Theodore (Ted) Hovel is one of five boys and three girls born to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hovel of rural Jessie. He married Mary Charlotte Weber of Casselton, North Dakota on July 15, 1925. In December of that year, the young couple moved to the farm on which he now lives in Clearfield Township. Mary Weber was the daughter of Julius Weber, a farmer in rural Casselton.
Of this marriage, there was I living child, Harold John Hovel. HAROLD was born March 30, 1927. Mary Hovel passed away June 29, 1948. Harold remained on the farm with his father, farming together. Harold was married July 8, 1970 to Isabel Ramey Prescott. He has a stepdaughter Elizabeth Prescott and a son, Douglas Hovel.
Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 Page 259