Nils Olsen Roan

   Other names for Nils were Nels, Nels Johnson and Nels Roen.

  Research Notes:

1. Birth

- Carl Martin Roan indicates 7 Oct 1859
- 1900 US Census lists May 1859

2. 1900 & 1910 US Census - Brislet Twp, Polk Co, Minnesota

- Nels with wife Agnes and daughter Mable
- 1900 - married 12 years; 1 child, 1 living; farmer; owns home - mortgage (1910, married 22 yrs)

3. 1920 US Census - Dovre Twp, Kandiyohi Co, Minnesota

- Nels and Agnes
- farmer - farm schedule 18 ^{1036,1771,1772}

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence - 1900, 1 Jun 1900, Brislet Twp, Polk Co, Minnesota, United States. ¹⁷⁶⁹ Nels Roan, head of household, age 41 born May 1859 in MN, married 12 years, farmer. Agnes, wife age 33 born Aug 1867 in MN, married 12 yrs, mother of one child, living. Mable daughter, age 11 born Oct 1888 in MN

2. Residence - 1910, 15 Apr 1910, Brislet Twp, Polk Co, Minnesota, United States. ¹⁷⁷³

3. Residence, 1 Jan 1920, Dovre Twp, Kandiyohi Co, Minnesota, United States. ¹⁷⁷⁴

Nils married Agnes Lydia Larson, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, on 19 Nov 1887 in Garfield, Douglas Co, Minnesota, United States.¹⁷⁶⁹ (Agnes Lydia Larson was born in Aug 1867 in Minnesota, United States,¹⁷⁶⁹ died on 8 Mar 1937 in Yellow Medicine Co, Minnesota, United States and was buried in Clarkfield Cemetery, Clarkfield, Yellow Medicine Co, Minnesota, United States ¹⁷⁷⁰.)