SIMON OLSEN HØGÅS
Utreist med/Emigrated on:
Utreist til/Emigrated to: Ashippun township, Dodge Co., Wisconsin.
Simon Olsen Høgås: He was born
July 12, 1818 on the farm Kittilsrød under Rising. Parents were Ole
Sigurdsen Kittilsrød and Maria Torstensdatter..
He was married 3 times. First he married Anne Kirstine Mathiasdatter,
who was born December 10, 1817 on the farm Sukken in Gjerpen. Her parents
may be Mathias Hansen and Anne Marie Eriksdatter, who lived on a farm under
Sætret which again belonged to Rising. She died September 5, 1849.
They had the following children:
a: Mathias, born December 17, 1846 on Høgås under Rising. He
was living in 1880.
He then married November 18, 1849 Gunhild Hansdatter Hagen, daughter
of Hans Steensen Hagen and Kirsti Pedersdatter, who had also emigrated in
1847.
They had the children:
b. Hans, born March 29, 1850
Gunhild died and he married for the 3rd time to the 15 year-old Maren
Nielsdatter, January 12, 1856.
They had the children:
c. Anne Marie, born November 14, 1858
d. Gunhild Kirstine, born May 5, 1862
e. Lovise, born January 23, 1865
f. Nina Mathilde, born May 2, 1869
g. Martin Severin, born June 27, 1877
Simon died July 18, 1893.
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