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Surnames: Christensen, Harrigan
Classification: Query
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I just recently found out information that my great grandfather John Oscar Carlson had two
sisters and a brother. I don't really know a whole lot about them or their paents.
John's father was Carl Agust Carlson. I know that he was married to a Mathilda
Charlotta (last name unknown). In Mathilda's will she left property to her daughters.
One piece of property was in Kanabe county, Minnesota, left to Ida Sophia Harrigan, and
the other was in Bristol, Day county, South Dakota left to Anna Caroline Christensen. I
don't have a copy of the will. What I have is an agreement written up by the
daughters stating that they wanted to share the property with all of Mathida's
children, including John and a Carl August Carlson. I also know that son John was born in
Minnesota. So it is possible that the other children were born there also. Mathilda and
Carl divorced when my great grandfather, John Oscar Carlson, born 2-11-1882, was a young
boy. John had to stay home after the divorce!
and help her run the farm. John couldn't read at age 21. He learned how to read and
went to Poorman's College, now called Valparaiso University for two years. They ran
out of money. John died from a truck/train wreck at age 43. In the notes that my mother
had she mentions that August and Mathilda were divorced. On the death index card that my
great grandmother Amelia, wife of John, said that John's father's name was Carl
Carlson. I just recently found out when Mathilda died, 10-6-1922, and I'm in the
process of getting her death certificate. I'm hoping that there might be some
information on it about Carl August Carlson. I've been trying to find out as much
information that I can the free way. Getting copies of death and birth certificates can be
costly. But now I've come to the point that I'm going to have to spend a little
money to get any further. My grandparents, about 15 years ago, visited Carlson relatives
in Oregon. Don't know anything about them.