Grand Forks County North Dakota Obituaries

Belzung, --- Death has parted Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Belzung of Grand Forks after sixty-seven years of happy married life. They are believed to have been the oldest living married couple in North Dakota, and probably in the Northwest. Mrs. Belzung died at the home on South Third street after an illness of two months. She is survived by her husband, aged 89 years, and a daughter, Mrs. Emita Benz, aged 66 years. Mrs. Belzung was 84 years old.  Many years ago they came from Belfore, France, to Cincinnati. Then they moved to St. Paul, where they came to Grand Forks thirty-one years ago. Mr. Belzung worked at his trade as a tailor many years. The Pioneer Express January 8, 1909

Tassell, Mrs F. J. Grand Forks Sept 26, While sitting talking with her son Fred and daughter Mabel in their home Mrs. F. J. Tassell of Larimore was suddenly stricken with paralysis and died.  Mrs. Tassell was well known in Grand Forks county coming to Larimore in 1882 with her husband who was an Episcopal minister and who had charge of the Larimore parish until 1897 when he died in much the same manner---Mrs. Tassell while sitting with her family at the supper table.  Bismarck Daily Tribune Sunday September 27, 1914

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