Dad's parents Ralph Elmer Smith and Olga Victoria Bergquist, he was born near Skidmore Nodaway County Missouri on May 7th 1885 She was born at Dell Rapids South Dakota in Feb 1889. They were married in Jan 1910 in Alberta. His family came to Alberta in 1907 from South Sioux City Nebraska, he had come the year before with the Orr family. Her family came to Alberta in 1902 from South Dakota and homesteaded at Daysland. They can be found in the 1900 USA federal census. The Bergquists in Gettysburg Potter County South Dakota and the Smiths in Covington Precinct of South Sioux City. Olga and Ralph can be found in the 1911 census in Canada living with Ralph's parents in Hardisty Alberta. Grandma Olga's sister Bessie Bergquist married Austin King in 1906, the Kings were friends and neighbors of the Smiths when they lived in Nebraska and the Kings went to Alberta before the Orrs and Smiths. When the Orrs and Grandpa got off the train in Alberta it was Austin's father William M King that met them and helped them settle in. Grandma and Grandpa must have met as early as 1906.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
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