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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Walter Horton: Birth: 1880 in , Trempealeau, Wisconsin, United States. Death: Aft 1885

  2. Mabel Horton: Birth: 1882 in Trempealeau, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, United States. Death: 14 Aug 1890 in , , Minnesota, United States


Sources
1. Title:   "Norway Baptisms, 1634-1927," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> 
Page:   accessed 27 Apr 2015), Name: Gunhild Maria Syversdatter; Event Date: 04 Feb 1849; Event Place: Vinger, Hedmark, Norway.
Publication:   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1467014)
2. Title:   "1865 Norway Census,"
Author:   Norway
3. Title:   1880 U.S. census, <i>FamilySearch</i>, index and images
Page:   T9, roll 112, Waubay, Day County, Dakota Territory, enumeration district (ED) 84, p. 482A, dwelling 86, family 118, Walter F. Horton and Gunnild Maria Syversdatter Hanson, accessed 8 Apr 2018
Publication:   https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1417683: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
4. Title:   1885 Minnesota State Census, population schedule
Page:   Crow Wing Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, p. 4, family 34, Walter Horton and Gunnild Maria Syversdatter Hanson; (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1503044 : accessed 15 Sep 2012); citing FamilySearch.org (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12143-44473-53?cc=1503044&wc=6035858
Author:   Minnesota
Publication:   index and images. <i>FamilySearch.org</i>. https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1503044 : 01 Nov 2010
Link:   https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12143-44473-53?cc=1503044&wc=6035858
Link:   https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1503044
5. Title:   "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> 
Page:   accessed 27 Apr 2015), Name: Walter Horton; Spouse's Name: Nellie Hanson; Event Date: 31 Jul 1879; Event Place: Trempealeau Co., Wisconsin.
Publication:   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1708704)
6. Title:   <i>Find A Grave</i>, database and images
Page:   accessed 27 Apr 2015<, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=109676251
Publication:   https://www.findagrave.com/: n.d.
Link:   https://www.findagrave.com/
7. Title:   "Norway Baptisms, 1634-1927," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> 
Page:   accessed 27 Apr 2015), Name: Gunhild Maria Syversdatter; Event Date: 04 Feb 1849; Event Place: Vinger, Hedmark, Norway.
Publication:   (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1467014)
8. Title:   <i>Find A Grave</i>, database and images
Page:   accessed 27 Apr 2015<, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=109676251
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Link:   https://www.findagrave.com/
9. Title:   <i>Find A Grave</i>, database and images
Page:   accessed 27 Apr 2015<, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=109676251
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10. Title:   <i>Find A Grave</i>, database and images
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11. Title:   1880 U.S. census, <i>FamilySearch</i>, index and images
Page:   T9, roll 112, Waubay, Day County, Dakota Territory, enumeration district (ED) 84, p. 482A, dwelling 86, family 118, Walter F. Horton and Gunnild Maria Syversdatter Hanson, accessed 8 Apr 2018
Publication:   https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1417683: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.

Notes
a. Note:   NF7605 Name: Walter Horton
 Birthplace: Hamilton, Minn.
 Spouse's Name: Nellie Hanson
 Event Date: 31 Jul 1879
 Event Place: Trempealeau Co., Wisconsin
 Father's Name: William Horton
 Mother's Name: Mary Horton
 Spouse's Father's Name: Sever Hanson
 Spouse's Mother's Name: Sarah Hanson
 Race: White
 Spouse's Race: White
 Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00331-0
 System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy
 GS Film number: 1275576
 Reference ID: Marr. 1878 - 1892
  Citing this Record:
 "Wisconsin, Marriages, 1836-1930," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRKT-M88 : accessed 27 April 2015), Walter Horton and Nellie Hanson, 31 Jul 1879; citing reference Marr. 1878 - 1892; FHL microfilm 1,275,576.
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  Marriage Record Details
 Marriage Record ID: 2230833
 Last Name: Horton
 First Name: Walter
 Day: 31
 Month: July
 Year: 1879
 County: Trempealeau
 Volume: 1
 Page: 318
 Marriage Record ID: 2394437
 Last Name: Hanson
 First Name: Nellie
 Day: 31
 Month: July
 Year: 1879
 County: Trempealeau
 Volume: 1
 Page: 318
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  Gunnild "Nellie" Hanson married a traveling salesman, then called a "drummer", named W. F. Horton. One evening when their daughter, Mabel Horton, who was seven years old, her father insisted that they all go for a boat ride even though his wife, Nellie was afraid of water. Both the daughter and the wife drowned but there were no witnesses. A son, Walter, age 5, did not go along. W. F. Horton was tried for murder and set free due to a lack of evidence or witnesses.
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  I don't know exactly what Walter Horton sold but his travels with his family were extensive. And if the 1880 census record shown below is accurate, Walter Horton was initially a farmer who may have tried his luck in the Dakota Territory and eventually moved back east to Minnesota and Wisconsin where he became a salesman. Using the information from the 1885 Minnesota State Census as the most accurate along with data from other sources, the following chart can be shown:
  1879.............Walter and Nellie married in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
 1880.............son Walter born in Dakota Territory
 1884.............daughter Mabel born in Wisconsin
 May 1885.....CENSUS in Crow Wing County, Minnesota
 Aug 1890......Nellie and daughter Mabel drown in Trempealeau, Wisconsin
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  Nellie's sister, Marthe, who moved to Day County, Dakota Territory with her husband Bertinius Halvorson Egeland sometime around 1875 where he purchased a feed company in Fargo. Moving with them were Bertinius's parents. The family was so well known that Egeland Township of Day County was named in their honor. When the father of Bertinius Egeland died there in the Dakota Territory about 1878, Marthe and Bertinius Egeland moved back to Trempealeau, Wisconsin where they still owned their farm. When Marthe and Bertinius moved back to Wisconsin about 1878, they became close friends with Walter Horton and Nellie's sister, Marthe both of whom were still in the Trempealeau area. In 1879, Nellie Hanson and Walter Horton were married in Trempealeau, Wisconsin and within a year they were both living in the same exact area where Marthe and Bertinius Egeland had just vacated for their move back to Wisconsin.
  I suspect that Nellie and Walter Horton may have been sent to the Dakota Territory to take over the feed company operations that Bertinius Egeland and his father had already established. Nellie and Walter Horton were enumerated in the 1880 census in Day County, Dakota Territory. That 1880 census shows only the husband and wife with no son yet born so it would have to be assumed that Nellie was pregnant with Walter who was born later in 1880.
  In the meanwhile, Bertinius Egeland must have completed rebuilding his farmhouse and by 1882, he moved his entire family back to Day County, Dakota where they remained until his death in 1898. With Bertinius and Marthe back in Day County, it would appear that Walter and Nellie Horton had been "relieved" of their temporary assistance and they moved with their new son back eastward into Crow Wing County, Minnesota where they were enumerated in the 1885 Minnesota State Census. In the midst of their moves, their daughter, Mabel, was born in 1882, supposed in Trempealeau, Wisconsin but I have not seen any source citations for her birth location. Perhaps Nellie returned to her home town just for the purpose of giving birth to Mabel.
  By 1890, Walter and Nellie Horton and their two children were living back in Trempealeau, Wisconsin when tragedy stuck with the drowning of Nellie and daughter Mabel in August. Within one year, Walter was remarried to Mary Van Wie.
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