Jacky Miles CARLSON

Virgil married M.K. MICHALUK [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Olaf’s wife Betsy wrote this entry for Olaf’s and her family for “Lines of the Past”, the local history book put out by the Preeceville Historical Society in 1982.

Olaf was born in Summit, South Dakota. He was about twelve years old when he came to Canada with his parents and settled on a farm in the Hassan area. Hi filed on a homestead in the Robinson Creek district in 1915.

In 1918 he married Betsy, daughter of Charlie and Ida Johnson. Olaf sold his homestead in 1918 and bought land at Hassan, Sask. The family lived on the Hassan farm until about 1962. Olaf died from a heart attack in 1960. Betsy retired to Sturgis, Sask.

Olaf and Betsy had seven boys and one girl.

Chester, the oldest, served overseas in WW II. He married Irene Oftebro. They lived in Sturgis. Chester died in 1966.

Stanley, the youngest of the boys, was killed in a car accident that same year, 1966.

The only daughter of Olaf and Betsy, Ida (Mrs. Ralph Lee) died in 1980 from a long illness of cancer.

Roy, a university graduate, works in Alberta.

Virgil, Walter, Elmer, and Archie are farmers, truck drivers, and mechanics. Elmer married a Robinson Creek district girl, Loretta Rosenkerr. They reside in Sturgis.

Birth:
SD Births

Olaf married Betsy JOHNSON on 14 Dec 1918 in Preeceville, Saskatchewan, Canada. Betsy (daughter of Karl (Charlie) JOHNSON and Ida Marie LUNDBERG) was born on 1 Dec 1901 in Barton, Pierce County, North Dakota; died on 15 Apr 1995; was buried in Lutheran Cemetery, Preeceville, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Confirmation: 18 Nov 1915, Ketchen Lutheran Church, Ketchen, Saskatchewan, Canada

Notes:

Betsy said that she was born in 1900.

Lived in the Preeceville area of eastern Saskatchewan.

Betsy had seven boys and one girl. Terry J. says that he has the names and some phone numbers of all of Betsy’s children.

Ida Deiters’s estate settlement papers show a reimbursement of $10 paid to “Mrs. Betsy Carlson in Canada” for obtaining two death certificates. The date was December 15, 1964.

Betsy wrote this entry on her parents’ family for “Lines of the Past”, the local history book put out by the Preeceville Historical Society in 1982.

My parents came from Barton, North Dakota. Father was of Norwegian descent and mother was Swedish. They came to claim a homestead in the southeast quarter of Section 14 in the year of 1910. There were four children: myself (Betsy), Alice, Emery, and Walter. We were all born in the States and we all attended Robinson Creek School.

Father drove oxen for a couple of years. He also worked out when work was available. He trapped fur-bearing animals in the winter and later on he herded cattle for several farmers. This all brought in extra money for improving the farm and building a house and other buildings for livestock and poultry.

Once a month, a trip would be made to the closest store, which was in Buchanan. Word would go around that a neighbor was going to Buchanan. The farmer going to purchase groceries, etc., would have several orders to bring back.

Wild fruit such as strawberries, raspberries, currants, cranberries, and chokecherries were plentiful. Mother canned without adding sugar and we often ate the fruit without sweetening.

Mother was a very thrifty homemaker. Soap was scarce in our household; mother used wood ashes in the wash water. This saved soap and was also very helpful in removing heavy soil from father’s and brothers’ work clothes.

Mother spun and carded wool and knit socks and mitts and often sweaters for the family and she sewed a lot of clothes.

I remember I wanted a new dress so bad for a fair day in Preeceville. Father did not have the money but I was determined to have a new dress so I went out and dug seneca root, took it to town, and sold it in the green state. I bought material and mother sewed me a dress.

Mother acted as midwife often in the neighbourhood. In 1927 a neighbour came to get her for this purpose. While she was getting into the buggy the horses became frightened and overpowered the driver. They ran at a breakneck speed down the road before the driver was in control again. Mother was hurt quite bad and could not walk for days. But, nevertheless, she attended the birth of the child even though she was in agony. She suffered for years with an injured knee cap. That baby boy born that September night in 1927 was Orval Nordtweten.

The flies and mosquitoes were terrible in those early years. Big smudges had to be built every night for the animals to give them rest and relief from the bites and stings.

There were house parties. There was no booze at these parties. Everyone had a good time dancing ‘till daybreak.

When I was 11 years old, I had rheumatic fever. Mother treated me with homemade remedies and cured me. Walter and Emery were sick too but they were worse and did not respond to mother’s treatment. They were taken to the Canora hospital.

Mother passed away in 1963 from a heart attack at the age of 79. Father died in April, 1966. They are buried in Preeceville cemetery.

I (Betsy) was born in 1900. I married Olaf Carlson in 1918. We moved to Hassan. (More about my family in Olaf Carlson history.)

Sister Alice, the youngest, was born in 1907 and married Grant Halvorson in 1926. Alice stayed home and helped until her marriage. The family lived on a farm in the Rockford district for several years then moved to Quesnel, B.C. Grant worked in the lumbering industry and Alice took care of welfare children for 12 years. Alice and Grant have four children: Teddy, Walter, Lila, and Betty.

Brother Emery was born in 1903. He worked out most of the time after leaving school. He married Myrtle Hanson in 1924. They lived in the Robinson Creek district for several years and also farmed in the Ketchen area for some years. They had one daughter, Lila. The family moved to Quesnel, B.C., in the 1950s. Emery’s wife died in August, 1969.

Brother Walter was born in 1905 and grew up to be a superb dancer. Like his brother Emery, he loved horses. He was killed in a freak accident in 1939 when the truck he was riding in hit a rack pulled by a tractor. A piece of the 2x4 lumber crashed through the windshield and struck Walter. He died just a few hours later. Walter was married to Violet Hanson. Their only child died at birth in 1935.

Notes:

Ida and her husband moved to Preeceville, Saskatchewan, in 1910. Charley Lundberg homesteaded in Naicam, Saskatchewan in 1910 but he also had land in Preeceville, Saskatchewan so he may have gone back and forth.

Charlie Johnson was of Norwegian extraction. He and his brother-in-law, Ole Peterson, were first cousins.

In the 1911 census, he is Charles Johnson, 36 (Sept 1874), farming in the Mackenzie district of Saskatchewan. His family includes Ida, 26 (Feb 1885, born in Sweden), Bessie, 10 (Dec 1900), Emil, 7 (June 1903), Walter, 6 (Nov 1904), and Alice, 4 (Feb 1907). The family is Lutheran and came to Canada in 1910. All of the children were born in the U.S.A although they are now of Canadian nationality. Their parents, however, are “American.”

Karl married Ida Marie LUNDBERG on 24 Aug 1900 in Barton, Pierce County, North Dakota. Ida (daughter of Carl Gustaf (Charley) LUNDBERG and Britta Maria (Mary Or Mare) SVENSDOTTER) was born on 28 Feb 1885 in Cannon Falls, Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 3 Jun 1962 in Preeceville, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried in Preeceville, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not listed with her family in the 1885 census.

Single and living with her parents and brother in Barton, North Dakota, at the time of the 1900 census.



Roy Carlson says (in a letter to DRC dated October 6, 2005):

Gramma Johnson visited us on the farm many times and stayed with us quite often to help Mother (her daughter Betsy) raise seven boys and one girl, Ida. She also spent many months during the winters housekeeping and cooking for a family in Nelson, B.C.

Notes:

Married:
recorded in Pierce County