Another find from the basement: the folding top hat and harmonica of my Norwegian great grandfather, Ingvald Fischer.
Ingvald Andreas Fischer was born November 5, 1867 in Fet Church, Akershus, Norway.
Ingvald died April 10, 1949 at the age of 81 in Cass County, North Dakota (i.e. Fargo).
He is buried in the Halstad Lutheran South Cemetery in Halstad, Norman County, Minnesota, which is just a short distance north of Fargo.
Halstad, Minnesota is right on the border between Minnesota and North Dakota, and the town had a population of 597 in the 2010 Census. The township was founded in 1879, and was named for Ole Halstad, a pioneer farmer from Norway. The city was platted in 1883, and incorporated as a village on February 13, 1893. The town's motto today: "The way rural America is supposed to be."
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