- OLE GULACK GRAVDALE, farmer; P.O. Beloit; born in Norway
in 1830, his parents moved
- to Newark in 1839; he is also the son of Gulack Olson GRAVDALE,
the first settler; he lived on the farm with his parents, and
married in 1855, in Janesville, Jure GUNALE, daughter of the
Widow GUNALE; they had five children; all are living at home
with their parents except one daughter, who is married and reside
in Iowa. He lived in the town of Beloit after he was married
for thirteen years; then bought eighty acres in Newark in 1868
and moved there; had a residence partly built, which he completed
and now occupies; he owns 210 acres, part in Plymouth and the
balance in Newark.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 771.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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