| Summary: | owned by Inga Rustebakke. Elias walked four and one half miles every day to work, planting and caring for trees for a salary of 62 cents a day, in 1895. The following year Eric Hanson offered Elias a salary of 75 cents a day, but Elias decided to file claim on the NWV4 of Sec. 22. They moved into their claim shack on Sept. 11, 1895, and Elmer was born that night. Mr. and Mrs. Olson were charter members of the Lom Lutheran Church, and she was a charter member of the Ladies Aid. He was also the first "klokker" of the Lom Church. Their barn blew down in 1916 while under construction and again in 1943. Mrs. Olson's sister Elvina Christianson, and her daughter, Ellen, made their home with them. Mrs. Olson passed away April 1917 and after Elvina's death, Ellen stayed on to keep house for the Olsons, and take part in the Ladies Aid. Elias passed away in 1954 at the age of 93. Ole died in June 1971, and Elmer still lives on the farm by himself to this day. Ole and Marit Olson Ole and Marit Olson and their three children, Gladyce, Alma, and Mamie lived in Adler Township in the years 1910-1913. They liked the community but conditions caused them to move to Michigan, N.D. Their youngest child, had spinal meningitis September 1910 and was badly crippled. The ladies of the Adler community had a surprise party for her in May 1912 and gave her a wheel chair. Mamie was grateful and appreciative of the ladies' kindness in thinking of her. Mamie passed away at an early age. Alma and Gladys attended school in Adler No. 4. Ole farmed in Adler Township, but was also an accomplished carpenter and also liked to go out with Oscar Pederson on the threshing rig, and help run the separator. Along with his daughter, Mamie, Ole and Marit are deceased and interred at the Michigan Cemetery. Alma Heier lives in Grand Forks and Gladyce Cross lives in Havre, Mont. Johannes Olson Johannes Olson Johannes was the sixth child of Walter and Marie Olson. He was born April 13, 1914, attending Moraine School, and graduating from Larimore High School, Grand Forks County. Joe, as he was known by, took charge of his brother David, and his sister Eleanor, while the three attended high school, as they did light housekeeping to minimize educational expenses in the 1930's. He was a reliable team member in football and basketball, and was a charter of the organization, Future Farmers of America. Joe was confirmed in Norwegian, possibly one of the last to have studied the catechism in Norwegian in the Elm Grove Church near McCanna. He actively supported the church until moving with his parents to Adler Township when he transferred to the Lom Lutheran Church in the Petersburg parish. He farmed and cared for his parents until their deaths, continuing on his own until 1975, when he rented the farm to his nephew, Gary Olson, but remaining on the farm until his death, December 18,1977. He was active in community affairs, being presiding officer of the church, township, and Farmers Union groups at various times. Joe was known for his availability to help everyone. He had the great experience of visiting Norway with his parents and uncle and aunt, David Tvedt's, in 1946, spending nearly a year there. The trip was on the Steamship Stavangerfjord, and his dad had the ulterior motive "to find Joe a good wife." However, this failed, "one doesn't marry relatives" and it seemed Karmoy Island was filled with relatives. His father went to Norway again in 1958 with his brother Mickal and his wife. This ended tragically, for his father became ill, and Joe flew to New York to assist his bedridden father to a hospital near home. Help was needed at home, and Betty Deitz and son, Hubert, from Germany were employed. They remained until Hubert graduated from Petersburg High School. Walter and Marie Olson family. (1-r) Eleanor (Mrs. Albert Larson), Johannes, Margaret (Mrs. Clarence Meyer), Walter, Serina (Mrs. Bernhard Strand), Olaf, Ragna (Mrs. Reinard Pearson), David. Walter and Marie Olson These two immigrants from Karmoy, Norway, arrived in the United States, "the land of opportunity," in 1906, headed for Walter's sister, Marie Jacobson, living in Primrose, Neb. There they began farming. With them was Marie's daughter Berthe Serina, whose father died while on a fishing trip near Iceland. Walter was the second child of nine born to Ola Faltinsen Haringstad and Elen Margrete Jorgensen Haringstad, and Marie was the eldest of five children of Rasmus Johannesen Tveit and Berta Serine Munkejord Tveit. There was much jubilation as others of their families arrived to make homes in America. When they left there to live in North Dakota, it was because the extreme heat could not be tolerated while raising corn and watermelons, and soon the others followed, with the exception of Marie Jacobson. They lived for a time near McCanna, then in Moraine Township with a Niagara address for twenty years, moving to the farm 531 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Multi-page TIFF Editor.
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