An obituary for S. Mathisen (assumed here, to be Sverre Mathisen) held a sweet story: he asked Ella Nelsen, his childhood playmate in Norway, to emigrate, so to marry him in Iowa. It was 1896.1 It said they shared a child around 1899. Also, that S., a stonemason, was interred in the Norwegian Cemetery of … Continue reading Sverre Mathisen 1865-1902, Olea Andrea Nilssen 1870-1939: Hattfjelldal and Estherville →