Olaf Martin Johannesen

   Another name for Olaf was Oluf Martin Johnson.

  General Notes:

Source of information: Ellen Schofield, married to Ruth's son/Debbie Johnson, Antons daughter.
Olaf Martin Johnson was born in Lindaas, Horland, Norway, 11 Feb, 1888.
According to the census of 1910, he went to the United States to work on the railroad in 1907. On that census, he was living in Township 2, Jefferson County, Montana, aged 22, occupation railroad worker, boarding in the home of Charles H. Kendall.
He married Abelona Pederson (Abelone Pedersdtr. Hille) on 7 Aug 1910 in Minnesota.
Abelona was born in Hille, Austevoll, Norway in 1889. She evidently traveled to the U.S. to marry Olaf. They lived in a railroad section house, Vendome, located on Highway 41 south of Whitehall after their marriage. Olaf was a section foreman for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. Here, they had two children: Alfred John Johnson, and Hilda Paulina Johnson. Abelona died 22 Apr 1913 at the age of 23, shortly after Hilda's birth and is buried in Butte, Montana.
After Abelona's death, Olaf left Hilda with friends in Montana, took Alfred and returned to Norway, where he married her first cousin, Abelona Anderson (Abelone Andersdtr. Kalve) in Nykirken, Bergen, on Sep 1, 1914.
On Sep 4, 1914 Olaf returns to Montana (says Peide, probably Piedmont) with Abelone Kalve and son Alfred. Record shows he has been home to visit since May 1914. They travelled on the Lusitania, which was sunk by the Germans on its return to Europe. There, they reunited with Hilda and their first child, son Anton, was born in September 1915. They had returned to Norway by January 1917 when their second child, Anders, was born on the Kalve farm in Austevoll. The remainder of their children, Martha, Edward, Agnes, Ruth, Olaf and Reidar were born in Lindås. The family returned to the U.S. in 1928 on the ship Stavangerfjord, Sep 1.. The family lived in Martinsdale, Montana, where Olaf was employed as a Section Chief on the railroad. While at work, he was killed in a freak accident.
Olaf was buried in Three Forks, Gallatin County, Montana. He had a brother Conrad Johnson in Minnesota.

Olaf married Abelona Pedersdtr. Hille, daughter of Peder Mikkels. Hille and Herborg Johanna Olsdtr. Kalve, on 7 Aug 1910 in Clarkfield, Yellow Medicine, Minnesota. (Abelona Pedersdtr. Hille was born in 1889 in Hille, Austevoll, died on 22 Apr 1913 in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana ¹ and was buried in Butte, MT, USA.)

Olaf next married Abelone Andersdtr. Kalve, daughter of Anders Ols. Kalve and Marthe Dorthea Hansdtr. Forland, on 1 Sep 1914 in Nykirken, Bergen. (Abelone Andersdtr. Kalve was born on 17 Oct 1895 in Kalve, Austevoll and died on 20 Feb 1972 in Bozeman, Gallatin, Montana.)