~Source: The Aberdeen Democrat (Aberdeen, South Dakota) – Friday, May 12, 1905 page 2

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OBITUARY FOUND on Find-a-grave:
Birthdates vary: Nov 13 1852, or 1851 or 1853. From a Newspaper Article "Born in Holstein, Denmark, in 1853, and was the son of Peter and Ida (Christianson) Synoground, natives of Denmark. The father was a liveryman, Nels P. Synoground, was a wealthy farmer, but prior to his death met with financial reverses and died a poor man. His grandfather on the mother's side, Andrew Paulson, was the owner of a small farm in Denmark. 

 In a family of six children, with one sister older than him, he was one of twins, and was raised in the village of Synebert, and attended the village school. He worked on a farm from nine years of age until he was fifteen years old, when he left home and took a position as teamster for a physician of Copenhagen, Denmark. He later clerked in a provision store for a year and a half, and at the age of seventeen came to America, landing at Quebec, Canada. He went direct from that point to Chicago, Illinois, and soon located in Lesan, Iowa, where he worked at farm work and in the warehouse for one year. He then went to St. Paul, Minnesota, and drove an ice wagon two years, later going to Stillwater, then returned to Iowa, and again to Minnesota, where in Duluth he was engaged in hauling supplies for the construction crew on the Northern Pacific railroad, going into North Dakota. 

He spent six months at teaming and then worked on a farm near St. Paul, and then went to Rochester, Minnesota, working at farm work and also in an elevator. He went to Dalrymple, North Dakota, in 1876, and worked on the Dalrymple farm, sowing the first crop of grain on that well-known estate. He was then employed by Peter Simms to run one of his thirty breaking plows, and remained there three and a half years. He spent part of the time hauling government supplies to several forts, and the last trip was from Bismarck to the Black Hills. Every man in the expedition was well armed for Indian attacks and our subject was the best shot of the crew and furnished the game for the camp. 

Mr. Synoground went to Brown county, South Dakota, in the spring of 1880 and took up the south half of the northwest quarter of section 11, and also took as a homestead the southwest quarter of the same section, on which he erected a 12 x 12 shanty. He had two old horses and a wagon and borrowed money with which to purchase a breaking plow. He broke some land the first year and worked on the grading for the Milwaukee railroad from Groton to Aberdeen. He wintered in the shanty and his nearest neighbor was three miles away, and at one time his horses were snow bound in the stable for three months, and on several mornings he took out the window of his shanty as an exit, and shoveled the snow inside until he could make a way through the snow, when he shoveled the snow outside. He raised a small crop of corn and potatoes the first year, and also engaged in railroad work, and the same in 1882. He then owned seven hundred acres of land, all but one hundred and forty acres of which is under cultivation, the balance being reserved for pasture. He had eight or ten acres in trees, and a well-improved farm. His residence, two stories in height and built in two parts, was a commodious structure and was a fit habitation, and his barn, granary, wind mill, grinding mill and saw mill, the last two run by wind-mill power, were of the most improved style and his machinery of the latest pattern. He has fourteen head of cattle, eighteen work horses and six colts, and was engaged to some extent in stock raising, but made grain raising his principal business. He has traveled over the greater portion of the Dakotas, and was well versed on the country, and made a judicious selection of his farm, and had met with marked success in his calling. 

He was married in 1880 to Eda Mausth, the daughter of Ole Mausth, who was a farmer of Norway. Mrs. Synoground was born and raised in Norway and came to America in company with her brother, in 1877. Twelve children, ten of whom are living, have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Synoground, named as follows: Edmund (Edwad?), Ole,(Thomas?) Sever, Millie, August, Jennie, Olive, Laura, George, Johnie, all of whom were born in South Dakota. He was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and had served as justice of the peace, and was a prominent citizen of Hanson township. Politically he was a Republican and standed firmly for the principles of his party. 

 ****Church record of Sonder Bbjert states that twins were born Nov 13, 1851 ~ Juliane Sondergaard & ~ Nis Olesen Pedersen Sondergaard 

 Parents: Peder Nissen Sondergaard b. 12/2/1815 and Inger Christendatter b. 12/11/1818 (Married Nov 4 1848) First Child born Kirsten Marie Pedersdatter Sondergaard, born Aug 2, 1849. Newspaper mention 10-4-1913 found:

  AW Synoground back from Long Beach as he attended funeral of father WI Synoground who died there of Cancer. (the dates fit, but the initials are confusing.)

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OBITUARY LINK for N. O. P. Synoground posted on this website. 

~Submitted by Brown County Coordinator, L. Ziemann 11/23/2022