1. Lena Emelia NELSON was born 8 SEP 1863 in Setskog, Akershus, Norway, and died 25 FEB 1954. She was the daughter of Marcus NELSON and Inger GUNDERSDATTER.
After Inger Gundersdatter died, Marcus came to the USA with his children and remarried to Boletta.

Lena wife of Rev N.G. Tvedt
Marriage: 6 Feb 1879
Marriage information:
Nils G Tvedt age 28 1/2
Gender: Male
Record Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 6 Feb 1879
Marriage Place: Union County, South Dakota, USA
Spouse: Lena Amalia Nelson age 15 1/2
Church Name: Vangen Lutheran Church
Church Location: Mission Hill, South Dakota
maiden name:
Graverholt, Nelson, Lena Emalia
Birth : 8 Sep 1863 Graverholt farm, Norway
Death : 25 Feb 1954 at home Maskell NE
Parents:
Father: Nelson, Marcus Graverholt
Mother: Gundersdatter, Inger
Children:
Tvedt, Anna Ingina
B 5 Jan 1880 D Jul 1880
Tvedt, Otto Gerhard
B 23 mar 1881 D 29 Jan 1882
Tvedt, Henrietta Lousie
Birth : 13 Nov 1882
Death : 1 Feb 1964 San Fernando, California
Tvedt, Clara Mathilda
Birth : 1 Jan 1885
Death : 8 Mar 1885
Tvedt, Elmer Rudolph
Birth : 30 Mar 1885
Death : 30 Mar 1903
Tvedt, Niel Melvin
B 8 Jan 1890 or 1889, two birth years show up for him Died 1 Apr 1925
Tvedt, Ina Alpha Lillian
Birth : 2 May 1893
Death : 6 Sep 1894
Tvedt, Carl Walther
B 26 Oct 1895 D 12 June 1981 San Fernando, California
Tvedt, Gerhard Maurice
Birth : 14 Jul 1898
Death : 31 Jan 1904
Tvedt, Elsie Beatrice
B 7 Apr 1903 D 29 Jan 1962

Note, Lena was a sister to Johanna Graverholt Nelson Bottolfson. memorial # 5113004
Johannah
Obit:
Cedar County News, 3/4/1954
Pioneer Lady Dies Thursday
Mrs. Lena Tvedt, 90, is Buried at Paragon

Maskell- Funeral services were held at Zion Lutheran Church here Monday
afternoon for Mrs. Lena Amalie Tvedt, one of Cedar county's oldest
residents, who died February 25 at her home in Maskell.

Rev. C M Grindland and Rev. O L Levorson of Hartington officiated at
the last rites and burial was Paragon cemetery east of Hartington under
the direction of Smith funeral Home. Pallbearers were Glen, Darrell,
Raymond, Carleton, Harry and Arden Nelson.

Mrs. Tvedt is survived by two daughters, H. Louise of Maskell and Mrs.
L.S.(Elsie) Nelson of Mineapolis; one son Carl W. Tvedt of San Fernando, Calif.,
six half brothers, Elmer and Alfred Nelson of Maskell, Minor Nelson of
Newcastle, Ole G. Nelson of Wayne, Albert Nelson of Long Beach, Calif.,
and Melvin Nelson of Newcastle, and two half sisters, Mrs. Charles Mallory
of Sioux City, and Mrs. Sam Packwood of Newcastle.

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus N Graverholt, Lena Amalie was born
September 8, 1863, at Setskog, Holand Hemnes, Norway. After the death of
her mother she came to the United States with her father in 1869. The
family settled near Red Wing, Minn., and later in Florence, near Omaha.
In 1870 her father obtained a homestead south of Maskell.

On February 6, 1879, she was married to Rev. Nels G Tvedt of Gayville, SD.
They lived there about a half a year and then moved to the Paragon community
east of Hartington. In 1915 the family moved to Maskell. Rev. Tvedt died in 1921.

She was baptized in the Lutheran Church in Norway and confirmed in Lime Creek Evangilical Lutheran Church south of Maskell. The Ladies Aid of Maskell gave her the first life membership in the Women's Missionary Federation.

Relatives and Friends from a distance who attended the funeral were Carl
Tvedt of San Fernando, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. L S Nelson of Minneapolis, Mr.
and Mrs. Ole G Nelson of Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Erickson and daughters of
Randolph, Mr. and Mrs. William Heier of Winside, Mrs. Effie Booth of Yankton,
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Smith of Wakonda, SD., Roy Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Nelson and Gabriel Nelson of Vermillion, Mr. and Mrs. Arden Nelson of Ponca,
and Carl and Gladys Nelson of Tulare, SD.

Step mother
Boletta