Extract from the 1880 Census:
Name: Ida Berg
Age: 7
Estimated birth year: 1873
Birthplace: Minnesota
Race: white
Sex: female
Relationship to head-of-household: daughter
Home in 1880: Duluth, Saint Louis, Minnesota
Address: 4th Avenue East
Marital status: single
Fathers' birthplace: Norway
Mothers' birthplace: Norway
Occupation: attending school
Siblings living at home: Augusta (age 6), Olaf (4), Adolph (1), and Nellie (Agnes) (2/12)
Census place: Duluth, Saint Louis, Minnesota; Roll: T9_632; Family History Film: 1254632; Page: 511.3000; Enumeration District: 92; Image: 0674
Date: 18 Jun 1880

Extract from the 1900 Census:
Name: Ida A Berg
Age at last birthday: 27
Date of birth: Oct 1872
Birthplace: Minnesota
Race: white
Sex: female
Relationship to head-of-house: daughter
Home in 1900: Duluth Ward 7, Saint Louis, Minnesota
Address: 317 22nd Avenue West
Marital status: single
Able to read, write and speak English: yes
Father's birthplace: Norway
Mother's birthplace: Norway
Occupation: trained nurse
Months not employed: 4
Siblings living at home: Olyne A (age 26), Agnes (20), Stella L (18), Laura F (13), Nina (11), Sidney A (6), and Marvin R (3)
Census place: Duluth Ward 7, Saint Louis, Minnesota; Roll: T623 790; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 284
Date: 6 Jun 1900

Extract from the 1910 Census:
Name: Ida B Newark
Age in 1910: 38
Estimated birth year: 1872
Birthplace: Minnesota
Race: white
Sex: female
Relationship to head of family: wife
Home in 1910: Charlotte Ward 4, Eaton, Michigan
Address: 121 East Simmons Street
Marital status: married
Number of years of present marriage: 7
Number of children: 0
Number of children now living: 0
Able to speak English: yes
Able to read and write: yes
Father's birthplace: Norway
Mother's birthplace: Norway
Occupation: nurse
Type of industry: sanitorium
Salary or wage worker: wages
Census place: Charlotte Ward 4, Eaton, Michigan; Roll: T624_645; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 82; Image: 224
Date: 20 Apr 1910

Extract from the 1920 Census:
Name: Ida A Newark
Age: 46
Estimated birth year: 1874
Birthplace: Minnesota
Race: white
Sex: female
Relationship to head of house: wife
Home in 1920: Charlotte, Eaton, Michigan
Address: 119 South Main
Marital status: married
Able to speak English: yes
Able to read and write: yes
Father's birthplace: Norway
Mother's birthplace: Norway
Occupation: nurse
Type of industry: hospital
Salary or wage worker: wages
Census place: Charlotte Ward 4, Eaton, Michigan; Roll: T625_763; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 95; Image: 198
Date: 7 Jan 1920

Extract from the 1930 Census:
Name: Ida B Newark
Age: 57
Estimated birth year: 1873
Birthplace: Minnesota
Race: white
Sex: female
Relation to head-of-house: head
Home in 1930: Charlotte, Eaton, Michigan
Address: 106 Bostwick Avenue
Marital status: widow
Age at first marriage: 29
Education: able to speak English
Education: able to read and write
Father's birthplace: Norway
Mother's birthplace: Norway
Rent/home value: owns home; value $3000
Owned a radio: no
Occupation: registered nurse
Salary or wage worker: working on own account
Census place: Charlotte, Eaton, Michigan; Roll: 983; Page: ; Enumeration District: 9; Image: 411.0
Date: 2 Apr 1930

Extract from the 1940 Census:
Name: Ida B Newark
Age: 67
Estimated birth year: 1873
Birthplace: Minnesota
Race: white
Sex: female
Relation to head-of-house: head
Home in 1940: 106 West Seminary Street
Address: Charlotte, Eaton, Michigan
Marital status: widow
Highest grade of school completed: high school 1 year
Living on farm: no
Home owned or rented: owned
Value of home: $4000
Place of residence in 1935: same house
Occupation: housework
Has other income of more than $50: no
Census place: Charlotte, Eaton, Michigan; Roll: T627_1747; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 23-9
Date: 2 Apr 1940

She was probably baptized in the Lutheran Church. She went to Battle Creek, Michigan to attend nursing school. There she met Dr. Wallace E Newark, a widower with a son, Grayson. They were married in Chicago, Illinois January 26, 1903. She was 30 and he was 41. Grayson was raised by Ida. Dr. Newark had a sanitarium or hospital in Charlotte, Michigan. Ida's sisters Agnes and Nina went there for nurse training, Agnes about 1906-1907 and Nina probably about 1916-1917. Ida was in charge of the training and operation of the sanitarium. She did not have any children. Dr. Newark died in 1923 at age 61. She died in 1950 at age 77.

Newspaper clipping [probably from the "News-Tribune" of Duluth, Minnesota] dated 22 Mar 1950:
Mrs. Ida Berg Newark, 77, of 127 West Mankato Street, died yesterday in a Duluth hospital. She was a native Duluthian and was the last living charter member of the Duluth Seventh Day Adventist church. She attended Duluth schools and was graduated from the Battle Creek Sanitarium school of nursing. Surviving are five sisters, Miss Olyne Berg, Mrs. S. A. Rhode, Mrs. Stella Widner and Mrs. Nina B. Roberts, all of Duluth, and Mrs. L. E. Lambert, Virginia; two brothers, Sidney A. Berg, Inglewood, Calif., and Marvin R. Berg, Lansing, Mich., and a stepson, Grayson Newark, Jackson, Mich.

Newspaper clipping [probably from the "News-Tribune" of Duluth, Minnesota]:
Newark, Mrs. Ida, residence, 127 W. Mankato St. Funeral service will be held 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Johnson Mortuary chapel, the Rev. W. R. Archbold officiating. Interment Charlotte, Michigan.

Obituary from the "Enquirer" of Battle Creek, Michigan dated 24 Mar 1950:
Mrs. W. E. Newark
Charlotte - Mrs. Ida Newark, 78, died Wednesday at her residence in Duluth, Minn., where she moved 12 years ago after having been a resident of Charlotte for 35 years. She was the widow of Dr. W. E. Newark, prominent local physician, who died in 1928. Surviving are two step-sons, Erva Newark of St. Paul, Minn., and Grayson Newark of Jackson; five sisters, Miss Olyne Berg, Mrs. S. A. Rhode, Mrs. Nina Roberts, Mrs. Stella Widner, all of Duluth and Mrs. Laura Leonard of Virginia, Minn.; and two brothers, Sidney Berg of Englewood, Calif. and Martin Berg of Lansing. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. from the Pray chapel by the Rev. K. R. Krick and burial will be in Maple Hill cemetery.