Guy O. Trostad was the son of Ole Trostad and Ronnaug (Sveine) Trostad. Ole was born in Skjaak, "Gulbransdalen, " Norway. Ronnaug was the daughter of Gunder Olson Sveine. She ha~ two brothers, John G. Lee, Aneta, North Dakota and Ole Lee, Norway and one sister, Mrs. Anna Freidenberg.

Ronnaug and Ole were married in Norway, and came to the United States in 1883 with their five children, Lewis, Guy, Gunder, Anna and Malina, to a log cabin east of the Sheyenne River, in Pilot Mound Township. Later on another daughter, Clara, was born.

They later lived in a log cabin on the west bank of the Sheyenne River, west of the Tande Bridge. From there they homesteaded on Section 22, now occupied by a son of Lewis', Theodore and his wife Selma.

When they were growing up they swam in the river and played ball a lot, and Guy got a broken nose by being hit with the bat. His nose was crooked from then on.

Ole Trostad died in 1902. Mrs. Ronnaug Trostad later married John Ness. She passed away in 1929. John Ness died in 1936.

Guy O. Trostad married Maria Lundsten in 1904. She came from Hedemarken, Norway. They homesteaded in a hillside dugout on Section 14, Pilot Mound Township They later built a house farther south near the creek on Section 15. In this house their first four children were born:

Osvald, Gerhard, Roy and Myrtle. They built their big new house in 1912. Five more children were born here:

Leonard, Allen, Lillian, Gerda and Ruth.

Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 page 381