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- The following is from the TALES OF MIGHTY MOUNTRAIL Vol. II
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Marie Hartland Dahl was born September 11, 1908 in Hjartland, Norway. She came to Breckenridge, Minnesota in April, 1909 along with her mother, Charlotte, grandmother, Jensine and great-grandparents Per and Petronella Pederson. They also called themselves Elling and Malling.
In 1912 they moved to Claire City, South Dakota and them in 1916 they moved to Liberty Township in Mountrail County, where her grandfather had a homestead.
In 1928 Marie moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota and married Henry Dahl in 1929. Henry was born September 7, 1901 in Denmark.
Two sons were born to Henry and Marie: Peter and Robert.
Peter was born October 24, 1930 and resides in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is not married.
Robert was born December 12, 1931 and resides in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He is a certified public accountant and married Nancy Lou Mix on August 20, 1960. Their children are Elizabeth Ann Dahl, Lisa Marie Dahl, and Gary Michael Dahl.
Marie has one great-grandson, Joseph David Gilbert.
Marie's sisters are Hjordis Harr, Louise McKay, Lorena Bastian, Grethe (Gertie) Hornaday, Edith Wilber, Mavis Slind, and Myrtle Waller. She has one brother Theodore Wadholm of New Town.
Henry Dahl died October 20, 1977.
- The following was written by Marie Hartland
It was a stormy night Oct 24, 1930 when Peter was born. Ship wrecks at sea, and the first snow on the ground in the morning. We lived upstairs in a duplex of 3 rms, which Henry's aunt and uncle had lived in, they had retired and went back to Denmark to live. We had to walk down the back stairs to get to the bathroom. The owner of the duplex was a Danish widow. Who's son lived with her, until she passed away. He then got married to an old girl friend he had known for fifteen years. We stayed there until spring, when Henry got a road job at Wilmar Minn. He had been driving a taxi. Otherwise, so we packed our clothes and put the 3 rms on hold until we came back in the fall. We lived in a 2 rm cabin at Spicer, MN a couple of miles from Wilmar near Green Lake. When Henry came home in the evening, he would take a bath in the lake which was near the cabin. I took Peter out during the day in a stroller, which we had brought along. Then we came back to town and Dec 12, 1931 Robert was born. Next spring we moved to a farm 7 miles north of town, it had 40 acres. Bought two horses and 6 cows, and Henry worked in town driving a coal truck. Then worked on the farm week ends. We had sweet corn, tomatos, and potatos. There was 10 acres on the west side of Soo Line train tracks on the east side was 30, which was hay field. In the mornings before he went to work, we both milked the cows in the evening, I milked the cows. When Robert was old enough to walk, him and Peter would walk over to the rail road tracks and play, and I had to go and get them back to the house, because I never knew when that train would come along. Later Robert would go down to hiway 61, which went by the house. He was sitting watching the cars go by one time a man brought him up to the house, he said Robert was sitting in the middle of the road. During the day I would howe in the gardens. Another time on Saturday, I went down town to St. Paul to shop. Henry was supposed to watch the boys. When I got home they had been playing in the garage, near the chicken house, they got into an argument and had taken axel grease from a can and put on each others head and face. Henry was doing some work on the Model T Ford and had not seen the kids's grease job. To get the grease of them I had to wash their hair in Kerosine. After we had the farm 5 yrs, I decided it was enough. Henry was tired of the double job, so we sold everything except our furniture and moved into St. Paul in Aug 1936. It was an exstremly hot summer. It was a 4 rm house. It was so hot I cooked in the basement on a two burner hot plate. When September came and school started, Peter was five and I started him to Kindergarten school. He did not like school or teachers, so I had to walk him back to school and tell him to stay and play with the toys in school and get used to the other children. Next spring in 1937 Robert started Kindergarden. Then in the summer they would go to the sand hills and play and come home with pockets and shoes full of sand. There was plenty of hills and lower holes where construction workers had taken sand and soil out of to put on the streets and build houses with. One time I dressed them up to go visit Henry's cousin, while I was dressing they ran off to one of the sand hills. It had rained before. I went to get them back, they were all dirty with mud, so had to put on clean cloths again. They were getting bigger and needed more room for cloths and such, so we sold the 2 rm house and bought a bigger one in 1942. There they finished grade school. It was 4 blocks away. Then, they went to Junior High School and on to High School. Finished there, Peter got a job at Whirlpool Corp., bought himself a motorcycle and had a girl friend 10 miles north at Bald Eagle Lake. Coming home one night from her place, he took a turn in sombody's yard. It was lake homes all around. Ran into a flag pole, got pulled by the bike down to waters edge. He fractured his pelvis, lay in traction at the hospital for 4 or 6 weeks. In the meantime he was supposed to go into the service, Marines in San Diego. They had to be note-fied. He was in the hospital and couldn't come until a year later when Robert also had to go to the Army training at Forr Ord Calif. They did their time in the service and Peter went back to work at Whirlpool Corp. Robert got a summer job in office for Mail Forms. Then in fall went to the University on the GI Bill to be an accountant. While they were going to night school, they had skies and a tobbagan. They would slide down the hills and in Como Park. We had higher hills than before. Most of those hills and holes are gone now and they have moved houses there and built some new ones and an Elementery school. In 1960 Robert got married. Peter is still single. Bought himself a 4 rm cabin in N-West Wisc near Brule and the Brule river where he has been fishing for trout for many years. He has a couple of friends who fish ther too. Feb 11, 1984 he is up at his cabin today. It was not furnished so he brought up a table and 4 chairs three weeks ago, Friday evening he brought a bed. Says there are a lot of chickadees downy woodpeckers, hairy woodpeckers, and a few other birds. The cabin is heated with electricity. Has a wood stove in the basement for extra heat. Has a 2 car garage and a lot of pine and spruce trees on the east and north side of the cabin.
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1908 - 1995 (86 år)
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