Author: Elizabeth Ellington Chapter, DAR

 

Jacob Hagen, 1905-1907

 

Headstone GPS Coordinates: Burial location in cemetery is unknown.

Birth: 1905, Seabeck, Kitsap County, Washington

Death: poss. 1907, Seabeck, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Petra Inga Hagen, Infant Girl Hagen

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: None

 

On September 5, 1902, two Norwegian brothers—Anders Mathias Torstensen Kvalheim and Peder Martin Torstensen—sailed from Bergen, Norway aboard the ship Allan, accompanied by their wives and young children. After arriving in America, both families adopted the surname Hagen and settled in the Pacific Northwest, making their home in Seabeck, Washington. Among the children whose lives would become part of Seabeck’s early immigrant history was Jacob Hagen.

Jacob Hagen was born in Seabeck in 1905 to Peder Martin Torstensen and his wife Karen Jacobsdatter Vange, who were then known as Peter and Karen Hagen. He was their third son. Tragically, Jacob’s life was short. Two or three years after his birth around 1907, he died of pneumonia. Although no official record of his birth or death has been located, Jacob’s existence is confirmed through family memory. His eldest brother, Ingvald Hagen (1901–2001), later told Seabeck historians about his little brother who was buried in Seabeck Cemetery, likely near other young relatives.

Jacob’s brief life was not the only childhood loss endured by the Hagen families. His cousin, Petra Inga Hagen, daughter of Anders Mathias Torstensen Kvalheim and Pernille Karine Hansdatter Kvalheim—known in America as Andrew and Pernille Hagen—had arrived from Norway as a toddler. Petra was born on March 1, 1901, in Selje, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, and baptized on April 8, 1901. On July 24, 1905, at just four years old, she died at the family home in Seabeck from what was described as “brain fever,” likely encephalitis or meningitis. Her death notice in the Seattle Daily Times mistakenly identified her as a boy named Peter, but emigration and baptism records confirm that the child was a girl. Petra Inga Hagen was buried in Seabeck Cemetery in an unmarked location.

Andrew and Pernille Hagen eventually moved to Marysville, Washington, where they raised the rest of their family. Peter and Karen Hagen, Jacob’s parents, remained in Seabeck with their children. Other siblings of Andrew and Peter also emigrated from Norway and settled primarily in the Tacoma area.

Special note: Despite the shared surname, Peter Hagen of Norway is not the namesake of Peter Hagen Road. The road honors Percy “Pete” D. Hagen (1899–1978), originally from Pennsylvania, who lived at the end of the road and served several terms as president of the Crosby Community Club in the 1940s.

 

Infant Girl Hagen, (1915-1915)

 

Headstone GPS Coordinates: Burial location in cemetery is unknown.

Birth: 09 June 1915, Seabeck, Kitsap County, Washington

Death: 09 June 1915, Seabeck, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Jacob Hagen, Petra Inga Hagen

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: None

 

On June 9, 1915, Andrew and Pernille Hagen of Seabeck, Washington, welcomed a daughter who was stillborn. Little is recorded about this infant girl—no known name, no baptism record, and no marked grave—but her brief existence represents one of several losses within a large immigrant family shaped by hardship, resilience, and devotion to one another.

Andrew Hagen was born Anders Mathias Torstensen Kvalheim in Norway, and his wife was Pernille Karine Hansdatter Kvalheim. On September 5, 1902, Andrew and his brother Peder Martin Torstensen sailed from Bergen, Norway aboard the ship Allan with their families. After arriving in the United States, the brothers adopted the surname “Hagen” and settled in Seabeck, Washington, where many Scandinavian immigrants made their homes in the early twentieth century.

Between 1901 and 1917, Andrew and Pernille had a total of nine children. Their growing family reflected both hope and continuity, but it was also marked by profound sorrow. Their eldest daughter, Petra Inga, was born on March 1, 1901, in Selje, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, and baptized on April 8, 1901. Petra emigrated to America as a small child but died on July 24, 1905, at just four years old, from what was then called “brain fever,” a term commonly used for severe infections of the brain such as encephalitis or meningitis. She passed away at the family home in Seabeck.

Petra’s death was reported in the Seattle Daily Times, though she was mistakenly identified as a boy named Peter, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hagen. Immigration and church records confirm that the child was a girl. Petra Inga Hagen was buried in Seabeck Cemetery in an unmarked or now-unknown location.

Nearly ten years later, as part of this same family of nine children, Andrew and Pernille experienced another devastating loss when their infant daughter was stillborn on June 9, 1915, in Seabeck. Unlike some of her siblings, this child left almost no documentary trace. Yet her place within the family is no less real. She was one of nine children born to Andrew and Pernille between 1901 and 1917, and her stillbirth stands as a reminder of the physical and emotional toll faced by mothers and families during this era.

Loss was not unique to Andrew and Pernille alone. Andrew’s brother Peter Hagen and his wife Karen also buried a young child in Seabeck. Their son Jacob, born in 1905, died of pneumonia two or three years later. Though no official records of Jacob’s birth or death have been found, his eldest brother, Ingvald Hagen (1901–2001), later shared the story with local historians. Jacob is believed to be buried in Seabeck Cemetery, likely near his cousin Petra.

Andrew and Pernille eventually moved their family to Marysville, Washington, while Peter and Karen remained in Seabeck. Other Hagen siblings emigrated from Norway and settled primarily in the Tacoma area. Though the stillborn infant girl of June 9, 1915, lived only briefly, remembering her today restores her place among her eight siblings and honors a life that existed, however fleetingly, within the broader story of immigration, family, and endurance in early Washington State.

 

Karoline Hafner (née Merz)

 

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Birth: 20 February 1865, Stetten, Germany

Death: 16 August 1936, Seabeck, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: None

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: None

 

Karoline Hafner was born Karoline Rosine Merz on February 20, 1865, in Stetten, Germany. She was the daughter of Johann Philipp Merz and Barbara Wahler and was baptized and later confirmed in the Lutheran Church.

On October 31, 1891, she married Johann Wilhelm Hafner in Stuttgart, Germany. Johann Wilhelm was a porcelain painter. Karoline had two known children: Pauline Rose (born 1887) and Hans Heinrich Richard (born 1904). Pauline was born in Switzerland several years before her parents married.

Both of Karoline’s children immigrated to Washington State before she did, at different times. Pauline arrived in the United States in 1910, married in 1913, and settled in Seabeck. Richard followed in 1925, settling in Seattle, where he worked as a baker.

In 1928, Karoline’s husband passed away. Approximately eight years later, in 1936, Karoline emigrated alone from Hamburg, Germany, to the United States at the age of seventy-one. According to the ship’s manifest, she arrived in Oakland, California, on April 11, 1936, where she transferred to another vessel bound for Seattle. She sailed aboard the SS Seattle, stopping first in Vancouver, British Columbia, on April 17, 1936, before arriving in Seattle on April 19. She passed the required medical inspection and was formally admitted into the United States on April 20, 1936.

Karoline died on August 16, 1936, from angina pectoris, a condition involving chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart. She had reportedly suffered from this condition for approximately two years.

There are some discrepancies surrounding the details of her death. Her death certificate states that she had lived in the United States for only one month prior to her death, although immigration records show she had been admitted six months earlier. Family accounts indicate that Karoline died in Seabeck at her daughter’s home in Stavis Bay while making tea, a version that seems more plausible than the account recorded by historian Fred Just, who wrote that “she was coming to Seabeck from Germany to join her family, but she died on the train before she arrived.” Just cited Rudy Hintz as his source, though how this version of events originated remains unclear.

 

 

Weymer Joseph Guptill, (1877-1912) 

Headstone GPS Coordinates: Grave location unknown in the cemetery.

Birth: 31 August 1877, Minnesota

Death: 12 February 1912, Crosby, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: None

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: Reuben Libby (Massachusetts) DAR # A001169

Isaac Farnworth, SR, (Massachusetts), Jonas Farnsworth (Massachusetts) 

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Weymer Joseph Guptill was born on August 31, 1877, in Minnesota, possibly in Meeker County, to John Guptill of Maine and Sarah Lenora Libby of Northfield, Maine. His father was a farmer. Weymer was the fourth of six children; his three older siblings were born in Maine, while he and his two younger siblings were born in Minnesota.

By 1889, when Weymer was twelve, the family had moved west to Port Ludlow, Jefferson County, Washington, where John found work as a laborer. Living with them was Sarah’s younger brother, Lorin Libby, then thirty years old, who was also employed as a laborer. Tragedy struck the following year when Sarah died at the age of thirty-eight from unknown causes. At just twenty years old, Weymer’s sister Lucia—the eldest child—likely assumed responsibility for her younger siblings until her marriage six years later.

By 1900, John had settled in Seabeck, supporting himself as a shoemaker. Weymer does not appear in the 1900 census, and his whereabouts during this period remain unknown. However, his marriage license, dated March 29, 1905, lists his residence as Seabeck. On that date, he married Jessie Hinton, also of Seabeck. Weymer was twenty-seven, and Jessie was twenty-one.

The couple had three children, all born in Seabeck: Cecil (1906), Ivan (1909), and Vera (1910).

In 1910, Weymer was farming his own 80-acre property west of Tahuya Lake, near what is now Peter Hagen Road. Located on the property was the Crosby Post Office, where Jessie served as postmistress. John, by then elderly, was living with the family as well.

Weymer’s life was cut short by illness. Like many residents of Seabeck and Crosby during that period, he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis. He died at his home in Crosby on February 12, 1912, at the age of thirty-four. His brother-in-law, Lester Clough, served as the informant on his death certificate. Weymer’s funeral was held at the family residence, followed by his burial at Seabeck Cemetery. Sadly, no headstone marks his grave, and its exact location is unknown.

After Weymer’s death, Jessie relocated to Port Townsend with their three young children, where her parents were then living. She later remarried and went on to build and operate her own candy store near Port Townsend High School.

 

William Gregg Fenwick, 1854-1947

 

Headstone GPS Coordinates: Grave location unknown in the cemetery.

Birth: 23 November 1854, Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio. 

Death: 16 March 1947, Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: None.

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: John Gregg (Virginia) A047656

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William Gregg Fenwick was born on November 23, 1854, in Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio. His father, David Fenwick, was a farmer originally from Delaware, and his mother was Eliza M. Gregg of Ohio. William had one younger brother, George Stanley Fenwick.

When William was two years old, the family was renting a house and farmland in Washington Township, Clermont County, Ohio. By the time he was twelve, they owned and farmed their own land in Clermont County.

In June 1880, William was living on his own in Washington Township while attending medical school, having completed two years of college. Later that year, on December 19, 1880, he married Anna O. Wilson, also of Clermont County.

William and Anna settled in Moscow, Clermont County, where they raised three children: daughter Genevra (born 1881), son Earl S. (born 1882), and daughter Aledia (born 1885). Sometime between 1885 and 1890, Anna passed away, leaving William a widower with three young children.

On June 5, 1897, William was appointed U.S. Postmaster in Moscow. According to the 1900 census, he was still living there, working as postmaster, with all three children at home and attending school.

Between 1890 and 1900, William’s younger brother George traveled west, married in Colorado, and eventually settled in Seattle. Several years later, around 1907, William’s son Earl also moved to Seattle, where he married Sadie Hite, daughter of Ashbel and Alice Hite, who are buried in Seabeck Cemetery. By 1910, William and all of his surviving children were living in Washington State. Earl and Sadie made their home in Crosby.

In the 1910 census, William was living in Seattle, owned his home, and was employed as a janitor. By 1920, he was living alone in his own home in Suquamish, Kitsap County. At sixty-four years old, he was unemployed, though he later returned to Seattle.

A January 1924 article in the Kitsap Herald noted that William had visited his son Earl in Crosby at Hite Center before returning to his home in Seattle.

The 1930 census shows William, then seventy-six, living in Broadview, just north of Seattle, in the household of his daughter Aledia Jordan, her husband, and their children.

In 1935, William’s eldest daughter, Genevra, died from a paralytic ileus—caused by her intestines ceasing to function—while recovering from uterine suspension surgery.

By 1940, William was once again living independently in Suquamish. Around 1945, he relocated to Bremerton.

On March 16, 1947, at the age of ninety-two, William died at Roosevelt Hospital in Bremerton after a three-day hospitalization. The cause of death was listed as “apoplexy,” now known as a stroke. He was buried in Seabeck Cemetery near members of the Hite family.

In Fred Just’s book Seabeck and the Surrounding Area (page 140), it is noted that William’s “biggest fear was that grave robbers would steal his body, so his casket was encased in concrete.”

The reason for this fear is unknown, but it may have stemmed from stories William heard during medical school about doctors exhuming recently buried bodies for anatomical study.

 

 

John Evans, 1820-1893

 

Headstone GPS Coordinates: Grave location unknown in the cemetery.

Birth: 1820, Meifod, Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom

Death: 17 November 1893, possibly Crosby, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Anna (née Evans) Bassett

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: None.

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John Evans was born in the late months of 1820 in the rural parish of Meifod, Montgomeryshire, Wales. The son of Thomas Evans, a general laborer, and Mary Reese, he was baptized on New Year’s Day, 1821. Little is known about his early years, though it is likely he spent his childhood in Montgomeryshire. By the age of twenty, he was working as an agricultural laborer on the Llyod farm.

On May 19, 1848, John married Mary Vaughn in Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire. Both were twenty-seven years old when they began their life together. Two years later, on December 16, 1850, their daughter, Anna Jane Evans, was born. Whether John and Mary had other children remains uncertain, but John continued to support his household as a laborer.

The 1871 census still placed John and Mary in Llanfyllin, though their daughter Anna, then twenty-one, was no longer living at home—likely working in service. In 1874, Anna wed Samuel Bassett. Anna and Samuel would leave the United Kingdom in 1877 and sail to New York City on the “City of Richmond” ship. From there, they would journey to Palmyra, Ohio to join up with the already established Welsh community where the men worked in the coal mines.

By 1880, John himself had crossed the ocean. He appeared in records in Palmyra, Portage County, Ohio, living with his brother-in-law, Wakin Vaughn, and Wakin’s wife, Elizabeth. Conveniently, he was just next door to Anna and Samuel. The Welsh presence in Portage County was strong, rooted in the coal mines that had drawn workers from Wales since the 1830s. Welsh immigrants built tight-knit communities there, where their language and traditions endured. John, then fifty-nine, likely followed Anna and Samuel, who had emigrated in 1877, and sought work in the mines as many of his countrymen had done.

Yet John did not remain in Ohio for long. By 1881, he had returned to Wales and was back with Mary. His time in the mines had evidently allowed him to purchase seven acres of farmland—a modest but significant accomplishment for a man who had labored most of his life for others.

The record grows thin after that. Sometime between 1881 and 1893, Mary seems to have died in Wales. John, now alone, made his way once again to America, this time traveling farther west to Crosby, Washington, where Anna and Samuel had settled. His time there was brief. On November 17, 1893, John Evans died at the age of seventy-three, with Samuel Bassett serving as informant on his death record. The cause was listed simply as “old age.”

Although no marker survives for his grave, John was likely buried in Seabeck Cemetery, near where Anna and Samuel would later be laid to rest at the cemetery’s center.

 

 

Ruby C. Emel, 1908-1911

 

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Birth: 4 Mar 1908, Seattle, King County, Washington

Death: 17 Apr 1911, Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Elizabeth (née Emel) Maher, Peter Frank Emel

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: None.

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Ruby Emel was born on March 4, 1908, in Seattle, Washington, to her parents, Peter Emel Jr. and Hedwick Elizabeth (née Sacher) Emel. She spent her short life in the Seabeck area, where the Emel family had deep roots and where many relatives worked in logging, lumber, and farming.

Ruby’s early years were surrounded by extended family—grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins—who shared the close bonds and daily hardships of pioneer life on the Kitsap Peninsula. Though her time was brief, she was part of a large and interconnected family whose presence shaped the Seabeck community.

Tragically, Ruby died in Bremerton from lobar pneumonia in 1911, at just three years of age. She was laid to rest in Seabeck Cemetery beside her aunt, Elizabeth Emel, who had died two years earlier in 1909. Although no grave marker is currently present, Ruby’s resting place remains an enduring part of the Emel family’s history and legacy in Seabeck.

 

 

Peter Frank Emel (1853-1924)

 

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Birth: 25 December 1853, Ontario, Canada

Death: 21 February 1924, Seattle, King County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Elizabeth (nee Emel) Maher, Ruby C. Emel

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: None.

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Peter Frank Emel was born on December 25, 1853, in Ontario, Canada. His father, also named Peter Emel, was a French immigrant, and his mother, Marion Ann Hepschwelen, was a German immigrant. In 1861, the family was living in Carrick Township, Bruce County, Canada West. Peter was raised in Canada as a Roman Catholic.

On August 11, 1874, Peter married his first wife, Anna Margaret Stroeder, who went by Margaret. Together they had three children: Elizabeth (born 1875), Frank (1877), and Peter (1878). Shortly after the birth of their youngest child, Margaret died, presumably in Canada. Later that same year, Peter immigrated to the United States with his three young children and settled on a farm in Ada, Norman County, Minnesota.

On October 10, 1880, Peter married Anna Litsen—whose surname appears in records as Litsen, Leitzel, or Lightson—in Clay County, Minnesota. Peter and Anna had four children: William (1883), John (1885), Edward (1887), and Joseph (1889).

The timing of Peter’s initial journeys to Washington Territory is unclear. He may have traveled west several times to secure homestead land while his family remained in Minnesota. By November 1889, Peter, Anna, and their seven children had relocated together to Seattle, where Peter acquired the Duwamish Dairy and became a familiar sight delivering milk by wagon. Around the summer of 1892, the family moved to Seabeck, where Peter worked in logging and lumber. Despite living in Seabeck, he continued to maintain business interests in Seattle, including a grocery store, two hotels, and a beer hall.

The Emel family traveled to their homesteads along the primitive trail between Silverdale and the area then known as “Big Beef,” using a team of oxen to haul their belongings. Peter’s older sons later recalled walking single file along the narrow trail as young boys, helping carry the family’s possessions to their two 320-acre homesteads.

Peter’s most notable contribution to the local community was the construction of a bridge spanning Big and Little Beef creeks. As recorded in Kitsap County: A History (1977):

“As more families moved to the area, Emel proposed that a bridge be built across both Big and Little Beef creeks. The neighbors guffawed and asked what good a bridge would do when there were no roads to the bridges, but he convinced them if they had the bridges, the roads would come.”

Peter supplied lumber milled from timber on his own property to build the bridge, which measured 330 feet long and 16 feet wide, with four-foot railings. He was paid one dollar per foot. The bridge was completed on July 4, 1896, and was improved, expanded, and rebuilt multiple times over the decades. In 1965, the original wooden structure was removed and replaced with the modern bridge that still stands today.

In 1897, Peter and Anna divorced. Anna remarried a few years later and remained in Seattle until her death.

On June 12, 1899, Peter married Maude Ella Gregory in King County, Washington. They had three children: Alice (1902), Ernest (1903), and James (1912). Peter and his adult sons continued working in the timber industry, felling trees and hauling logs down the skids to the water.

The 1910 census lists Peter living in San Bernardino, California, with Maude and their children Alice—who was working as an actress—and Ernest. Peter and Maude divorced in 1912.

Peter Frank Emel died in Seattle on February 21, 1924, from arteriosclerosis and high blood pressure at the age of seventy. He is buried in Seabeck Cemetery beside his eldest child, Elizabeth, who died in 1909. Also buried there is his three-year-old granddaughter Ruby, daughter of Peter Jr., who died in 1911. No marker is currently present for Ruby’s grave.

Most of Peter’s children remained in the Kitsap Peninsula area, where they raised families of their own. Many of their obituaries, published in the Bremerton Sun, recall their early childhoods in Seabeck.

 

Borghild Dahl, 1908-1914

 

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Birth: 14 March 1908, Seabeck, Kitsap County, Washington

Death:17 December 1914, Seabeck, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Anna Dahl

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: None.

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Borghild Alice Dahl was born on March 14, 1908, in Seabeck, Kitsap County, Washington, the fourth child of Daniel Brent Haldorsen Dahl and his wife, Didrikke Malene Jakobsdatter Reifvik. Daniel was a Norwegian immigrant who had originally emigrated in 1897, spent time working as a fisherman in Vancouver, British Columbia, and by 1901 had established a homestead in the Seabeck area after returning briefly to Norway to marry Didrikke.

Tragically, Borghild’s life was short. After being ill for two weeks with tuberculosis, she died on December 17, 1914, at just six years old. She was buried in Seabeck Cemetery. Four years later, her aunt Anna Dahl also died from tuberculosis and was buried next to her. 

Special note: The Dahl family was very likely connected to the Myre/Myhre and Nelson families in Seabeck through their mother, Ingeborg Larssine Andersdatter Myre, named for the family farm in Norway. Supporting this connection, Anders (Andrew) Nelson—son of Nils Myhre of Seabeck—served as a witness on Daniel Dahl’s naturalization papers.

 

Anna “Ane” Haldorsdatter Refvik Dahl, 1893-1919

 

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Birth: 26 August 1893, Selje, Sogn Og Fjordane, Norway.

Death: 05 January 1919, Crosby, Kitsap County, Washington 

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: Borghild Dahl

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: None.

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Anna “Ane” Haldorsdatter Refvik Dahl was born on August 26, 1893, in Selje, Sogn Og Fjordane, Norway.  Her parents were Haldor Nicolai Haldorsen Refvik and Ingeborg Larssine Andersdatter Myre.  Anna was the youngest of their ten children. 

In the 1900 Norway Census, Anna was living with her parents and five of her siblings. 

By 1910, both of Anna’s parents were alive and still living on their farm, but Anna was living in another household working as a maid.

On April 28, 1911, emigration records of the Bergen police record Anna Haldorsdatter Refvik departing Bergen, Norway headed for Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was recorded as “moving to improve situation, will live with family.” Anna was eighteen years old at the time and was traveling with her sister Bertine. Their ship, Canadian Pacific, arrived in New York City first before sailing on to its final destination of Amk, Vancouver, British Columbia. After they arrived in Vancouver, Anna and Bertine presumably quickly traveled to Seabeck to go live in their older brother Daniel’s household. 

Between 1904 and 1915, several of Anna’s siblings had moved to western Washington, including her brother Daniel Brent Haldorsen Dahl. Daniel originally emigrated in 1897 and had lived in the Seabeck area since 1901 after he returned to Norway, married and brought his bride Didrikke Malene Jakobsdatter Reifvik back to Seabeck where he had a homestead. Prior to 1900, he lived in Vancouver where he worked as a fisherman. 

On March 14, 1908, Daniel and his wife Didrikke had their fourth child, a daughter, they named Borghild Alice Dahl, but she sadly died on December 17, 1914, when she was six years old after being sick for two weeks with tuberculosis. She was buried in Seabeck Cemetery.

On January 5, 1919, Anna also died from pulmonary tuberculosis in Crosby, Kitsap County, Washington at the age of twenty-five. She was buried in the Seabeck Cemetery next to her niece Borghild. Daniel was the informant listed on her death certificate. No markers are currently present on Anna or Borghild’s graves. 

Special note: Daniel and Anna were very likely related to the Myre/Myhre family and Nelson family in Seabeck since their mother was named Ingeborg Larssine Andersdatter Myre (Myre was the name of the family farm back in Norway.)Also, Anders/Andrew Nelson, son of Nils Myhre in Seabeck, signed as a witness on Daniel’s naturalization papers.