Ole Refsell, 1819-1894

REFSELL

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 3/7/2009 at 08:45:14

One of Emmet County's Old Settlers Gathered Home

Ole Refsell, aged 74 years, died at his home in High Lake of old age, last Friday, March 2d [1894]. He came to Emmet county direct from Norway in 1866, having lived here twenty-eight years.

He leaves a wife and four married sons. They are O. O. Refsell, the county treasurer, P. O. residing at Emmetsburg, James at Wallingford and I. S. at High Lake. The funeral was held Tuesday at the Wallingford Lutheran church where a large concourse of neighbors and friends gathered to pay their last respects to one whom they highly esteemed and had known so long. Rev. S. M. Krogness of Adams county, a former pastor of that church, preached the funeral sermon which was replete with fitting allusions to the valuable life that had gone out. He was assisted by Revs. Engh, Thormondsgard and Kasa.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, March 8, 1894.