Ole and Kari Ophaug together with four sons, one daughter came to America from Lom Gudsbrandsdalen Norway in the late fall of the year 1891. Two sons and two daughters had come years earlier.

They arrived at Michigan, North Dakota by train. Jens Lindrud offered to give them a ride.

They arrived late in the evening at Jens, so they stayed there overnight. Mr. Lindred took them to Ole Sloulins where they stayed a few days.

Sloulin took them down to their daughter and son-in-laws, ANNA AND OLE KROKE, who lived by the Sheyenne River, Pilot Mound Township.

They stayed with them and also with ELEF OLSON for a while. Elef was also another friend from Norway.

But with their large family they had to look for a place of their own to live.

Being so late in the fall they did not have time to build a house so they made a dugout in a hill by the Sheyenne River close to the home of Elef Olson. At this writing 1975 there is still evidence of the dugout. They covered it with logs, branches, grass and dirt. They kept a cow in another dugout in the riverbank.

In the spring Ole and Kari homesteaded on NE quarter of Section 25-148-59 Pilot Mound Township Griggs County where they lived until 1900 when they sold their farm and went to Nelson Company to rent the farm of their son Erick and wife Marit who had homesteaded there four years previous.

He passed away at the age of 94 and was laid to rest beside his wife at Our Saviors Cemetery, Rural Kloten, North Dakota

Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 Page 376