Edward Randklev was born at Lacrosse, Wisconsin on December 11, 1873 to Peter and Karen Randklev. He married Minnie Josephine Scanson on August 30, 1900 at Rothsay, Minnesota, where she was born on April 4, 1865, the daughter of Guttorm Scanson and Karen Maasjo Scanson. That same year they came to North Dakota to homestead on North 1/2 of Section 4 in Larrabee Township.
Their children were Palmer Gerhard, Amos, Esther Constance, Henry, William, Omar, Earl and Wallace.
Edward died April 28, 1948; Minnie died September 20, 1958. Both are buried at South Lutheran Cemetery at Grace City.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 63B