ISAK ISAKSEN SÆTRET

Utreist med/Emigrated on: the bark SALVATOR from Porsgrunn

Utreist til/Emigrated to: Pine Lake Settlement in Wisconsin - 1843.


Isak Isaksen Sætret:   He was bornMarch 14th 1814 on Sætret farm in Luksefjell. His parents were Isaak Andersen Økter and Karen Nielsdatter. He settled first in Pine Lake Settlement but moved later to Scandinavia township in Wisconsin. He is buried in Concordia cemetary, Rosholt after he was killed in a driving accident November 2, 1854.

He married Marte Isaksdatter, who was born on the farm Ballestad in Gjerpen Sept 5th, 1825and emigrated in 1849. She was the daughter of Isak Olsen Ballestad and Maria Isaksdatter. She died May 17, 1887 and is buried in Scandinavian Luth. Cemetary.

She remarried April 26th 1855 after Isak's death to Ole Nottolsen, a widower from Vågsland in Tørdal, Drangedal, Telemark.

Marte and Isak had three children: Isaac who married Karen Hoyord, Karen Maria who married Axel V. Longren from Chicago, Ingeborg who married Lars Hoyord.


 1997 - Skien Genealogical page - by Jan Christensen.