My Olson Great-grandparents

Jarle's Blacksmith shop in Garfield, Minnesota

Another Picture of Jarle Olaus Olson

Kvilhaug- Sandhåland Area of Karmøy where Jarle Olson came from, you can see why they would have to clean sea salt off the windows. This picture off the internet taken in 1960-63

Ferkingstad Church on Karmøy, Rogaland, Norway where Jarle Olaus was baptized.

Jarle Olaus Olson and Ida Olena Olson on their wedding day Oct.1,1899, Battle Lake, Minnesota

Jarle Olaus Olson 1876-1928

Jarle Olaus Olson was born March 9th, 1876 on the Kvilhaug farm on the Island of Karmøy on the west coast of Norway. At the age of five years he emigrated with his family to Minnesota. I assume it was to Battle Lake, Minnesota. I know nothing about his childhood, but He would have taken his schooling in Minnesota. The story that I have been told is that two years after coming to Minnesota in 1883 [when he was 7 years old] his father Ole Andreas Olsen died from sunstroke after working in a hay field all day in the hot summer sun. Jarle left home at a young age. Below is a list of his siblings, parents and grandparents from the Slektsforum Karmøy website.

Kvilhaug Ao 21. Ole Andreas Olsen born 1847, died 1883

son to Ola Kristoffersen and Johanne Johannesdtr "N- Liknes-Ao 6.

married 1872 with Berta Karine Olsdtr born 1850, died 1927

daughter to Ole Bårdsen and Ragnhild Jarlesdtr "Kvilhaug-Ao 20

Barn:

a) Elen Kristine born: 1873 "to America 1881

b) Jarle Olaus born: 1876 married with Ida Olene Overland "to America 1881

c) Ole Johannes born: 1880 "to Amerika 1881

d) Hanne Emilie born: 1883 died 1885

e) Anders born: 1897 married with Elida Gurine Nilsen "Bos. Bygnes

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Familien til Amerika 1881, sammen med Berta Karine's mor og bror.Anders kommer tilbake til Norge og bosetter seg først på "Kvilhaugsvik bnr 15, siden på Bygnes.Translation -The family to America in 1881, the same with Berta Karine's mother and brother. Anders came back to Norway and settled himself first on Kvilhaugsvik, then on Bygnes

I assume that the Anders above born in 1897 was a half brother to Jarle and that even though he was born in the USA, he went back to Norway. I have written to his children in Norway and received no reply.The youngest sibling Anders must have been a half-brother or a step-brother since Ole Andreas died in 1883.

Also I have a copy of a letter that his father-in-law Andreas Petter Overland wrote in reply to him when Jarle asked for his daughter Ida's hand in marriage. Also there is a copy of the wedding invitation. On Sunday, October 1, 1899 he married Ida Olena Overland at the Overland home at Battle Lake. For a time, either before or after he was married Jarle had a blacksmith shop in Garfield, Minnesota. In the spring of 1909, Jarle went north to Broderick, Saskatchewan, Canada to get a homestead. His homestead was NW1/4 of 13-31-7 W3 . For a while he worked for a blacksmith in the Outlook district. Later in the summer and harvest he worked for A.N, Finnestad. In the fall of that year Ida and the four oldest children, Alvin, Orville, Joel and Benjamin moved to Canada to join him. Jarle's dream I'm told was to get wealthy in Canada and then go back and buy a Dairy farm in Minnesota. When harvest was done in 1909, it seems they stayed for a short time at Tollef Vallevands. The winter of 1910 was spent doing chores for the Risvold brothers while they took a trip to the States. In the spring of 1911 the family moved to the NE 1/4 of 14-31-7 W3, which Jarle bought from Tollef Vallevand. This quarter was across the road from the homestead. He rented more land in the Glenside district in 1920 where the family moved for 3 years. From the Glenside district the family moved to the Rasmus Finnestad place. Jarle and Ida were Lutheran Brethren and being there was no Lutheran Brethren Church near Broderick they had Sunday School at home. Jarle and Ida lived North of Broderick until they passed away. Jarle passed away from stomach cancer in 1928 at the age of 52. The story told about his funeral is that they wanted to have the funeral at Bethania Lutheran which had been financed by A.N. Finnestad. Bethania was a Lutheran Free Church, a different Synod. A.N. Finnestad stood on the steps and said to the family that there would be no funeral that day unless there was an ordained Lutheran Pastor. The family had arranged for the ordained Lutheran Free pastor from Elbow and Skudesnes to do the funeral and so the funeral went ahead. His wife Ida passed away the following year in 1929. They are both buried in the Bethania Lutheran Cemetery, North of Broderick along with an infant son Philip.

Ida Olene Overland 1881-1929

Ida Olene Overland was born August 21, 1881 in Stearns County, Minnesota to Andreas Petter Overland and Margit Eriksdatter Steinbråten [Stenbraten]. She was baptized September 11,1881 at Big Grove Lutheran Church, near Belgrade, Minnesota. Sometime later the family moved to Battle Lake, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Her father was a tailor. She was the third of eight children. In the late 1890's she met Jarle Olaus Olson. They were married at 7PM, October 1, 1899 at the Overland home in Battle Lake, Minnesota. They continued to live there until 1909 when they emigrated to Canada. In the spring of 1909 Jarle came North to Saskatchewan to get a homestead. I have a copy of a land title for a piece of property up in the Melfort area dated at Humboldt in 1909. I assume he traded it for the quarter North of Broderick. In the fall of that year Ida and the four oldest children, Alvin, Orville, Joel and Benjamin moved to Canada to join him. When harvest was done in 1909, it seems they stayed for a short time at Tollef Vallevands. The winter of 1910 was spent doing chores for the Risvold brothers while they took a trip to the States. In the spring of 1911 the family moved to the NE 1/4 of 14-31-7 W3, which Jarle bought from Tollef Vallevand. This quarter was across the road from the homestead. He rented more land in the Glenside district in 1920 where the family moved for 3 years. From the Glenside district the family moved to the Rasmus Finnestad place. Jarle and Ida were Lutheran Brethren and being there was no Lutheran Brethren Church near Broderick they had Sunday School at home. Jarle and Ida lived North of Broderick until they passed away. Ida passed away in 1929. They are both buried in the Bethania Lutheran Cemetery, North of Broderick along with an infant son Philip.