Ole Knudson, 1848-1923

KNUDSON, LARSON, BAKER, CORNISH, THOMAS

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 1/28/2012 at 17:09:24

Ole Knudson Dies Suddenly
Well Known Resident of Spencer Passes Away at His Home;
Funeral Yesterday

Funeral services were conducted for Mr. Knudson on Tuesday afternoon at the residence on East Third street by Rev. E. Merle Adams, pastor of the First Congregational church. Interment was made in Riverside cemetery.

Ole Knudson was born on July 10, 1848, in Vaoge county, Norway. His boyhood days were spent in that country and at fifteen, years of age he became a tailor. For nine years he worked at that trade in Norway and in August, 1872, came to America and located first at LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Later he moved to Minneapolis and Clear Lake and then to Spencer in 1883. He opened the first tailor shop here forty years ago and was in active business here until his sudden death.

He was married on October 18, 1889, to Mrs. Louise Peterson Larson and they have made their home on East Third street since that day.

Besides his wife there is left to mourn, four daughters, Mrs. G.G. Baker of Spencer, Mrs. B.W. Cornish of Cedar Rapids and Mrs. W.H. Thomas and Miss Minnie Knudson of this city, a brother at Dwight, North Dakota, and eight grandchildren.

The community was shocked when they learned Saturday noon of the death of Ole Knudson, a resident of this city for the past forty years. He arose Saturday morning and after eating his breakfast and busying himself about his home as usual left for his tailoring shop on Main street. About eleven o'clock Mr. Couch stepped into Mr.
Knudson's shop and visited with him for a time. He stated then that he was not feeling very well and Mr. Couch advised him to go home. About eleven-twenty o'clock he walked through the front door of his home just as Mrs. Knudson who had been at her daughters, Mrs. G.G. Baker, came into the rear entrance. Mr. Knudson complained then of a pain in his chest and lay down on a couch in the dining room. His wife covered him with a blanket and went about putting coal in the stoves in order to warm the house. Shortly after she had left him, she heard a sound as if he had fallen and upon runnng into the room discovered him lying unconscious on the floor grasping his chest as if he had undergone a very severe pain. She called a doctor immediately but before he arrived, Mr. Knudson had passed away.

Source: Spencer Reporter, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; February 21, 1923.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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