John Gunders. Olson

Notes:

Foreldra var Gunnar Olsen og Anne Malene Pedersdtr. i Skudenes, som emigrerte til Friendship, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota.

Edward D. Neill, History of the Minnesota Valley, including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota (Minneapolis: North Star Publishing Company, 1882), 893-894.
[p.893, in section on Stony Run Township]
"John G. Olson, born in Norway in 1837, came to America in 1868; spent one year in Iowa, and came to Stony Run, July 1869. He has 139 acres on Sections 33 & 5; has been school director and road overseer. Married in Chippewa county in 1871 Christina Blix; Annie, Louis, Georgina, and Ellen are the living children."


Born:
Anna M. Olson, 1872– 1908
Louis Bernhard Olson, 1873– 1950
Jørgine Petra Oleson, 1878– 1952 g. Aanes
Ellen Margrethe Christence Olson, 1880– 1923

John married Christina Bergithe Larsdtr. Blix on 28 Apr 1871 in Chippewa, Minnesota. Christina was born on 25 Mar 1854 in Meløy, Nordland; died on 24 Dec 1949 in Montevideo, Chippewa, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anna M. Olson was born on 10 Mar 1872 in Friendship, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota; died on 11 May 1908 in Finley, Steele, North Dakota.
2. Ellen Margrethe Christence Olson was born on 14 Sep 1880 in Montevideo, Chippewa Co., MN; died on 21 Mar 1923 in Finley, Steele, North Dakota.