 Pehr Truedsson (later Pete Mattson) and his twin sister Kjerski (married Lars Hanson) were born in Sweden. Pehr immigrated to America with some of Kjerski's children (Larsons) and eventually many of them settled in Eddy County. They are documented in Sheyenne Our Heritage 1883-1900 on pages 510 through 516.
Pete married Johanna (Hanna) Christina Carlson in Aby, Sweden. They had these known children; Theodor, Oscar [he was probably the first burial in the Augustana Cemetery], Harry Marcus (1895-1989), Anna, Arthur Samuel (1897-1997), Esther, Carl Herbert (1904-1981), Albert, and Victor.
Hanna's Burial, Tombstone Photo Samuel was born on 15 May 1810 at Skaneateles, Onondaga County, New York. By 1850 he was married to Maria Trucks, born in Pennsylvania, and was living in Grant County, Wisconsin with children James (1840), Jane (Jennie) (1844), and John (1846). In 1860 they were living in Eastman, Crawford County, Wisconsin.
On 1 September 1862 Samuel enlisted/mustered in Company K of Wisconsin's 31st Regiment Infantry as a Sergeant and served with that unit until wars end and the Company mustered out on 30 June 1865. He started drawing his Civil War pension on 23 September 1879.
On 6 March 1867, Maria died in Crawford County and is buried in Campbell Cemetery. Also sons James and John did not survive the Civil War and are also buried in Crawford County.
In 1870 Samuel is farming in Crawford County but in 1880, although still living in Crawford County, he is a lawyer and is living with his daughter Jennie and her family. Jennie married a Civil War Veteran James Davidson and in 1880 they are farming in Crawford County and have four children.
In 1885 Samuel is in Eddy County and has land patents in Township 148, Range 67, Sections 6 and 7, and Township 149, Range 67, Section 33. Shortly after the Davidson family also relocated to Eddy County.
Samuel died in New Rockford on 7 January 1897.
Maria's Burial, Tombstone Photo, Links to Some Family Edward was born on 1 February 1875 at Fort Totten, Benson County, North Dakota to Thomas P. and Margaret Morris.
Edward married Marie Mary Nuetzel on 30 July 1900 in Eddy County. Marie was the daughter of John and Fredericka Nuetzel and was born in Indiana on 17 March 1879. They had six children: Fenimore Edward (1901-1947), Dorothea, Reta (1906-1966) married Ronald Millard, Merwyn Aubrey (1907-1967), Jean, and Edward, Jr. (1912-1968).
Edward was the Chief of Police at New Rockford from 1924 until his death in 1926. He was seriously injured while on police duty during an attempted holdup and received injuries which eventually contributed to his death. Marie live until she was 108 and died in California where she went to live as did some of the children.
Marie's Burial, Tombstone Photo, Links to Some Family Thomas was born out at sea on the Indian Ocean on 9 November 1828 to George and Janet Morris. There are records which indicate he was born in Scotland and Bombay, India which may have been a residence while out at sea. George was born in Cornwall, England and Janet in Glasgow, Scotland.
In 1863 Thomas married Margaret Mary Morton [she used mostly Martha] who was born on 12 July 1838 in County Waterford, Ireland. She indicated in a census that she immigrated in 1860. There were six children from this marriage:
John Thomas (1864) - Burial.
Eliza Janet (25 Sep 1866 - 30 Jan 1956), married George Frederick Speck, died in Los Angeles County, California.
Fannie (1869) - Burial.
Margaret (1871) - Burial.
George (1873) - Burial.
Edward (1875) - (See above).
Thomas indicated in a census that he immigrated in 1849. In 1853 he enlisted into the Army. In 1860 he is a soldier at Fort Defiance, Bernalillo, New Mexico Territory. This writer could not find the family in the 1870 census but their first son, John, was born in 1864 in Washington, D. C., their third child, Fannie, was born in 1869 in Oklahoma Territory, and in 1871 their daughter, Margaret, was born in Fort Totten, Benson County. In 1880 the family is in Ramsey County and Thomas is a soldier. The family is in Eddy County by 1886.
No record could be found by this writer of Thomas being in the Civil War but for sure he was in the U. S. Army. He enlisted in the Army in 1853 and retired on 7 May 1885 as a Sergeant. Those 32 years involved eight enlistments. In 1864, during the Civil War, their oldest child was born in Washington, D. C.
While in Eddy County the Morris Post Office was established on 13 February 1886 on his homestead in Eddy Township (T150 R63), Section 20. In 1900 Thomas and Martha appear to be retired and living in New Rockford. Sometime after 1910 they relocated to Warwick, Benson County where both died and are buried in the Warwick Cemetery.
Margaret's Burial, Tombstone Photo |