My parents, Andrew and Helena Tweit, were both born in Eidfjord, Hardanger, Norway, and both were baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Church in Eidfjord, Norway.
As a young man, my father worked in the construction of tunnels and road work in Norway. In 1903, he came to the U. S., and spent some time in Baldwin, Wisconsin, with an uncle. In the spring of 1904, he came to Dover Township where he found work and lived with an aunt.
My mother arrived from Norway in 1905, and had two brothers living at Maddock, North Dakota.
My parents, Andrew and Helena, were married in 1907, and started farming in Dover Township, but lived in Bartley Township most of their lives, except for five or six years when they lived on the West Coast and also in Benson County, North Dakota.
I was born on a farm in Dover Township on March 24, 1908. In 1909, we moved to Bartley Township where we lived until 1924, when the family bought some land near Hoquiam, Washington, which did not prove to be a good deal. I received my schooling at the Bartley School in Bartley Township.
In April 1929, I started working in the industrial insulation trade which I worked at most of my working years until I retired in 1975.
I married Bessie Taber on February 14, 1931, at Aberdeen, Washington. Bessie was born on November 5, 1915, at Newport, Washington. We had two sons: Laurence, born on February 14, 1932; and Mark, born January 17, 1943.
In 1954, while Lawrence was in the Air Force, stationed in England, he married Diana Crawford who lived in the London area. They had two boys: Glen, born in London on August 3, 1955; and Dale, born at Riverside, California, on September 17, 1957. The boys grew up in England and got their schooling there. They came to North Dakota in September 1978.
Glen married Julie Dahl on November 2, 1979, at Dazey, North Dakota. They had two girls: Natalie, born July 7, 1981, in London; and Chelsey, born December 25, 1987, in Fargo.
Dale married Denise McKinnis on June 28, 1980, in Sidney, Montana. They have two boys: Luke, born on November 3, 1984, in Billings, Montana; and Daniel, born on December 31, 1985, in Cavalier, North Dakota.
Mark married Linda Tvedt of Kathryn, North Dakota, in the fall of 1964, at Aberdeen, South Dakota. They have two boys and one girl: Scott, born February 2, 1965, in Valley City; Samuel, born March 25, 1968, at Lacrosse, Wisconsin; and Leslie, born June 12, 1969, in Valley City.
Mark started working with me in the insulation trade after he graduated from Hannaford High School and it has been his trade ever since. They make their home in the Seattle, Washington, area.
My mother passed away April 21, 1953; my father passed away March 21, 1969. Laurence passed away March 17, 1971, and my grandson, Glen, passed away February 15, 1988.
After World War II, Bessie and I moved back to North Dakota from Washington and have made our home in Walum for the past 40 some years.
Source: Hannaford Area History North Dakota Centennial 1889 - 1989 Page 239