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Ole Heg

15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
The Scandinavian Regiment

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Name at Enlist

Ole Heg

Birth Name

Ole Evensen Heg

Lived

21 Jun 1831 – 18 Apr 1911

Birth Place

Lier, Drammen

Birth Country

Norway

Resident of Muster-In

Waterford, Racine County, WI

Rank at Enlistment

Quartermaster

Muster Date

13 Jan 1862

Death Location

Burlington, Racine County, WI

Burial Location

Norway Cemetery, Norway, Racine County, WI

Mother

Sigrid Olsdatter Kallerud

Father

Even Hansen Heg

Immigration

12 Aug 1840

Spouse

Emilie Christensen

Spouse Lived

1834- 1860

2nd Spouse

Nanna Christensen

2nd Spouse Lived

1842- 1924

2nd Marriage Date

27 Jan 1861

Ole Heg was born in Lier, Drammen on June 21, 1831, son of Even Hansen Heg and Sigrid Olsdatter Kallerud. He was the brother to Col. Hans C. Heg. He came to America with his parents, brother, Hans, and two sisters, Andrea and Sophie, on Emilie, which sailed from Gothenburg, Sweden and arrived in NY on August 12, 1840. They came to Muskego, Racine County, WI. He married Emilie Christensen who died in 1860. Heg then married her sister, Nanna, on January 27, 1861.

Heg joined the WI 15th Infantry. The army listed him as living in Waterford, Racine County, WI, age 30. He was commissioned on October 28, 1861, and mustered on January 13, 1862 at Madison, WI, as a Regimental Quartermaster. He resigned on June 6, 1862.

After the war, he worked as a printer. Heg had two children: Sergria (1857) and Ernest (1865). He lived in McMinnville, Warren County, TN, then Kansas City where he worked as a retail grocer. He then became a merchant in Chicago. In 1902, he moved to Burlington, Racine County, WI. Ole Heg died on April 18, 1911, in Burlington. He and his wife, Nanna, are buried in Norway Cemetery, Norway, Racine County, WI.

 

Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, box 76-2; Regimental Muster and Descriptive Rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, vol. 20, p. 2; Det Femtende Regiment. Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett, 1894, Decorah, IA, p. 331; Nordmændene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p. 252; Oberst Heg og hans Gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p. 290; The Military History of Wisconsin in the War for the Union, Edwin B. Quiner, 1866, Clarke & Co., Chicago, p. 613; Jerry Rosholt, Vesterheim, Decorah, IA, cemetery information; Norwegian Immigrants to the United States, A Biographical Directory, Volume One, 1825-1843, Gerhardt B. Naeseth, 2008, Anundsen Publishing Co., Decorah, IA, 1840, p. 97, ID 8; Wisconsin Cemetery Records; Norwegian-American Studies, publ. by NAHA, Northfield, MN, vol. 32, p. 196; 1870 Census, Roll: M593_1568, Page: 23A, Image: 50, Family History Library Film: 553067; 1880 Census, Roll: 400, Family History Film: 1254400, Page: 263B, Enumeration District: 189, Image: 0210; Wisconsin Marriage Records, Batch # M00328-3, GS Film # 1275504; findagrave.com.