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MARTIN AMUNDSON (GULBRANDSDALEN)
Martin Amundson was born in Gulbrandsdalen, Norway September 8, 1867. He
was the second child in a family of eleven born to Amund and Guro
Grassletten. The family emigrated to the United States in June 1870.
Their first home in America was a sod hut near Chaseburg, Vernon county
where they resided about six months. From there the family moved to the
Jorgenson farm in Springfield township. Short periods of time were spent
at various places in this township until the year 1884 when the farm
known as the Graasletten farm was purchased, one mile south of the
Hjerleid school near Taylor. When Martin was six years of age, he
stumbled in a cutover corn field and suffered a hip injury which
handicapped him physically the remainder of his life. He was forced to a
life of inactivity until the age of ten, when he entered public school
in the Finn District. Due to study pursued at home, he was able to
finish grade school in a short period of time and continued his
schooling at the Black River Falls high school. He began teaching rural
school at the age of 19 and continued this profession 13 years,
including four terms of parochial school. October 13th, 1894, he was
united in marriage to Thea Paulson, daughter of Olav and Berget Paulson.
Their first home was on a farm at the south boundary of Springfield
township in Beaver Creek where they resided six years. In 1902 they
moved to the Hartwig farm near the Trempealeau Valley church. In 1903
Martin was appointed rural mail carrier on Blair R.F.D. No. 3 and in
1905 moved to the home which he built east of the Blair village limits.
In 1932 he was retired from service and a year later built the service
station near his home and continued this business until 1935. In 1937 he
built a small home in the Hillcrest addition where he resided until
illness brought him to the hospital at Madison, where he underwent a
serious operation the latter part of March this year. From that time the
decline has been gradual with intermittent recuperative periods. He
passed away at the home of his son, Alvin, in Augusta Tuesday, September
12, 1939f, at the age of 72 years and three days. His wife preceded him
in death in 1932. Seven children survive: Omer, Marie (Mrs. Otto
Rathmann and Gena all of Milwaukee; Alvin, Augusta; Bessie (Mrs. Earl
Elliott) San Diego, California; Goodwin, Minneapolis; and Olaf on the
home place. Three brothers and a sister survive, August, Wascott; Hans,
Taylor; Albert, Northfield and Mrs. Lena Hanson, Rhame, N.D. There are
fifteen grandchildren. Funeral services were held Saturday, September 16
at 1:15 at the home, 1:30 at the Zion Lutheran church, Blair and 2:30 at
the Trempealeau Valley church. Mrs. Angus Sather sang ěThe Old Rugged
Crossî and ěRock or Agesî at the Zion church. Rev. T.E. Sweger
officiated. The pall bearers were Carl Dahl, C.B. Immell, Ole Renning,
Edwin Mattison, Henry Shephard and Gunder Scott. THE BLAIR PRESS -
SEPTEMBER 21, 1939