| i. | OLAV RASMUSSON5 HIDLE, b. October 16, 1889, Nord Hidle, Sjernaroy Islands, Norway; d. 1983; m. GUDRID KNUTSDTR. GRONSTOL, August 27, 1916. | ||
| ii. | SIGRID HIDLE, b. October 16, 1891. | ||
| iii. | GUNHILD HIDLE, b. January 21, 1894. | ||
| iv. | JAKOB RASMUSSON HIDLE, b. December 22, 1894; d. November 18, 1969; m. RAGNA IVARSDTR. HELLEBERG, January 08, 1932. | ||
| v. | DOBF. HIDLE, b. November 29, 1896. | ||
| vi. | GUNHILD HIDLE, b. February 27, 1898. | ||
| vii. | ANNA HIDLE, b. September 03, 1900; d. 1987. | ||
| viii. | JORUNN RASMUSDTR. HIDLE, b. August 19, 1902; m. GUSTAV JOHANNESSON HIDLE, August 30, 1928. | ||
| ix. | KNUTE HIDLE, b. April 26, 1905; m. BARBARA. |
| i. | ALBERT5 HILL, b. March 14, 1880; d. September 28, 1880. |
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More About ALBERT HILL: Fact 1: Buried in Union Cemetery, Atlo Twp., Lee County , Illinois |
| i. | CLARA5 HILL. | ||
| ii. | PALMER HILL. | ||
| iii. | MABEL HILL. |
| i. | ANNA5 HILL. | ||
| ii. | MARY HILL. | ||
| iii. | CHARLOTTE HILL. | ||
| iv. | HELEN HILL. | ||
| v. | BESSIE HILL. | ||
| vi. | ALBERT HILL. |
| i. | MINNIE5 THORSEN. | ||
| ii. | ADDIE THORSEN. | ||
| iii. | JENNIE THORSEN. |
| i. | ELSIE5 OTTOSEN, b. April 27, 1884, Badger, Iowa; d. February 20, 1961, Avoca, New York; m. JOHN L. MCALLISTER, July 23, 1919. |
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Notes for ELSIE OTTOSEN: Born at Badger, Iowa, April 27, 1884 she moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa, with her parents in 1896 and graduated High School there June 3, 1904. She taught school at Badger from 1904-1906 then entered the State Normal School at Ceder Rapids, Iowa, graduating in June 1908 with a degree B.Di. (Bachelor Didactics). She taught at Bedford, Iowa, the school year 1908-1909. She was Principle of the First Ward School in Fort Dodge from 1909-1910. Her health was not good. She visited her brother, Lieut. Peter Hill Ottosen, at Fort Ward, Bainbridge Island, Puget Sound from Christmas till August 1910. Then she went back to Normal School at Ceder Falls graduating in June 1912 with a M.Di. degree. Next she entered the State University of Iowa and graduated in June, 1913, with a BA degree. Thereafter she taught in the Junior High School at Fort Dodge until July 1919. On July 23, 1919, she married Mr. John McAllister, a successful local engineer and contractor. They bought a house and lived in Fort Dodge until the fall of 1924, when he disposed of his business and property and in November, 1924 they moved to Avoca, New York, where they bought a small farm. The work was very hard. In the spring of 1930 John suffered a strained heart and became a partial invalid. Elsie helped support the family by teaching the local school. They had two fine boys; John was born at Fort Dodge, June 21, 1924 and Christopher Paul was born at Avoca, June 18, 1926. Elsie resumed teaching in 1930 and did vacation college work at Cornell in the Graduate School in 1930 receiving her MA degree in 1935. In 1933 they moved from the farm into the village of Avoca. |
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More About ELSIE OTTOSEN: Burial: Highland Cemetery, Avoca, New York |
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Notes for JOHN L. MCALLISTER: John joined the British Colonial Service at age 18 and spent fourteen years in service. Most of his service was in Africa. He served two and one-half years in the Boer War. He was with the British forces at the battle of Omdurman in the Sudan fought in September of 1898. He left the Colonial Service in 1905 and came to Iowa. Although he was over forty, he went to Canada and joined the Canadian Army and served overseas in WWI. He and Elsie married shortly after his return from the service. He died February 19, 1968 at Fresno, California and is buried in Highland Cemetery, Avoca, New York. He lived with his son Chris the last seven years of his life. |
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More About JOHN L. MCALLISTER: Burial: Highland Cemetery, Avoca, New York |
| ii. | PETER HILL OTTOSEN, b. July 03, 1885, Badger, Iowa; d. March 31, 1958; m. ESTHER REDFIELD, August 26, 1914, Seattle, Washington. |
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Notes for PETER HILL OTTOSEN: Born at Badger, Iowa; July 3, 1885, he moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa, with his parents in 1896, and graduated from High School there on June 3, 1904. He entered Iowa State College (A&M) Ames, Iowa, that fall and graduated with a degree of B.C.E. on June 4, 1908. In July 1908 he took with success the national competitive examinations at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for a commission in the Coast Artillery Corps, U.S. Army. His resulting promotions and stations, not including war time moves or inter-front assignments at Puget Sound and Corrigidor, P.I. was as follows: 2nd Lt. Sept. 25, 1908 Puget Sound,Seattle, Wa. Nov. 4, 1908 Coast Arty. School, Ft. Monroe, Va Dec. 31, 1912 Corregidor, P.I. Jan. 5, 1914 1St Lt. Feb. 16, 1916 Puget Sound, Seattle, Wa. Jun. 20, 1916 Capt. July 1, 1916 Maj. (Temp) Mar. 3-Oct. 31, 1918 Field Arty in the U.S Jul. 11, 1918-Jul. 6, 1918 France Jul. 6, 1918-Apr.1, 1919 Ft. Monroe, Va. Apr.1, 1919 Lt. Col. (Temp) Nov. 1-Mar. 28, 1920 Maj. July 1, 1920 Mass. Inst. Of Tech., Boston, Ma. Sept. 14, 1920 Lt. Col. Dec. 1, 1932 Col. Aug. 7, 1937 Coast Arty School, Ft. Monroe, Va. Sept. 15, 1924 Gen. Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth Aug. 20, 1925 Ft. Eutis, Va. Jul. 9, 1927 Mass. Inst. Of Tech., Boston, Ma. Sept. 1, 1929 Glaucester, Mass. Sept. 6, 1932 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Sept. 22, 1934 University of Washington, Seattle, Wa. Sept. 26, 1936 Ft. Rosecrans, San Diego, Ca. Jun. 25, 1940 Col. (Retired) Dec. 31, 1945 Retired to La Jolla, Ca. Dec. 31, 1945 At each station he traveled widely on duty and for pleasure, especially visiting: Alaska in 1912, South Philippines in 1915, Hongkong and Shanghi, China in 1916, Kobe and Tokyo, Japan in 1916, and Paris, France in 1932. On August 26, 1914 he Married Esther Redfield in Seattle, Washington. He had met her on his first duty assignment in Puget Sound. For the wedding it was necessary to make a round trip from the U.S. from Manila, P.I. She is a direct descendent from the Mayflower on her fathers side and a Daughter of Colonial War on her mothers side. She was a graduate of Chamberlyn’s School Boston, Mass. Her parents were pioneers in Seattle, Washington. Two daughters were born, Edith at Corregidor P.I. and Merry Ann at Fort Ward (Bainbridge Island) Washington. Edith graduated from Buckingham School, Cambridge, Mass. And attended Wellesley College from 1932 to 1934. Merry Ann graduated from Punahoe Academy, Honolulu, H.T. and attended Gaucher College, Baltimore, Mass. From 1936 to 1939. There is a memorial window dedicated to Col. Peter Hill Ottosen installed in the St. James-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in La Jolla, California. This is commemorates his activities in retirement with the Institute of Oceanography, his faith, and his journeys by sea. He wrote a number books, one of which was titled ‘Trench Warfare’, it was published in Boston, where he was on the faculty of Boston Tech. Written after World War I, it was highly endorsed by General Pershing. |
| iii. | ANNA OTTOSEN, b. 1887. | ||
| iv. | CHARLES CHRISTOPHER OTTOSEN, b. June 14, 1889, Fort Dodge, Iowa; d. October 09, 1962, Leesburg, Florida; m. (1) SARAH IRENE ANDERSON, 1918, Des Moines, Iowa; m. (2) REBECCA MAE JONES, February 12, 1941, Orlando, Florida. |
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Notes for CHARLES CHRISTOPHER OTTOSEN: Born at Badger, Iowa, June 14, 1889, he moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa with his parents in 1896 and graduated from high school their in 1908. He had been a football star in high school. He attended college one year in Grinnel, Iowa. While attending the Officer’s Training Camp at Camp Dodge, Desmoines, Iowa in 1918 he married Irene Anderson of Forest City, Iowa. They had met in Fargo, North Dakota. They had five children, the last two twins; Vera Irene, Charles Christopher Jr, Bobbie Nan, Bradley Cooley and Bedeford Coop. Suddenly in 1930 the children were left orphans in Richmond, Texas when their mother died of tuberculosis. Through the kind help of the De Pelchin Home, they were provided marvelous foster parents, without adoption. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Cochell carefully raised them in a loving Christian home till they had all graduated from Milby High School and entered the naval (Marines from the girls) service for World War II. All attended Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas. After the death of Sara Irene Ottosen (Anderson) in 1930 Charles traveled in Texas as a salesman for a number of companies. After his wife’s death in 1930 he wrote several letters to his sister Elsie and to his daughter Vera. In these he expressed love and concern for his children and the grief for the death of his wife Sara. In a letter dated July 7, 1931 he told Vera he would be home in about two weeks. Sadly ,this proved to be the last correspondence Ottosen family members received from Charles, at least to our knowledge, and our final record of Charles. Throughout the remainder of Vera’s life she would search for her father, with no success. Charles was an enigma and a source of discussion and wonder. Because of the limitations of the social security system, no information could be accessed, until 1997. In 1997, more than sixty years after that last letter in 1931, the mystery of Charles Christopher Ottosen would start to reveal itself. In June of 1997 search capabilities on the Internet yielded Charles’ social security number, death date and the state in which he died. Using this information a copy of his death certificate was acquired from the Florida Department of statistics. He died at 73 of a peptic ulcer on October 9, 1962 in Leesburg, Florida. The lack of information on his death certificate subtlety but clearly indicated that he had truly left all family behind him; the names of his parents were shown as unknown, the place of birth incorrectly recorded as Ottosen County, Iowa. The person listed on the death certificate as "informant" was a Dale Jones, no hint of who this person was. Charles was listed as a widower, presumably to that of Sara Irene Ottosen. He was a 25 year resident of Leesburg which places him there in 1937, seven years after his last letter. From the death certificate clues for further information were the death location, and the burial location. A phone call to the cemetery brought a discovery not evident on the death certificate; Charles was buried under a dual marker next to his wife ,Rebecca. She preceded him to the grave in 1961, this was his widow, not Sara. The Leesburg Public Library provided a copy of the obituary and copies of phone books from 1955 and 1962 showing Charles’ residence address. The obituary echoed the same message as the death certificate, that his past family was forgotten, by listing his survivors as two stepsons; Dale S. and Keith S. Jones. This brought identity to Dale Jones recorded on the death certificate. A copy of his Rebecca’s death certificate and their marriage licensee was requested and received from the Florida Department of Vital Statistics. They married on July 1941, roughly 4 years after his arrival in Leesburg. Again using Internet search tools the phone numbers of all Dale Jones listed in Florida were acquired. Luckily one of them proved to be Dale S. Jones Jr., who provided his father’s phone number. Mr. Jones was kind enough to share what he new of Charles, Dale referred to him as "Charley". He was eight years old when Charles married his mother.. Charley was a salesman, as he was in Texas, holding miscellaneous jobs throughout his life. Dale said he was a difficult person to get along with, occasionally lost to drinking spells. He remembered Charlie talking about having twins and that his family had come from Ottosen, Iowa but no other details. He had wondered why Charles never mentioned his family and what might have happened. He was surprised to learn of Charles’ previous life and family. In 1997 at the time of this writing, Dale is 65 years old, his brother Keith passed away several years prior,Vera died in 1981 having never found her father she remembered as an eleven year old girl, Charles Christopher Ottosen Jr. died in 1996. Bobbie Nan, Bradley, Bedeford are alive to here this story. |
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Notes for SARAH IRENE ANDERSON: The majority of our knowledge of Sarah's brief life comes from a few new clippings, memories and letters she wrote to her sister-in-law Elsie Ottosen McAllister. Apparently Charles and Sarah came to Houston to reap the benefits of the growing port city . In one of Sarah's letters to Elsie she describes the long hours cooking and the summer heat of the deep south. Imagine the days before air conditioning in Houston, at 100 degrees, 98 percent humidity and a kitchen job from sun up to sun down, it must have been incredibly difficult. In 1927 Charles and Sarah became the owners of the Eagle Confectionery in Richmond, Texas A news clipping from the November 16, 1928 Richmond paper, the Texas Coaster, advertises reduced prices to celebrate their first year in business. Just two years later Sarah would fall victim to the heat and the long hours. The following is copied from an obituary for Sarah Irene Anderson Ottosen from the Richmond Coaster in 1930. After an Illness of two weeks, Mrs. Irene Anderson, Ottosen, aged 36 years, 2 days, passed away at 11:50 a.m. last Friday. The funeral occurred from the Methodist Church at 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, with interment in the Morton Cemetery. She leaves five little children, her husband, her mother and other relatives to mourn her ultimate end. We are taught that among the greatest things in life are faith, hope, and charity-and the greatest of these was charity. This was exemplified in no small way in the last illness and death of Mrs. Ottosen, and proved beyond question that Richmond has a big heart, taken’ as a whole. Shortly after Mrs. Ottosen became ill and it was known that the family was in destitute circumstances, a meeting was held by a number of citizens at the National Hotel and Mrs. W.H. Hinson was delegated to see after the family and agreed to do so. A collection was taken up among the business men of the city and a trained nurse was secured, food was provided, and clothing sent to the poverty-stricken home. As long as Mrs. Ottosen was able to be on her feet she made a valiant effort to support the five little children and herself, but when she became ill the gaunt specter of want haunted the humble cottage. Every effort was made to save this brave little woman, but her power of resistance was at a low ebb when she was stricken and the spark of life gradually became weaker until it flickered out-and another collection was taken for funeral expenses. The undertaking firm made the largest donation; the cemetery association donated the burial plot, and when the body was taken to the church it reposed in a beautiful casket among a profusion of flowers. Nothing was lacking in the way of last rites, and more beautiful or numerous floral offerings could not have been wished for. The attendance, too, was large, and after the ceremony the cortege wended its way to the burial spot, where all that was mortal of a woman with whom life had dealt harshly was laid away in a manner that was beyond criticism. It may be said truthfully that seldom has Richmond seen a more beautiful funeral, if such a thing can be called that, and if her death was in the prime of life, there is at least this consolation, that beyond the tumult here she has at last found rest in eternal sleep. One of the little children is temporarily with a friend in Dallas, one with a friend in Houston. The other three are still here with their grandmother until the little boy, who is recovering from typhoid, can be moved. And the people of Richmond have this consolation-that everything was done. Even those in affluent circumstances could have no more. Sometime later the following was posted in the same newspaper: The Coaster has been requested by Mrs. GoodKnight, mother of Mrs. Ottosen, to express her heartfelt thanks and appreciation for the kindness and liberality of the Richmond people during the illness and death of Mrs. Ottosen and the assistance rendered in every way before and since. She feels truly grateful and appreciative and would like to thank each and every one personally if it were possible. |
| v. | ANNIE LAURIE OTTOSEN, b. August 24, 1893; d. June 28, 1913, Omaha, Nebraska. |
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Notes for ANNIE LAURIE OTTOSEN: Annie Laurie played the cello and travelled with Chitauqua. She was accidentally poisened near Omaha, Nebraska, while on a Grinnell College orchestra tour. In her senior year, only twenty years of age. Pictures of her show a beautiful young woman that must have been full of life. Her father's brother Anton died a year previous to her birth, at his side during his last days was his fiancee, Laura. It is reported that she may have been named in memory of them; possibly also in memory of a babe Anna who also was buried in the cemetery where Anton was buried. Her death affected her father deeply. Thereafter he joined and was active in the Congregational Church at Fort Dodge. |
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