Auners Sather

Auners and Christian Olson came to the Dazey community sometime before 1900 and then changed the family name to that of "Sather.''

Anna Oie arrived in the Dazey area in 1901. She had lived in Valdreas, Norway, as had Auners Sather although they had not been acquainted there. In 1902 Auners and Anna were married at Dazey and resided there until 1913 then they moved to Skandia Township where they had purchased a farm from Ole Johnson.

To this union there were six children born: Beatrice, Orin, Maynard, Delmar, Mae and Andrew. Delmar married Inga Jorgenson and their children were: Deloris, Judy and Donna. Mae married Melvin H. Jorgenson and they had one son, James. Andrew married Gloria -and have four children.

Christian Sather, brother of Auner, married a cousin of Anna, also named Anna, and they farmed near Hastings, North Dakota, and had seven children. This family moved to California in 1922.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 214