Andrzej "Andrew" Joannes Czapiewski

Akt ślubu: Wiele 1869/3, kościół św. Mikołaja 14.01.1869r., Andreas Czapiewski i Clara Derdowska

1882- Homesteaded in Pulaski Township.

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ANDREW CZAPIEWSKI FAMILY - Andrew Czapiewski and his wife, Clara Derdowski, came to the United States from Poland in 1881, accompanied by four small children, Teofila, Josephine, John, and Ferdinand. After waiting for immigration clearances, they stayed with friends in the state of New York. Hearing about territories being opened west of Chicago, they decided to go to Winona, Minn, by train. Here they stayed with relatives.

Land was well settled there. In 1882 they decided to go to new opened territory in North Dakota. They came by train to Fisher and Grand Forks. They took the steamboat to Acton with other settlers. They settled and homesteaded in Pulaski Township. Needed items were purchased at an Acton Store. Later they were able to purchase an oxen team and wagon. Another daughter, Francis, was born in 1883. Clara died in 1885.

In 1887 Andrew Czapiewski married Mary Czapieski, no relation, who immigrated to the United States in 1883 from Poland. In 1894 Andrew and Mary homesteaded in Walshville township. This was all wooded are a except for a small clearing for a garden. Their house was a log house. Andrew died in 1911; Mary continued to live there until 1921, then moved to Grafton and died in 1933.

Andre' s son, Ferdinand, continued to live on this tract of land, acquiring more later. He married Joanna Ebertowski in 1907. Joanna came to this area from Poland on April 12,1889, when two years old. She was the daughter of Francis Ebertowski and Apolonia Gradowski who homesteaded in Walshville Township. She had three brothers, Alexander, Louie, and Frank, and one sister, Francis.

Al the land had to be cleared before anything could be planted. Horse and cart were all they had for transportation. Supplies and groceries were brought by steamboat until about the year 1911 to the Walshville Elevator where farmers from the community brought and shipped grain and ordered supplies to be brought from Grand Forks.

Al were members of the St. Stanislaus Catholic Church of Warsaw. Ferdinand and Joanna Czapiewski raised a family of eight children, Bill, Edward, Florence, Florian Dominick, Aurelia, Henrietta, and Bernice.