| Summary: | 1886 - 1986: Century of Change have two daughters; EHsa is a senior at Washington State University, and Karin is continuing her education in Colorado. Gerald is an attorney in Tacoma, WA, as weU as a Lt. Col. in the Air Force Reserve. Sibyl is married to George Engdahl and Uves in Mohne, IL. They have two daughters — Dawn, a coUege student and Nicole, an active teenager. George is an officer with the Chicago Symphony. Beverly and her husband, Richard Seston, have three sons — Mark, PhUip, and Stephen — who range from six years down to eight months old. They Uve in Palmdale, CA, and Rich is director of computer services with a Burbank firm. Richard is married to the former Dianna MiUer and Hves in Silvana, WA. They have two sons, ages eight and six: Matthew and Andrew. Glenn and Eleanor came to Lake Stevens, WA, in January of 1948 from Bismarck, ND. He spent his miHtary years with the European Theater of Operations, U.S. Army, 1943-45. Glenn is presently retired from Scott Paper Company as a machine tender. Eleanor passed away on December 8, 1973. Two years later, Glenn married Melba (McDaniel) Smith. She has two daughters and a son. SaUy, who married David Sund, has her own family counseUng practice in Olympia, WA, and they have two sons, Stephen and Scott. Deborah, married to Joe Bernard, Uves and works in Prudhoe Bay, AK. Melba's son, Ivan, has two daughters and currently resides in Idaho. Glenn and Melba are active in their church. In addition, they are travel buffs and make frequent visits to Oregon, CaHfornia and the Midwest. R.H. Home family RAGNVALD H. HORNE Ragnvald H. Home came to America from Sogn, north of Bergen, Norway, in 1905. He came to New England in 1906, and worked as a farm hand, a section locator, and as high-cUmber carpenter to help buUd the first grain elevator in New England. He homesteaded in 1906 on the northeast quarter of Section 10 in White Lake Township, in what was BilUngs, and is now Slope, County. He had a sod barn and a frame house. A bridge on the road, passing his quarter, was known as "Home's Bridge." There is a culvert there now. Because of the lack of feed for cattle, in 1919 he moved his family, and most of the livestock and machinery by train to Selfridge, ND, on the Indian reservation. He drove a four-horse team, and hauled some of the necessary equipment to the new destination. He kept the homesteads, and farmed them until he sold them in 1944. Vina Brush was born in Tordal, in Telemarken, Norway. The family had two farms known as "Brush" and "Nordby." In Norway they used the Brush name, but in America they used "Nordby," considering it easier to Americanize. Vina came to live with her brother and sister-in-law, Olav and Maren Nordby, east of New England. She quickly learned Enghsh, and had a larger vocabulary than most American-born-and-educated folk. She had been head bookkeeper for a firm in Skjien, Norway. In America she worked for W.C. McKenzie's Hotel until she married R.H. Home in 1911. She had homesteaded an "eighty," kitty-corner from his, in 1910, the southwest corner of Section 2, Township 138N, Range 100W. She was present when the first train came to New England. They combined their homestead "shanties," and lived on Vina's eighty until 1918. Four children were born there: Glenn, Martha, Isabel, and Dagny (Dee). In the dry year of 1918, the well failed, and they moved the house to R.H.'s quarter. Johnny was born there. Eunice, who died in infancy, was born at Selfridge. She is buried in a Httle pioneer cemetery of two acres which lies in the northeast corner of Section 18 in Moord Township, now on a part of the Arnold Rotering farm. In March, 1921, they moved from the Indian reservation to the Conrad Hanson homestead east of New England. It is the east half of Section 4-135-96, Havelock Township. One child, Evelyn, was born there. The children grew to adulthood in New England. They were members of the Lutheran Church, first a congregation in rural Midway, which bought and fenced that two-acre graveyard; then the rural congregation which met at the HeUekson School. This congregation bought the beU, steeple, and organ for that school. Later they joined the New England Lutheran Church, which they attended and supported, and where their children received their Christian education. The Home Coal Mine came into being here, in 1924, and was a large economic factor in the community. Young men worked here for money for school, clothes, food, and fares to go West to make their fortunes. R.H. and Glenn managed the mine until 1933; and R.H. and Johnny ran it until 1939. R.H. served on the school board, the township board, and the Farm Security Administration. There are still some quotations floating around in the people's memories about him: "If we're reaUy in 332 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Multi-page TIFF Editor.
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