When Elias Johan Ellefsen was born on 8 April 1902, in Bergen, Hordaland, Norway, his father, Elias Johan Ellefsen, was 29 and his mother, Johndine Martine Hilland, was 29. He married Lou Orrock on 13 January 1926, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 3 May 1935, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Norwegian: patronymic from the personal name Ellef, from Old Norse Eilífr, a compound of ei ‘alone’, ‘sole’ or ‘always’ + lífr ‘living, alive’.
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