Boxelder County News - January 20, 1922
MANTUA MAN DIES SUDDENLY
While in the act of feeding his animals shortly after five o'clock Wed. evening, Ole Olsen, prominent resident of Manuta fell over dead. Mr. Olsen & his son Scott had been into the canyon during th early part of the day and got a load of wood. After his return home he put up his team, had a bite to eat then went out to saw some wood. Shortly after 5 o'clock he went into the barn to feed his animals and when he failed to return to the house his wife went to the barn to investigate and was horrified to find her husband lying on the hay with a pitchfork in his hand, dead. Heart failure was the cause of death and it must have caught Mr. Olsen while in the act of putting hay into the manger.
Ole Olsen was born at Bilstrup, Fredericksberg, Denmark, September 30, 1847. He became a convert to Mormonism in his native land and left for Utah with his parents in 1862. The family located at Cottonwood and in the year 1866 the subject of this sketch drove an ox team back to the Missouri river to assist a company of emigrants across the plains to Utah. He married his wife in 1868 and removed to Mantua where the family has continued to reside. Eleven children were born to Mr. & Mrs. Olsen, 6 sons and 5 daughters; Levi, Martena, Ole, Martha, Anetta, Albert (Twin), Alvida (Twin), Josephine (Twin), Joseph (Twin), Neri & Abner Scott. Three of the boys and one of the girls preceded their father to the other world so that there are surviving the aged wife, and the following children: Mrs. O.H. Pulsipher & Ole Olsen Jr., of Avon, Albert Olsen of this city, Mrs. L.L. Weaver and Mrs. Gus Craney of Ogden, Anetia Olsen & Scott Olsen of Mantua.
Mr. Olsen performed a mission to Denmark in 1893 & during his residence in Mantua he has been prominently identified with every civic & religious movement which has had for his object the progress of the community. Funeral services will be held at Mantua on Mon. at 12 o'clock.
MANTUA MAN DIES SUDDENLY
While in the act of feeding his animals shortly after five o'clock Wed. evening, Ole Olsen, prominent resident of Manuta fell over dead. Mr. Olsen & his son Scott had been into the canyon during th early part of the day and got a load of wood. After his return home he put up his team, had a bite to eat then went out to saw some wood. Shortly after 5 o'clock he went into the barn to feed his animals and when he failed to return to the house his wife went to the barn to investigate and was horrified to find her husband lying on the hay with a pitchfork in his hand, dead. Heart failure was the cause of death and it must have caught Mr. Olsen while in the act of putting hay into the manger.
Ole Olsen was born at Bilstrup, Fredericksberg, Denmark, September 30, 1847. He became a convert to Mormonism in his native land and left for Utah with his parents in 1862. The family located at Cottonwood and in the year 1866 the subject of this sketch drove an ox team back to the Missouri river to assist a company of emigrants across the plains to Utah. He married his wife in 1868 and removed to Mantua where the family has continued to reside. Eleven children were born to Mr. & Mrs. Olsen, 6 sons and 5 daughters; Levi, Martena, Ole, Martha, Anetta, Albert (Twin), Alvida (Twin), Josephine (Twin), Joseph (Twin), Neri & Abner Scott. Three of the boys and one of the girls preceded their father to the other world so that there are surviving the aged wife, and the following children: Mrs. O.H. Pulsipher & Ole Olsen Jr., of Avon, Albert Olsen of this city, Mrs. L.L. Weaver and Mrs. Gus Craney of Ogden, Anetia Olsen & Scott Olsen of Mantua.
Mr. Olsen performed a mission to Denmark in 1893 & during his residence in Mantua he has been prominently identified with every civic & religious movement which has had for his object the progress of the community. Funeral services will be held at Mantua on Mon. at 12 o'clock.
Boxelder County News - January 20, 1922
MANTUA MAN DIES SUDDENLY
While in the act of feeding his animals shortly after five o'clock Wed. evening, Ole Olsen, prominent resident of Manuta fell over dead. Mr. Olsen & his son Scott had been into the canyon during th early part of the day and got a load of wood. After his return home he put up his team, had a bite to eat then went out to saw some wood. Shortly after 5 o'clock he went into the barn to feed his animals and when he failed to return to the house his wife went to the barn to investigate and was horrified to find her husband lying on the hay with a pitchfork in his hand, dead. Heart failure was the cause of death and it must have caught Mr. Olsen while in the act of putting hay into the manger.
Ole Olsen was born at Bilstrup, Fredericksberg, Denmark, September 30, 1847. He became a convert to Mormonism in his native land and left for Utah with his parents in 1862. The family located at Cottonwood and in the year 1866 the subject of this sketch drove an ox team back to the Missouri river to assist a company of emigrants across the plains to Utah. He married his wife in 1868 and removed to Mantua where the family has continued to reside. Eleven children were born to Mr. & Mrs. Olsen, 6 sons and 5 daughters; Levi, Martena, Ole, Martha, Anetta, Albert (Twin), Alvida (Twin), Josephine (Twin), Joseph (Twin), Neri & Abner Scott. Three of the boys and one of the girls preceded their father to the other world so that there are surviving the aged wife, and the following children: Mrs. O.H. Pulsipher & Ole Olsen Jr., of Avon, Albert Olsen of this city, Mrs. L.L. Weaver and Mrs. Gus Craney of Ogden, Anetia Olsen & Scott Olsen of Mantua.
Mr. Olsen performed a mission to Denmark in 1893 & during his residence in Mantua he has been prominently identified with every civic & religious movement which has had for his object the progress of the community. Funeral services will be held at Mantua on Mon. at 12 o'clock.
MANTUA MAN DIES SUDDENLY
While in the act of feeding his animals shortly after five o'clock Wed. evening, Ole Olsen, prominent resident of Manuta fell over dead. Mr. Olsen & his son Scott had been into the canyon during th early part of the day and got a load of wood. After his return home he put up his team, had a bite to eat then went out to saw some wood. Shortly after 5 o'clock he went into the barn to feed his animals and when he failed to return to the house his wife went to the barn to investigate and was horrified to find her husband lying on the hay with a pitchfork in his hand, dead. Heart failure was the cause of death and it must have caught Mr. Olsen while in the act of putting hay into the manger.
Ole Olsen was born at Bilstrup, Fredericksberg, Denmark, September 30, 1847. He became a convert to Mormonism in his native land and left for Utah with his parents in 1862. The family located at Cottonwood and in the year 1866 the subject of this sketch drove an ox team back to the Missouri river to assist a company of emigrants across the plains to Utah. He married his wife in 1868 and removed to Mantua where the family has continued to reside. Eleven children were born to Mr. & Mrs. Olsen, 6 sons and 5 daughters; Levi, Martena, Ole, Martha, Anetta, Albert (Twin), Alvida (Twin), Josephine (Twin), Joseph (Twin), Neri & Abner Scott. Three of the boys and one of the girls preceded their father to the other world so that there are surviving the aged wife, and the following children: Mrs. O.H. Pulsipher & Ole Olsen Jr., of Avon, Albert Olsen of this city, Mrs. L.L. Weaver and Mrs. Gus Craney of Ogden, Anetia Olsen & Scott Olsen of Mantua.
Mr. Olsen performed a mission to Denmark in 1893 & during his residence in Mantua he has been prominently identified with every civic & religious movement which has had for his object the progress of the community. Funeral services will be held at Mantua on Mon. at 12 o'clock.
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