Joseph came from Minnesota, Amelia Zimprich from Germany. They came up to Tyrol Township and homesteaded SW quarter of Section 7. After Amelia was here, her brother Edward Zimprich and sister, Mary (Mrs. Herman Hovel) came up and homesteaded.
Joe and Amelia are pictured here with their children.
They spoke German at home, but English at school. They had the Zimprich School out on their own land until 1894, and after that they had to go to Jessie to school. They walked. They also had bicycles, but Annie wanted no part of them. Annie's first schoolteacher was the Store Keeper's sister - Miss Laffan.
In the early days, they had Church services in the Hall over Laffan's store. About once a month the priest would come up on train from Sanborn on Saturday, he would often stay with Dusbabeck's, celebrate Mass on Sunday, and go back to Sanborn on Monday on the
Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 Page 453