Kari Mathison 
Kari was born on April 7th, 1878. Kari's father was Torvald Mathiasen and her mother was Gunild Nilsdatter Stover. Her paternal grandparents are Mathias Kulbotten and Dorthea Reitan; her maternal grandparents are Nils Olsen Stover and Kari Knutsdatter Heggvold. She had four brothers and two sisters, named Mathias, Nels, Carl T., Theodore, Dorothy T. and Carrie Anna. She was the third youngest of the seven children. She died at the age of 2 in 1880 in Elkton, , South Dakota, USA.General Notes
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Received from Jerry Mathison, January 2005:
After thirteen years residence in Iowa, they cam to Lincoln County, MN in the fall of 1880. Torvald and Mathias drove their covered wagon and set off to meet Gunhild and the children who were coming by train. On the train trip to Minnesota, one of the children, two year old Kari, died of diphtheria and had to be buried along their route near Elkton, South Dakota in a shallow grave because the ground was already frozen. However, in the Spring, after the family was settled, her body was brought here and was buried in a small cemetery near what was the Arnold Eggen farm north of Hendricks.
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