Mr. and Mrs. Nils C. Anderson moved to Romness Township in the fall of 1897. He passed away at their home about a mile northeast from Mount Franklin on March 6, 1902.
Mrs. Anderson was Cline (Haakensdatter) Johnson Asprusten as known in Norway. In United States her name was Oline Hogenson, daughter of Mrs. Martha Hogenson and Haaken Johnson Asprusten, and she was born May 21, 1860 in Norway. Her father died in Norway December 27, 1866 and her mother died April 22, 1891 in Romness and is buried at the Cooperstown cemetery.
Oline had one brother, John Hogenson and three sisters:
Anne (Anna) (Mrs. Martinus Hansen Skramstad)
Rangnild (Ragna) (Mrs. Per Person) in Norway
and Helene (Mrs. Christian Lien).
Oline came from Norway with her mother in 1872, to Lanesboro, MN area where they lived with her brother, John Hogenson, until he married Karen Vestern February 17, 1876.
Oline was married May 22, 1878 to Nils Christian Anderson who was born at Vinje, Telemarken, Norway and came to the United States with his father and family as a youth. After his marriage, they homesteaded about 75 miles Northwest of Sioux Falls, South Dakota at Brookings. Oline and Nils Anderson abandoned their homestead in South Dakota, and moved to Cooperstown, North Dakota where they acquired a United States patent to a quarter Section of land one mile north of Cooperstown adjoining the Cooperstown cemetery on the north. Their twin daughter, Efthel, is buried beside her grandmother, Mrs. Martha Hogenson, at the Cooperstown cemetery. They lived next to the cemetery until the fall of 1897, when they moved to the Romness Township arm where Mr. Anderson passed away.
The youngest child, Ener O. Anderson, was three years old when they moved to Romness in 1897. Mr. Anderson died March 6, 1902. His wife, Oline, and family moved to Cooperstown in the fall of 1905 and lived there until September 1, 1936 when she moved to California where her son, Ener, and daughter, Nellie, were living. Oline passed away December 4, 1941 and is buried in the cemetery at Whittier, California
They had seven children:
Mary
Charles
Nellie (married to Charles L. Rouse)
Mabel (married to George Knapp)
Julia (married to Mark Buechler)
Efthel (who is Julia's twin sister and died as an infant) and Ener O. (married to Edna Haugen). Oline Anderson had four grandchildren:
Vernon Knapp
Richard Knapp (married to Constance "Bitta" Bengtson)
Enid Anderson (married to Eli Price) and Eina Anderson (married to Thos. B. Dutton) and four step -grandchildren:
Pauline Rouse
Louis Gitz
Charles L. Rouse, Jr.
and Myrtle Krieser.
Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 Page 387