Mathias Olsen OLSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Apr 1848, Årdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
• Confirmation: 7 Jun 1863, Årdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

Notes:

Not listed with the rest of the family in the 1865 census.

According to Arne Moen’s Ekra history, Matis Olson Nundal emigrated in April of 1868. In the 1870 U.S. census, Mathias Olson, 21, is a farm laborer living with the John Ouren family in Linden Twp, Brown County, Minnesota.

In the 1875 Minnesota census, a 28 year-old Mathias Olesen is listed in Big Stone County.

In the 1880 U.S. census, a 32 year-old Mats Olson lives in Hantho Twp, Lac Qui Parle County, Minnesota, with his wife Anna and four children, the oldest of which is 5 year-old Ole.

Also in that census, a 32 year-old Matt Oleson is a bachelor farmer in Pleasant Valley Twp, Mower County.

In the 1885 Minnesota census:

Mathias Olson, 38, living with his family in Excel, Marshall County.
Mathias Olson, 37, living with his family in Nidaros Twp, Otter Tail County.
Mathias Olson, 37, living with his family in Lake Hanska Twp, Brown County.
Mathias Olson, 36, apparently a farmhand living in Polk Twp, Vineland County.

In the 1895 Wisconsin census, Mathias is listed as living in Franklin Twp. His household consists of 1 male and 2 females.

In the 1900 census, Mathias and Martha live in Franklin Twp with Mathias’s father Ole, a 78 year-old widower born in July of 1821.

In the 1905 state census, Mathias and Martha live in Franklin Twp. Mathias’s father is not living with them. They do have a 22 year-old servant named Ole J Urness living with them.

In the 1910 census a 62 year-old Mathias Olson, born in Norway and came to the U.S. in 1869, lives with his wife Martha in Franklin Twp, Vernon County. Also in the household is Maria Urness, 26, servant.

He is not listed in the Vernon County death index, at least not for the 1929 death date shown on his gravestone.

Birth:
birthdate from confirmation record

Mathias married Martha Tostensdatter on 4 Jul 1876 in Franklin Twp, Vernon County, Wisconsin. Martha was born on 29 Sep 1847 in Norway; died on 12 May 1933 in Vernon County, Wisconsin; was buried in North Kickapoo Lutheran Church Cemetery, Franklin Twp, Vernon County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]