OLson Obituaries: Terrebonne Parish, La.

Submitted by: Cynthia Fatchett Daigle

Source: As listed with each Obit

30 May 2004

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NOTES:
1. The date preceding the obituary is the date of the newspaper,
not the date of death.
2. Annotations are additional information
3. SLR - from South Louisiana Records by Donald Hebert
4. SLVFR - from South Louisiana Vital Family Records by Terrebonne 
Genealogicial Society


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The Houma Times; June 15, 1929

Charles F. OLSON 

Mr. C. F. OLSON, who for the past thirteen years had been a resident of 
Terrebonne Parish, residing at Bayou Cane, passed on to his eternal rest, on 
Friday afternoon, June 7th, 1929, at 4 pm and was buried in the Magnolia 
Cemetery last Saturday at 3 o'clock pm.  The funeral services were held from 
the Presbyterian Church.
Mr. OLSON was born in Sweden, August 8, 1860 and immigrated with his parents to 
Henry County, Illinois at the age of eighteen months.  He married Miss Adelina 
Sophia Nelson also of Sweden, August 17, 1885 and moved to Nebraska in 1888, 
and came to Louisiana in 1916.  Mr. OLSON was the only one of a group of 
Swedish Colonist to come to Terrebonne Parish to farm some of her Prairie 
Lands.
He leaves his wife and four children, Edwin OLSON  of Concord, Neb., Mrs. J. J. 
MANZ of Dixon, Neb.,  Mrs. R. S. SEAY of New Orleans, and Mrs. C. F. SPRAGUE of 
Houma.