Otis Larson Stole

1863 - 1937  (73 years)

• Name	Otis Larson Stole
  Born	21 Jun 1863	Norway
  Gender	Male
  Died	26 May 1937	Tracy, Lyon, Minnesota, United States
  Person ID	P44551683	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2010

  
  

  Father	Lars Alvaldsen Stole,   b. 19 Apr 1838, Etne, Hordaland, Norway ,   d. Aug 1890, Probably in Kendall County, Illinois  (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Anna Sjursdatr,   d. 1869, Off the Coast of New York
  Family ID	F44	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Johanna ("Josie") Christina Lee (Lier),   b. 20 Nov 1870, Lier, Norway ,   d. 16 Mar 1951, Tracy, Lyon, Minnesota, United States  (Age 80 years)
  Married	14 Mar 1889	Grundy County, Illinois
  Children	1. Anna Edith Larson,   b. 1890   2. Lee Edward Larson,   b. 1892,   d. 1895  (Age 3 years)   3. Edward Lee Larson,   b. 1895,   d. 29 Nov 1935  (Age 40 years)   4. Luella L. Larson,   b. 26 Dec 1900, Near Morris, Kendall, Illinois, United States ,   d. Apr 1980, Tracy, Lyon, Minnesota, United States  (Age 79 years)
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2019
  Family ID	F43	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  According to my grandmother's records, Otis came to America with his parents from Malmo, Sweden. However, subsequent evidencehas proven this to erroneous. Instead, it appears the family came from Norway. Also, my grandmother's notes do not mention Otis' several other siblings, nor did she know the name of Lars Stole's second wife, Betsey Thompson. Otis' mother, Ann Sjursdatr, died off the coast of New York, during a 2 week quarantine, and was buried at sea. Otis settled in Grundy County, Illinois with his father, but was placed in the home of a John O. Larson later. Otis was found on the 1880 census of John O. Larson, of Norway, as a boarder. His age is given as 22, though he'd have been only 17 at the time, according to my grandmother's data. In 1905, Otis moved to Lyon County, Minnesota, 2 miles north of Tracy. He retired in Tracy in 1922 at 200 Craig Avenue, just five blocks away from the house (at 124 Emory St.) where Noel Bates Rea and Luella Larson lived (and where my father, Russell Allen Rea, was born). Given the surname of Otis' siblings (Stole or Stolle), as well as the Norse tradition of using a patronym as the middle name when the surname was not a patronym, I believe Otis' true name would have been Otis Larson Stole or Stolle. Emma's would have been Emma Larssdotter Stole or Stolle, most likely. Otis' real name is unknown. He called himself Otis Larson, but no record I know of gives his real name.