Ward-Mountrail County ND Archives Obituaries.....Anderson, Adolph August 28, 1955 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nd/ndfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deidre Badker berniebadker@iowatelecom.net August 21, 2011, 11:07 pm Family notes Adolph Andersen was born August 27, 1893 at the village of Meltonville, Newburg Township, Mitchell County, Iowa to Hans Andersen and Gena Petersdatter. He was the eighth of 10 children. Sometime between 1895 and 1900, the family moved west to homestead at Township 159, Ward, North Dakota. In the 1910 U.S. Federal census, Adolph is living at Baden, Ward, North Dakota with an older half-brother, Christ Hanson and family. Those recorded: Chris Hanson 56[36]; Johanna Hanson 34; Joseph Hanson 2; Arthur Hanson 5 months; Adolph Anderson 17; Alfred Christensen 31. Adolph was inducted into the Army at Stanley, North Dakota on April 29, 1918; he was sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa; served in Company H, 350th Infantry, to May 16, 1918; Company H, 358th Infantry, to discharge; overseas from June 20, 1918, to June 7, 1919. Engagements: Offensives: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Villers- en-Haye and Puvenelle (Lorraine). Discharged at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on June 16, 1919, as a Private. He returned to North Dakota and can be found in the 1920 census at Crowfoot, Mountrail, North Dakota living with his sister and her husband: Olof O Rustad 49; Inga Rustad 44; Adolph Anderson 26. Adolph met and married Inga Josephine Seim on February 5, 1927 at Minot, Ward, North Dakota. They were blessed with 3 children: Johan Earl Anderson (July 21, 1927-November 6, 2006); Luverne Clifford Anderson (January 18, 1931-June 14, 2003) and Arlene Alice (born January 16, 1940, married Lawrence Jessen). Adolph worked in the North Dakota coal mines after the service and died of a heart attack suffered at home. He died August 28, 1955 Minot, Ward, ND, age 62 years and one day. He is buried at the Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Mountrail, North Dakota with graveside services by the Stanley American Legion. Additional Comments: Adolph Anderson served in the Army at the time of WW1. He wrote a series of letters to his sister, Clara Anderson Olsen, who was living near St Ansgar, Mitchell County, Iowa. I've copied the letters as they were written as they give insight to what this midwestern farm boy experienced: Postcard from Adolph, dated May 1, 1918: " Hello, know my way to camp now and I will write again when I get started up., I like it fine so far. It's a nice trip on the train. We are going to stop for lunch, so will drop you a card." May 5, 1918 letter from Camp Dodge, Ia.: "Dear sister, I am at camp now and I tell I don't like it very good but I hope I will like it better. After a wile and have had one day in the dining room and I have not ben Idle a bet sinc I come down. I started from Standly, the 30th April. We had a good time coming down this is sunday but I down't think it is any sunday. for days mearch for abut 2 miles and dind there thet give use a shot in the back. And one in the arme and there was 4 man drop over rite away. It got black for my eyes but I did not drop. I haft to quit my skreping for this time. Ancer soon. Adolph" May 12, 1918 - Camp Dodge,Ia.: I received your letter yesterday and I got a letter from Selma too and I dount no if I can come but I will try to come if can . Witch railrode is it you from Denison to St. Ansgar? And I like it fine now . It is geting to be lot of fone now. I think I will stay hear for a wile but you can't tell how longe. I have got guns and everything that I nede and I will tike my pitcher this week I don't know anything alce to say so goodby. Adolph." Postcard: The Ship on which I sailed has arrived safely overseas. Pvt. Adolph Anderson, Co. H. 358 Infantry. WW1. Letter July 1918: "I receved your card and I thoght I wood ancer it and the picture was not good but I can't take anney more now and I have not been sick sence I got in the arme and I like it fine and dandy. I have been going all the time so I have now settle down. I must say goodby. I am some shere in frenck. P.S. Your card was on the road 1 month and 4 days." Letter June 1918: " I have been out on the rifel range and I fired about 500 shots all rede and it was fune to be ther. Well, I got only 3 horses left. I sold 6 head this spring and I got a Ford too and I heard you hade one too. I left mine in the shade till I come back." Letter Nov. 17, 1918: " I received your letter. I am all well and hope this fines you well. I have not got hurt yet and I think it will be over soon but we hafta stay hear wile yet and I think must quit for this time." Letter Dec 25, 1918: " Daun Germana - Dear sister , I am well and hope you all the same. I received that pitcher and tanke you for it. I dount no when I well get home. It hard to tell. I got your card to it look like it is going to sit in to winter her now it is snowing now the first snow that has come hear. We have hiked about 3 hunder miles with paks on oure baks. Will I thin I mist quit for this time so goodby." Adolph survived the war and returned to North Dakota. He is one of my great- grand uncles. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nd/ward/obits/a/anderson106gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ndfiles/ File size: 5.6 Kb