Bio of NEWGARD, Ida Olea OLSON ABELSET (b.1871 d.1951) Kandiyohi Co., MN (Family Bio) ========================================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE:In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. FileFormatted by Terri--MNArchives Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Joanne Bledsoe ========================================================================= The following information was compiled from family bible records, books and records provided to me by the Kandiyohi Historical Society, Norwegian census documents, a contact at the University of Tromso in Norway, and Janet Grey in St Cloud, Minnesota who had alot of family records on the Johnson/Nilson family. IDA OLEA OLSON ABELSET NEWGARD was born March 25, 1871 in Willmar Minnesota. She met and married John Andrias Abelset c1892. John was a tailor by profession. Ida and John had three children, Marcus, Alta, and Ruth. Marcus was born May 1893. He attended law school and was a member of Delta Chi Fraternity. He suffered from acute alcoholism and took his own life in February 1941. Alta was born c 1896. She married Edwin Landin and had one son John Edwin Landin, and a daughter Jean. Alta died c1930. Ruth was born January 1898. She married Winfield White and had one son David White. Win died in 1976 and Ruth passed away July 1992. John Abelset died in 1934. Ida married Sam Newgard several years later. Ida died in 1951. Ida is buried in Mt Pleasant Cemetery next to her husband John Abelset and their son Marcus.