Oscar A. Gilbertson was born in 1891, in Moorhead, Minnesota. He came to Walum to be the depot agent in 1913. In 1912, he married Clara Everson of Walum, who was born in River Falls, Wisconsin, in 1885.
Gilbertson was in partnership with Edwin W. Everson, Sr., in a general store from 1923 - 1928, then moved to Binford, North Dakota, to continue as depot agent there.
Gilbertsons have five children:
1. Olive, a Lutheran pastor's wife in Seattle, Washington;
2. Everett, Bishop of the Eastern South Dakota District of the ALC;
3. Donald, pastor in California;
4. Violet (deceased), resided in Minneapolis; and
5. Roy was Bishop of the Western North Dakota ALC.
Oscar Gilbertson died in 1939. Mrs. Oscar Gilbertson died in 1978. Roy died in 1988.
Source: Hannaford Area History North Dakota Centennial 1889 - 1989 Page 121