•.~ the "D~e Frammer., gaa.rd can be e ein, even now {!.ug. 18, 193e} •. big batrel the liorwegi3.na c&ll ''Kjer". T'hia- was m&I16to store tiLeir gre.1n. It holda &bout twelTe barre13. ~e "St&bur" or siore house was built to house it and wu bull t' around it, beC&WJ8 t.o.e "kJer" is 'too he •.TY to lift. -'his. "kJer" waa made gy the "H1rdeman" ~ legend s~ys that he whittled it out, ~ith hil "tolle kniT" (•. Uo,rwegian knife). ~nose wh~ haTe seen this ~jer" ~it is •. wonderfu.l ~iece of workma.ns.up. It is 8~ill zno..n as ItIUra.em~ta Xjeret". 'lhi.s Sxendw..l liir<ieraanci., also orqllE,:llt' trom IlIOlT,e 'Briere a large ato,ne slab and. placed, it on me :3 ~)ot in th\ ~e Qilurch Cerne~ery wnere he 8%J,'lected to be buried. ~t no one ~ws where he lie. buried. for goTernment otticlala Ulne one day to take nam awa.y. He invited them to come in, and w~t. while he went down into the celle.r to get wine for them to, drink. !rom the cellar he had •. lecret pa.sea.ge ~ the mountains just back of the hO'use, 1'h.rough this he ~e ~is escape. Wnen he had gotten far up;n the mountain he o•.lled to his fauHy to look under "S'larte HedIaa.". Hia descendant", are still se '.rching for the "STarte \-ec.lsa:', ~'-- ~' ,OJ ":~ irk he had hidden some of his wealth there. ~.r ha.vi~c; said tIde he disappeared on the other s5.il. of the mounta.1n and was never heard from 'a:ny more. 'lb.e slab that was pl:ced in the oemetery .till known !!I.S th. "lIlrdemand's Hedle.a. flied'la mesns a lr.l'~ .tone)l~ !he Rlrdemand'. oldeet son vms buried there and the oldes11 son of the families tfn" genentlons back have been buried undez the "Hlrdem&1d's Hid-Ian in u&kke Church c.metery~ Once in a. saTere storm a.~out se!.jJnty fi"le years /::.gCthe spire 9t the. el1urCh »>law down on the slab snd .plitFt open so that now lo'eks lilte &t1.. en book. Amd ln88berg'. grand ta\her-and her oldest bro,.ther are buried. un e the Us-b. ba •. letter that 1Iflf !~'th.er got fr~m llhortly bdor. he died, I ~I 'Ib~ readln6 that t•. brother'in l.aw-mi Uilille' I.taale..aad dl~ in 19'1S and ••.• buried UDder this "I1edJ..a~. hU.U'S 8~ster lIA.rt.b.e lived all,her life &1'1er her marrl~.to Sh.e.le-&t the "Der J'ruune" gu,rd. About two'lears ago the l&st desc.nd&ll~, ot ,the Hirdeman4'. tamily w••• buried Ill!der 'the slab. .A.daughter 0 f St&ale &n4 lIiar~e now 11 ve on 1iha~ gs,ard. .
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Both biils ~oia.3 Dahl anu 'tori Dahl were ba~ti%:Q ..:.:ad. confirmed in 3a.~e cnur ch Norway. 1llley were :Tbrried. .June 3, 1857 in the Coon Prairie cnur-ch , Venon -_.11 ecun ty , 'jis. J;r Rev. d. A.. ;;>tub. 4~1flS 1'0:>i_8 Dahl cilea Oct. 18.1913. ~fiart .,~ Dahl died. ~~y 9, 1~19. ~eir
Children werel Christine, bOln ~ 9, 185j. died Jan. 1, 191~ Pauline, horn NOT. 1, 1859, died 'eb. 3, 1931 Kerman, born lan' 19, la62, ciied ~ 25, 1914 Caroline, oorn June 4, 18~, died O~~, k865 Caroline, bor~ ~r11 10, 1866, died June 27, 1894 Tills. Reg1a&, born July 4, 18ce )I.llie Tob1aa, born Oct.. 28, 1871 Hannah Sharlot~, born A.pri1 9, 1873, died Bov. 15, 1905 Lillian, born June 6, 1875. died Dec. 2, 1939 Peter Norman, born Dec. 16, 1877, dIed »ec. '25, 1877
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'Duge, and ~8hed loacied on ~ • amall a&ilboat and. landed •.t llilwaukee, bo\l,gllt 0% teams and drove U!'Os. the sparsely •• tt.led .1soonsin. they dettled on homesteads on 'Coon Pr&irie Wis. litis ])ahl \;".s the only one of ;~is f.,,--,"dly to come
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1. year later '1'O'ri H&&Tersdatter carne Tip,· the s nme route w i th her par-en ts and brothers and sisters. They l.t,\ Stavanger May 1852 and r-eached Coon Pra.irie some time in September the aame year. 'l'I5ri wa.s then fourteen ye<trs old. She ~ r8l!la.ined with friends in Milwaukee for two year-s so tha t aile !".".i.o·htri..:.ve cne cr.anc e to ,\) to s cnco L, lt~rn the En,,-lisJl Iarijua, 'e , "v:c. Ar.ier Lcan i·'l.YS of hO'J.se::eepin.·;. . 1"n~n er.e C· ••..1C on t o Coon ?r9.irie ':i', t'riCIG.3 t r vv e r i n in ";he :J.pprove:', s t v Le of the time, 8. wq,;on d.rawn Jy oxen. ,
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As aeon 113 l:j:ls Jcilll oeca.ne 0, ~ '(; .• ~ 110:1iC.;i t e ,.';"ed '01. f'az-r.i on Coon ;rB<iriC. For two wint~:t3 he worked in tile "pineries" on ti"E; ~'isoonsin a.nd. ;,.issL;si.0.ge rivel's. 'Dhe 18.3t yea.r He wa." as s i s tris.: co '~lle ,;,anao"er. 'l![le swrr- .• e rs wer e s perrt on his homes nead , He served 8..:J ~ri vt!.te t-cltO.r in tne hooe 0 .•.. t;llf:.: ReT. H. A. StQb for two winters.
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~ter t.neir;ce..rriL~be ~,ils and :ro ri Dahl lived on their homes uead until in jJ&y r::J".. 1863. £Il'n.eytw:n rno v ed to Dunn. county, Wisconsin. 'ihe vill!:-.ge of Colfax is on rarm they owned. t ne r e , In the·year 1867 NSls ])&hl's oldest brotner RJ..n8 anu family came to America and lived. in their home. In the summer of 1868 'RO'nnesAndreas, Nils ])ahlta youngest brother oame. 'lb.e;y all lived in l>unn ( , county, Wisconsin for &Dout a year. Later the,.. all mov.d '\0 "do-Blue Is.rth 00. Mi!nesot& anU. f'rcm there to ~wn ot Lu.oa.a, Lyon CoWlt7. In June 1869 ~ moved ba.ck to Coon Pr&irie .h.ere they remained one year mov1n6' to Blue Barth . CO\Ulty tinnesot& in, ~ 1810. 'l"lley-tra.veUed thiS time in llOrsed.ra.wn. covereel .&pne. ~ey liTed 1n ~lue krth COW'lty ~e. years t:.nd arrived in Lyon oounty, lti.nneao t a the last .eU 1n June 1871. hn -lis Dahl look •• tree claim on the welt aia.e or' Cotton.ood J.at'.. (rle ~ ~ 'blaseci. the t1"&11 trom 3-1ue B&r'th count7 to L;ron County. ••. and. three young men from eoon hUrie, .·lIcoasin ~T.led on foo'. the o~er,JOunb men were ~eder .11aaon his cou.sln '6r~ Keen ••• a.nd CrJermun4 Baratil4' (.Qeorge &nde'r.on). ....1].,. ~08e· e&1'ly settlers homestea4ed &8 near &s cou.ld be to Some river Where there .ere trees they cluld cut down and trom the logs build their cabins. '!he young men whose nMles l~aTe been gi ven carne along the Yellow Medicin.e RiTer 6.Ild stopped ~t the cabin tf Ingebret lto'lhel. He W8.S batchlng It &nd art ted 'them to IIhare hes oabtn until they got located.. Some '!ive or .1% mIles to the' 3ou.th-near Cortomrood Lake there wa.a plenty- of free land to b. ~ •.• ll·.o~· these men _ok homt.teadeMle DeJl:l 'hl-a fa.ther !lane Da.h~ ancI:lll'~·.~roth.i-9~i.tian had . ~ home.tead. &11 in So row. Dahl's !&l:1.ily _Ted; fiom Blue llal!th CO\Ul't7 1n 1811 • Ill. 'lob1u Dahl came out in the .pring of 1813 '.nd.· took over. iIIIren ~ene •• homesteM. Beaause Nils had alre&d.y used his h~l,1\e.t6ad;: l'!1511ta he took •••• rarm &II a tree claim. "1. . .
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'~.le first years in Lyon county were years of 6-reat hardship. LndLan s were s .Ll L nemine\' uhe j,lra.iriee. and the linite settlen had not yet forgotten t~ Indian oulOrea.ka at Jew Ulm, Fort Riligely, a.n:' Birch Coolie. '!h~AIley'-year after ye;~r1irop failureson on account of drought, foLowed ',y the terrible gra.s3hopper scouz-ge , In the winter!;) tj"ere were t~le terrible blixza.rd.s when many people in Lyon coun ty lost t he i r lives. l10ney was scarce. vomforts were
few. ~en Christine Dab.l married. Ja.et;"8r &nd moved to MU.nneot& cne rest of the family uoicle4 IIIQTe once more, mostly on e.ccount of schools. In Jlinneot~. they b.a.d ~t•• mont.ila of school every year, while ~t Cottonwood where 80 ma.n~ of the ee,tlera .Hr. "'o&t.o.helor8 they preferre<! not to pa.,r the extra. ta.x necessary to m&inta.in a public school. »uring the seven years the family lived at Cottonwood about &11 the schooling the Dahl children ha.c was taught by R11s Dahl himself in the el'enings or short aea s Io ns ,:.fternoons when he could snatch time from the ne~8sary work outsid.e d~h~·; t.e winter months.
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In the seven yea.rs they lived near Cottonwood there were four short sessions of public school. ?he first one was ta.U@lt by Peder Hanson Dahl, in a dug out ~at was pa.rt of uhe Hans DahI home. Then Christine Dahl Ja.e>!er taW)1.t 8. short winter session in a lOG house oui Lt by Gjer:nund: Barstad (Geor,;":e Ancierson). In the summer she t augn t in a small 'Granary on the farm of ~\Tils Tooias Dahl. !'his gra:'1a.ry had thatched roof of coarse s Lough 6l"ass. In the winter of 1878 "le Ilanson Dahl ta.uE..:nt s c..ooI ab'e.in inc,"1e Hans :;Ja.hl home, this \;L..e in t ne new home, Dulle of lumoEr. Lila
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I'h i s is tI1e o:neolobJ of t.e mother co f •.ils 1IoJi-,s iJahls L&rs lne,v.rsc:. Es:pet,.,eu.;J w8.~ bo rn :1vC...lt 1750 • ..ie was a. 8,;hool-::~,-,tel', wro~e a. book on mat aema t i cs , &lso :armed.. Eis cn i Ldr-en were In5far, o)igojorn and ~ren. ilis son lngvar Larson Espetwedt w~s born in 1775-died in 1852. be
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She wae born in 1714 ani died in 1851. Ti.J.e~ llad two o.n.1ldren, Lara lJaristis.n ana Siri. . Ingya.r l.a.rson ~spat.edt w&s a. 80Aool-iee.cher, ta.rmer and a.uthor. His Ion lHl.re Qu-iatia.n &.p.~t w~a born'in 180' an~ Qled in Id~3. He married laren SYeDada~ter otted&l •. 11e fd.rmea. ,_t .Ipedtwedt. His Qnilu.ren were Anna.. Dorthe, Sara, Ingar Tonette, lngve.r and Karen. lC&ren L&rsdatter Klpetwedt married our granta-tuer PedeI' Hs.n.soD Oxend.a.l. '!b.ey were the parente of Hans, liila a.nd '!onnes Dahl. ilheae three c.ame to aeria •.• .1
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