Eva Nelson

Eva Gunderson was born in Noonan, North Dakota. Eva grew up in rural North Dakota, graduated from Christine high school at sixteen, and worked as a maid in her home area and in Fargo for several years before she received her teaching certificate from Moorhead Teachers College.  She began teaching school in the mid-1930s in small, one-room schoolhouses in rural North Dakota.  She taught school for thirty years.  After retiring, Eva began her second career as a writer and historian.  She wrote her memoirs, completed family trees, and helped to organize reunions.

Eva Nelson's memoirs were written as a personal narrative.  The narratives start with her earliest recollections and continue in great detail until 1940.  From 1940 to the late 1950s, she provides highlights of her activities rather than the detailed description of everyday life found in the first narratives.

See also Eva Nelson Papers (Mss 293)
Eva Nelson Photograph Collection (Photo 2066)
 

Women