived. Helge, Barbara, and sons came to America in 1866. Three (3) masted ships, and 300 passengers left Norway in 1866. After seven weeks on the ocean they finally landed at Quebec. They sailed down the St. Lawrence river to Toronto, then by train that fired cord wood. The train would stop and the able bodied men and boys got off and helped load cord wood for their further journey. It took fourteen weeks in all to get to Lansing, Iowa from their homeland in Norway. They lived mostly on sea biscuits on the boat trip to America. Stanley was 13 years old. He later went to Iowa (1871) where he met and married Nellie Aribelle Randall in 1878, at Waukon, Allamakee County, Iowa. Helge Aslagen was a shoe maker and a cooper. Two brothers to his wife Barbara, lived in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, close to Austin. Their names were Holvar and Knut Steimgrim.

His son, Rev. George S. Helgeson, was a speaker at the funeral of his father, Stanley Stengrim Helgeson.

The sons of Helge Aslagen Asselson (father of Stanley Helgeson), changed their names to Helgeson, Berg, or Bergson, when they moved from Norway to Minnesota & North Dakota, U.S.A.. I had been told that they came from the Island of Helgoberg. Thus " the HELGEson, BERG, or BERGson. I cannot find an island named Helgoberg in my Encyplodea Britannica Atlas. From research done by Verda Thometz, Helge Aslagen Asselson was born in Gol, Norway, an inland farming village in the Hollindag valley.

According to Sharron HELGESON Suhr, the parents of Stanley Stengrim HELGESON came to the United States. Helge Asslagen HELGESON died in Walcott, North Dakota, on 18-November-1895. His wife, Barbara (Barbo) Datter Halvorsen Steingrims died also in Walcott on 16-November-1906.

Grandpa (Stanley Stengrim Helgeson ), Grandma (Nellie Aribelle RANDALL), Raymond, Melvin, Elsie Naomi DENNIS (daughter of Grace), in back: 2 boys, ??, Nellie, Lulu	Front row: Lulu, Grandpa (Stanley Stengrim Helgeson ), Caroline, Back row: Nellie, Ettie, Grace, and Anna
Lulu, Grandpa (Stanley Stengrim Helgeson ), and Anna	Grace, Grandpa (Stanley Stengrim Helgeson ), Anna, and Truman