Ole A. Anderson

ANDERSON, HALVORSON, PETTERSON, HENDRICKS, LEE, BENDICKSON

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall (email)
Date: 7/15/2009 at 06:51:27

For almost thirty years Ole A. Anderson was one of the prominent farmers of Winnebago county, owning and operating a fine farm on section 26, Norway township. His early home was on the other side of the Atlantic, for he was born in Norway in 1835, a son of Andrew and Anna Anderson, but when he was eighteen years of age the family came to the new world and located in Chicago, Illinois, where the mother and one sister died shortly afterward during an epidemic of cholera in that city and were buried in an old cemetery which now forms a part of Lincoln park. One brother died in the Civil War. In 1865 the father came to Winnebago county, Iowa, and here he made his home with his son 0. A. Anderson until his death, which occurred in 1875. His remains were interred in the United Lutheran cemetery near Emmons.

In his native land 0. A. Anderson was reared and educated, being eighteen years of age at the time of the emigration of the family to America. On coming to Winnebago county, Iowa, in 1865, he purchased the west half of the southeast quarter and the east half of the southwest quarter of section 26, Norway township, and to the improvement and cultivation of that place devoted his energies until called to his final rest on the 17th of September, 1892. He was buried in the Synod church cemetery in Norway township.

Mr. Anderson was married in Chicago to Miss Tone Halvorson, of that city, and to them were born eleven children, namely: Anna, now living in Chicago; Henry, on the home farm; Tena, the wife of John Petterson, of Chicago; Nellie, the wife of C. Hendricks, of Chicago; William, who died at the age of nine years; Agnes, the wife of Louis Lee, of Chicago; Andrew 0., who now owns the home farm in Norway township; Josie, the wife of Albert Bendickson, of Norway township; and Martha, Mina and Emma, all at home with their mother on the farm. The family is one of prominence in the community and is identfied with the Lutheran church, to which Mr. Anderson also belonged. He voted the republican ticket and well merited the confidence and high regard in which he was held by all who knew him.

~History of Winnebago and Hancock Counties, Iowa, Vol. II, 1917, pg 57