One thing leads...

         In the blog yesterday I wrote about seeking to align the Grandpa/Gandma's grave marker. The big stone has about a 30 degree list. In front of the stone are four foot markers, one for each person buried there. The four are Grandpa, Gramma, daughter, Ella, who died in the flu epidemic in 1918, and, Martin, who died in a place crash in 1920. There the mystery begins.

        Grandpa and Gramma had two children who died as infants; Oscar, 1885, five weeks old, and, Marie Cecelia, 1886, who died of "summer disease", age three months. The mystery...where are they buried?  This is good activity for the youngest of their eight grandchildren still surviving, as the rain continues.

      In the past I'd written that Grandpa founded Bethania congregation south of Volga. Now that I'm rereading his autobiography I see I was mistaken. The congregation preceded him but he built the church building.  He was called to Bethania, south of Volga, Opdahl's Congregation ten miles east and an un-named church in Lake Preston.

Takk for alt,

Al