Tombstone Tuesday #2 (but on a Thursday!): Ludvig Almandus Olsen

Note: I had originally planned this post to appear on Tuesday, but in doing some last minute research, I came across additional information that made it so I had to delay posting.

Ludvig Almandus Olsen was born Friday, May 13, 1887 at Eidbostranda in the Tvedestrand municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway.  He was the 6^th of 7 children born to Laurits Olsen and Amalie Lovise Jensdatter Christoffersen.

The Eidbostranda house is located in the small village of Sagesund located on the shore of the Oksefjorden Fjord (a fjord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier).  The village is now mostly a summer vacation location.

Ludvig was baptized on June 19 at Dypvag parish church, located roughly three and half miles from the home.  The church building was originally constructed around the year 1,200.

	Dypvag Parish Church.  Photo Credit:By Jarvin - Jarle Vines - Own work, CC BY 3.0, Link

He was the 6^th, and last, of Laurits and Amalie's children to have immigrated to the United States.  He emigrated on April 7, 1906 from Kristiansand, Norway arriving in New York on April 20, 1906, just less than a month shy of his 19^th birthday.  Five years after arriving in the United States, Ludvig marries another Norwegian, Gulborg Gulbrandsen, who immigrated on August 19, 1907.

Ludvig and Gulborg were married on September 9, 1911.  From their marriage to 1930, they are known to have lived in at least 5 different Brooklyn addresses. 

The first of their six children, Arthur, was born on March 12, 1912.  Followed shortly after by Gertrude on March 13, 1914.  Stanley was born on September 8, 1919.  Sadly, Stanley died on January 22, 1921, barely two years old.  On August 5, 1922, fraternal twins Irving and Clifford were born.  Ludvig and Gulborg's last child, Ethel, was born on December 5, 1924.

On Friday, January 17, 1930 Ludvig was working on a pier of the Atlantic Tide Water Company at the foot of 29th Street, Brooklyn.  He was removing a steel rod from a bundle, weighing about a ton, when it fell on his left leg. He received a compound fracture of his left tibia and fibula.  According to the hospital report, he was conscious on admission but the next day he began to have tremors of his hands, was irrational and disoriented. On January 24 he had a convulsion. He died at 12:55 a.m. on January 29 at the age of 42 at Holy Family Hospital in Brooklyn, New York

Obituary for Ludvig Olsen; The Standard Union Newspaper, Brooklyn, NY 31 Jan 1930 page 14

Ludvig was buried on Saturday,  February 1, 1930 at the Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.  His son Stanley (who died in 1921 at the age of 2) is buried in the same grave. The grave was originally unmarked but in September, 2008 his grandson, my father, had a headstone created and set on the grave. At this time it was thought that Ludvig was born in 1888, so his headstone has that date on it. My father felt that his grandfather went through a lot to come to America, died so young and he deserved a headstone. My father was born after Ludvig died, so they never new each other.

Photo of Ludvig and Stanley's tombstone by © Virginia Summers Olsen 2010.

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How I'm related to Ludvig Almandus Olsen:

          Ludvig A. Olsen = Gulborg K. Gulbrandsen
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                           Clifford Olsen = Emma Hillenbrand Olsen

                                                      |

                                                    Dad = Mom

                                                             |

                                                           Me

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References:
"EIGHT GENERATIONS OF THE OLSEN FAMILY GENEALOGY", Virginia Summers Olsen, Sept. 20, 2016.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dypvåg_Church

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Tombstone Tuesday is a common genealogy blogging post prompt where on Tuesday's you share a photo and post about a tombstone.