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Frieda Shankland and Leif Sethne compiled a family history
for the Sethne and Ensrud Familys
Their parents immigrated through Ellis Island and settled in North Dakota. "After five years of grubbing these lands and well into the second
option, now 480 acres and upon completion of a "little house on the prairie"
he persuaded Petra Ensrud, a young lady whom he had know in Norway, to
join him in the the "promised land", marrying her in 1915. It is
incomprehensible that these people could survive the sweltering heat, inadequate
rainfall, the snow and winter of temperatures, 60 degrees below zero. No
electricity, cars, transportation, or neighbors. But they had each other
and produced seven Norwegians, all of them good kids."
Photos of the Christian Sethne Families
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| Helen Marie Eviensdtr, Hans Hansen Sethne | Johannes & Petronella Ensrud nee Krikstad
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The Sethne Home Kobul, Norway 1962 |
| Hans Sethne |
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| Christian Theodore Sethne (Chris) | Petra Ensrud (Pat) |
The Sethne Brothers |
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| Christian, Hans Oscar, Eugene |
Oscar, Eugene Christian, Hans |
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| Wedding in North Dakota, 1915 | Chris and Petra |
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| Sethne Homestead North Dakota |
