"Anna Hanson
stands in the doorway of her sod hut on the plains of North Dakota soon after emigrating to America
with her sister, Marie, in March 1899. She is entertaining a gentleman caller, Claus Braseth, far
right, whom she later married.
Anna continued to share this home with an unnamed companion,
[probably her sister Sophie (CEDills)], for a few months after her marriage to Claus before working
up the nerve to move in with him. When she did, she brought the companion along as chaperone until
Claus evicted the companion to be alone with his bride."
The people seated at the left appear to me to be, from left to right, my mother, Marie Hanson Dills , Andrew Stjern and his wife and their sister, Lena Hanson Stjern. The child is probably Oscar Stjern. [Charles E. Dills]