Third Generation

7. Morris William OTTOSEN was born on 6 Apr 1872 in Washington Island, Door, Wisconsin. He died on 23 May 1929 in Washington Island, Door, Wisconsin.

Morris William OTTOSEN and Centela GOODLETSON were married about 1898 in Unknown. Centela GOODLETSON (daughter of Captain Goodlet GULLICKSON and Inga Mary GUNDERSON) was born on 15 Sep 1876 in Washington Island, Door, Wisconsin. She died in Dec 1912 in Washington Island, Door, Wisconsin.

Goodletson was originally Gullickson, then Goodletson and then Goodlet. They are descendents of Captain Gullickson. [-Wash Isle 1850-1950]

Morris William OTTOSEN and Centela GOODLETSON had the following children:

+21	i.	Cora Irene OTTOSEN.
22	ii.	Leo Monroe OTTOSEN was born on 1 Jun 1902 in Gladstone, Michigan. He died on 10 Mar 1903 in Gladstone, Michigan.
23	iii.	Leonard Walter OTTOSEN was born on 8 Aug 1904 in Washington Island, Door, Wisconsin.4 He died in Sep 1921. ISLAND BOY LOST SINCE SEPT.5 Washington Islanders Fail To Find Leonard Ottosen Last Seen In Row Boat What may be the making of another Death's Door tragedy is the disappearance of Leonard Ottosen, 17, son of Morris Ottosen and grandson of the veteran postmaster, L. P. Ottosen, of Detroit Harbor, last week Tuesday. The last that was seen of the boy was borrowing rowboat belonging to John Larson, attempting to pry it from the shore. As there were no oars in the boat, it is thought by searching parties and the Plum Island coast guards that wind blew it out into the open water, and young Leonard was unable to get it back. The boy, being of an adventuresome and roving disposition, and wanting a boat ride, took the Larson skiff while the owner was at the polls. It was election day and very few were around. Finding no oars, Leonard probably tried to propel the craft without them, making use of a board for a paddle. Frequent gusts of wind which blew that day probably carried the boat out into the open where stronger squalls made it impossible to make headway without oars. Shortly after the boy's disappearance, heavy squalls and rain gave indication of a stormy night. Where a light boat would go in such a wind one might guess. The Plum Island coast guards were given the facts of the case and started on a thorough search of the surrounding waters. They cruised the Bay from Door Bluff to Escanaba and the West shore to Lake Michigan but were unable to find any trace of boy or boat. It may be that the drifter was picked up by some passing steamer and has not yet had a chance to get home. Islanders, however, who know the turbid waters of the Door, have their doubts that the young fellow will ever return. ----- The following are the thoughts about Morris' boy, Leonard, and his tragedy as written by Celia Ottosen Koyen in February, 1982: "I'm thinking of my brother, Leonard. He was retarded but was quite a happy and satisfied person in many ways. He liked to wander around on the Westside of the Island. He would visit John Larson and go through the woods from there down to Wally and Carl Jorgenson's. The evening he didn't come home when it getting dark and it was raining, we though he might have stayed with Wally and Carl. Then a very bad storm came up and as soon as it was daylight Dad [Morris] got up and went down to John Larson's. John had a small skiff and it was gone. John said that Leonard had gone out in the boat before and he saw him so he went out in his motorboat and brought him back. Leonard had resisted but John succeeded in bringing him back. John had (taken the precaution) hidden the oars but Leonard had taken a couple of sticks of some sort that day. I think he thought he could cross the Lake and go to Bark River where Dad and John had gone once in John's boat. Leonard had always been afraid to get into a boat. His body was never found or was the boat. Cora and I walked the beaches the next summer along the shore of Green Bay hoping that the boat might have washed up. A strange thing was that John told us he'd acquired the rowboat when it came drifting in. He went out and got it. It had oars like it had been used. We wondered. Had someone else drowned from it? Did it come loose from its moorings and drift away?" Morris' story is a tragic one but it doesn't seem he was bitter...perhaps sad and sometimes lonely. He and his family were well liked. Of his family there are two "close" members remaining: (1) his daughter Celia and her family, and (2) his grandson Marlyn Jepsen (Cora's son) and his family. [-George Smith's book "The Ottosens of Denmark"]
24	iv.	Gordon Percy OTTOSEN was born on 3 Aug 1906 in Door, Wisconsin.5 He died about 1908.
+25	v.	Celia May OTTOSEN.
26	vi.	Gordon Morris OTTOSEN was born in Dec 1912. He died in Dec 1912.