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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1954
Page
16
The text describes a farmer laboring ten miles with a wagon and bale, relying on oxen to move a heavy load. The horse fails and by dawn the farmer, Mr Tergerson, brings in oxen to power the cotton wagon, then returns home exhausted with little time to spare.
The passage recounts a circa fifty years ago scene with Grace Shefstead Gus Grimland Leah Townsend and others. It notes no cars or picture shows and describes home parties suppers and dances as social pastimes, with memory of livery stables and railroad tracks as social spaces and promenades for romance on Sundays.
One hundred years of Rogstad lineage traced from Ber Ger Rogstad born 1820 in Oslo to his marriage with a Norwegian woman and their move to East Texas. The document notes ancestors in the Norwegian Parliament, migration via Brownsboro to Bosque County, early settlement by the Four Mile colony, and descendants including Ole Wronstad Karen and Gina, with arrival stories, marriages, rock masonry work in Bosque County, and the couple’s 1855 first son John Gay.
The narrative recalls Hendrik and Opi Dahl, Norwegians who, after meeting in distant lands, chose Bocque County to rebuild their homes. They arrive in 1854 with their brood, trading for land, building a log cabin, and raising eight children. Mrs. Dahl spins by night and dyes thread from herbs.
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