Robert C. Ahart was born at Marble Rock, Iowa, February 7, 1884, the oldest of four children; two boys and two girls, to Charlie F. and Millie (Daehn) Ahart.
The name Ahart was spelled in several different ways; Ahart, also Erhardt, but Robert C. spelled his name Ahart.
Robert grew to manhood on a farm, and married Louise H. Theimann of Rockford, Iowa in 1910, a daughter of August W. and Helena (Schultz) Thiemann.
In 1913, a daughter, Josephine, was born to Robert and Louise Ahart. She married John O. Hanson in 1936. To this union two children were born; Robert Ray Hanson, 1937, and Sheryl Louise Hanson, 1945. Robert married Kathaleen Tombarge in 1962 and they have one son, Mark Scott Hanson. Sheryl married Robert L. Treitline in 1966 and they have three daughters; Lisa Louise, Shelly Lee and Dawn Lynn. They live in Bloomington, Indiana, where Robert is a Pharmacist in the Osco Drug Store.
Robert C. Ahart and his family lived on his father's farm near Marble Rock, Iowa for about ten years. In 1919, Robert Ahart and a number of Iowa neighbors decided to come to North Dakota to investigate the possibilities of buying some of the North Dakota prairie. They all found a piece of land at that time. Robert purchased a farm from H. L. Hunt, which is the N. %z of Section 1, Township 143, Range 61 in Barnes County, located northeast of Wimbledon.
Returning to Iowa, Robert and Frank Schultz both purchased Rumely Oil Pull tractors and four bottom plows, and shipped them to North Dakota in the fall of 1919 to plow the land they had bought earlier that year. After the plowing was finished, they returned to Iowa, and Mr. Ahart had a sale on December 8, 1919 of farm machinery, horses, cattle, shoats, hay, corn and other items. In March of 1920, household belongings, nine head of horses, the faithful dog "Shep", along with other items were packed into two railroad box cars and shipped to Wimbledon where they have since lived.
Most of the Iowa families who came to North Dakota with the Aharts went back to their homes in Iowa.
Robert C. Ahart passed away October 14, 1957, on his farm in Pierce Township, Barnes County, from a tractor accident. Mrs. Ahart passed away June 4, 1966.
Their son, Robert R., his wife, Kathaleen, and son, Mark Scott, are now living on the home farm.
John and Josephine Hanson Family. Back Row: Robert, John and Robert Treitiine. Middle Row: Kathaleen, Josephine, Lisa and Shelly Treitline. Front Row: Mark, Shelly and Dawn.
Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 11