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Submitted: 9/28/11 • Approved: 9/28/11 • Last Updated: 8/13/15 • R133489-G0-S3
Feb 23, 1842 - Dec 24, 1923
Peder Eneboe (1837-1909) and Ragnild Eneboe (1842-1924) were born and raised in Norway. They were mar¬ried there in 1859. In 1968, with four children and Peder's brother, Paul, they left for America. They lived in Minnesota for two years and then came by covered wagon and a team of oxen to Lincoln County in 1870. They homesteaded a quarter of land in Highland Township located southwest of Canton. They lived in the covered wagon until a log hut was built. It was only 15 by 17 feet but it was home that first winter for their family and also the Ingebrit Lien family and Grandmother Joda Eneboe-13 people in all. It was in this home that neighbors met for prayer meetings and later decided they needed a church. Until the building was ready - Romsdal Church - their meeting place was often the Eneboe home and Peder was elected elder. Land for the first cemetery was donated by Peder, and their 11 year old son, Johannes, was the first to be buried there. He was killed in a farm accident. In the year 1872, Peder and his neighbors decided a school should be established. He was elected the first clerk and the first year's school was held in their homes, usually a week at a time. Later, an old granary on the Adolph Nelson farm was used. It was moved to the Eneboe place and later to where the Highland School was built. In 1884, when the older children were grown up, the fami¬ly moved to a quarter section of land eight miles south and four and one-fourth mile west of Canton. They tree-claimed this land by planting ten acres of trees on it, some of which are still standing. They built a large frame house where they lived until their deaths. About this time the family farmed five quarters of land with horses. Rudolph, the youngest son, brought his bride, Ella Birkland, to live in this house and they cared for Peder and Ragnild untii they died. Their four children were born here and their son, Reynold, and wife, Lois, live in the house that is now a hundred years old. There were nine children in the Eneboe family.
(Source: The History of Lincoln County, SD 1985 page 365)
Contributed on 9/28/11 by revilo
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