| Summary: | Oswald Aarstad Oswald was born in the district of Jaeren, south of Stavanger, Norway, on August 5, 1898. His parents were Anders and Maria (Undheim) Aarstad. He received his schooling at Kintyre, April 1, 1916. He worked as a farm hand until he acquired his own farm. December 20, 1922, he married Lizzie Engen. They farmed southeast of Kintyre and in late years in Kroeber township of Logan County. Oswald and Lizzie were the parents of six children: Arthur, Donald, Lily, Leonard, Clarence and Willard. Oswald passed away in 1956 and Lizzie in 1973. (Gladys) Bunes lives at Eveleth, MN and Mrs. Roland (Viola) Loerch lives in Newhall, CA. The Goettertz lived near Braddock and Kintyre until the fall of 1925 when they moved to a farm south of Steele. Here they established a milk route in Steele delivering dairy products to the residents of Steele. In 1931 they moved into Steele and Bill went into the trucking business, which he oprated until his death, February 13, 1944. Mrs. Kate Goettertz spent several years in the Napoleon Senior Center before her death April 10, 1970. Byron and May Zuver Byron Zuver was born in Nebraska on Nov. 25, 1885 and came to North Dakota about 1913. He worked in the eastern part of the state for about two years and then came to Emmons County. Byron married May Sparks of Braddock December 30, 1916 at Bismarck. May was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milo Sparks. After the wedding they resided in Kintyre and operated a garage. For twelve years Mr. Zuver was totally disabled from rheumatism. During his disability he did a great amount of reading and writing. One of the stories Byron wrote was sold to a magazine for publication. The Zuvers were the parents of six children: Elizabeth, Milo, Anna, Martha, James and Ella May. Byron died in 1939. William and Kate Goettertz William C. (Bill) Goettertz was born in Cassville, WI August 7,1883. He lived there until the age of 15, when he moved to Idlewild, SD to make his home with an aunt and uncle. Katherine (Kate) Luke was born in Cassville, WI May 3,1885. She moved with her parents to Marion, SD at the age of seven. Bill and Kate were married in Marion, SD May 7, 1907. They farmed until March 13, 1913 when they moved onto the J.J. Schaeffer farm in the Braddock-Kintyre area. They were members of the Catholic Church of Braddock. They had seven children. Three sons, Edward, Victor and Alfred are all living in Steele. Mrs. Pete (Agnes) Holmeid was living at Grand Rapids, Mn until her death, July 1976. Her husband, died the following year. Mrs. Harold (Christine) Burton and her husband are retired and living at Bovey, MN. Mrs. Otto ™: t^,. n <* a m Fred and Kaisastina Seppanen Fred and Kaisastiina (Juntunen) Seppanen were born in the Suomussolni area in northern Finland. Fred on November 27, 1877 and Kaisastiina on October 22, 1883. They grew up in the same neighborhood and married on April 25, 1904. Fred came to the United States on July 28,1904 to look for better opportunities, leaving his bride behind. He settled in the Estelline, SD vicinity a year later, and sent for his wife, she arrived in the United States on July 31, 1905. Their three children: Arthur, Lempi, and Edwin were born in South Dakota. Ten years later in 1914, they came to North Dakota and settled in the Braddock area on the Mike Bokseff farm and lived there until they retired from farming in 1934. After that they lived in Kintyre, Napoleon and Hazelton until March 18, 1949, when Mrs. Seppanen passed away. Mr. Seppanen then moved to Virginia, MN, remarried and lived there until his death on Dec. 4, 1962. Arthur married Vieno Laine in 1934 and took over the farm. They have one son Fred, he married Kathleen Lewis in 1971, they have two sons, Laine and Tyler. They now operate the farm, both families remain on the Seppanen farm. 108 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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