Ole Olsen Ulen

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64599175/ole-olson-ulen

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http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NOR-BUSKERUD/2002-12/...

In 1870 or 1871, the first settlers did arrive. They were Ole Ulen and with him came his wife, Torgun, two daughters, Randi and Gunhild and son-in-law, Arne Evans. From the obituary of Arne Evans, we gained the following insight into the trip from Spring Grove to Ulen. This is reprinted from THE ULEN UNION.

When Arne Evans and Ole Ulen emigrated from Spring Grove, Minnesota, with two teams of oxen and covered wagons and a few head of livestock, they headed for the west and the valley of the Red River. The difficulties encountered on the way were often such as tested their courage and hardihood. Fording rivers and being nearly submerged in swamps, keeping watch for pillaging, massacring Indians, noting the destruction wrought by recent Indian outbreaks at Fort Abercrombie at Mankato and other places.

At one time they werc almost mired in a swamp, through whose green smoking mist the patient sagacious oxen staggered bravelv their tough sides reeking with sweat, their distended nostrils flecked with bloody foam, but their powerful muscles pulling pioneers to safety.

Across the swamps encountered on the way, Ole Ulen (from whose life could read like a romance) laid rail bridges, assisted by his son-in-law, before the party could proceed. No trails led through the wilderness of forests, and the stretches of wild prairie, with oxen and covered wagon, the slow hazardous journey proceeded. Once their cattle were stolen by Indians and they had to retrace their steps and search for the stock.

Some of the colts belonging to Ole Ulen tore loose and started back. They were later found, they had gone back to Spring Grove. Ulen offered a $5.00 reward to whoever could recover the animals and of the party, young Arne Evans was the only man who volunteered. Alone, he started out, guessing at directions. The intrepid, adventurous young man searched day and night in the dense wilderness traveling on foot, and somehow got back to Spring Grove. Here he overtook the colts, and brought them back in safety to Ole Ulen, this time on horseback.

Ole Ulen, it might be mentioned was a man of dauntless courage and resourcefulness--a typical pioneer of the rugged type, trusted and respected by white men and Indians alike, a man with genuine abilities of leadership.

The group passed through Minneapolis which was at that time but a crude village in its infancy, a mere row of shacks. They crossed the Mississippi by ferry and aimed steadily for the Northwest. They stopped only when they came to the end of the government-surveyed land, which happened to be the Red River Valley region. Here they built their homes and here they farmed.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~maggiebakke/flom.html

GEDCOM Source

@R403159316@ Norway Marriages, 1600s-1800s Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations Inc 1,1346::0 Den Norske Kirke (Nes, Buskerud, Norway), Marriages 1833 - 1863, Microfilm nr. 278204 1,1346::189295

GEDCOM Source

@R403159316@ U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,60525::0 1,60525::34016799

GEDCOM Source

@R403159316@ 1880 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Ancestry.com Operations Inc 1,6742::0 Year: 1880; Census Place: Clay, Minnesota; Roll: 617; Page: 545A; Enumeration District: 193 1,6742::32695073

GEDCOM Source

@R403159316@ U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 1,60525::0 1,60525::34016799