"PIONEER DIES AT AGE OF 87 Mrs. H. J. Anderson Came Here In 1849, Settled At Rapids Mrs. H. J. Anderson, 87, nee Findahl, pioneer resident of Manitowoc county, died yesterday at the home of her son, Morton Anderson, Mylo, N.D., with whom she has lived for the past several years. Funeral services will be held here Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the First Lutheran church, the Rev. D. G. Ristad officiating. Burial will be made in the Evergreen cemetery. The body will arrive here Wednesday morning and will lie in state at the church from 10 a.m. until the time of the services. Came Here in 1849 Mrs. Anderson was born July 30, 1849 in New York on a boat which brought her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Hanson Findahl, to America from Norway. The family came west immediately, settling at Manitowoc Rapids in 1849. shortly after the family arrived here the cholera epidemic which cost the lives of many of the early settlers broke out. Mr. Findahl became ill and died less than a year after the family had settled here. He died leaving five daughters and a son. The daughters were later Mrs. O. Torrison, Mrs. Anton Hanson, Mrs. Christen Olson, Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Sorenson. The son, Hans Findahl, died later while serving with the Union army in the Civil War. Mrs. Anderson was the last surviving member of the family. She was married in 1869 to H.J. Anderson, who died in 1887 at Brillion, where they were living at the time. Except for a few years at Brillion, Mrs. Anderson spent all but the last few years of her life in Manitowoc. She was a member of the First Lutheran church here and a number of the church societies. Survivors include two sons, Helmer and Morton Anderson, both of Mylo, N.D.; three grandsons, Helmer Hempton of Cleveland, Ohio, and Owen and Chester Hempton, Manitowoc; and a niece, Mrs. Nic Dedrick, Manitowoc."
Manitowoc Herald Times, March 22, 1937 P. 7