| Summary: | home from church, had something on his mind. "De gaar ikke an og knore paa raaden me hester langere," he announced suddenly. "Me maa veil kjobe os en automobile like dan come andre folk." And so one day he brought home his first car, a Model T. Ford. Papa Barsness was born in Sogn, Norway and died in 1938 at the age of 74. Mama (Marit) Barsness, born in S. Fron, Gulbransdalen, Norway, died in 1939 at the age of 69. The children are Anna, now Mrs. Anton Eidahl of Parshall. Their children, all married are Clarence Johnson, Milton, Elaine, Crystal and Wallace, all married. Mrs. Mabel Nor- strom, widow of Seattle, Wash, has two children, Glen and Ila Mae Irvin. Mrs. Clifford Amundson of Woodland, Calif., died in 1961 at the age of 51. They had five children. Gladys, Mrs. Harry Peterson, rural Ryder has two children, Don, asst. County Agent at Washburn, and Darlene Brandt of Logan. Oswald and Palmer live at Jamestown; Norman and his wife Evelyn live in Minot, but the old Barsness homestead constitutes part of his farm. Reuben who was in the store business in Roseglen many years, died in 1946 at the age of 42. He was married to Valdine Anderson and their two sons are Dale, married and employed in Los Angeles, and Wayne who recently completed three years in the U.S. Army after graduating from U.N.D. MR. & MRS. OLE BERGAN Ole Bergan was born in Clayton County, Iowa in 1875. Al- bertina Pederson who was born in 1877 married Mr. Bergan at St. Oluf, Iowa in 1903. In 1904 they homesteaded at Sawyer North Dakota in Ward County. They farmed at Sawyer until October of 1926 when they moved to a farm two miles south of Roseglen. Here they continued farming until Ole passed away in 1940. Mrs. Bergan lived in a smaller house built for her on the home place, where her son Joe and family lived, until her death in 1957. The Bergan children include Henry, deceased in 1960 was married to Hazel Hanson. Bertha born in 1907 died in 1920. Olava married Vaughn Caley, and she died in 1957. Their four children are Vaughn, Jr. at Valley City, Dean at Minot, Louis, El Paso, Texas, and Janice of Phoenix, Arizona. Roy married Martha Sprenger and their three children are Arlene, Charlotte and Jim. Roy lives at Postville, Iowa. Joseph married Olinda Wahl and they farmed at Roseglen until 1966 then moved to Minot. Their four children are Philman in the Air Force in Guam. 62 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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