LaMoure County ND

Part of the NDGenWeb & USGenWeb® Projects

On-Site Records

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Biographies, Obituaries, Etc.

Cemeteries & Burial Records

Cemetery List  Includes coordinates, cemetery information and photos.

Census Records

1880 Census for Grand Rapids. 

County & Local History

From 'Nordmændene i Amerika' by Martin Ulvestad, 1907  Translated version. 

List of communities in LaMoure county  Includes histories, photos & more.  (work in progress)

Maps & Land Records

North Dakota Map with LaMoure County highlighted  Includes county names.

LaMoure County Map with City Locations

North Dakota Map  From the Library of the University of Texas at Austin

1895 North Dakota Map

Military Records

World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel, Casualties

Photographs & Memorabilia

The following photos were submitted by George Gildersleeve (thank you, George!)  Verona baseball team     Thies home
Thorstad at Raatz home about 1910     Mary Raatz school about 1900     Confirmation Class 1923

The following photos were submitted by Peni Ramsey (thank you, Peni!)  I found these pictures in my grandmother's photo album. I think they were all taken in 1915. Her parents, George and Wilhemina Walter, owned a farm in Wano Prairie. Grandma always called it the Wano Prairie Farm.  Harvesting wheat     Threshing Wano Prairie     Wano Prairie wheat

The following photo was submitted by Carol Hirabayashi (thank you, Carol!)  Photo of the three oldest Fenstad daughters - Left to right: Inga, Emma, Mable  (Read the substitute birth record by Knute Fenstad)  Knute was a younger brother of Blackloam homesteader Christan Fenstad and a brother of Johanne, Kjersten and Anna who married three Haarsager brothers, Ole, Andreas/Andrew and Elias. After Christan's death, Knute took over Christan's homestead and married Christan's widow, Dina.

The following photos were submitted by Dave Elsner (thank you, Dave!) This is a birdseye view of Marion, North Dakota, about 1920, where John Knudsen was one of the first citizens after he came from Denmark.  This is a picture of John Knudsen, one of the first settlers in Marion, North Dakota coming from Denmark.

USGenWeb Archives Penny Postcards

Vital & Religious Records

Substitute birth record by Knute Fenstad  Names, birth dates & places for his family.

Off-Site Links

From Odessa3.org: St Paul Lutheran, Kulm ND     Baptisms     Confirmations     Marriages     Deaths