SAVRE, Knut 1842-1924
SAVRE, LARSON
Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 5/13/2011 at 10:52:29
Knut Savre 1842-1924
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K. Savre has lived in Worth co., Iowa since 1862. The first four years of his residence in the county was in Northwood township, but since that he has resided on his present home, in Kensett township, section 33, where he has 120 acres of good land well improved. He is engaged in raising stock and grain of all kinds. he was born in Norway in December 1842, He left his native land, coming to America in 1851 and making his first settlement in Rock Co. Wis., where he followed farming until 1862, at which date he settled in Iowa. In 1871 he married Maggie Larson who was a native of Norway, born in 1848. They have five children - Louis, Edward, Samuel, Clarence O. and Bertha M. Mr. Savre and family are all members of the Norwegian Lutheran ChurchFrom the History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, Union Publishing Co., Springfield, Ill, 1884, Page 778:
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Osage City Cemetery, Osage, Mitchell, Iowa
Knut Savre...death/burial May 12, 1924#3
1900 US Census: Kensett, Worth, Iowa
Knut Savre 57 born December 1842 Norway
Margrit 52 born December 1847 Norway
Sam 24, born May 1876 Iowa
Mary 22 born March 1878 Iowa
Clarence 18 born October 1881 Iowa
Sadie 16 born September 1883 Iowa
Alma 14 born December 1885 Iowa
Cora 10 born August 1889 Iowa#4
Around 1910 he moved his family to Osage according to his wife’s obit.
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