Peter Enoch Olson

  Research Notes:

Peter Enoch Olson, b 5 Oct 1882 at Southside Twp, Wright Co, MN; died 10 Feb 1954 at Estevan/Radcliffe, SK
married: around 1914
Olga Sherdale (Sherdal), b Dec 1894, Spring Grove, Houston Co, MN; died 16 Mar 1974 at Brandon, MB
[she was remarried in 1956 to William R McLauhlan of Brandon; he died in 1967]
children:
Meryl Enoch Olson, b 24 Apr 1917 at Tribune, SK; died 13 Oct 1994 at Nanaimo, BC; married Dorothy M Ross
children: [location as of 1994]
Nancy Olson, Ucluelet, BC
Sally (O'Donnell), Pitt Meadows, BC
Dennis Olson, Nanaimo, BC
Olive Isabel, b 1915-16, Tribune SK; died 16 Mar 2014 at Estevan,
married in 1961, Joseph Timothy Murphy
children: daughter, Joyce


For Relationship Chart, see his brother, John Sigvart page


1. Canada Census

1916 Canada Prairie Provinces, Saskatchewan, Weyburn District 3, sub dis 05, Twp 3, Range 15 W2, page 22; dw 248 fam 252;
line 15; Souris Valley Rural Municipality
Enoch Olson age 33 b in US ; em 1912 [ son of Peter ]
wife Olga, age 22 b in US, [ 1894]
daugther, Olive/Oline, age 2 b SK [1914]

note: the next family, line 15, dw 248 fam 252: Peter Olson and Ingeborg Jonsdotter

*** I have not found the family in the 1921 Canada Census - searched every name and throughout Sask and MB
- it is likely they were not enumerated since they were not home. But I don't know why his wife Olga was not noted int he 1926 Census [I also had searched his name in the 1920 US Census ]


1926 Canada Prairie Provinces, Saskatchewan Weyburn District, sub dis 7; Souris Valley #7, page 3 [image 4 on familysearch]
dw and fam 22, SW sec 13, twp 3, range 15, 2W
Peter Olson age 78, and Ingeborg, age 73

then,
Enoch age 44, b in US; em 1911; married
Olive, granddaugther, age 11 b in SK [ 1915; likely Enoch's daughter from 1916 census ]
Merle, grandson, age 9 b in SK [ 1917; likely Enoch's son ??]

Elisabeth, age 32 b in US; em 1910; single [ b 1894 ]


2. Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980

1945; Enock and Mrs Enock Olson; Electoral District of Assiniboia, Rural Polling Div, Black Diamond
Enock is working as a Janitor; both address as Taylorton
1945: Electoral District Assiniboia - rest is the same; Enoch works as a laborer; Olga as a cook; both at Taylorton, SK

Taylorton SK - about 90 kms east of Tribune, and the area is now known as Coalfields since Taylorton is essentialy a ghost town
- around 1900, an underground coal mine established - ended around 1960


3. Death: 10 Feb 1954, buried at Estevan City Cemetery; findagrave id, 66497728
- Sharrons Tree on ancestry - SK residents index: death at Ratcliffe, SK



4. Miscellaneous: records for family and gives clear information

A google search
"Enoch Olson" + "1954" + "Canada"
brought up: Brandon Sun Newspaper Archives, Mar 16, 1974, page 16 [no clipp, but access through Newspapers.com ]
" ..... moved to Canada where she was married to Enoch Olson. They farmed in the Tribune district. She was predeceased by her husband in 1954 ...
But nothing on Findgrave

also: from, newspaperarchive.com; same:
Olson. They farmed in the Tribune district. She was predeceased by her husband in 1954. In 1956 she was marri Olson [??| ... [survived by one son, Meryl Olson, of Nanaimo, B C ** ; one daughter Mrs Olive Murphy, of Estevan, Sask ; I one sister, Mrs Clara 1 Brasse Brandon Sun (Newspaper) March 16, 1974, Brandon, Manitoba

- I then did a google search for "Olive Murphy" and there was an obit hit and then linked to the Funeral Home website,
(https://www.hallfuneralservices.ca/memorials/Murphy-Olive/1829274/obituary.php)

* Olive Isabel Murphy (Olson)
Olive Murphy passed away peacefully at the Estevan Regional Nursing Home on Sunday, March 16, 2014 at the age of 98 years [born about 1916]. Olive's memory will be forever cherished by her daughter Joanne Byrne; niece Nancy Moore; nephew Joe (Ruth) Murphy, as well as numerous cousins and great nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband Joseph Timothy Murphy in 1961; parents, Enoch and Olga Olson; brother Meryl (Dorothy) Olson, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. ....
- Olive's obit also posted on the Estevan Mercury newspaper: https://www.estevanmercury.ca/olive-isabel-murphy-1.1435455.
The same as above, but there is a thank-you note, likely from Olive's daughter

** Meryl Olson; re BC Death Registration, 1994-09-020494
Name as Meryl Enoch Olson, died 13 Oct 1994
- place of death, 11-27 Buttertubs Drive, Nanaimo
- married, Dorothy [M] Ross, same address
- he worked as guard with the government
- birth: 24 Apr 1917 at Tribune, SK; parents: Enoch Peter Olson b in MN; Olga Sherdal, b Spring Grove, MN [Houston Co]
- informant: Nancy Carol Olson, P O Box 005 Ulcuelet, BC
- burial Nanaimo Cemetery


Obit, Nanaimo Daily News, 17 Oct 1994, page 19
- born in 1917 in Tribune, SK-
- served in WW 2 in Holland and Germany
- predeceased by his parents, Enoch and Olga Olson
- survived by wife Dorothy of Nanaimo; son Dennis Olson of Nanaimo, daughter Sally O'Donnell of Pitt Meadows, and daughter Nancy Olson of Ucluelet, BC; sister Olive Murphy of Estevan, SK and niece Jo-Anne Bryne of Don Mills ON

5. Newspapers.com; The Leader-Post (Regina), 15 Jan 1940, page 8, col 4;
Wedding, Estevan: Meryl Olson son of Mr and Mrs Enoch Olson; married to Dorothy Mae Ross, daugther of Mr and Mrs M L Ross
- 8 Jan 1940 at Sterling Baptist Church manse

6. Newspapers.com; The Lead-Post (Regina), 16 Feb 1954, page 2
- died 11 Feb 1954 at St Joesph's hospital in Estevan
- born in Argyle, MN [Marshall Co]; homesteaded in the Tribune area in 1912
- farmed until 1937 and then, worked at the mines south of Bienfait; retired to Estevan in 1952
- survived by wife Olga; daughter, Mrs J T Murphy; one son, Merle in Estevan ⁹⁰¹⁹

Peter married Olga Sherdal. (Olga Sherdal was born in Dec 1894 in Spring Grove, Houston Co, Minnesota, United State and died on 16 Mar 1974 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.)