Effie was the maternal grandmother of Host Sam Bernhardt. Her family history dates back to what is now Belgium. The family name in Belgium was Auciaux. Louis Auciaux settled in Iowa and married into the Horton and Sheets family. The Horton’s came from Pennsylvania where they were farmers, teachers, average people of the land and God. Two of the Auciaux daughters, Effie and Fannie married and moved to Alberta, Canada in 1912, to ranch and farm. Effie eventually divorced and moved to Great Falls in 1917 where she remarried local businessman Carl O. Hagen. Both Grandparents played a vital role in the raising of young Sam.
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