Individual Details

In 1973 Neva Sangsland Lemm provided the following information: married in Hudson, Wisconsin on May 16, 1900; moved to Black Butte, ND in 1909 and to Hettinger, ND in 1910.

Article received from Mary Helen Rowley, Hettinger ND, May 2001. The source not cited but appears to be from a printed local history.
NELS AND BERTINA SANGSLAND
by Sigrid Sangsland Olson
I am writing this for my father and mother, Nels and Bertina Sangsland, who homesteaded from Wisconsin, to Black Butte near Regent in 1908. Then in the next fall, November 1909, they moved to Hettinger where my father got the job as custodian of the schoolhouse. As housing was bad in those days we lived in the basement of the schoolhouse that winter.
In that year F. R. Sturch was engaged as principal and superintendent. Mr. Sturch and my father were the best of friends. He and my father planted all the trees around the schoolhouse and worked very hard to make them grow. They carrid water every other day and sometimes some of the high school boys would help them. Some of the boys who helped with the trees were Ahlness, Johns, Buzicj, Tanous, Johnson, Barry, and Severson and many others, and so later we have nice trees.
The schoolhouse was not the only building he took care of. He was also custodian for the congregational church basement where they had first and second grades. That is where I started schoo. Mrs. Culver or Miss Shaw was my first and second grade teacher.
My father was custodian for many years. His help was my two brothers. They could clean blackboards and empty wastebaskets and help sweep the class rooms. Most of my brothers and sisters grew up and started school and graduated in this school. We also feel as Hettinger is our home town here because we went to Sunday School, chuch and public school and lived here many years.
My father died September 16, 1930, at the age of 64. My mother died November 23, 1966, at the age of 82. They are both buried in the Hettinger Cemetey.
My father also helped Judge Sonderall plant and take care of the first trees in the cemetery. He carried water two or three times a week, besides hoeing and trimming them. My father loved trees. Most all of live in California now except my sister, Anna (Mrs. Edwin) Skogen, who lived in Holt township (7 miles north of Hettinger.) The rest of the family reside in Sacremento, California; Elmer and Dora Sangsland, Edward and Ruth Sangsland, Carl Sangsland, Norval and Neva Lemm, Rex and Estella Cartwright, and their families, and my husband, Almer Olson and myself, Sigrid Sangsland Olson.


Unknown newspaper [possibly Adams County Record or Hettinger Tribune]
PIONEER STRICKEN BY HEART ATTACK
Nels Sangsland passed away at his home in Hettinger Monday evening of heart trouble after a lingering illness. He was 64 years of age at the time of his death.
The deceased was born in Christenson, Norway and came to this country at the age of thirteen years with his parents, settlng first in Bismarck, N.D. and then in Hudson, Wis., where on May 16, 1900 he was united in marriage to Bertina Stalberg [Staberg]. For seven years they made their home in Hudson, Wis., and then they moved west and filed homestead rights on a quarter section of land near Regent, N.D. in 1907. In 1910 they moved to Hettinger where they have since made their home.
Eleven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Nels Sangsland, two of whom preceeded their father in death. Surviving members of the family include five sons and four daughters. They are Albert of Hettinger; Norman, with the Marines stationed in China; Carl, Elmer and Edward at home; Mrs. Elmer Olson, Hettinger; Mrs. Edwin Skogen, Hettinger; Estella and Neva, at home. A host of friends also bereaves his passing.
Funeral services will be held at two o'clock this afternoon (Thursday) at the home and in the Lutheran church at two-thirty. Rev. J. H. Warmanen will officiate. Pall bearers at the funeral will be E. Eneberg, Anton Christenson, Louis Overby, Don DeLa, Iver Forthun and J. O. Wigen. Burial will be in the Hettinger Cemetery.

Birth	16 Sep 1866	Christensen, Norway
Marriage	18 May 1901	Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin - Bertina Staberg
Death	29 Sep 1930	Hettinger ND
Burial		Hettinger ND, Hettinger Cemetery

Spouse	Bertina Staberg (1884 - )
Child	Albert S. Sangsland (1901 - )
Child	Norman Bernard Sangsland (1903 - )
Child	Sigrid A. Sangsland (1906 - 1998)
Child	Carl K. Sangsland (1907 - 1973)
Child	Anna Clarissa Sangsland (1909 - 1989)
Child	Estella M. Sangsland (1912 - 1999)
Child	Neva B. Sangsland (1914 - 1998)
Child	Elmer William Sangsland (1916 - 1983)
Child	Edward S. Sangsland (1919 - 1998)
Child	Lillian E. Sangsland (1921 - )
Child	Alice Sangsland (1924 - )

Father	Andrew Sangsland (1833 - )
Mother	Sophia Anderson (1834 - 1902)
Sibling	Andrew Sangsland (1862 - 1944)
Sibling	Christian Sangsland (1864 - 1905)
Sibling	Louise Karine Sangsland (1875 - 1925)
Sibling	Christine Sangsland (1872 - 1944)
Sibling	Axel Severin Sangsland (1877 - )
Sibling	Carl Sangsland (1872 - 1900)