Fred Melgard was born at Cooperstown on September 27, 1896. He came to Grace City as a young man and operated a radio shop and worked in a drug store. He married Olga Gilbertson on December 6, 1919 at Cooperstown. She was born December 3, 1893 at Cooperstown. She attended a Miss Woods Kindergarten school at Minneapolis and later taught school at Sutton. Fred operated a farm and drove a rural mail route at Grace City for many years.
The couple had six children: Gordon, Robert, Frederick, Peter, Thomas and Rodney.
Olga died November 28, 1966 at Fargo; Fred died at St. Cloud, Minnesota March 8, 1971. Both are buried at Grace City.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 62B