Oliver E. Sando, 1871-1905

SANDO

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 3/14/2009 at 15:21:02

Died in Iowa
(Item in Aberdeen S.D. Press)

P. B. Peterson of Wallingford, Iowa, arrived in this city [Aberdeen, SD] this week, the bearer of sad tidings to the mother and brother of Oliver E. Sando, late of this city [Aberdeen].

About Christmas time Mr. Sando left Aberdeen for a short visit to Chicago and on his way back visited his old home in [Emmet County] Iowa. After staying there a few days he was taken sick with the black diphtheria and quarantined at Estherville, Iowa where he died the 12th of January [1905] and was buried there the same evening. No one, not even his own relatives, being allowed to be present.

Mr. Sando was born in Emmet County, Iowa on May 5th, 1871. In 1882 he came with his parents to South Dakota. The family settled in Highland township, Brown county. Until the last summer he had been engaged in farming, but last spring rented his farm and moved into Aberdeen where he worked most of the time last summer for T. H. Moen.

His relatives to mourn his sad departure are his mother and brother, J. E. Sando of this city, his sister, Mrs. Geo. Kramer of Puyallup, Washington, his aunt, Mrs. Geo. Osher of Aecia [sic], and his uncles and aunts at Wallingford, Iowa. Mr. Sando was a member of the Norwegian Lutheran church of good standing, was honest and trustworthy in all his affairs, having accumulated quite a little property. He owned, besides his farm, some city property, having most promising prospects.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: reprinted in an unnamed Estherville newspaper, 17 February 1905, compiled in a scrapbook of Mrs. John K. Johnson of Emmet County, Iowa.