| Summary: | Churchs Ferry, North Dakota. He married there, Ella Partlow on June 3, 1925, who was born at Kensal, August 26, 1907. The family moved to Bordulac in 1935, where Mr. Kollman was employed by the Soo Line. The couple had five children: Bethel, Arlene, Norma, James and Darrell. Mrs. Kollman died in September 1959. Mr. Kollman died in September 1964. They are buried in the Carrington Cemetery. TTT Julius and Emma (Zink) Kleb Julius Kleb was born in Germany on July 1, 1853. He was married to Emma Zink, the daughter of Peter and Anna Bohnert Zink. Emma was born in Germany. In 1884 the couple was married in Foster County. Mr. Kleb first settled in Iowa before coming to Foster County in 1882. Mr. Kleb is said to have built the first house in Bordulac Township. It was made of prairie grass and clay and burned into blocks similar to bricks. The Klebs had 5 children: Paul, Anna, Harry, William and Hilda. Mrs. Kleb died in 1912. Mr. Kleb died in 1921. They are buried at Carrington. TTT William and Martha (Westphal) Kleb William Kleb, son of Julius and Emma Zink Kleb, was born in 1891 at Bordulac. He married Martha Golz at Fargo in 1926. Martha Westphal was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Westphal. She was born September 13,1888 at Enderlin. In 1906 she was married to Helmuth Golz and they lived at Bordulac. They had three children: Angeline, Edna and George. Mr. Golz died in 1922. Mrs. Kleb died October 8, 1969. Mr. Kleb died. They are buried at Carrington. TTT -Z- Franz and Elizabeth (Wiench) Lamm Franz Lamm was born in Germany in 1868 on October 8. He came to the United States in 1891. On June 27, 1898, he married at Jamestown, Elizabeth Wiench, born in Germany in 1878. The couple farmed in the Bordulac area. They had five children: Emma, Francis, Mary, Lucille and Robert. Mr. Lamm died in July 1945. Mrs. Lamm died in September 1949. TTT John J. and Elizabeth (Enderson) Lee John Joseph Lee was born at Princeton, Wisconsin, on October 7, 1870, the son of August and Julia Masgar Lee. At Mikana, Wisconsin, he married Elizabeth Enderson, also born in Wisconsin. The family lived in Wisconsin until coming to Foster County in 1917. In 1927 they moved from the farm in Rose Hill Township to Bordulac, where Mr. Lee operated a repair shop. Seven children were born to them: Eleanor, Mildred, Dorothy, Josephine, Beatrice, Francis and Leonard. Joseph J. Lee died in August, 1952. TTT Joseph Percy and Augusta (Diehl) Legg Percy Legg, born at Fargo, North Dakota on August 19,1884, came to Bordulac in 1910 to work in the general merchandise store owned by H. J. Shaw. He became manager and later bought the store. Percy married at Jamestown on July 15, 1925, Augusta Margaret Diehl, who was born July 13, 1895, at Defiance, Ohio. The Leggs had two daughters: Doloras (died in 1946) and Shirley. Mr. Legg died October 6, 1964 and Mrs. Legg died May 5,1978. They are buried in the Carrington Cemetery. TTT Thomas D. and Catherine (Harry) Lewis Thomas Lewis and Catherine Harry were married February 5, 1884. Catherine was born in South Wales on June 6, 1856. The Lewis' came to the Bordulac vicinity in 1884. Mr. Lewis took a homestead, a pre-emption, and a tree claim on Section 10 in Bordulac Township. The couple were parents of seven children: William, John, Thomas, Gladys, Mabel, Albert and Glynn. Mr. Lewis was appointed Commissioner from the First District in 1895, then elected for two terms. The family moved to Alberta, Canada, in 1904 and later to Calgary. One of the four oil paintings in the dome of the Foster County Courthouse was taken from a photograph of the T. D. Lewis farmstead. It represents a modern up-to-date farm at the time the courthouse was built in 1909-10. TTT -m- Anton and Eva Mary (Bassett) Messmer Eva Mary Bassett was born July 12, 1892, at Blue Earth, Minnesota. She married Anton Messmer at Verona on October 15,1912. Five children were born to the couple: Ervin, Clarence, Robert, Gladys (Mrs. Jerry Glaser) and Jeanette (Mrs. Fred Partlow). Mr. Messmer died in February 1951 and Mrs. Messmer died on July 1,1954. TTT Edward and Nellie (Lavelle) Moriarty Edward Moriarty, the son of Sylvester Moriarty, was born September 30, 1865, in Postville, Iowa. He lived with his parents and assisted with the farm work until he was twenty-one years of age when he went to Spencer, Iowa, to learn the carpenter trade. Edward married Nellie Lavelle on October 11, 1897. They moved to Carrington in 1901, and to Bordulac in 1905, where they made their home. Mr. Moriarty was spoken of as "The man who built Bordulac," as he erected nearly every building in town and the surrounding coun y. The couple ha' seven children: Kathleen, Sylvester, Harold, "rancis Merril, Jerome and Cecilia. Mr. Moriarty died October 25,1927. TTT David and Martha (Henderson) Morris David Morris, born in Wales, on July 26, 1863, came to the United States in 1884. He married at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1891, Martha Henderson, who was born March 23, 1859 at Cincinnati. After their marriage, they came to North Dakota to live on the Morris homestead in Bordulac Tonwship. Their only son, James, who was born on the farm, later became Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court. Mr. Morris died on December 24, 1903. After his death, Mrs. Morris continued to live on the farm until she went back to Ohio, where her son could be educated. Mrs. Morris made her home with her son until her death on July 26, 1937. She and her husband are both buried in Ohio. TTT Price and Elizabeth (Garvey) Morris Price Morris, born in Ohio, in 1857, was one of the first settlers in the Bordulac area. The family moved to Carrington in 1908 but he continued with his farming interests in the Bordulac area and in Canada. In 1889 he married Elizabeth Garvey, who had come to Foster County with many of her relatives in 1887. She was born in Iowa in 1864. Mr. and Mr. Morris had three children: Jane, (Mrs. Charles Winum), Kathleen and William. Mr. Morris died on September 5,1923. Mrs. Morris died on April 14, 1930. They are buried in the Catholic cemetery in Carrington. TTT William Garvey Morris William Garvey Morris, born May 22, 1899, served in the U.S. Army in World War I. After his dicharge, he managed the Bordulac farm property. He entered the oil business in Carrington in 1926 and became owner of the Carrington Oil Company and a director of the Foster County State Bank. Unmarried he died December 10, 1968. TTT Frank and Augusta (Schroeder) Multz Frank Multz, born in Staab, Austria, on December 19, 1877, the son of George and Margarete Multz, came to America in 1881 and lived first at Defiance, Ohio. In 1896, he came to the Bordulac area to work at the Casey Ranch. Later he farmed in the area. On January 24, 1906, he married Augusta Schroeder Miller, the daughter of Rudolph and Henrietta Schroeder, who was born in West Germany on January 25, 1878. She came to the United States in 1881 and lived at Fall Creek, Wisconsin, until coming to Bordulac in 1894. She married Frank Miller on July 8,1894, who died in 1903. Frank and Augusta Multz had one son, George. Mr. Multz died on February 8, 1971, and Mrs. Multz died on November 8, 1970. They are buried in the Carrington Cemetery. TTT 9B Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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