Ole Mickelsen REKANESS

   Other names for Ole were Ole MICHAELSON, Ole MIKKELSON, Ole Mickelsen NÆSS, Ole Mickelsen RÆKANÆS, Ole Mickelsen RAKANES and Ole Mickelsen ROLIGHEDEN.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: from Norway, 1853, America. ⁴ Leaving Ytre Flåbygd 10 Jun 1853...
Ole Mickelsen Rekanas [Rækanæs] 1810
Bergeth 14/2 1813
barn
Helge 24/10 35
Michel 3/11 38

Bergith 16/1 42
Kittil 27/5 45
Ingeborg 2/9 51

locating in Wisconsin and in the fall of 1855, moved to Holt township and took land in section one

• Notes: Pioneer at Highland Prairie Chruch, 1855, Fillmore County, MN. 1855
Ole and Bergit Rekaness

• Land: 159.92 acres, Township 103, 1861, Fillmore County, MN. MW-0364-238 MICHAELSON, OLE,
COOLIDGE, OBADIAH 4/1/1861 78610 MN 5th PM 103N - 009W W½NW¼ 1 Fillmore
103N - 009W SE¼NW¼ 1 Fillmore
103N - 009W NE¼SW¼ 1 Fillmore

[Township 103 = Holt Township, Fillmore County, MN
near Whalan I think]

• Census: Holt, 1870, Fillmore County, MN. 136 136 Michaelson Ole 60 Norway
" Betsy 59 Norway
" Anna 16 WI
" Isabel 19 Norway

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• Census: Holt, 1880, Fillmore County, MN. Ole MICHAELSON Self M Male W 70 NORWAY NORWAY NORWAY
Betsy MICHAELSON Wife M Female W 67 NORWAY Does House Work NORWAY NORWAY

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• Biography: History of Fillmore County 1882, 1882, Fillmore County, MN. p390 under HOLT TOWNSHIP

OLE MIKKELSEN was born in Norway on the 10th of March, 1810. He came to America in 1853, locating in Wisconsin, and in the fall of 1855, moved to Holt township and took land in section one where he has since lived. Before leaving his native country he was married to Miss Betsey Kittelson. Their children are Helen, who married Ole Gunderson and died in 1864, leaving two children, Gunder and Carrie; Mikkel, who is married and lives near his father; Betsey, the wife of Tolof Olson, lives in Arendahl; Isabel married Charles Gunderson and reside in Rushford; and Anna, who married Mikkel Hansen, lives near her father.

• Census: Holt, 1885, Fillmore County, MN. 30 Ole Michalson 75 Norway
Bergetti Michalson 72 Norway

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• Cemetery: Highland Prairie Cemetery, 1890, Fillmore County, MN.
26 Apr 1890
Ole Rekanes
80aar, Bo
no stone
p585, #133

• Reference: Nordmændene i Amerika, 1907, Fillmore County, MN. p80

The first in the area of Whalan were John Johnson Rodebakken from Strand at Stavanger. Right after him came Gilbert Holt (Holt Township is named after him), John Ellefsen, M. S. Andersen, Knut O. Vaagaard, John Anderson, Halvor Kittilsen, Ole M. Rekaness and Ole K. Kaasa.

• Reference: History of the Norwegian Settlements, 2006, America. by Hjalmar Rued Holand, p209

From Highland Prairie northward runs a long and twisted ridge generally known as griserumpen [the pig's tail - Rosholt]. To this ridge in 1855 came another party of Telemarkinger via Walworth County in Wisconsin. Members of this party include, from Flaabygd:
- Ole Kittelson Stensrud
- Ole Mikkelson Rekaness
- Ole Solid
- Ole Kittelson Kaasa
- Halvor Kittelson Dumpendahl
- Tosten Gunderson Veungen
- Kittil Gunderson Veungen

Ole married Birgit Kittelsdatter DAMPENDAL, daughter of Kittil Kittilsen ODDEN and Unknown, on 23 Nov 1834 in Kviteseid, Telemark, Norway.¹ (Birgit Kittelsdatter DAMPENDAL was born on 14 Feb 1813 in Kviteseid, Telemark, Norway ⁵ and died on 29 Mar 1899 in Fillmore County, MN ⁶.)

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