Christina OLSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Mar 1860, Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

Notes:

Clifford Milford’s obit lists a Mrs. Christena Helgeson as a grandparent which suggests that she was Odin’s mother.

According to the 1900 census, when she lived with Odin on a farm she owned in Clayton Twp, she had only had the one child. She was also shown as single in that 1900 census. In the 1910 census, she had had one child and that child was still alive.

Birth and death Information for Odin’s mother from “Ancestors of Benetta Celia Olson.”

In the 1940 census, she was the 80 year-old widow Christina Helgerson living in Soldiers Grove.

Birth:
on the Berge farm near Fortun on the far northeast end of Lustrafjorden

Baptism:
as Kristina

Died:
Julie says Prairie du Chien

Family/Spouse: Andrew OLSON. Andrew was born on 23 Oct 1871 in Crawford County, Wisconsin; died on 5 Aug 1926 in Crawford County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Odin Bernhard OLSON was born on 9 Feb 1895 in Crawford County, Wisconsin; died on 15 Dec 1977 in Marshall, Richland County, Wisconsin; was buried on 19 Dec 1977 in North Kickapoo Lutheran Church Cemetery, Franklin Twp, Vernon County, Wisconsin.

Christina married Martin HELGERSON about 1907 in Wisconsin. Martin was born on 10 Nov 1856 in Wisconsin; died on 20 Feb 1939 in Wisconsin; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Soldiers Grove, Crawford County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Information on Odin’s ancestors from “Ancestors of Benetta Celia Olson.”

In the 1880 census, he is the 58 year-old farmer Ole Olson in the Town of Clayton in Crawford County, Wisconsin. Living with him was his 20 year-old daughter Christina and his 5 year-old grandchild, Ellen O Gunderson, born in Wisconsin.

Ole married Britha Olsdatter HAUGE. Britha was born on 26 Dec 1815 in Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway; died in Dec 1875 in Crawford County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Information on Odin’s ancestors from “Ancestors of Benetta Celia Olson.”