Karen Sophie (Sophie) OLSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1913-MN-009646

Notes:

Or Karen Sofia. FamilySearch Family Tree calls her Carin Sofie Ellefsen.

In the 1900 census (June 19th), Carin Wold was already a widow but had not yet married Martin Bye. She is shown as 44 (born Jan 1856) and is living with her 12 year old son Harold S. (born Mar 1888) and her 7 year old daughter Alma (born June 1892). Also living with them is 3 year-old Hilda Morstad (born May 1897) who is shown as an adopted daughter. Carin is shown as having had 5 children, two still living. The family was living at 120 or 123 Bancroft Avenue (near Channing Avenue on which some of the Byes lived) in a home that Carin owned without mortgage. No occupation is shown for Carin. She is shown has having immigrated in 1885.

Called Sophie in the city directories.

The 1910 census form says they had been married for 8 years which would put their year of marriage at 1902 or 1903. The form also says that Carin had given birth to 5 children, only two still living. (Hilda Morstad was now living with Bernard and Jennie Morstad in Minot, North Dakota. Hilda Rebekka Morstad, b. 5 May 1897 in Fergus Falls, was confirmed at First Lutheran in Minot on 28 May 1911. In her confirmation record, her parents are shown as Bernhard E. and Rina Morstad.)

Immigrated to the U.S. in 1884.

The 1910 census suggests that Carin, not Martin, owned the home that they lived in on Remington in the city of Fergus Falls (Ward 4) and that the home was free of mortgage in 1910.

BYE, KAREN SOPHIA 
Minnesota Death CertID# 1913-MN-009646   
Date of Birth: not indexed
Place of Birth: not indexed
Mother Maiden Name:  not indexed
Date of Death: 08/26/1913
County of Death: OTTER TAIL 
 
She died as Karen Sophia Bye at 123 Bankroft in Fergus Falls of pulmonary tuberculosis. The informant for her death certificate was her daughter Alma.

A Karen Sophie was born in Levanger on 13 Jan 1856 (bapt. 27 Apr 1856) to Ingebrigt Olsen Østborgvald (?) and Anne Bergitte Nilsdatter.

Birth:
Her gravestone has her birth date as 13 Jan 1853.

Buried:
Also called Mt. Faith Cemetery. The cemetery is located off Mt. Faith Avenue. Buried with her first husband as Karen S. Wold Bye.

Family/Spouse: Hans Olsen WOLD. Hans (son of Ole Hansen and Berith Olsdatter) was born on 11 Jan 1852 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 19 Sep 1897 in St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota; was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Harold Sigurd WOLD was born on 16 Mar 1888 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; died on 2 Sep 1969 in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
2. Alma O WOLD was born in Jun 1892 in Minnesota; died on 31 Oct 1960 in Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin; was buried in Gordon Memorial Cemetery, Gordon, Wisconsin.

Karen married Martinus Eliassen BYE on 17 Mar 1901 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Martinus (son of Elias Eliassen BŸVALD and Guruanna (Guriana) Hansdatter BYVALD) was born on 18 Aug 1847 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; was christened on 10 Oct 1847 in Vinne, Verdal (Vårdalen), Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 29 Nov 1932 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 3 Dec 1932 in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
First English Lutheran; as Martinius Bye and Karen S. Wold