Phillip Skager family
After homesteading, Phillip Skager traded land with Leonard Johnson and moved to the Johnson farm five miles east of Hazen, where he built a new house in 1917.
He married Anne Johnson, daughter of A. D. & Carrie Johnson and they had two sons: Waldo and Welmer. Anne died in 1912 and Phillip later married her sister, Alice. They had four children: Evelyn, Leland, Veona and Wayne.
In 1928 Phillip moved his family to Hazen and went to work for the railroad as a carpenter. During the winter months he worked at the coal dock.
He got a WPA job and built the log cabin that used to stand next to the firehouse. He also was one who worked on the remodeling of the VooDoo Theater and did other work for Fred Haas.
Phillip died in 1943. Aliced with her children in Washington and in 1955 came back to New Salem, N.D., where she married Arvid Nelson. After his death in 1974, she moved back to Washington.
Their daughter Evelyn wrote, “Our childhood times and our wonderful school days in Hazen are the best memories. We came from the good ole pioneers that came to make their homes in the New World. I am proud to be a descendant of these pioneers of Mercer County.”
~Source: Hazen Jubilee book, 1913-1988, pp. 309-310
Phillip Skager, b. 1885; d. 19 Aug 1943
1st Wife: Anne Johnson Skager, b. 06 Apr 1890; d. 05 Aug 1912
~Both buried in Deapolis Cemetery, Mercer County
2nd Wife: Alice Johnson Skager (Nelson) ~sister of 1st wife Anne
The children of Phillip & Anne:
Waldo
Welmer
The children of Phillip & Alice:
Evelyn
Leland, died 1963
Veona
Wayne