The Children of Ole and Lena Statland. Their daughter, Alice, is my grandmother.
Ole and Lena Statland are my great grandparents. Ole came from Namsos Norway with his father and moved to New Prairie Township, Pope County Minnesota to farm. They moved 6 miles from Wildrose North Dakota to farm. Then they moved to the Wadena Saskatchewan area around 1920 to farm. They had three sons, Magne, Author and Edwin. They had one daughter, my grandmother Alice. I only met Magne Oliver Statland. He lived with my grandparents in Wadena in his later years, in the 1970’s. I remember him as a gentle, kind man. He was extremely tall with very large feet. He never married. When we visited him I would call him “Uncle Magne”. Edwin Statland is the person who converted to the Jehovah Witness faith and facilitated the conversion of my grandmother, Alice Jesmer. He married a woman from a Central American country named Olga Chavarria and lived as a Jehovah Witness missionary in Nicaragua. In the 1960’s they returned to USA and lived in Brooklyn N.Y.. Edwin was a custodian in a large apartment building in Brooklyn N.Y… Previously the family attended a Lutheran Church. Arthur Statland never married. He worked on farms and was in the army at Fort Bliss in TX and was medically discharged due to hearing loss. He moved to Paswegin Sask. in 1946 and farmed. He died on May 5th, 1963.
Link to the Jesmer Family page
Link to Magne Statland’s page Link to Arthur Statland’s page Link to Edwin Statland’s page
Link to Ole and Lena Statland’s page (the children’s parents)
Link to school days near Wildrose ND in the 1920’s (documents)
Link to Paswegin Saskatchewan page
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