| Summary: | February 26, 1898 to Azelina and Joseph Giroux who came to Buchanan Februray 17, 1914, where they farmed. He was employed by the Standard Oil Company June 7, 1943 and had his first station at Bordulac. We moved to Robinson the fall of 1944 where he ran the bulk station for twenty four years. After my father's death in 1968 we moved to Pingree and now live in the former Al Koltz home. In August of 1978 all our nine children and their families were home, the first time they had all been together for twenty one years. CARLGREENLUND Carl Greenlund came to Pingree area from Wisconsin and filed a homestead. In 1903 he and Gena Skillingstad were married. She had come to America with her parent from Norway in 1883. In 1900 she and her family traveled by covered wagon from Mound City, S.D. to the Pingree and Round Top township area about 130 miles. She took a homestead in 1902. They are the parents of five children. Carl Greenlund was killed by lightning on June 26, 1915 at his farm home in Round Top Township. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING The village of Pingree and surrounding community was sadly shocked last Saturday to hear of the death of Carl Greenland, one of our highly respected and husling farmers, who had that morning been struck and instantly killed by lightning. Mr. Greenland and his 9-year-old daughter were in the pasture some distance from the house rounding up a herd of cattle and calves that had been grazing on the prairie. Carl, riding horseback, located the cows and had taken them to the pasture where the little girl held them until he returned with three calves he had rounded up. He was leading the hourse and he and his daughter were walking near the fence driving the stock and watching the oncoming storm. The lightning struck the barbed wire fence, passed over the child and struck down the father. The calves were also thrown to the ground and one killed, while the horse was unhurt. The child saw her father fall to the ground and immediately started for home, a half mile away, in terror, and informed her mother that her father had been killed by lightning. The Peter Norlid home was notified at once by telephone and Mr. Norlid hurried to the home to lend all assistance possible. He went on out to the scene and there found the body upon the ground as described by the child. Carl Greenland was born near White Hall, Wis., February 20, 1881. He lived with his parents until about thirteen years ago, when he migrated to North Dakota and filed on a homestead. Deceased was a man of good qualities, a hustler, and built up a fine home here. He was well liked by his friends, of which there are many, and his demise will be met with heartfelt grief. Funeral was held from the farm home, Rev. Wisnaes, of the Lutheran church, officiating. Interment was made in Deer Lake cemetery about a mile and a half from the home. Deceased leaves to mourn him a wife, five children, aged from 10 vears down to 19 months besides a brother in Williams county, a brother in St. Paul and a sister in Eau Claire, Wis. The bereaved ones have the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community in this their hour of sorrow. CARD OF THANKS We wish to take this means of thanking our many friends for the flowers and kind attention during the death and burial of a loving father and husband, Carl Greenland. Mrs. Carl Greenland and family. Mrs. Greenland Wolfsdorf LEVI GUTRU Levi Guru came to this community every fall to look after his farming interests. He owned considerable land in the area. His home was at Newman Grove, Nebraska where his family had homesteaded. They lived in a sod house and suffered the many hardships of the early pioneer life in that vicinity. When in Pingree he roomed at the Chris Bietler home for a number of years. It seems he lost most of the 164 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Multi-page TIFF Editor.
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