Ingeborg (Johnson) (Mrs. O. O.) Hegland (1844-1921)

HEGLAND, JOHNSON, HENDERSON, MYRAH, RASMUSSEN, SLAUGHTER, HANSEN, BOYD, ENLOW, TENDALL

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:14

From The Roland Record, Roland, Story County, Iowa, Thursday June 9, 1921.

MRS. O. O. HEGLAND DIED AT NEVADA SUNDAY

Mrs. O. O. Hegland, aged 77 years, passed away Sunday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fred E. Hansen at Nevada with whom she has made her home the past three years.

Funeral services are being held this afternoon. A short service at the Hansen home at Nevada conducted by Rev. M. O. Sumstad of Bergen church assisted by Rev. C. N. Swihart of Memorial Lutheran church at Nevada and followed by services in the Bergen Lutheran churdh.

Interment will be at the Roland Cemetery by the side of her husband who died Mary 29, 1917.

Mrs. Hegland has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Hansen, since November, 1918, and was taken ill the following January with palsey. That, with other complications had kept her bedfast all of the time since with the exception of a few months during last summer when she was able to be up and around, and made a brief visit with her daughters at Story City and Roland.

For the past few days it had been known that her life was slowly passing and she died without a struggle, unconscious of any pain, and when the end finally came it was realized that she had passed from her long illness into the life to come, with full assurance of a home with her Father in Heaven.

Mrs. Hegland, Miss Ingeborg Johnson, was born in Skannevig, Norway, Europe, July 12, 1844. When a young lady of 18 summers she made the trop alone to America and went at once to the home of her sister, Mrs. Lars Henderson near Randall, in Hamilton county, where she remained until March 7, 1868, when she became the bride of Ole O. Hegland.

They took up their home at once on the farm which lies just north of the present town of Roland. There they continued to live for about thirty years. During their residence there ten children were born, eight of whom are still living. It was about 24 years ago that they left the farm and moved into Roland and there they lived until the husband passed away in March of 1917. It was about a year and a half later that the home was broken up and the other went over to Nevada to live with her daughter.

The ten children born to them were Mrs. Bessie Myrah of Story City, Mrs. Isabelle Rasmussen, deceased; Mrs. Julia Henderson, Story City; Mrs. Minnie Slaughter, deceased; Mrs. Louise Rasmussen of Muncton [Moncton], New Brunswick, Canada; Martin J Hegland of Rosseau, Minn., Mrs. Anna Hansen of Nevada; Mrs. Olive Boyd of Roland; Mrs. Sara Enlow of Quincy, Ill., and Miss Agnes Hegland, who has been in Nevada for the past year and assisted in the care of the mother.

Besides these she leaved 23 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren , a brother in Norway and a sister, Mrs. Signie Tendall of Blue Earth, Minn. The other sister, Mrs. Lars Henderson, died some years ago.

Confirmed in the Lutheran church as a child in Norway, she had always been a close student of the Bible and was a devout Christian character. Du ring all of her long and very busy life she clung to and was dependent upon that faith which she had acquired and it was a great comfort to her in her declining days.

Mrs. Hegland was truly a remarkable woman. The mother of a large family and the wife of busy farmer, in the days when life upon the farm meant real work, she left nothing undone in the rearing of her family into clean and useful lives. All of the children were properly educated, were active in religious affairs and lived to make clean and respected citizens. To the able religious and moral training of the parents was due much of the success in the rearing of the family in the right paths.

Busy with her home life and in affairs of her church, she had little time for social life, although the Hegland home was always open to the neighbors and friends and the circle of their acquaintance and friendship was wide.