Chauncey and Alice Wait, and daughter Lois Marie, aged sixteen months, left Erhard, Minnesota in the spring of 1920 and came to Hannaford, North Dakota.
Chauncey had spent twenty-one months in the service of his country, eight of these in France. When he received his discharge there were nothing but seasonal jobs available. and so when he was offered a job to work for the Olson Brothers on a farm in North Dakota, he accepted. After one year of farm life, he was offered the agency of the Manhattan Oil Company's bulk station in Hannaford. He continued in the oil business until 1948. The name of the company changed several times and is now The Mobil Oil Company. A filling station was added to the business in 1935.
Chancey suffered a heart attack in 1948 and passed away in 1955.
Four children were brought up and educated in North Dakota. Lois became a nurse, Beth Elise, Mark Alton, and Vonna Lou all became schoolteachers. Mark, being deaf, received his college education in Gallaudet College for the Deaf in Washington, D. C.
There were two other children in the family, one a girl born in 1920 died in infancy, and a boy, Roger Alan, who died in 1927 at the age of two years.
Chauncey and Alice were reluctant to leave their native State of Minnesota for North Dakota, because of the beautiful woods and lakes. However North Dakota with its wide open spaces, where blizzards in the winter time, and dust storms in the spring, had full sway, sort of grew on them. After all, places and climates weren't the important part of life. The folks are really what counted. And those were the good old days when honesty was the best policy, and there was liberty and justice for all. This was America.
Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 page 161