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Sunday, August 2, 2015

Black Sheep Sunday and Census Sunday: Boe Brothers in Jail

In 1930, my 2nd-great-grandfather's brother Gregar or (Gregger) Boe and his family were enumerated in Williston. Williams County, North Dakota. The households of his two married sons were enumerated below his household.

1930 United States Census, Williston, Williams County, North Dakota, population schedule, enumeration district 53-64, sheet no. 9B. Available from Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.

Close up view of names in the above image:


His sons George and Ingmar were enumerated twice in the 1930 United States Census. The second enumeration was in the Williams County Jail!

1930 United States Census, Williston, Williams County, North Dakota, population schedule, enumeration district 53-63, sheet no. 12A. Available from Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.

Close up view of names in the above image:


Ingmar Boe's wife, Louise Ann Decouteau, was a member of the Ojibwe Native American tribe. The 1937 Indian Census of the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation shows that Ingmar was in the penitentiary.

Census of the Turtle Mountain reservation of the Turtle Mountain jurisdiction, North Dakota. 1 January 1937. Page 71. Ancestry.com. U.S., Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M595, 692 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75; National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Although the Indian census roll indicated that Ingmar would be in the penitentiary until 1940, he had been released by 5 November 1938, when he married Pearl (Peterson) Gardner in Sidney, Richland County, Montana.

Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F37L-PSC), Ingmar Boe and Pearl Gardner, 5 Nov 1938; citing Marriage, Sidney, Richland, Montana, county courthouses, Montana; FHL microfilm 1,905,316.

I have not yet learned why George and Ingmar were incarcerated.

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