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• Subjects: Cora; Esther; Farmington; Goodwin; Grand Forks; Hannah; Helgeland; Mabel; Norway
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Ole and Helga Olson Ole Kittelson Olson, his wife Helga, and family left Listol Telemarken, Norway in 1869. They spent ten years farm­ing near Farmington Dakota County, Minn. There were seven children in this family: Ole, Andrew, Charles, Hans, Signe, Bella and Clara. In 1879 Ole and Andrew came to the Sheyenne River in what is now Lee Township in Nelson County and settled on Section 30. Ole Kittelson and Helga and the rest of the fami­ly came in 1880. The young Ole married Christine Twedt and settled in the SVz of Section 30 on the spot where the Lee post office and store were to be located. Ole and Christine had four children: Henry, Elmer, Cora and Carl. Cora is now Mrs. Hauger lives in Burnaby, B.C. and is the only living member of that generation of the Olson Family. This family sold their land to Andrew in 1903 and moved to Aneta. Christine died in 1910 and the family left for northwestern South Dakota shortly after this. Andrew Olson married Amelia Erickson who came with her father and mother, Reinholt and Marit Erickson from Fillmore County, Minn, in 1881. This couple had three children: Frank, Leonel and Hilda. Charles Olson had land in Nesheim and Lee Township. He left this area in 1915 and lived near Stockton, Calif. Hans Olson married Louisa Quanbeck and they moved to the Stevenson area in California. Signe married Anfin Helgeland and they had two children, Elma and Goodwin and they live in Nesheim Township. Bella married Ole Groff and they had two children, Mabel and Seward, Bella also moved to Calif. Clara was married to Ole Olson who worked for the railroad in Aneta tending to the coal shoot and the water pump at the reservoir. Ole Olson, Andrew Olson and Anfin Helgeland were charter members of the New Luther Valley Church. Andrew and Ole walked from the Mayville area, decided it was too wet and kept going west. At first the nearest town was Larimore and later Cooperstown, there was much improvement for the early settlers when the railroad came to Aneta in 1896. Helga Olson passed away in 1893 and Ole Kittelson Olson passed away in 1896. Ole was born in 1816 and Helga in 1826. Ole and Theckla Olson Ole Olson came to America from Oslo, Norway. He settl­ed in Kloten and later married Theckla Andrean in 1908 at Aneta. They lived in McKenzie County for sometime. A daughter, Jessie, was born to them there. They all moved back to Kloten where Ole was a well driller. In the winter, he did much carpentering. In 1925 the Olson family moved to Bemidji, Minn, where Jessie attended high school. She graduated in 1929. In 1931 she married Archie Tolbert. They had two children: Gor­don and Geraldine. Archie has since passed away. Ole Olson passed away on Feb. 12, 1954. Theckla passed away Nov. 19, 1980. Gordon teaches at Crookston University. He and his wife have two children. Both now attend Crookston University. Geraldine and her husband have built a house on the place where Ole and Theckla first lived in Bemidji. They nave four children who have all married and have families. Jessie now lives alone in the house which Archie built for them near Bemidji. Oscar H. and Thelma Olson Oscar H. and Thelma Olson Oscar H. Olson was born Dec. 21, 1903 in Lee Township, Nelson County (about one mile south of Kloten). Oscar grew up on a farm with his parents, the late Nels and Jo Hannah Olson, one mile south and % mile west of Kloten. There were two other children in the family, Roy and Esther. Oscar attended school in Kloten through the ninth grade. Thelma C. Trostad was born Feb. 1,1908 in Griggs Coun­ty, Pilot Mound Township (nine miles south of McVille), daughter of Gunder and Bertha Trostad. After their marriage on June 24,1930 at the home of Rev. Schmidt in Grand Forks, N.D., Oscar and Thelma lived one mile south, two miles west of Kloten on the Sorenson farm where they started farming. They moved to the Nels Olson farm in 1936, farming until Oscar’s death in 1976. Thelma still lives on the farm. Oscar and Thelma had five children: Mildred (Mrs. Maynard Smaaland), Aneta, N.D.; Robert (wife Arlyss Faye), Dagmar, Mont.; Carol (Mrs. Ray Walen), McHenry, N.D.; David (wife Adele), Jamestown, N.D.; in­fant daughter, deceased. They also have 12 grandchildren (one deceased) and six great grandchildren (one deceas­ed). They had children in the elementary school, and through college for 34 years. Oscar and Thelma started farming in the dirty thirties with horses. Oscar’s special interest was his love for horses, and he raised some good work horses. In 1932 the dreaded sleeping sickness got in their horses. Four of them became ill, but they managed to save all but one. They were put up in a sling to increase chances of saving them. In the dry years hay was scarce. Oscar raked together Russian thistles and bought two-year-old wheat straw for a dollar a load, and hauled that 20 miles to feed the horses and cattle. In those days wheat averaged 4 to 6 bushels per acre, barley sold for 25 cents per bushel, eggs sold for 6 cents per dozen, and $25 for a grown cow. One year the wheat fields had the colors of the rainbow as the result of root-rot. Grasshoppers were plentiful and they liked the gardens, including the onions. In the early years there were no roads for cars in the winter, so they used horses and sleigh. There was no elec­tricity until 1949, so no TV, refrigerators or freezers. 830 Scanned with a Czur book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Adobe Acrobat Pro