Hans and Bertha Stromme settled in Dazey township in the 1890's. Hans came from White Rock, Minnesota, and Bertha came from Norway as a young girl with her parents, brothers and sister, the Johannes Haugen family.
Hans and Bertha were the first couple married in the Union Church east of Hannaford, North Dakota. The church was built in 1885. Before he was married Hans was a sewing machine salesman and he often told of the severe snow storms and blizzards of the early days. One time being caught out in a blizzard so severe that he had to unhitch the team of horses from the sleigh and turn them loose and turned the sleigh box over and spent a day and night under it.
They had four children: Agnes who married Sever Severson and resides in Ventura, California. They have four children, Loree, Milton, Joyce and Barbara. Cora who married Hugh Mosher and resides on the original Mosher homestead. They have one daughter Shirley who married Reuben Betsch and has four children: Wanda, Beverly, Leigh and Brenda. Nels married Doris Smith and lives in San Jose, Calif. and Oscar married Millie Jaworski and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. They have two children, Neil and Donna.
Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 241