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Submitted Photo
LaVonne Wibbens of Rochester, Minn., provided this photo of David and Ingeborg Hoven’s 10 children. The Hovens’ son, Albert, back row, far right, and his family were murdered in McKenzie County in 1930 and Charles Bannon was lynched for the murders. The story of the incident has been passed down in Hoven family history, relatives say. At some time Albert’s last name was changed from Hoven to Haven.
When Toni Holland of Houston, Texas, came across an online story by The Minot Daily News a few weeks ago about a movie to be made on the last lynching in North Dakota, it caught her interest.