Karen Sophie (Sophie) OLSON

1856 - 1913  (57 years)

• Name	Karen Sophie (Sophie) OLSON
  Birth	13 Jan 1856	Norway
  	Her gravestone has her birth date as 13 Jan 1853.
  Gender	Female
  MN Death Cert Checked	Y
  Minnesota Death Certificate	1913-MN-009646
  Death	26 Aug 1913	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  Burial	27 Aug 1913	Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  	Also called Mt. Faith Cemetery. The cemetery is located off Mt. Faith Avenue. Buried with her first husband as Karen S. Wold Bye.
  Notes	Or Karen Sofia. FamilySearch Family Tree calls her Carin Sofie Ellefsen. In the 1900 census (June 19th), Carin Wold was already a widow but had not yet married Martin Bye. She is shown as 44 (born Jan 1856) and is living with her 12 year old son Harold S. (born Mar 1888) and her 7 year old daughter Alma (born June 1892). Also living with them is 3 year-old Hilda Morstad (born May 1897) who is shown as an adopted daughter. Carin is shown as having had 5 children, two still living. The family was living at 120 or 123 Bancroft Avenue (near Channing Avenue on which some of the Byes lived) in a home that Carin owned without mortgage. No occupation is shown for Carin. She is shown has having immigrated in 1885. Called Sophie in the city directories. The 1910 census form says they had been married for 8 years which would put their year of marriage at 1902 or 1903. The form also says that Carin had given birth to 5 children, only two still living. (Hilda Morstad was now living with Bernard and Jennie Morstad in Minot, North Dakota. Hilda Rebekka Morstad, b. 5 May 1897, bapt. 6 Jun in Fergus Falls, was confirmed at First Lutheran in Minot on 28 May 1911. In her confirmation record, her parents are shown as Bernhard E. and Rina Morstad.) Immigrated to the U.S. in 1884. The 1910 census suggests that Carin, not Martin, owned the home that they lived in on Remington in the city of Fergus Falls (Ward 4) and that the home was free of mortgage in 1910. BYE, KAREN SOPHIA  Minnesota Death CertID# 1913-MN-009646    Date of Birth: not indexed Place of Birth: not indexed Mother Maiden Name:  not indexed Date of Death: 08/26/1913 County of Death: OTTER TAIL    She died as Karen Sophia Bye at 123 Bankroft in Fergus Falls of pulmonary tuberculosis. The informant for her death certificate was her daughter Alma. A Karen Sophie was born in Levanger on 13 Jan 1856 (bapt. 27 Apr 1856) to Ingebrigt Olsen Østborgvald (?) and Anne Bergitte Nilsdatter.
  Person ID	I1216	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	25 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Ole Olson
  Family ID	F8365	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hans Olsen WOLD,   b. 11 Jan 1852, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway d. 19 Sep 1897, St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota (Age 45 years)
  Children	1. Harold Sigurd WOLD,   b. 16 Mar 1888, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota d. 2 Sep 1969, St. Louis County, Minnesota (Age 81 years)   2. Alma O WOLD,   b. Jun 1892, Minnesota d. 31 Oct 1960, Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin (Age 68 years)
  Family ID	F884	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Martinus Eliassen BYE,   b. 18 Aug 1847, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway d. 29 Nov 1932, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	17 Mar 1901	Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  	First English Lutheran; as Martinius Bye and Karen S. Wold
  Family ID	F883	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2020