The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-11-28
Obituary.
SOREN ANDERSON.

SOREN ANDEhSON.
One of the we'll known men Of the
Hillside community, Mr.. Soren Ander-
son, passed away at his home on the
old Anderson. homestead last Monday
morning, Nov. "a, at $50 Mr.. Ander-
son was born there April %, 1848, his
father, Amund Anderson, and wife In
geborg widow after Erik Johnson),
being among the NNV early settlers of
the Koshkonong prnrie. Amund An
derson emigrated from Norway in 1886
and came to the Fox River settlement
in Illinois. In the early forties, per-
haps 1910, he with some other pioneers
from Stavager, Norway, came in tedi-
Gus marches west to find new homes
that would suit them better than the
lowlands on the Fox river. Amund
Anderson bought the 100 acres where
his sons, Soren, Andrew and Martin,
and the daughters, Mrs. N. E. Smith
back, Mrs. C. O. Tellefson, and daugh-
ter of his wife''s first marriage, Mrs.
Johan Nasett, grew up There was
also a step-son, John, who went to
Kansas to live. The Anderson farm is
of exceptional historical interest to the
settlers of the Lutheran faith, as it
was on this place that the first Luth-
eran service, conducted by pastor or
dained in the Norwegian Lutheran
mother church, the Rev. Dletrichsen,
preached the first sermon and admins
tered the sacraments to the new set
tiers in these parts. This was the first
of September, 1874, and permanent
organization of the local church was
effected October 10 the same year. In
teresting mementos of these first be-
ginnings on the Anderson homestead
are still preserved in asrough oak log
split in two, the one half made into a
rude table used at the first sermon
which now stands in the Rev. Halvor-
son East Koshkonong church, and a
baptisimal font, also turned out of a
log. A memorial stone with these and
other historical facts chiseled into its
sides was placed on the Anderson prem
Uses at the 50th jubilee, and again COM
memorated this fall on the 18th ami
versary. Mr.. Anderson was at that
time able to be present and review the
old memories.
Soren Anderson was married to Hell
ena Mathison in 1874, and to this union
were born five children, only two of
them now living, Adolph, married and
living on the home farm, and Nordahl,
also married and living on the nearby
Jacobson farm. Mrs. Anderson died
in 1890. The funeral services were
conducted from the old home at one
o'clock Wednesday and from the East
Koshkonong Lutheran church at two,
the Rev. John Halvorson officiating,
and the remains laid to rest in the
church cemetery.
MIR. Anderson had several positions
of trust and honor He was for many
years secretary of the cooperative
creamery at Hillside, and secretary also
of the Albion Mutual Fire ms. Co.; he
served as trustee of his church during
several periods, and in all he did he
discharged his duties promptly and con-
scientiously. Soren Anderson will be
generally mourned by all who knew
him. His quiet and gentlemanly bear
ing, his unimpeachable integrity, his
loyalty to duty in church and commun-
ity, and his genial disposition made
him true and lasting friends. During
his long illness he piously prepared for
the end which he knew would come,
and died sustained by the hope of life
immortal.