Neche North Dakota

Stuart & Rose and their wonderful family - such nice kids!

Amazing find of Hughes ancestors in Wahlhalla Cemetery

Joyce's grandparents old farmstead; the old house is long gone

We arrived in Neche, North Dakota (my mother's home town) just across the border into the US in time for lunch with my cousins Stuart & Rose Symington and their family. Stu and Rose very kindly offered to drive us around all afternoon to visit cemeteries and old homesteads where our ancestors had lived and were buried. We visited the graves of my grandparents and several aunts and uncles, then drove down more gravel roads to find the old farms my sisters and I recall visiting as children. Sadly, my grandparents' old farm is pretty delapidated and the farmhouse is gone, but what a trip down memory lane!
We then drove over to Walhalla, where Bill's research had led us to believe my great-grandparents were buried (Stu's great-great-grandparents). They have picnicked and hiked nearby and never knew this cemetery held relatives! It was a great find to see several generations buried there, including the original homesteaders.
Back to Stu & Rose's for a lovely, lively dinner, and now this morning a great, hearty breakfast with the whole family. Now we push on for more land grant research in Cavalier, then into Minnesota to stay at Big Sandy Lake, which my sisters and I recall staying at when we were much younger.