Translated from 'Nordmændene i Amerika' by Martin Ulvestad, 1907. Knox County Ole Hendriksen Kuslien from Førde, Søndfjord was the first Norwegian settler in this county. In 1872 he left Wisconsin with his family of 12 and set course for Nebraska in 2 wagons hitched to 4 oxen. It took them 10 weeks. They settled at Winnetoon and were the only Norwegian family in that area for 5 years. In the years 1875-76 grasshoppers destroyed all their crops. Of Ole Hendriksen's grown sons (Henry, Rasmus and Gunder) one, Rasmus, died in 1882. He was the first to be buried in the Norwegian cemetery in Winnetoon. Pastor N. G. Tvedt of The Norwegian Synod was the first priest that visited this settlement. Now there are two congregations in Knox County, both belonging to The Norwegian Synod.