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Obit: Olson, Arne C. #2 (1843 - 1932)

Transcriber: Crystal Wendt

Surnames: Olson, Johnson

----Source: Neillsville Press (Neillsville, Clark County, Wis.) 23 June 1932, Schwarze Family Album

Olson, Arne C. (4 Feb 1843 - 17 June 1932)

Arne G. Olson, one of Clark county’s early settlers, passed away at the home of his son Fred, east of Colby, Friday, June 17, aged 89 years, four months and 13 days.

Mr. Olson was born in Norway, Feb. 4, 1843, and grew to manhood there. In 1870 he was married to Ellen Johnson and the next year they came to America. They arrived in Trempealeau county in May and the following October Mr. Olson went into a logging camp on Popple river in the north part of Clark county. In 1872 he filed on a homestead in the town of Mayville. This land he developed into a fine farm and the place has remained in the family every since.

To Mr. and Mrs. Olson were born eight sons, five of whom survive: Oluf of Neillsville; Tony of Taylor county; Peter at Ladysmith; Morris in Calumet county; Fred in Marathon county; John, Julius and Otto are deceased. Mrs. Olson died in 1904. He is survived by forty-three grandchildren and eighteen great grandchildren.

Mr. Olson took place an active part in the development of his community and was a fine type of the pioneers who helped to make this county prosperous by their industry and economy.

The funeral was held Monday afternoon from the old farm home, and at the Norwegian Lutheran church northwest of Curtiss, which Mr. Olson helped to establish many years ago.

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Obit: Olson, Arne C. (1843 - 1932)

Transcriber: : Stan
Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org
 

Surnames: ANDERSON JOHNSON LIFE OLSEN OLSON

----Source: Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis., Library Scrapbook

Arne C. Olson

(4 Feb 1843 - 17 Jun 1932)

Arne C. Olson of Curtiss died Friday at the home of his son, Fred Olson, at Cherokee, where he had been the past few months during his illness. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the home and at the Lutheran church at Curtiss. Rev. W. L. Anderson officiating, and burial was made in the church cemetery. Six grandsons acted as pall bears: Wayne Olson, Harold Olson, Gilbert Olson, Morris Olson. Byron Olson and Lawrence Olson. The flower girls were Elda Olson and Dorothy Olson.

The deceased was born in Grue Solar, Norway, on February 4, 1843, thus reaching the age of eighty-nine years, four months and thirteen days. He was married to Ellen Johnson at Grue, Norway, 1870, and in 1871 they came to the United States, coming directly to Clark county. They are numbered among the old pioneers of the county, who, by hard and diligent work built a splendid farm.

He is survived by five sons--Oluf Olson, Neillsville Anton, Owen Peter, of Ladysmith Morris, Hilbert Fred, Colby-Cherokee. Also forty-three grandchildren and eighteen great-grand children.

Those from out of town present for the funeral were Oluf Olson and wife of Neillsville, Anton Olson, of Owen, Peter Olson of Ladysmith, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Olson and children, Morris, Della and Mrs. Evelyn Life, of Hilbert, WI.
The deceased was a kind and indulgent husband and father with generous impulses and never forgot the hospitable ways of the early pioneers.

Tombstone of Olaf Olson, 1891 - 1918

St. Paul Church Cemetery, Curtiss, Wisconsin

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