Ole Knudsen NATTESTAD

   Another name for Ole was Ole Knudsen NATESTA.

  Death Notes:

transcribed "Natesba"

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: from Norway, 1837, America. ⁴ leaving Rollag

| 1837 | | |
9 | Marti 7 | Ole Knudsen | 29 |
10 | d d | Andsten Knudsen | 24 | Amerika
Natestad

• Residence: Clinton township, Jefferson Prairie settlement, 1838, Rock County, WI. First worked as a day laboror in northern Illinios. Arrived in Rock County 1 July 1838. Bought land - the first Norwegian to settle in WI.

• Biography: The History of Rock County, Wisconsin, 1879, Rock County, WI. p782
OLE K. NATESTA, farmer, Sec. 20; P.O. Clinton ; born in Norway Dec. 24, 1807 ; came to America in 1837, first to Rhode Island, and then to New York ; went to Beaver Creek, Ill., same year, and about July 1, 1838, came to Clinton, Wis. ; made a claim of eighty acres; through his industry and honest labor he has now a fine farm and residence ; had at one time 318 acres ; now has 198 acres. When he first came here, he worked for Stephen Downers for his board. He lived here fifteen months before he saw one of his own countrymen. It was partially through his influence that the Norwegians made a settlement here. He married, September, 1840, Lena Hiser. Have had seven children--Charles N. is in Sioux Falls, Dakota, is Registrar of Deeds there ; James is also in Dakota keeping store, and has a farm of 320 acres ; Ann is married, and living in Clinton ; Julia married Martin Scofftedt, and is living in Lawrence, Kan. ; Caroline married Louis Larson, and is living in Clinton ; Henry and Eliza are at home. Self and family are members of the Lutheran Church.

• Reference: A Chronicler Of Immigrant Life by Svein Nilsson, 1882. pp49-55

• Cemetery: Jefferson Prairie, 1886, Rock County, WI. Solberg Anna J (Natesta) 23 Jul 1846 - 4 Feb 1924 w/o Halvor K
Larson Caroline (Natesta) 1853 - 17 Sep 1887 w/o Lewis
Natesta Henry O 5 Mar 1856 - 26 Nov 33
Natesta Live (Hoiseth) 15 Oct 1812 - 15 Sep 1888 w/o Ole K
Natesta Ole K 24 Dec 1807 - 28 May 1886

Ole married Liv Knudsdatter HØYSET, daughter of Knud Gundersen HØYSET and Guri Olsdatter WEDHUUS, on 7 Sep 1840 in Rock County, WI.¹ (Liv Knudsdatter HØYSET was born on 15 Oct 1812 in Rollag, Buskerud, Norway ⁵, baptized on 25 Oct 1812 in Veggli, Rollag, Buskerud, Norway ⁵ and died on 15 Sep 1888 in Rock County, WI ⁶.)