Erik OLSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 1 Nov 1864, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Notes:

He also had a home baptism at age of 8 days, performed by Ingeborg A. Lia.

The records for the Washington Prairie church in Decorah show Erik was baptized on All Saints’ Day which would have been November 1, 1864.

According to the history of the Glenwood Lutheran Church east of Decorah, the Little Iowa congregation was made up of five present-day congregations: Madison, Washington Prairie, Stavanger, Calmar, and Glendwood.

In the 1900 census, he is Erick Olson, b. July 1864 in Iowa, a hotel keeper living with his family in Signal in Charles Mix County, South Dakota. He and his wife Mary, married 13 years, have two children, Mabel, 9, and Loelena or Toelena, 5, b. Nov 1894. Both girls were born in South Dakota. The families immediately preceding Erick on the census sheet are Beebes, presumably his brothers-in-law.

In the 1910 census, he is Erick Olson, 45, married 22 years, He and his wife operate or own a “first class” hotel in Fairfax Precinct in Gregory County, South Dakota. Both girls are still at home.

In the 1920 census, he was a packer for a millinery. He and his wife and daughter Zoe lived on Colfax Avenue N. in Minneapolis in a house they owned, albeit with a mortgage. Zoe worked as a bookkeeper for a heating company.

In the 1936 Minneapolis city directory, as Erick Olson, he and Mary E live at 3555 Girard Ave N. He is a clerk for McKesson & Robbins Inc.

In the 1940 census, he and Mary still live in Minneapolis at 3555 Girard Avenue N.

Baptism:
Little Iowa congregation (Little Iowa Norsk-Evangelisk Lutherske Menighed)

Erik married Mary Ellen BEEBE in 1888. Mary was born on 5 Jul 1868 in Minnesota; died on 28 Jun 1961 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was still single and living at home in the 1910 census. She was a music teacher.

She and her husband lived in Minneapolis at the time of the 1920 census. He was a stock clerk at a music store.

She and her husband and two sons lived on Lyndale in north Minneapolis in the 1940 census, the same house in which they all had lived in 1935. Howard was a buyer for Schmitt Music Company.

She survived her sister. She lived in Minneapolis at the time of Zoe’s death.

At the time of her death, she lived at 4235 17th Avenue in south Minneapolis.

Buried:
cremated, ashes scattered at Lakewood

Mabel married Howard Palmer MILLER on 31 Jul 1919 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Howard was born on 16 May 1889 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; died on 22 Nov 1956 in Cincinnati, Ohio; was buried on 26 Nov 1956 in Cincinnati Crematory. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1930 census, she and her husband and daughter live in St. Paul in a house they own worth $5500. Gordon is a traveling salesman.

In the 1940 census, she and her husband and daughter live in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in a rented house. Gordon is a wholesale feed salesman. Five years earlier the family lived in St. Paul. Gordon has has one year of college, Zoe is a high school graduate.

She and Gordon lived at 3043 Thirteenth Avenue S. in Minneapolis at the time they announced the engagement of their daughter to Bernard George Black in May of 1946.

She lived at 6870 7th St. NE, in Fridley, Minnesota, at the time of her death. Her daughter was Mrs. Bernard G. Black of Fridley, who had 5 children. Her sister was Mrs. H. P. Miller of Minneapolis. Her obit said that she had been a resident of Minneapolis for 50 years and was a graduate of South High.

An article in the Minneapolis Tribune, 31 Jul 1966, notes: “A modest collection of daylilies has been started in the {University of Minnesota} arboretum as a memorial to Zoe L. Fossum.

Birth:
Many sources say 1895.

Zoe married Gordon Marion FOSSUM on 17 Mar 1920 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Gordon was born in 1896 in Minnesota; died on 8 Feb 1950 in Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

When he registered for the draft in June of 1945, he was an unemployed veteran living at home with his parents.

In the 1950 census, indexed as Muller, he and his wife and son lived in north Minneapolis. He was a beverage salesman.

Buried:
SSGT US ARMY WORLD WAR II

Graydon married Merilyn Lucille Bertha MILLER on 1 Mar 1946 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Merilyn was born on 18 Aug 1921 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; died on 13 Oct 2012 in San Diego County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Registered for the draft in Minneapolis in May of 1943. He was a student at the time, probably high school.

He was a Colonel in the U.S. Army. WWII, Korea, Vietnam.

He may have married Anna Cataldi in Orange County, California, on 22 Oct 1977.

His gravestone says Soldier Father Friend.

Notes:

She was a freshman (9th grade) at Washington High School in Sioux Falls for the 1939-1940 school year.

She was an officer in a Job’s Daughters chapter while in high school in Sioux Falls.

She was a student at the University of Minnesota, probably a junior, at the time her engagement was announced in May of 1946.

She and her husband lived in Fridley at the time of her mother’s death.

Mary married Bernard George BLACK on 13 Jul 1946 in Ramsey County, Minnesota. Bernard was born on 21 Dec 1916 in Minot, Ward County, North Dakota; died on 29 Apr 2003 in Oldsmar, Pinellas County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]