The Ersland gravesites were considered in the Potter's Field when they were burried in 1916 & 1918, but a relative paid and had
granite markers placed for both almost a century later 2007/8
Their Norwegian immigrant parents, Peder and Lorentze Erland, couldn't afford the $8 cost of a burial plot for either child.
Their first home in Madison was in the Greenbush neighborhood; they later moved to a Norwegian enclave on Winnebago St. After
the children died, Peder and Lorentze had two more children, who they also named Arthur and Borghild. The second set of Arthur
and Borghild, as well the couple's four other children, survived into adulthood.
