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<blockquote data-quote="PrairieGhost" data-source="post: 297502" data-attributes="member: 704">[ATTACH]44154[/ATTACH]This old fellow was a fur trapper for I think it was the Hudson Bay Company.&nbsp; His name was Mike Berlingale.&nbsp; My grandfather homesteaded four miles south, he also bought this old guys homestead two miles west.&nbsp; My brother lives a mile east, and I grew up two miles west.&nbsp; My maternal grandparents homesteaded two miles north.&nbsp; My mother and her twin were delivered by an old native American lady on the banks of the Sheyenne river in a log cabin 400 yards north.&nbsp; General Sully trained his soldiers just a few hundred yards from here.&nbsp; I bow hunted all around his grave when I was 13 and 14 years old.&nbsp; We wondered what happened to the stone so my brother and I dug around and found it deep in the grass and dirty.&nbsp; Evidently cattle had rubbed on it and dumped it over.&nbsp; We set it back up and read the stone &quot;beware my friend as you pass by as you are now so once was I, as I am now so you must be, prepare therefore to follow me&quot;.&nbsp; We don't mow it.&nbsp; The guy was a man of the outdoors so I think he prefers the prairie over him, and perhaps an occasional deer browsing his grave.&nbsp; I see his grave every now and then and make sure the stone is standing. [ATTACH]44155[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PrairieGhost, post: 297502, member: 704"] [ATTACH=CONFIG]44154._xfImport[/ATTACH]This old fellow was a fur trapper for I think it was the Hudson Bay Company. His name was Mike Berlingale. My grandfather homesteaded four miles south, he also bought this old guys homestead two miles west. My brother lives a mile east, and I grew up two miles west. My maternal grandparents homesteaded two miles north. My mother and her twin were delivered by an old native American lady on the banks of the Sheyenne river in a log cabin 400 yards north. General Sully trained his soldiers just a few hundred yards from here. I bow hunted all around his grave when I was 13 and 14 years old. We wondered what happened to the stone so my brother and I dug around and found it deep in the grass and dirty. Evidently cattle had rubbed on it and dumped it over. We set it back up and read the stone "beware my friend as you pass by as you are now so once was I, as I am now so you must be, prepare therefore to follow me". We don't mow it. The guy was a man of the outdoors so I think he prefers the prairie over him, and perhaps an occasional deer browsing his grave. I see his grave every now and then and make sure the stone is standing. [ATTACH=CONFIG]44155._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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