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Additional GRINDE Surnames in NORWAY LUTHERAN - GARRETSON Cemetery
Additional GRINDE Surnames in MINNEHAHA County
GRINDE, Mikkel A.GRINDE, Lyle M.GRINDE, Gladys L.GRINDE, Family StoneGRINDE, John E.GRINDE, Gladys A.GRINDE, John E.GRINDE, Gladys A.GRINDE, Eddie G.GRINDE, Carrie E.GRINDE, GjertrudGRINDE, Endre S.GRINDE, Homer EverettGRINDE, Gjetland S.GRINDE, Carrie E.GRINDE, GjertrudeGRINDE, Endre S.GRINDE, Homer EverettGRINDE, Gjetlang S.GRINDE, Gjetlang S.GRINDE, Jens E.GRINDE, Marie M.GRINDE, Flora M.GRINDE, Dennis M.GRINDE, Florence E.GRINDE, Sever E.GRINDE, Sophie G.GRINDE, Gerhard W.GRINDE, Mabel A.GRINDE, A. PhilipGRINDE, John O.GRINDE, HenryGRINDE, Carl A.GRINDE, Bertha S.GRINDE, Jensina R.GRINDE, Guy M.GRINDE, Helen A.GRINDE, John Oscar (WWI)GRINDE, Dorothy JeanGRINDE, George C.GRINDE, Evelyn P.GRINDE, Homer E.GRINDE, Family MarkerGRINDE, Michael E.GRINDE, Agnes JuliaGRINDE, EleanorGRINDE, Martin E.GRINDE, Lena O.
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Submitted: 1/17/10 • Approved: 1/17/10 • Last Updated: 8/14/15 • R38148-G0-S3
Birth: Sep. 17, 1878
Death: Jan. 12, 1888
Daughter of A.A. and Susan Grinde
Perished in storm.
January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent.
By Friday morning, January 13, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. In a few terrifying hours, the hopes of the pioneers had been blasted by the bitter realities of their harsh environment. Recent immigrants from Germany, Norway, Denmark, and the Ukraine learned that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled.
The blizzard of January 12, 1888, is still remembered on the prairie. Children fled that day while their teachers screamed into the relentless roar. Husbands staggered into the blinding wind in search of wives. Fathers collapsed while trying to drag their children to safety. In telling the story of this meteorological catastrophe, the deadliest blizzard ever to hit the prairie states, David Laskin has produced a masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland.
The Children's Blizzard By David Laskin.
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