Olavus Christoffersen BURAAS

   Other names for Olavus were Olaus BURAAS and Olaus BUROSS.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Cemetery: South Fork Cemetery, 1901, Fillmore County, Minnesota, USA. Row 8
C8-4 Anne Maria Buross: 1829-1900 (Mother of C8-6)
C8-5 BUROSS
C8-6 Olaus Buross, Father: 1853-1901 (Husband of C8-7, born in Nannestad, Akershus, Norway)
C8-7 Jonette Buross, Mother: 1873-1947 (Wife of C8-6, daughter of C7-2 and C7-3)

• Biography: History of Fillmore County, MN, 1912, Fillmore County, Minnesota, USA. BOOK - HISTORY OF FILLMORE COUNTY, MN., VOLS. 1 & 2, PUBLISHED IN 1912. Olaus Buross was born in Norway in 1854, son of Christopher and Maria Buross, who came to America in the sixties and settled in Norway township, this county, where he acquired land then in an uncultivated state and worked that land into a good farm. Olaus received his education in the common schools and assisted his parents very materially in the farm work. After he grew to manhood he purchased the home farm from the parents and they lived with him until the time of their death. He owned 120 acres in sections thirty-four and thirty-five, Norway, where he followed general farming all his days. On January 6, 1898, he married Jonete Erlandsen, a daughter of Casper and Maria Erlandsen of Preble township, where she was born. This union was blessed with three children: Marie, Clara Catherine and Olaf Joseph. The Norwegian Lutheran is the family church. After the death of Mr. Buross, February 26, 1902, his nephew, Conrad Buross, rented the farm and has since conducted it for Mrs. Jonete (Erlandsen) Buross, who still owns the home place. Conrad was born in Rushford, August 6, 1886, and received his education in the Rushford schools. He married, September 5, 1910, Gina Hauge, a native of Caledonia, where she was born, May 6, 1892.