Lost Cousins

These are cousins of my mother (Helen Olsen Rodgers Rigby)

 Charles and Bonnie were children of Charles and Elvina Olsen Peterson

Ernest may have  been a son of Sena Olsen Neeka  (not sure)

 Irene ???

 

Maggie???

These children were grandchildren of Hans Peder and Anna Maria Kjerstina Madsen Olsen who came to Mt. Pleasant in the 1860s from Denmark.

The Children of Anna Maria Christena Madsen Olsen Following Her Funeral

Ferd Olsen, Trena Bjelke, Laura Livsey, Sena Neeka, Elvena Peterson, Carl Olsen, Seymour Olsen

Sena Olsen Neeka

Hansena Petrina Olsen was born 15 November 1886 in Central, Utah.  She grew up in Mt. Pleasant, the daughter of Hans Peder and Ane Kjerstina Marthea Madsen Olsen. Her parents emigrated to Utah shortly before her birth and first settled in Central, Utah (near Elsinore)  and then moved to Mt. Pleasant. 

Sena was a talented seamstress.  She eventually moved to Chicago Illinois where she owned and operated her own furrier shop ~ "Sena Neeka Furs" .   She passed away in 1985 in Janesville, Wisconsin.  I am proud to call her my Great Aunt Sena.   (Kathy)

Laura Olsen Livsey - Obituary

This lovely lady was one of the 85 widows that President Thomas S. Monsen cared for til she passed away.  She lived just across the street from his parents on eighth south and 2nd west, Salt Lake City Utah.  Her husband was a member of the U.S. Army Band.  He died while she was still raising their family.  She was one of the sweetest ladies I have ever known.  She became a substitute grandma for me when my own grandmother and her sister Trena Olsen Rodgers Bjelke passed away.  Their father and mother (Hans Peter and Anna Kirstena Madsen Olsen) along with the oldest children immigrated to Mt. Pleasant in the 1860s from Odense, Denmark.