BCHC ID NUMBER: 17570

CEMETERY: Our Savior's Lutheran

PERSON BURIED: Anders Arnesten BRETTA         NAME AS ENGRAVED ON MARKER: Anders Arnesen BRETTA

BIRTH DATE: (no date on marker; date is from other sources)        

DEATH DATE:   1854        

MARKER INSCRIPTION (FRONT): Her Hveiler, Anders Arnesen Br?tta, dod i 1854, dem Forste Normand som dode i Bosque.

MARKER INSCRIPTION (BACK): Til minde af den ajeve of agtverdige pioner Anders Bretta Den forste Normand Som dode I Bosque County, Texas Aar et 1854 Til erkjendlliohed af hans virksomked her, og bestreberser for the forste Norske Nybuooere her Taknemmelige Landsmen Reist hamdette minde Aaret 1906. [Tranlation: In memory of a brave and worthy pioneer Anders Bretta, the first Norwegian settler who died in Bosque County, Texas in the year 1854 to whose daring and energy is largely due the early foundation of our thriving community.]

PLOT LOCATION INFO (1985): E-13

PLOT LOCATION INFO (2017): B

BCHC 1985 CEMETERY BOOK: Vol. II, pg. 88, line #4

FIND-A-GRAVE ENTRY: 26709894

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