Susan Anne Corneliusdatter Nelson ^{1 2 4 5 6 7}

   Other names for Susan were Susan Anne Corneliusdatter Hersdal,¹ Anna Nelson ^{1 9} and Susan Anne Corneliusdatter Nilson.¹

  General Notes:

Was believed to have been previously married to Jerome Lake sometime before 1840 in New York. Perhaps have one daughter, Cordelia Lake, 1836-1916.
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from Marjorie R. Tracy:
"Ann Nelson" was the name listed in the marriage records for Levi Lightfoot; however, she was born Susan Anne Corneliusdatter Nilson, and came across from Norway with her parents, Cornelius Nilson and Kari Padersdatter. When they came to the United States, they Americanized their name to "Nelson". She was previously married to Jerome Lake in New York so when "Ann" married Levi Edward Lightfoot, her name was, in fact, Susan Anne Nelson-Lake.

Her second child with Levi, Inger Eliza Lightfoot, was nicknamed "Emma Lide" who married Burdette Spencer. They came to live in Elmira, New York. He fought in the Civil War after they were married and then he returned to Elmira and died in 1916. After that, "Emma" moved to Lily Dale, New York to the Spiritualist colony there and lived out her life. Burdette and Emma had two sons, one of whom, Burr Leland, died in a fall from a bridge construction site. Their other son, Earnest Lightfoot Spencer, was my husband's grandfather. After Emma's mother died on 23 Oct 1865 in Illinois, Levi remarried.

The information on Susan Anne Corneliusdatter Nilson (aka Susan Anne Nelson-Lake-Lightfoot) comes from family bibles, as well as from a book called, "The Sloopers: Their Ancestry and Posterity," by J. Hart Rosdail, Photo Press, Inc., Broadview, Illinois, 1961. It takes her ancestry back to 1185 to "Viking on Torsnes".

I have a photo of "Anna" when she was younger, and a photo of Levi with one of his other wives, though we have not been able to identify her. We also have photos of other family members, if anyone is interested.

Marjorie R. Tracy
Volunteer of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
at http://www.raogk.org/
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  Baptism Notes:

Name: Susane
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 28 Nov 1813
Event Place: Tysvær, Rogaland, Norway
Event Place (Original): Tysvaer, Rogaland, Norway
Gender: Female
Father's Name: Cornelius Nielsson Hersdahl
Mother's Name: Kari Pedersdr
Reference ID: 2:VX73RW
Record Number: 61698

Citing this Record
"Norway Baptisms, 1634-1927", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4GZ-B96 : 23 June 2020), Kari Pedersdr in entry for Susane, 1813.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1850 US Census in Ottawa, IL on 14 August 1850. ¹⁰

1850 US Census
Page 193B, Family 230, Roll 115
Ottawa, LaSalle, Illinois
Susan Lightfoot..36..NORWAY

(Living with 2nd husband and 5 children.)
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• She appeared on the 1860 US Census in Ottawa, IL on 21 July 1860. ¹¹

1860 US Census
Page 508, Family 4518, Roll 196
Ottawa, La Salle, Illinois
Susan A. Lightfoot..40..NORWAY

(Living with 2nd husband and 7 children.)

NOTE - If her birth date was 30 Sep 1813, the her age should have been 46 instead of 40. A difference this great must be because of an enumerator error in writing down the wrong number.
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• She was buried after 23 October 1865 in the Nelson Cemetery in LaSalle County, IL.

Find a Grave Memorial 188040087

Buried on a hill just above the Cleng Peerson Spring in the Cornelius Nelson Family cemetery in the old Foxe River Settlement which became Mission Township.

The attached gravestone photo is of a stone found in the Nelson Cemetery that has an unreadable name. The death date is Oct 23, 186?, possibly 1865. Some earlier lists say it could be Christopher Nelson, but other say he is buried at Brumbach with his wife.
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Susan married Levi Edward Lightfoot, son of William Lightfoot and Esther Schmidt, on 10 March 1840 in Ottawa, IL.^{1 2 3} (Levi Edward Lightfoot was born on 13 March 1818 in Pennsylvania,¹² died on 15 January 1900 in Omaha, NE ^{1 12} and was buried on 17 January 1900 in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Omaha, NE ^{1 12}.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1850 US Census in Ottawa, IL on 14 August 1850. ¹⁰

1850 US Census
Page 193B, Family 230, Roll 115
Ottawa, LaSalle, Illinois
Levi Lightfoot..35..PA..Carpenter
Susan Lightfoot..36..NORWAY
Cordelia Lake..14..NY
Caroline Lightfoot..9..IL
Eliza Lightfoot..6..IL
Sarah Lightfoot..4..IL
Edward Lightfoot..2..IL
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• They appeared on the 1860 US Census in Ottawa, IL on 21 July 1860. ¹¹

1860 US Census
Page 508, Family 4518, Roll 196
Ottawa, La Salle, Illinois
Levi Lightfoot..45..PA..Carpenter
Susan A. Lightfoot..40..NOR
Cordelia Lightfoot..24..NY (Cordelia Lake)..Dress Maker
Caroline Lightfoot..19..IL..Teacher Com. School
Eliza Lightfoot..17..IL..Teacher Com. School
Sarah Lightfoot..14..IL
Edward Lightfoot..12..IL
William Lightfoot..7..IL
Charles Lightfoot..4..IL
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• 1865 Illinois State Census: 3 July 1865, in Ottawa, IL. ¹³ 1865 Illinois State Census
Page 199, Ward 1
Ottawa, La Salle, Illinois

1 Male 40-50 = (Levi Lightfoot, age 47)
1 Male under 10 = (probably Charles, age 9)
1 Male 10-20 = (probably Edward, age 16)

1 Female 10-20 = (unknown; Inger Eliza was married in 1862; Martha died sometime between 1845-1855)
2 Females 20-30 = (probably Caroline, age 25; and Sarah, age 20)
1 Female 50-60 = (probably Susan Anne, age 52)

7 Total in household
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  Marriage Notes:

from Marjorie R. Tracy:
Levi and his family were living in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa in 1880. The only exceptions were daughters Caroline, who was single, working as a dressmaker in La Salle, Illinois, and Inger "Emma Lide" Eliza Lightfoot and husband, Burdette Spencer, who had moved back east and were living in Elmira, New York. Levi was married twice after Susan. In addition to the children mentioned in the letter, he had Georgiana H., Alma, Katie, Frank, Lotta, and Bessie.
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