Family/Spouse: Katie Emma Jensen. Katie (daughter of Christian Lauridsen Jensen and Petrea Christine Jepsen) was born on 26 Jul 1903 in Maywood, Frontier County, Nebraska, USA; died on 9 Oct 1986 in McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska, USA; was buried in Curtis Cemetery, Frontier County, Nebraska, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Evelyn Ruby Olsson was born on 4 Mar 1927 in Curtis, Frontier County, Nebraska, USA; died on 29 Dec 2008 in Loveland, Larimer County, Colorado, USA.
2. Baby Boy Olsson was born on 3 Aug 1925 in Curtis, Frontier County, Nebraska, USA; died on 3 Aug 1925 in Curtis, Frontier County, Nebraska, USA; was buried in Curtis Cemetery, Frontier County, Nebraska, USA.
3. Delbert Leroy Olsson was born on 24 Sep 1928 in Curtis, Frontier County, Nebraska, USA; died on 13 Jun 2003 in McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska, USA.
4. Gary Olsson
5. Eleanor Marie Olsson was born on 12 Dec 1935 in Curtis, Frontier County, Nebraska, USA; was christened on 5 Jan 1936 in Ebenezer Church, Curtis, Frontier County, Nebraska, USA; died on 12 Oct 2011 in Longmont United Hospital, Colorado.

Notes:

Joel was only 15 when he emigrated to America in 1898 on the ship Cymric. The ship was caught in a storm and landed
in Virginia instead of New York., where his two brothers, Frank and Albin, were. . All he had for food was moldy bread and somehow found his way to the train station where some kind soul helped him get to Upland, Nebraska to his sister Elin who had married Frank Osterlund. Quite a feat for someone who didn't speak English at all. His oldest sister, Alma married a Bergman and also settled in New York.

Kenneth Leroy Mercer
20 Jan 2013

Joel married Ruby Lahila Slater. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Skokapten Johannes Olsson was born into the Nilsson family in Jonstorp, Sweden. The year was 1830. He had a great love for sailing and spent most of his life on the high seas. His career as the skipper of a sailing ship ended west of France. He was caught in a violent storm,
irregular atmospheric and turbulent waves struck his great ship and she heeled over and sank in the Bay of Biscay. Some lives were lost, but he survived although it impaired his health and he died of complications in 1887, at the age of 57.


Maria Jonasson was born in Jonstorp, Sweden in 1845 and married Johannes on Feb. 8th, 1867.
She was 22 and Johannes was 37. They had seven children, three boys and four girls.. Because of the economic and social changes that occurred in the late 1800's, five of their children came to America. When she died at the age of 86 in 1931, Sweden was developing into the most prosperous nation in Northern Europe. Johannes and Maria are buried in their family gravesite on the Parish Churchyard in Jonstorp, Sweden.

Johannes married Maria Jonasdotter on 8 Feb 1867 in Jonstorp Kyrka, Jonstorp Församling, Malmöhus Län, Sweden. Maria was born in 1845. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Skokapten Johannes Olsson was born into the Nilsson family in Jonstorp, Sweden. The year was 1830. He had a great love for sailing and spent most of his life on the high seas. His career as the skipper of a sailing ship ended west of France. He was caught in a violent storm,
irregular atmospheric and turbulent waves struck his great ship and she heeled over and sank in the Bay of Biscay. Some lives were lost, but he survived although it impaired his health and he died of complications in 1887, at the age of 57.


Maria Jonasson was born in Jonstorp, Sweden in 1845 and married Johannes on Feb. 8th, 1867.
She was 22 and Johannes was 37. They had seven children, three boys and four girls.. Because of the economic and social changes that occurred in the late 1800's, five of their children came to America. When she died at the age of 86 in 1931, Sweden was developing into the most prosperous nation in Northern Europe. Johannes and Maria are buried in their family gravesite on the Parish Churchyard in Jonstorp, Sweden.

Kenneth Leroy Mercer
28 April 2013