Trules Colbertson

COBERTSON, WEKA

Posted By: Gordon Felland <gfelland1@comcast.net>
Date: 8/24/2005 at 22:40:49

Trules Colbertson (Weka) was born in Norway, in 1844. When three and one-half years old his parents emigrated to the United States, and settled in Rock Co., Wis., where the father died in 1866, aged ninety-six years. The family resided there until 1871, when Trules and his mother went to Cerro Gordo Co., Iowa, where they remained three years. They came to Brookfield township, and settled on secton 31, where they still live. The farm contains 146 acres in this township and ten acres in Bristol township. Mr. Colberstson was married in 1874. His wife is a native on Norway, born in 1845. They are the parents of one child - Arandena. The mother is still living with her son at the advanced age of sevety-seven years. She is the mother of nineteen children only two of whom are still living.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 729.

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