Wawrzyniec "Lawrence" Kosecki

Lawrence and Rosala Kosecki - Lawrence Koseki was born in Poland in 1861 and grew up there . Rosala Ebertowski was born July 11,1867, in Poland. They later met and were married in 1887. They came to America by ship in 1891, bringing only their clothes. They had friends and relatives here. They lived on government school land . It was free, a couple of sections in Pulaski Township. They built a small house and cleared land for a garden and fenced a yard for cow or oxen. If they cleared more they used the oxen to bring in the wood and for plowing. There were quite a few people that had moved in and did the same. There were farms for homesteading near Roseau, Minn, where they moved. They later returned to Pulaski Township and purchased land.