| Summary: | 1933) married Khristi Pedersdatter Aga (1861-1946), he tool; bis bride to a homestead at Orr. There, the Flover Hoversons remained until a move to Manvel after retirement in the early 1920"s. Hover's son Melvin operated a small candy store in Manvel for a short time before going to Orr and farminghis father's homestead. Another son, Reuben, operated a bulk oil service; he is now in Vallejo, California. Hover and Khristi had twelve children, eight of whom are still living, Emrna(Mrs, Art Larson) of Ford - ville, and Melvin of Niagara are the two of Plover's children still living in North Dakota. The others live in California, Oregon, and Canada. Andrew C. Hoverson (born 1857 in Norway) married Gro "Jane" Gulbran- sdatter and brought his wife to the sod house on his homestead five mites west of Orr. Arriving there in 1881, they lived there until 1892 when they moved to Burr Oak, Iowa. In 1904, they returned to Ferry Township, locating 2 miles northeast of Manvel. This was their home until 1916 when they retired and moved to Manvel, selling their farm to their son, OttD E. Andrew's wife, "Jane" , was born September 25, 1857, at Bolders, Nor way, In 1865, she came to Houston County, Minnesota with liar parents, 3 sisters, and a brother. Their sail- ling ship landed in Quebec in 6 weeks after being becalmed for 3 days on the Banks of Newfoundland. Andrew C. died in 1936, while his wife Jane lived untilFebruary 8, 1960, when she was .102. Jane's main hobbies were memorizing poetry and making quilts and spreads. She made hundreds of them by hand without glasses--even when she had passed the century mark. Her hearing also remained very good. When she died, she had 29 grandchildren, 81 greatgrandchildren, and 0 great-greatgrandchildren. The Andrew C. Hoversons had eight children: Ella (Mrs. Elmer Heading- ton) of Kuroki, Sask.; Lawrence, Qrr Richard (died 1921); Bertha (Mrs. O- bert Stadstad), Emma (Mrs. Philip Olson), Otto E., and Bernard, all of rural Manvel; and George, Manvel, who was the first white child born in Inkster Township. The fourth Hoverson son who lived in the Manvel area was Ole C. Hoverson. When his father and brother, Flover, moved to Orr in 1881, he bought their farms and lived there all the time except for three years in Can- A. C, Hoverson family--Front row left to right: Emma, A. C. Hoverson, Bernard, Mrs. A. C. Hoverson, Bertha; back left to right: Ella, Richard, Lawrence, George, and Otto E. 37 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Multi-page TIFF Editor.
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