| Summary: | Tenold in' 1887. He married Emma Fossum at Fargo N. D. on Dec. 2, 1891. She was born Jan. 9, 1870 in Selbu, Norway, and came to America in 1887 with her parents, Thomas and Sophie (Mebust) Fossum. They had eight children: Ragna (Mrs. Edwin Hamre), Olai, Thilda, Stella (Mrs. Ole Pederson), Thilda, Jeanne (Mrs. Eyre), Agnes (Mrs. Kenneth Evenson), Marianne (Mrs. Mills). John died June 14, 1933. Emma died Oct. 30, 1942. Ole Pederson now owns the farm. WILLIAM BJERKE was born in Worth County, Iowa, Aug. 22, 1878, and came with his parents (Daniel and Johanne Bjerke) to Beaver Creek in 1882. He was married to Emma Josephine Norgaard, daughter of Edward and Gulbjor (Olson, Norgaard, March 29, 1919. Emma was born in Beaver Creek Township April 26, 1894. Thev had six children: Wilma, Wilda, William, Willard, Willis, Wil- lete. William, or Bill as friends call him, attended Mayville Normal jn 1900 and also attended Bruflat Academy and the A.C. He served two terms in the Legislature as Representative in 1919 and 1921. They have lived in Hatton since 1928. CHRISTIAN LYSTE was born at Aadalen, Prestegjaeld, Norway, on June 2, 1846. He came to Rochester, Minn., when 23 years old. He was married in Olmstead County, Minn, in 1874, to Oline Mehus. They had three children: Mrs. Anne Homme, Mrs. Martha Tangney and Oscar. He with his family came to the Red Rivet- Valley and homesteaded a mile and a half southwest of Hatton. Hatton at that time did not exist. Mrs. Lyste passed away in 1883. He then married Ingeborg Huus, daughter of Andrew and Lukris Huus. She was born Dec. 22, 1863. They had seven children: Lena (Mrs. A. S. Huus), Nels, Albert, Gina (Mrs. Oscar Sletten), Otto, Theodore, Ida (Mrs. Ole Sordahl). In 1890 he moved his family to Min nesota again to the Pine Creek settlement. They stayed there for 7 years but finally decided to return to Hatton community. He rented land for three years and then purchased the farm in Beaver Creek in 1900. Mrs. Lyste died in 1925. Mr. Lyste died March 30, 1945. GUNDER K. SANDA was born September 2, 1856 in Telemarken, Norway. He came to Northwood, Iowa in 1881 and to Beaver Creek in 1883. In 1895 he returned to Norway where he married Bergit Erickstein June 25, 1896. She was born July 4, 1876, in Bo, Telemarken. She died January 11, 1946. Gunder died June 25, 1926. They had six children: Gunda (Mrs. Elmer Tosterud), Clarence, Ingvald, Alfred, Sam, Ida (Mrs. Gil- men Stavens). Sam lives on the old homestead. NEWBURGH TOWNSHIP Newburgh township was settled in the 1870's. First homesteaders selected their claims along the Goose River where they could obtain logs for their cabins and for firewood. Several of these cabins are still intact. First one built was the Rodningen cabin—later purchased by Anton Berg and moved to section 23. The Andrew Stavens cabin is also one of the first built. Two have had additions and are still in use, the Lars Mark cabin on the Ernest Stavens farm and the Ole Berg cabin at the Oscar Berg farm. Later settlers took their claims on the prairie and lived in dug-outs and sod houses. First wedding in the township was that of N. H. Berg and Tonetta Heskin in 1874. First store was established at the Halvor Berg homestead in 1876 and in 1877 a post office was added. When the township was organized in 1883 it was named Newburgh in honor of this post. First township officers were J. H. Berg, clerk; Lars Mark, treasurer and O. T. Arneson, Lewis Larson and Ole Berg supervisors. Rognhild Rodningen, born March 23, 1875, was the first girl born in the township and Thomas Thompson, born, May 13, 1875, the first boy. In 1881 the first school was built on a corner of section 16 with O. T. Arneson as the first teacher. Goose River church was the first church in the township, built in 1887. All homesteaders were from Norway with the exception of one from Sweden, Hans Anderson. Most had lived in other states before coming to Dakota. In the southern half of the township, every other section was railroad land due to a grant from the Federal government to help get the railroad built. 65 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Multi-page TIFF Editor.
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