Olof Olson

  Research Notes:

More research is needed. I have only reviewd names of the children - 8 children in total. See below [26 Mar 2022]


1900 US Census, Twp 160, Roseau Co; ED 0335; sheet B2; dw/fam 41
Olof Olson, b Nov 1869 in MN; age 30; married 8 yrs [abt 1892] m. 30 Jun 1892
[Cokato Lutheran records, image 53; link from Van Buren FT
wife Tilda [Mathilda], b Nov 1873 in Swe; age 26; mother of 4 children all living; em 1883
dau Hanna S, b 2 Dec 1893 in MN **
son Emil I, b Mar 1895 in MN, age 5
son Elvin O, b Arp 1897 in MN
dau Edith G b mar 1899 in MN
** birth/baptism re, Hanna Serafea, parents from Collinwood [Stockholm L records, im 1136]

1910 US Census, Collinwood Twp, Meeker Co; ED 0083; sheet 5A; dw/fam 84
Olof Olson, age 40 b in MN; married 18 yrs; farmer
wife Mathilda, age 36 b in Swe; mother of 8 children, 7 living; em 1885 ??
dau Anna S age 16 - all children b in MN
son, Emil S age 15
son Elvin O, age 12
dau Edith G, age 11
son Albert J, age 7
son Edward L, age 5
dau Lydia E, age 4
[ dau Marion, age 2 - from 1930 Census - Collinwood Twp, Meeker Co]

I have not reviewed other census years


There are a number of FTs on ancestry - search wife, Matilda Swanson, b 1872-1873 in Sweden and a few others FTs from the ones re; Gertrude Svenson

Van Buren FT [KevinVanBuren]; access 26 Mar 2022]
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/12492316/person/12549809523/facts
- some errors, but names Mathilda's parents but not their birth/death or place in Sweden
- BUT check out some links that others don't post - ie Alvin O Olson, US Headstone Applications for Military Veterans

Olof married Matilda Swanson on 30 Jun 1892 in Wright Co, Minnesota, United States. (Matilda Swanson was born in 1872 in Sweden, died on 22 Jun 1946 in Cokato, Wright Co, Minnesota, United States and was buried in Cokato Cemetery, Cokato, Wright Co, Minnesota, United States.)