Notes for Olivia Leonora "Olive" Osterhaug

Notes for Olivia Leonora "Olive" Osterhaug

Olivia was born in a remote, desolate area of Montana in 1915. She was the daughter of Norwegian immigrants. Her father Johan Jacobsen Osterhaug was born in Ilseng, Norway on 30 June 1882. He located the family in Miles City, Montana where he met his bride Othilde Amalie Saeland who was born in Jaren, Norway on 5 Sept. 1892. They lived in a homestead north of Miles City at Burns Creek, Montana. Othilde became ill with tuberculosis and they move to Oregon where she died in 1917.