| Summary: | granddaughter of Lars Bue, original founder of the church. Clara and Oliver passed away in 1984. Mr. and Mrs. Lars 0. Bue and family the editor of a paper called "Trapper's Weekly." In 1890 he invested in a stock of general merchandise and did a prosperous business in that line in his country store. He owned 240 acres of valuable land and in 1898 erected a fine residence. Lars was married to Olina Mikkelson in 1883. She was born at Northwood, Iowa, in 1860, where the family lived a number of years. During the summer of 1880, the Mikkelsons left for Dakota by covered wagons, one drawn by a yoke of oxen and the other by a team of horses, driving a herd of cattle along with them. Driving the cattle was a job assigned to the children. Mr. Torger Mikkelson took a claim and settled with his family on a farm by the Sheyenne River south of McVille. They were the first settlers to arrive in the community and built the first log house in Nelson County in 1880. This log house is in Lakota on the grounds of the courthouse. It was in that home of Torger Mikkelson that a group of settlers in that immediate area met with Pastor I. L. Lundeby on Feb. 5, 1882, (two days before the Sheyenne congregation was organized) and decided to organize a church. In the group besides Torger Mikkelson were Roliav Johnson, Ole and Andrew Olson, Sam Samson, Anfin Helgeland and Aad Rauland. To Mr. Mikkelson was given the honor of naming the new congregation, and he chose to call it "Luther Valley" which name it still bears. Lars and Olina had eleven children: Clara, Oscar, Gilbert, Albert, Nels, Clarence, Oliver and Ludwig (twins), Oliver (2nd), Clarence (2nd), and Clara (2nd). Lars was one of the organizers of Bergen Township and was elected township clerk. He was a schoolteacher, and he was a delegate to the first Republican convention in Nelson County and attended most of the county conventions plus three state conventions. Lars died in 1902, and Olina died in 1936. Following is a brief resume of the Lars Bue descendants: Nels, married Lily Raaen and had no family; Clarence, married Mrs. Edith Loe, no family; Ludwig, married Anna Morken, and they had three boys and one girl, (Virlyn, LuVain, Lurine and David); Gilbert and Oliver never married; Albert, married Amelia Lasseson, and they had one son who died in childhood; Oscar, married Ella Quam and their children are Lawrence, Eleanor, Ruth, Clarice and Ingolf; Clara, married Fred Shedd, and they had Norma (Mrs. Frickel), no family; Beulah (Mrs. John McCullough), whose children are Michael Patrick and Connie; and one son, Lewis, who married Marjorie Schuh, and they had Myrna (Mrs. Leland Ophaug), who had twin girls, Michelle and Melissa, and a son, Michael; LuAnn (Mrs. John Franzen), who has a son, Matthew; Lynda; and Larry, who married Jancie Larson and have a daughter, Kylie Jo. Later Clara married Ole Tandberg, and they had a daughter, Carol (Mrs. Jerry Sand). Carol and Jerry have three sons, Merle, Mark and Scott, and her family still is affiliated with Sheyenne Church, Carol being a Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Byhre. Oscar and Viola Byhre Oscar was born April 27,1913, and Viola on Oct. 27. They were married June 17,1980, at the Sheyenne Church. They farmed the farm originally owned by Mrs. Marie Hanson. James and Inga Clauson Inga Arlien was born to parents, John T. and Maria (Raaen) Arlien in Bergen Township, Feb. 27,1902, during the smallpox epidemic. Her mother passed away in August 1904, when Inga was only two, so she went to live with her grandmother, Anne Arlien and Uncle Peter. She remembers moving to Pekin in 1906 where Peter ran the livery barn. She remembers going with her grandmother to the Eidsvig Store and to the dressmaker shop which the Drivold sisters from Spring Grove, Minn., operated. Her favorite playmate was Alice Rowden. She spoke English and Inga spoke Norwegian, and they got along famously. She attended school in Bergen Township and was confirmed by Rev. S.S. Wold at the Sheyenne church in 1916. On Feb. 14,1923, she was married to James Clauson who was born in Alamakee County, Iowa, by Rev. Wold at the Sheyenne parsonage. They farmed in Minnesota and Iowa until 1929 when they moved to Bergen Township. They farmed there until 1941 when they moved to Osago Township to be nearer to a high school. They farmed until 1958 when James' health failed, and they had an auction sale. They went to Decorah, Iowa, where they worked at the Aasa Haugen Nursing Home. From there they moved to Fargo and Inga worked at the Fargo Nursing Home. In 1960 they went to Forsyth, Mont., and Inga cooked at the Rosebud Hospital and Convalescent Home for seven years. They moved to McVille in 1967, and James passed away Oct. 14, 1974. Inga continues to live in McVille at West Meadows apartments and spends a few winters in Texas and California with her children. They had five children, 16 grandchildren and 8 greatgrandchildren. Marjorie (Mrs. Jack McGowan) has two children, Daniel and Robin (Mrs. Gary Dill); Irene (Mrs. Joe Montelbano) has one daughter, Sharryn (Mrs. John Monroe); Vivian (Mrs. Kermit Pederson) is the mother of Jill (Mrs. Todd Ell) and Jody (Mrs. Robert Fischer); Roger married Shirley Schuh and they are the parents of Debra (Mrs. Jeff Klos), Rodney, John and Patricia (Mrs. Bryan Jackson); Janice (Mrs. Edgar Hoyt) has six children: Yvonne (Mrs. Richard Opoien), Brian (married to Susan Ust), Robert, Dale (married to Rhonda Messner), Mark and Thomas. 744 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Multi-page TIFF Editor.
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