Gunhild (Olsdatter) Highland (1819-1907)

OLSDATTER, HIGHLAND

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/11/2023 at 18:54:17

From The Slater News January 31, 1907 (page 4)

Obituary.

Mrs. Guneld Highland, Grandma Highland, whose death was briefly mentioned in last weeks issue, was a native of Norway where she was born on the 28th of January 1819. She spent the early years of her life and grew to womanhood in the community of her birth where she lived with her husband and family till the spring of 1862 when they set sail for America and settled down in Leland, Ill. While yet making Illinois their home the husband and father died leaving Mrs. Highland a widow of sixty one summers old. In 1885 with her children she moved to Iowa and has since made this state her home till removed by death last week. She is survived by seven children, twenty-eight grandchildren, forty-two great grandchildren and a host of admiring friends.

Deceased will be remembered as a woman of the highest ideals, always anxious to further any cause that tended to elevate fellow being to a higher plane of living. She was always devoted to duty and sought to foster and look at the brighter side of life. Her lost was not without its sorrows, however, and only a short time after having landed in this country and yet on the was to their destination, she suffered the loss of a daughter who was crushed between two cars while enroute to Chicago. Arriving here during the Civil War, she gave permission to three of her sons to join the Union army, suffering during their years of service all the anxieties that could come to a mother, without a complaint. The spirit that had marked her career through lie permeated her every day life, even through her last sickness, till she passed away and was no more.