When Ragnild Olsdatter Abol was born on 12 August 1823, in Skrautvål, Nord-Aurdal, Oppland, Norway, her father, Ole Toresen Bergsbakken, was 43 and her mother, Anne Olsdatter Kjørli, was 38. She married Erich Olsen on 20 September 1852, in Two Rivers, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Cato, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States in 1880. She died on 16 September 1899, in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Valders Cemetery, Valders, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States.