• General Notes

  Cause of Death:<CAUS> prostrate cancer
  REFN: 307
  Knud Martinson, the son of Martin & Annie Peterson Martinson, was born on
  December 25, 1852, near Stavangar, Norway.  He emigrated to America on
  July 16, 1872, and came directly to the vicinity of Conroy, Iowa, where
  he worked until 1880.  He then purchased a farm on which he lived for
  nearly 50 years.  Land Deed Record 39 page 47, Office of the Iowa Co.,
  IA, Recorder, shows that Knud W. Martinson purchased the E 1/2 SE 1/4 of
  Sec. 17, Twp. 80 North, Range 10 West of the 5th P.M., Iowa County, Iowa,
  on March 22, 1980. 
  Knud & Ellen Larson were married on April 20, 1881, and to them nine
  children were born.
  Knud died on September 18, 1929 at the age of 77 years, 8 mo and 23 days
  after a lingering illness (prostate cancer).
  It was noted of Knud that "he was a man of quiet and retiring ways and
  had secured a competence through his industry and frugality".  Also, "in
  his early childhood, Mr. Martinson was confirmed in the Lutheran faith
  and ever since has been faithful to the teachings of that church.  It was
  in God's work and sacraments that he was comforted in the last weeks of
  his life."
  In another obituary, it was noted of Knud that he "... lived in Hilton
  Township for nearly sixty years, coming here with the big inrush of
  pioneers and his thrift and industry contributed much to the bettering
  and development of the old community.  He was a man of splendid
  character; in any cause he knew to be right, he displayed the courage of
  ancestral Vikings.  As husband and father he filled every obligation to
  the limit, and as friend and neighbor he might well be cited as a perfect
  type ready to go to any length to aid one in distress.  He was of a
  deeply spiritual nature; early in life he was baptized in the Norwegian
  Lutheran church and to this faith he was constant to the end of his
  days.  Even tempered, quiet and unassuming, he found the greatest
  pleasure in living the Christian life, providing for his family, and
  performing the duties of the loyal citizen.  He was a constant exemplar
  of the worth of right living and only the Infinite could place a right
  appraisal on the splendid example furnished by his fruitful life...."
  Knud and Ellen are both buried in the First Lutheran Church Cemetery. 
  Their son, Edwin, who died not yet reaching his 13th birthday, is buried
  next to them.
  Their son, Frank, remembered his parents speaking almost exclusively
  Norwegian at home.
  All the children helped on the farm from an early age. 
  Knud's brother, Peter, changed his last name to Martens after emigrating
  to America.

Details of Knud W.'s family with Ellen Larson