This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: AVogelpohl Surnames: FRENCH Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.southdakota.counties.jackson/65.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you for the directions. Are there records available on where people, such as my relative Frank French, are buried? Audrey Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: dljjkb Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.southdakota.counties.jackson/65.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The Fairview Cemetery is located at Interior, Jackson County, South Dakota on the South side of town. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: rhm1001 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.southdakota.counties.jackson/66/mb.ashx Message Board Post: If your genealogical society is looking for information for its newsletter, try this website. MySecretLetters.com In addition to the Civil War Love Letters, it has a "Genealogy Tip of the Day," and a "Thought for the Day." Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: AVogelpohl Surnames: FRENCH Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.southdakota.counties.jackson/65/mb.ashx Message Board Post: State records indicate that Frank French died in 1911 and is buried in Lot #3, Block #5 of Fairview Cemetery in Jackson County, South Dakota. Can someone advise me just where this cemetery is located? Audrey Cox Vogelpohl Seattle, Washington Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ShirleyPayne9962 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.southdakota.counties.jackson/64/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Helen Jackson was living in Edmonton , Alberta and gave birth to a son, Robert Jackson, in October 1934. Robert was given up for adoption. It is believed Helen was oroginally from Manitoba and that she may have had other children, possibly one before the birth of Robert. "Robert" would like to find out more about his mother and any siblings that he may have. Any information greatly appreciated. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: NaeMiz Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.southdakota.counties.jackson/63/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Is anyone available to take a headstone picture for me at the Catholic Mission Cemetery in Wanblee? I'd really apprecaite it. If so, please message back or email. Thanks. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: hfritsch75 Surnames: Beranek,Fritsch,Schriber,Brosi,Draves Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.southdakota.counties.jackson/0.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Katherine Fritsch (nee Beranek) is my g grandmother. I am seeking info on Elizabeth Schriber and her brother Andrew Fritsch. I will be visiting Katherine Draves' descendant this week and may be able to get some info on them too. Any info on Margaret Brosi's descendants would be helpful also. August Fritsch was my grandfather so I pretty much have the scoop on him. Also, I have no info on Katherine's siblings or ancestors. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blanchard Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/idB.2ACE/61 Message Board Post: I am looking for Blanchard relatives that i believe died in Jackson county SD. Lemmel born 1858, Levi born 1860, William born 1870. Thanks, Mari Mertens

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Howe, Long, Jones, Carefoot, Caragata, Otto, Nagel, Ford Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/idB.2ACE/33 Message Board Post: Obituaries of Florence Long Howe (1889-1978), of Lafleche & Glentworth, Saskatchewan, Canada [Florence Cordelia Long Howe (born Nov 1, 1889; died Nov 24, 1978), widow of Martin Charles Howe (1882-1965); Florence was the 2nd daughter of Robert Henry Long (1861-1950), of Buck Creek, Rockbridge, Richland Co, Wisconsin, by his wife, Eva Mary Jones (1862-1932)] (Obituaries were found in a Howe Family scrapbook – they were originally published in the Regina & Assiniboia, Saskatchewan newspapers) “Early Pioneer, Florence Howe, Passes Funeral Services for the late Mrs. Florence Howe were [held] Nov. 27, 1978 from the Lafleche United Church, Mr. Paul Lowen officiating. Interment took place at the Lafleche Municipal Cemetery. Ross Funeral Service in care of arrangements. Mrs. Florence C. Howe, former pioneer and resident of the Lafleche and Glentworth districts died in Regina on Nov. 24 at the age of 89 years. Born in Wisconsin in 1889, she attended Teacher’s College and taught school for four years in her home state and two years in Cottonwood, South Dakota. There she met Martin Charles Howe, a young rancher in that area. They were married in July of 1913 in North Portal, Saskatchewan on their way to their new homestead between Lafleche and Wood Mountain. The last leg of their journey was by wagon from Assiniboia to their new home where they lived for the next 40 years. In 1953, they sold the homestead and relocated on a ranch south of Glentworth. In 1963 they retired to Regina, selling the ranch to sons Bill and Jim who are still residing there. Predeceased by her husband in 1965 and two children, Donald in 1914 and Martin (R.C.A.F.) in 1942. She is survived by five sons: John and Tom of Regina, Pat of Lethbridge, and Bill and Jim of Glentworth; and five daughters: Thelma Carefoot and Mabel Otto of Gladstone, Manitoba, Anne Caragata of Toronto, Shirley Nagel of Regina and Evelyn Howe of Calgary. All of the twelve children were born on the homestead with the attendance of midwife neighbors Mrs. Joe Walters and Mrs. Bill Kuckartz. She is also survived by four sisters and one brother in Wisconsin and Washington, 34 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. Following her husband’s death in 1965 she resided for two years with her daughter Shirley in Regina before moving to Mutchmor Lodge where she lived until July of 1976. Failing health required her to move to Pioneer Village Nursing Home in Regina where she resided until her passing. During her teaching years Mrs. Howe served as organist, choir member and Sunday school teacher in the church and organized drama events in her schools. She served as secretary-treasurer of Happy Hill School District south of Lafleche from the time it opened in 1928 until it closed in the 1940s. Even with her large family, friends and neighbors were always welcome at the family table. She was a wise and loving wife and mother and a helpful friend throughout both the hard times of depression and war and in the good times. Her letters and notes to her many friends and family will be missed. Her life could be described as a persistent concern for others in keeping with the pioneer spirit and a continuing dedication to the ideals of life, love, family, friends, wisdom and God. Pallbearers were Andre Palmier, Maynard Kuckartz, Stanley James, Harold Anderson, Russell Hansen and Willy Klein. Honorary pallbearers were Eli Jalbert, Harvey Prevost, Bill Fancourt, Merv McIvor and Elvin Mitchell. Memorials were received for the Canadian Save The Children’s Fund.” “Homesteader Dies Funeral services were held at the Lafleche United Church recently for Mrs. Florence Howe of the Regina Pioneer Village Nursing Home. She was 89. Mrs. Howe was born in Wisconsin. There she taught school for four years before moving to South Dakota, where she met her husband Martin, eventually settling in Lafleche in 1913. Mrs. Howe homesteaded for 40 years before selling the farm and moving to a ranch in Glentworth. In 1963 she moved to Regina. She is predeceased by her husband and two sons, Donald and Martin Charles. Mrs. Howe is survived by five sons: John and Tom of Regina; Bill and Jim of Glentworth and Pat of Lethbridge; and five daughters: Thelma Carefoot and Mabel Otto of Gladstone, Manitoba, Anne Caragata of Toronto, Shirley Nagel of Regina and Evelyn Howe of Calgary. She is also survived by 34 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren, four sisters and a brother. In memory of Mrs. Howe donations may be made to the Foster Parents Plan of Canada. All ten children of the late Mrs. Florence Howe were present at her funeral. After the funeral the family had a get-together at the Bill and Jim Howe homes. Besides the families of Bill and Jim Howe, there was Anne Caragata of Toronto, Thelma Carefoot and son Clifford of Gladstone, Manitoba, Mabel and Walt Otto of Gladstone, Valerie Ford of Glenboro, Man., John and Lorraine and Lorrie Howe of Regina, Tom and Del Howe of Regina, Jim and Tammy Howe of Regina, Shirley and Louis and Wayne Nagel of Regina, Donnie and Linda Nagel of Regina, Rae Howe of Saskatoon, Larry and Rosanne Howe and son Jason of Pense, Pat and Barb Howe of Lethbridge and Evelyn Howe of Calgary.” <><><>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/idB.2ACE/32 Message Board Post: I am looking for a book called Jackson Washabaugh County History 1889-1989 My Mom really wants to have a copy of this book. Her family history is in the book. I have googled it but have only been able to find the 1915-1965 version. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Mrs Weasel

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Howe, Haugen, Anderson, Kennedy, Amland, Cochran, Johnson, Long, Landers, Norem, Voll, Carefoot-Mowat, Solibo, Nagel, Adair, Richardson, Caragata, Billington, Hatlelid, Adamack, Satrevik Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/idB.2ACE/31 Message Board Post: CHARLES & ANNA HOWE [Tjerand & Anna Haugen] “Charles Howe was a man born with a spirit of adventure in his veins,” according to his granddaughter, Lorene Anderson.1 Born in Norway in 1855, Tjerand Ingebrigtsen Haugen [by which name Charles Howe was originally known], was the fourth son of Ingebrigt Ingebrigtsen Haugen of Etne, Hordaland, Norway, by his wife, Eli Olsdatter. Charles’s granddaughter Harriett recalled that he once told her that when he was fourteen, his father advised him, “Now you are a man and another mouth to feed so you must seek your own livelihood”2 “Grandfather said he put everything in a little knapsack and hiked to the seaport of Bergen where he and another little boy were hired to work on a ship about to sail.....the other little fellow later fell from a mast (they did only flunkie work and were abused, à la Charles Dickens descriptions) and was killed before Grandfather’s eyes.”3 Lorene advises that “he went to sea as ! a cabin boy” and “He was on board one of the first steamships which had engine trouble and they were six months getting back to Norway.”4 Charles Howe once told some of his Howe granddaughters that his large powerful hands were the result of all the heavy work he did during his youthful years at sea.5 Anna Howe Kennedy’s biography records that her “Father trained and worked as a merchant sailor, travelling frequently to England. It was as a sailor that he learned the English language. My Mother went to live with a family in Bergen after the death of her mother. Although she worked as a domestic, the family treated her as a friend and daughter. Father’s cargo vessel was shipwrecked, and while he was being nursed by the family, a romance blossomed between the young couple and marriage ensued.”6 Born in 1853, Anna Amland was the younger daughter of Anders and Marta Amland of Tysnes Island. When Marta died young in 1868, leaving Anders a widower for 37 years, Anna, aged fifteen, and her elder sister Ingeborg, had been sent to live with their mother’s sister. Their father was a farmer and fisherman who was bedridden for the last twelve years of his life. Anders Tomasson Amland lived to the remarkable age of 96 and died in 1905. After living with her aunt for a time, Anna headed north to Bergen where she found employment as a maid in the Bergen household where Charles was recuperating. The owners of the Bergen house where Charles boarded and Anna worked, apparently did not initially approve of his intention of marrying Anna. In any event they reconciled themselves to the young couple’s romance and Charles and Anna were married in the parlour of that same house in the city of Bergen sometime in the year 1881 or in early 1882. On December the 11th, 1882, ! in or near Bergen, Anna gave birth to their first child who was named Ingebrigt after his Grandfather Haugen. Charles had been receiving letters from his younger sister Lusine who encouraged her brothers to come join her in Illinois. Lusine Haugen had gone over to the States on her own in 1878 and had landed a position as housekeeper to the Governor of Illinois. Convinced by his sister’s favourable reports of life in the New World, Charles and Anna Howe immigrated to the United States in June of 1883 with their infant son Ingebrigt and Charles’s brother Nels and his wife Bertha. Either while being processed by American Customs and Immigration [probably at Ellis Island, New York], or in their first few years in the United States, Nels and Tjerand Haugen anglicized their surname to Howe and Tjerand changed his first name to Charles and that of his son Ingebrigt, to Martin. The name change occurred either because the immigration officials arbitrarily changed their surname, or as a result of a desire on the part of Charles and Nels to adopt American sounding names. The Howe Family headed out to Illinois to join their sister Lusine, by then known as Lucy Howe, who was then residing at Morris near the centre of the Norwegian community in Grundy County southwest of Chicago. Charles and Anna and their infant son Martin settled nearby [presumably on a farm] north of Morris and south of Lisbon, where Anna gave birth in July of 1885 to their eldest daughter Elizabeth. At an undetermined time after her birth, Charles and Anna and family moved some twenty miles east to Joliet, where Charles found employment working on the railroad. Their son Andrew was born sometime in 1887, either in Joliet or near Morris. Charles found that he didn’t much care for railroad work, so he ultimately made the decision to move his family north to Minnesota after the birth of their daughter Anna in January 1890. We don’t know where in Minnesota they resided, thought it’s possible they may have gone to join Nels and Bertha at a farming communi! ty near Chandler in Murray County, Minnesota. After two years in Minnesota, they headed west to South Dakota and took up a homestead on 160 acres one mile east of Presho. At about the same time, Nels and Bertha Howe also homesteaded at Presho, therefore giving rise to the possibility that the two Howe Families may have journeyed together from Minnesota. Barely settled into their South Dakota homestead, Anna gave birth to their daughter Sadie in March of 1892. In December of 1893, Anna and Charles greeted the arrival of their youngest daughter Matilda, and their family became complete with the birth of their seventh child, John, sometime in 1895. For the next twelve years, the two Howe brothers and their families enjoyed the experience of living in close proximity to each other at Presho. One family story has it that sometime in the 1890s, Charles Howe decided to head west into the Black Hills to prospect for gold and ended up staying there an entire year. Soon after arriving there, Charles was forced to go into hiding since the Sioux tribes considered the Black Hills to be sacred Indian country and did not take kindly to others intruding into their territory. Since the Sioux wouldn’t let anyone in or out of their sacred lands, it took quite some time before Charles was finally able to make good his escape and return home to his family with nary a nugget to justify his year-long disappearance. Expecting him to be gone no more than a month or two, Anna had been worried sick that something awful had happened to him. And during that entire time, she had had to take care of her children and the homestead all on her own.7 Thankfully, Nels and Bertha were there to help her out if things got too tough. In February 1902, Charles Howe took out his American Naturalization papers in Lyman County, South Dakota.8 He wanted to increase his landholdings and concentrate on ranching but could not do so in the Presho area where all the available land was taken up. Therefore in 1904 or ‘05, he pulled up stakes again, loaded up the wagon and took his family 100 miles west to the vicinity of Cottonwood where they homesteaded and lived in a dugout on Neves Creek for a time. Their son Martin had already homesteaded there and Andrew also took up a homestead which he turned over to his sister Anna. 9 Circa 1907 or ‘08, Charles and Anna and family moved right into Cottonwood. Charles’s youngest brother, John I. Howe, had come over from Norway in 1890 and after having fought in the Spanish-American War, had eventually made his way to Cottonwood in 1906 where he also took up a homestead. The Howe Brothers went into partnership and became the owners and operators of the Cottonwood Hotel and General Store. Once again there were two Haugen brothers from Etne living and working in close proximity. A joyful family event occurred just after Christmas in 1910 when Charles and Anna’s eldest daughter Elizabeth married Harry Cochran right there in Cottonwood. The young couple settled on a homestead in the vicinity. Tragedy struck the Howe Family in 1911. Young John Howe, the Benjamin of the family and just fifteen years old, died suddenly under mysterious and tragic circumstances. He was found dead out in the barn and it has been conjectured that he may have been murdered. His death was one of three unexplained fatalities in the Cottonwood area that winter. As described by both his cousin Johnny Johnson (his mother’s nephew) and by his teacher, Florence Long (his brother Martin’s future wife), John C. Howe was a happy, good-natured and well-adjusted young fellow. He helped out at his father’s and uncle’s general store, and as a result of a series of unsolved thefts of store merchandise, one of his duties at the time was to make nightly inspections of the supply sheds. Did he catch the thieves red-handed and if so, did they murder him?10 Almost ninety years later, the cause of his death remains unknown. Charles and Anna and their six surviving children must have been absolutely devastated by John’s untimely and dreadful demise. Their sorrow over the loss of their youngest son may have acted as a subconscious motivation for Charles and Anna’s subsequent move. In 1912, after only seven years in Cottonwood, Charles, ever the restless soul, made the decision to head north to western Canada where vast areas of open prairieland had been opened to settlement over the previous decade. Accompanied by his son Martin, they journeyed about 400 miles northwest to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, and then made their way 100 miles south to their final destination. “Charles Howe was already past middle age when he started to pioneer in Canada and he had to have a pioneering instinct to make such a bold move.”11 Charles and his son Martin both took up homesteads and pre-emptions to the north of the Wood Mountain Hills in southern Saskatchewan down near the Montana border. “With the closing in of below zero weather and deep snow, Martin and his father returned to South Dakota to spend the winter, getting their horses and equipment ready to ship out to their homestead in the spring.”12 In the month of April 1913, Charles and Anna and Martin, in the company of a family friend, J. P. Johnson, and Anna’s Norwegian nephew, Johnny Johnson, set out on the long northbound journey to their new homes in Saskatchewan. A series of letters written by Anna in Norwegian, circa 1917-1920, to her daughters back in Cottonwood, have survived to this very day. The following extracts of translations of Anna’s letters provide us with a few glimpses into their lives way back then: “Plessis [Sask, Canada], January 14th Dear Children, Since you all have often surprised us with so many beautiful things, I must write you a few words to tell you that we received your gift and we are sending you a heartfelt thanks. And not to forget [our Grand-daughter] Harriett [Cochran] for the letter you wrote with your sweet little hands. You are making very good figures. We are about the same. I believe we will get a hired hand one of these days. It is too much for us to work with all alone. You are all greeted from the heart. Your devoted Mother. February 14th. Dear Children, We have had it extremely hard here for a long time with snow and cold weather. Here there have been coal shortages — the railroad could not bring in enough. We are lucky we are having enough at home. Ole Hatlelid and Graekar stayed here a few days. They were after coal. [Son] Martin is here now with his little daughter [Thelma]. He is in good shape this year. You are all greeted from the heart and I wish you all a happy New Year! Your ‘Hengiven’ Mother. March 3rd. Dear Children, I have now again received your dear letter that you sent, Lizzie. We are glad to see that you are all well. That is also good to hear that Andrew is well. Papa is very sick at times of that old stomach trouble. Martin was here last Sunday and he stayed over till Monday. They are all in good health. [My nephew] Jan [Johnson Amland] was with him. Martin told us that Tillie had gone to Cottonwood. We had helped her to go to Regina. We did not know she had gone [from there to Cottonwood?]. We have had a letter from [our niece] Hannah [Howe]. They are all well. We have not yet sold our land in Presho [South Dakota]. One person offered $4,500 for it, but it is listed for $6,000. I understand they have had a good harvest there [in Presho] for many years now and it [our property] is located close to the town. I believe we will get the railroad here [at Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan] come Summer. Your Hengiven Mother. April 23rd. Dear Children, We have not so long ago received your dear letter and are glad to hear that you are well. We are also glad to hear that Alvin Landers and Sadie have come a long way on the road, and I am hoping it will be warmer before they arrive. Martin and family is fine now. We have some small calves and more are coming. Small calves need good care in cold weather. It is good that we have plenty of feed for them. Your Hengiven Mother. September 30th. Dear Children, We are now through with the threshing, plowing and disking. We have only a few potatoes left to dig up. We did not get such a big harvest but we got more than last year of wheat and flax. The price is high so we get something out of it anyhow. We went to Lafleche last week and we stopped at Martin’s. They had been ill but they were all up and around and talked to us. I am hoping they are all better now. I hear that [our daughter] Anna [Kennedy] has had another little boy [Wayne]. I am glad that [our daughter] Sadie is over there and helping her [sister] until she gets strong again. We had a letter from [our niece] Hannah and [her mother] Bertha (widow of Charles’s brother, Nels Howe, of Presho, SD). It has been dry there in the late Summer so the harvest was bad. If they had not had frost, they would still get some corn. Heartfelt greetings to you all from your devoted Mother. October 8th. Dear Children, I have now again received your dear letter and I am happy to hear that you are all well. We have dug up the potatoes — we have more than we can use. I am also getting some cabbages which are quite large and firm, and about a bushel of turnips. We use a lot of these vegetables. We also got a few tomatoes and cucumbers. I always have a lot to do. I just churned some butter and made some potato pancakes and did some cleaning. Your devoted Mother.”13 Charles and Anna took out their Canadian Naturalization Papers in December of 1914. Between 1912 and 1920, there were four more marriages in their family: Andrew married Lena Hausle in 1912, Martin married Florence Long in 1913, Anna married George Kennedy in 1916, and Sadie married Alvin Landers in 1917. By 1920, Charles and Anna, by then in their mid-sixties, were ready to retire. They sold their farm to their daughter and son-in-law, Sadie and Alvin Landers, and then headed down to Chicago to make arrangements to return home to the land they had left behind some 37 years before. Letters from Charles and Anna to their daughters tell of their preparations. “Joliet, Illinois, August 18, 1920 Dear Lizzie and Anna and Tillie, We are well up to this writing and we are now ready to go across the ocean. We are going from Joliet [Illinois] 24 August and 27 August we are going from New York to Norway. The ticket cost 280 dollars from here to Bergen Norway. Now Lizzie and Tillie, you must write to us care of Bergen Norway and let us know how everything is going. [My sister] Lucy [Norem] is well and [her] family also. Our best regards to all of you. Your Father, Charles A. Howe”14 “Joliet [Illinois], August 31st, 1920 Dear Children, We have just received Tillie’s letters and pictures from Brookings [SD] and are hoping that you are all well. We were in Chicago yesterday. We had many places to go so we were quite tired when we came home yesterday evening. But we were able to arrange everything for our trip back to Norway. It is lucky for us that we can now travel as British subjects or else it would have taken another month before we could have departed. We shall go from Chicago this coming Monday to New York and there we must stay a few days before the journey over the ocean. We had the wife [Mabel] of [nephew] Oskar [Norem] (youngest son of Charles Howe’s sister, Lucy Howe Norem) with us in Chicago and she was a very good help to us. It is not good when you are not familiar with the city. I shall greet you all from Aunt Lussi [Howe Norem]. You are all greeted from the heart from your devoted Mother”15 Charles and Anna spent almost an entire year over in Norway visiting with both their families in 1920 and 1921. Whereas Charles’s eldest brother Ingebrigt Haugen and most of his family lived way up at Vardø at the top of Norway, Ingebrigt’s eldest son John, had moved down to Stavanger, about 120 miles south of Bergen (as the crow flies). Therefore it made it convenient for Charles and Anna to go to Stavanger where they stayed with Charles’s nephew, John Haugen and his wife Olava and family. Fortunately, a photo of that visit still exists. It was taken in the garden of John Haugen’s Stavanger home and includes John and Olava and their eldest son Monrad, and Anna and Charles [Tjerand] Howe. John and Olava’s granddaughter, Margrethe Voll, has noted the strong family resemblance between her Grandfather and his Uncle Tjerand [Charles]. Charles and Anna would almost certainly have visited his birthplace at Etne. Although his brother Ole Haugen had died in 1903, Ole’s widow, Rannveig, was living and may still have been residing at the Haugen home [where Charles was born] at Gjerde near the town of Etne. Also there at Gjerde were Charles’s younger sister, Henrikke and her son Ingebrigt Haugen. In addition, various Haugen, Hegelund and Børretzen cousins probably still resided in the vicinity. Upon their return to North America in 1921, Charles and Anna settled out on the West Coast at Vancouver, British Columbia. Close to the ocean and the mountains, their new home must have reminded them of Norway. In January of 1923, they received the news that their youngest daughter Matilda, had married Ole Hatlelid, and that they had taken up residence in the same vicinity as Sadie and Martin in southern Saskatchewan. They now had three children living in the States and three in Canada, with a total of sixteen grandchildren. Unfortunately, Anna’s health began to deteriorate and she died in Vancouver on May 20th, 1925. She was laid to rest in Mountain View Cemetery. Thelma Carefoot-Mowat can recall when her Grandfather, Charles Howe, almost ran into the mower while she was trying to teach him how to drive. It was the Spring of 1928 and Grandpa Howe had come from Vancouver to visit his children in southern Saskatchewan — Martin, Sadie and Tillie. Charles and his son Martin and family had just returned from a visit with Sadie and her husband Alvin Landers and family. It was then that Charles asked his son to give him a driving lesson. Knowing what his Dad was like, Martin replied that he would instead have his daughter Thelma serve as his father’s driving instructor. Thelma states that her Grandpa Howe was a proud and stubborn man who found it humiliating that a twelve year old girl could drive a car whereas he could not. He was determined to learn how to drive and her sister Evelyn Howe advises that he was a man who definitely liked to keep up-to-date with the latest technological developments. Thelma points out that in early Ford cars, you had to adjust both the spark and the gas when you started out, and during the course of the driving lesson, she noticed that her Grandpa had not remembered the proper sequence of her instructions. Just then Thelma saw that he was headed straight toward the mower. Reacting quickly, she pulled at the steering wheel to avoid a collision, whereupon her Grandpa got mad and scolded her. Thelma stopped the car and ran crying to her Dad sobbing that Grandpa was mean and had blamed her for his mistake. She then announced she would no longer attempt to teach him to drive. One is left wondering if he ever did l! earn to drive.16 At the age of 74, Charles remarried in June of 1929 in Vancouver. His new bride, Janette Solibo Pastad, was a 52 year old widow from Norway. Their marriage didn’t last long and they separated soon afterwards, probably in 1930. Not long after his separation, Charles received a most welcome visit from his eldest granddaughter Harriett, the daughter of Lizzie and Harry Cochran. “During my stay with Grandfather [in Vancouver], we spent many hours in Stanley Park where I swam and he watched the ships move back and forth. He was so pleased when I was asked to sing in the church choir (some of our songs were in Norwegian and they taught me phonetically to sing along). We walked and travelled around Vancouver much of the time (by trolley). He was always so dear to appreciate my cooking — apparently he had really been ‘burned’ in his second marriage — he’d expected they would share living costs — she got all she could from him, rings, etc., and then was through with him — of course she was also at least twenty years younger than Grandfather and also had assumed he had a great deal more wealth — and he THOUGHT she was really a wealthy person, too. Ah, disillusionment!” “I recall their [Grandfather’s and Grandmother’s] return from Norway in the early 1920s — I understood they had visited their parents on that trip17 — and that Grandfather was regarded as a great success by all, to the extent that he contributed an organ to a church in Bergen.” “Grandmother had a very bad time with respiratory problems in Vancouver (asthma or bronchitis?) and thought it reminded her of ‘home.’ The climate was not good for her and Grandfather had regrets about that after her death [in 1925].”18 Charles Howe paid his last visit to Saskatchewan during the Summer of 1942. He visited with Tillie, Sadie and Martin and their spouses, and he also got to know several of his grandchildren, who now numbered 32 in total. And he met Bette Nagel [Adair], his eldest surviving great-grandchild. Several family photos document his last visit. By then in his 87th year, he looks surprisingly healthy and hearty in the pictures. Nevertheless, old age and infirmity soon brought an end to the varied life of a rather remarkable gentleman from the land of the Vikings. Charles Albert Howe, originally known as Tjerand Ingebrigtsen Haugen, departed this life in Vancouver on March 10th, 1943. He was laid to rest alongside Anna in Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemetery. <><><> NOTES 1. WAVERLEY 44, published ca 1978; history of the Rural Municipality of Waverley No. 44 [in the vicinity of Wood Mountain], Saskatchewan, Canada, “Charles Howe,” by Lorene Landers Anderson, pg 94. 2. Extracts from a 1986 letter written by Harriett Cochran Richardson (D2B) to D M Howe Caragata 3. Ibid 4. WAVERLEY 44, “Charles Howe,” by Lorene Landers Anderson, pg 94 5. "Childhood Memories of Anne Howe Caragata" 6. Extract from the Biography of Anna Howe Kennedy, by her daughter Doris Kennedy Billington, who interviewed her Mother. 7. “My Memories of Grandpa Howe,” by Thelma Howe Carefoot-Mowat 8. The Family Papers of Martin & Florence Howe 9. From the Biography of Anna Howe Kennedy; also, from The History of Jackson County, South Dakota, pg 65: “The John and Charles Howe families came to the Cottonwood community from Presho, So. Dakota, in the Spring of 1904. They homesteaded south of Cottonwood.” 10. Interview with James D. Howe 11. WAVERLEY 44, “Charles Howe,” by Lorene Landers Anderson, pg 94 12. THEY CAME TO WOOD MOUNTAIN (Saskatchewan, Canada), published ca 1967; “Martin C. Howe,” by Florence C. Howe, pg 203 13. The Anna Amland Howe Letters, courtesy of her granddaughter, Helen Hatlelid Adamack. Anna’s letters were translated into English by her great-nephew, the late Sigvard Satrevik of Seattle. 14. Ibid 15. Ibid 16. Interview with Thelma Howe Carefoot-Mowat 17. Since their parents were all deceased by 1911, Anna and Charles Howe visited with their siblings and other relatives while over in Norway in 1920-21. 18. Extracts from Harriet Cochran Richardson’s 1986 letter to D M Howe Caragata <><><>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Howe, Haugen, Amland, Carefoot-Mowat, Kennedy, Long, Wood, Cox, O'Brien, Roosevelt, Landers, Hatlelid, Caragata Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/idB.2ACE/30 Message Board Post: MARTIN CHARLES HOWE (1882-1965) Martin Charles Howe was born in or near Bergen, Norway on December 11th, 1882, and his original Norwegian name was apparently Ingebrigt Tjerandsen Haugen. In June of 1883, he immigrated to the United States along with his parents, Tjerand and Anna Haugen (nee Amland), and his uncle and aunt, Nels and Bertha Haugen. They all settled southwest of Chicago in the Norwegian community at Morris and Joliet, Illinois. While living in Illinois, the Haugens decided to anglicize their surname to Howe and at the same time Tjerand changed his first name to Charles and his son’s to Martin. Charles and Anna Howe and family moved north to Minnesota in 1890, and then moved again in 1892 when they decided to head west and homestead at Presho, South Dakota. Shortly after the turn of the century, Charles Howe made yet another move and resettled his family on a larger homestead about 100 miles west near Cottonwood, South Dakota. Thelma Carefoot-Mowat recalls hearing her Dad tell some of his friends that he almost perished in a storm when he was a teenager in Presho, South Dakota circa 1898. While tending his father’s sheep and cattle some distance away from home, young Martin occasionally liked to head over to the Sioux Indian reservation nearby and visit with the people there. Not only did he enjoy their company and culture, but while there, he also enjoyed learning how to step-dance and play the harmonica and then do both together. And through his visits to the Sioux Reservation, he became friends with some of the young Sioux teens. After one such visit, Martin headed back to check on the sheep and cattle when a sudden winter storm rose up out of nowhere. Some of the cattle had become mired in a marsh and with the water quickly rising, he had to get them out of there fast. When the blizzard began to rage, one of Martin’s young Sioux friends became concerned and went out into the storm to look for him and found Martin frozen and stuck waist-deep in the snow-covered marsh. He managed to pull Martin free and hoist him up onto his horse and then took him back to the Sioux Reservation where his mother nursed Martin back to health over the next several days. If it had not been for the heroic actions of the young Sioux brave and his saintly mother, Martin Howe would have surely died and would therefore not have married and had any descendants. Page 65 of The Jackson County [South Dakota] History Book contains a similar story included in a short article titled “John & Charles Howe,” an excerpt of which reads: “Anna Howe (Kennedy) and brother Martin Howe homesteaded near the White Water Creek. Martin raised sheep. The spring of 1905 he was caught on the south side of the creek, with his band of sheep, in a rainstorm. Unable to cross them he stayed with them that night and by morning it had turned into a bad blizzard. Martin was found unconscious by Ernest Reed, who took him to his home, where his mother cared for him until he was able to return home. It was several weeks before his family knew whether he was alive or not.” To further his education, Martin took a course in business and law at a college (Morningside?) in Sioux City, Iowa. He would have liked to complete his law degree; however his father wanted him to return home and work on their farm and ranch. When the family moved to Cottonwood in 1904, Martin took up his own homestead in the same vicinity. He enjoyed ranching out on the open prairie near the South Dakota Badlands, where range wars between cattlemen and sheepmen sometimes occurred. He was skilled in the art of backfiring and often helped put out prairie fires which frequently threatened the country. One of his most colorful recollections from this period was his temporary appointment as sheriff to track down and arrest a Dakota outlaw. In 1909, a young teacher by the name of Florence Long came up to Cottonwood from Richland Center, Wisconsin with her sister Leona and grandmother, Amanda Long. While teaching at the Cottonwood School, Florence lived part of the time with her aunt and uncle, Edna and Frank Wood. Her pupils included two of her Wood cousins and also Martin’s youngest sister and brother, Matilda and John Howe. During her four years there, she served as church organist, and she also met and fell in love with Martin Howe. Mae Long Cox once wrote to her sister Florence and recalled: “My husband Eck still talks about the time you came up to visit us when we lived in the Black Hills of South Dakota. We were all visiting at Uncle Tom and Aunt Neal O’Brien’s place and Martin Howe came up to see you, and came suppertime, Aunt Neal [who used to hunt buffalo and make buckskin outfits for President Teddy Roosevelt] said, ‘Where is Florence and Martin?’ Uncle ! Tom replied, ‘Oh I seen them lullagating around down towards Sturgis.’ You and Martin had gone for a walk — don’t remember just where you went. Do you still remember it?.” In the year 1912, Martin and his father became adventuresome and decided to head north and settle down in western Canada where vast open prairielands had been opened up to settlement in the last decade. Upon arriving in southern Saskatchewan, he and his father both took up homesteads and pre-emptions. His father chose land in the Wood Mountain area whereas he chose to settle ten miles further north on a half section (S½-9-7-4-W3). Martin built himself a sod shack and a straw barn, then worked on threshing outfits until harvesting was finished, and in this way he was able to earn the money he would need for future supplies when setting up for farming. He and his father went back to South Dakota for the winter and Martin filled the long cold months by rounding up equipment he would be needing when they returned to Canada in the spring. He bought horses and harnesses, machinery, tools and many other provisions that were necessary for a new home, and all of these he loaded into boxcars. When springtime arrived, they made the trek to the new land. Martin was all enthused about this venture and he worked hard to get things in order. And then it was time to travel over to the bordertown of North Portal to meet his fiancée, Florence Long, who was due to arrive from Cottonwood. Florence Howe wrote: “I must say we were happily married July 3, 1913, in North Portal by a kindly old minister [Rev. Coffin]. As we did not know a soul there, a couple of strangers signed our marriage certificate. Then with the minister’s blessing, we walked over to a restaurant and ordered our wedding supper of bacon and eggs, lemon ! pie and coffee. This seemed to us a most wonderful banquet.” Martin and Florence travelled by train from North Portal to Weyburn and then on to Assiniboia, as the railway had finally reached that far. Martin bought some lumber and also shopped for groceries they would be needing. He hitched up his horses who had been waiting for him in a livery barn, loaded his lumber and provisions and set off for home. It was a long drive, but when they finally reached their humble home, and had their homecoming meal, they were happy and grateful. Martin and Florence worked hard at getting settled in — Florence cleaning and putting up curtains, etc., and Martin looking after his horses, planting his crops and buying some chickens. But the two of them worked together and they were happy, that is until their lost their first baby, Donald Robert (born October 15, 1914) to pneumonia. It was a very sad time for them. Other babies came along and the sadness eased. Martin and Florence had eleven more children: Thelma, Anna, Mabel, Shirley, Martin Jr, Evelyn, John, Bill, Tom, Pat and Jim. Martin and Florence dearly loved their family as it grew and each new baby was greeted with wonder and love. In the early years, Martin helped bathe the children on Saturday nights — it was a very special family time. Martin loved to have one or two of his kids with him when he was out working or driving to town. I can remember when Thelma and I were occasionally allowed to ride on the seeder or binder when we were just five or six years old; however Dad was very careful to see that we were safe. Thelma, the eldest of the family, was the one who helped Dad around the farm in many ways. We were all taught to do many things like pulling weeds in the garden, picking stones, and milking cows as we grew older. But Thelma was the one out with Dad the most and she surprised everyone when she learned to drive the tractor and our Ford car and then the big truck, all by the age of twelve. Dad depended on her a lot. But as the boys grew older, Thelma’s outside jobs lessened. Dad was proud of his family. He was always fair and didn’t show favoritism. When company came to visit, they would want to see us kids, so Dad would tell us to line up by order of age which we did. It was sort of a ritual with us for all our young years. Another interesting occasion was when we were baptized. Dad wasn’t too concerned about our religious education, but Mother was. She taught us prayers and read or told us Bible stories and also sent us to Sunday school in the warmer months when there were church services. But there came a time when the two of them put their heads together and decided to finally have us all baptized. So one bright Sunday we were told to dress up and we did, and Dad and Mom and all eleven of us drove off to Harwood School where services were held. And we were all baptized then and there. I remember that Dad explained to the congregation and the minister why he and Mother had waited so long. He thought it was important for person! s to be old enough to understand the significance of the baptismal ritual. Martin like to be waited on by his children. He smoked his pipe most of his adult life, and when we were young, we liked to bring his tobacco to him or find his pipe. Also, we’d bring his footstool to him. We used to like it when he played his harmonica, and sometimes when there was peppy music on the radio, he would step-dance for us. We also liked it when he laughed as he had a very unusual laugh, so much so that we would all have a good laugh. We also enjoyed listening to him talk Norwegian to some of our visiting relatives and neighbours. He apparently retained his ability to speak fluent Norwegian. When the drought hit South Dakota in 1929 and wiped out the crops there, George and Anna Kennedy, with no crops to tend to, decided to visit Anna’s three siblings [Sadie, Tillie and Martin] up in Canada. They brought their five children with them and stayed for a couple of weeks with the Landers, Hatlelids and Howes who all lived within about ten miles of each other north of the Wood Mountain Hills in Saskatchewan. When the Kennedys came to visit the Howes in their small four-room home, Florence spread fresh straw mattresses out on the floor of the children’s bedroom, to make sufficient sleeping accomodation for all the Kennedy and Howe children. It was a memorable occasion for the entire family. Martin was very interested in farm movements and supported organizations such as the Grain Growers, the Wheat Pool and Co-operatives. The farmers needed to be recognized. They worked for better grain and shipping prices on all farm products, especially grain. Dad always attended political meetings when they were held in our hometown of Lafleche. And I must tell you that he usually brought one or two of his children along with him. No wonder we all have an interest in current events. Martin was very active in the forming of the CCF (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) Party (which later became the NDP - New Democratic Party), and was a candidate in our constituency at one time. He didn’t win but he was the best speaker of the bunch. Martin had many good qualities. He was always honest in his dealings and he taught his children to be honest too. He was a good neighbour – always willing to lend a hand if help were needed, or to lend a plow or mower if someone had a breakdown. He taught us all the value of hard work, and the fact that no job should be beneath us. He was a man with lots of courage. And he wasn’t afraid to try something new – such as trying out other crops when he experienced rust problems with wheat, or changing his breed of cattle for a new breed that would bring more profit. Dad was really brave when he drove his cattle 300 miles all the way to Calder, Saskatchewan in the dirty-thirties – 1934-5, since there was no feed for them at home because of the drought. Then in the following year he took them about 200 miles further east to Gladstone, Manitoba where there was plenty of feed. It was difficult but he saved the cattle. Dad made another move which required much faith and courage and that was when he sold the old farm in 1953 and bought a ranch south of Glentworth where he would have access to more grassland, since he wanted to do more ranching and just enough farming for stock-feed. Martin enjoyed ten very happy years at the ranch and he was reluctant to retire. He had enjoyed riding and tending the cattle and then later, driving the pick-up truck through the grasslands to check on them, and in winter, to take feed, if necessary, to the cattle out in the fields and in the corrals closer to home. But he finally agreed to try out city life with Mother as she needed an easier life at this point. Our father, Martin C. Howe, proved to be the stuff pioneers are made of. He had the courage to face the hardships of settling in a new country and he had the will-power and the ability to cope with the many problems as they arose. He was a man who did not easily give up. His attitude toward adversity was “Next year will be better.” It was that hope that kept him going and helped him through his eighty-two years of life. Martin died in Regina, Saskatchewan in January 1965 and is interred at the Lafleche United Church Cemetery. Florence passed away in her 90th year in November 1978 and was laid to rest alongside of him. - by his daughters, Anne Howe Caragata & Thelma Howe Carefoot-Mowat <><><>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/idB.2ACE/12.1 Message Board Post: There is a John Mesnard in the 1910 census for Belvidere Twp., Stnaley Co., SD (e.d. 100, sheet 13B); he and parents b. Michigan; age is 24 or 29 & single. Occupation is bar tender in a saloon, working for wages (so he soesn't yet own it).

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/idB.2ACE/9.1 Message Board Post: hello i looking for family Ludvig Abrahamson from Bamble in Telemark , he was born in 1890 end liv from Norway in 1910. The person i looking for is brother to my grandmother. Ann Kristin

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rumsey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/idB.2ACE/29 Message Board Post: Looking for Laura or Laurie Rumsey. She died around 1908-1910. She had two children Joe Rumsey born 1906 and Violet born Sept. 1908. She is supposed to be buriend in a Kadoka Cemetery. I am trying to find death notice or burial. Any help would be appreciated. Please email new address: [email protected] Thanks Vicki

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/idB.2ACE/27.2 Message Board Post: Dawn, Sorry, I forgot to mention that Jacob and Sarah are burried in the Belvidere Cemetary along with most of the Addison's from the area. http://www.rootsweb.com/~sdjackso/belviderecem.html

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/idB.2ACE/27.1 Message Board Post: Hello Dawn, I use to live in Kadoka SD. The main paper for Jackson and what use to be Washabaugh Counties is: Kadoka Press 218 Main St S Kadoka, SD 57543 (605-837-2259) If no one responds to look for the obits you are looking for, you may want to contact the paper directly. I left Kadoka before I started my family research and have had to call them for help. They are very nice and will help you. Also there are still a lot of Addison's living in the Belvidere, Kadoka area. I went to shcool with several of them. Another place to keep an eye on is: http://www.rushfuneralhome.com Rush Funeral Home 203 West Pine St. P.O. Box 607 Philip, SD 57567 (605) 859-2400 The Rush Funeral home is located in Philip, SD and does a lot of funerals in Kadoka. They post obits to their web site and will also send you info. I hope this helps, Keith

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Boudrou, Dent Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/idB.2ACE/28 Message Board Post: My Grandmother had a grocery store in Belvidere SD from 1934 until 1942. I have a picture of her in the store. She was widowed in 1933 (husband Ernest B Boudrou died in Chamberlain, SD). Looking for any documentation or information that would support this information. Thank you - Terry Boudrou Wages

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/idB.2ACE/27 Message Board Post: I would like someone to do an obit lookup for the following people. Jacob Daniel Addison d. June 18, 1941 Sarah Isabel Enders Addison d. September 12, 1930 Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. Dawn

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/idB.2ACE/25 Message Board Post: This page says Belvidere, SD was named for Belvidere, IL. Who were the people who went to SD? When did they settle there?