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Karen Sophie (Sophie) OLSON

Female 1856 - 1913  (57 years)


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  • Name Karen Sophie (Sophie) OLSON 
    Birth 13 Jan 1856  Norway Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Her gravestone has her birth date as 13 Jan 1853.
    Gender Female 
    MN Death Cert Checked
    Minnesota Death Certificate 1913-MN-009646 
    Death 26 Aug 1913  Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 27 Aug 1913  Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 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 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 21 Apr 2021 

    Father Ole Olson 
    Family ID F8365  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Hans Olsen WOLD,   b. 11 Jan 1852, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Sep 1897, St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years) 
    Children 
     1. Harold Sigurd WOLD,   b. 16 Mar 1888, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Sep 1969, St. Louis County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
     2. Alma O WOLD,   b. Jun 1892, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Oct 1960, Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location (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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Nov 1932, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage 17 Mar 1901  Otter Tail County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • First English Lutheran; as Martinius Bye and Karen S. Wold
    Family ID F883  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jul 2020