A Mystery

Gus Peterson was an early homesteader in Norway Township on land which was later purchased by N. C. Christensen.  He built a very good two-story limestone house on his homestead.  This house is still standing.  Mr. and Mrs. Peterson had three children, Frank and Charley and a daughter Mary.  Mary married a Mr. Gardner and their children were Laura and Charlie.  The Gardners lived on the NE4 of Sec. 25 in Beaver Township.  One day Mr. Gardner rode a horse over into Grant Township in Cloud County where Mary's father, Gus Peterson, owned 480 acres of pasture land.  Gardner had gone to check over the fences and staple wires where needed.  The horse came home, but Mr. Gardner has never since been heard from.  Mary and her children came back to live with her parents in Norway Township.