La Due, Gertrude.

Gertrude May Black was born January 17th, 1882 near Sioux Falls, South Dakota. As a child she moved with her parents, Caroline and John Wesley Black to Minnesota, eventually settling near the southeastern Marshall County town of Grygla, where they farmed. Gertrude became a schoolteacher and taught at a number of rural schools around northwestern Minnesota.

Gertrude was a religious person all her life. She experienced conversion as a child and soon became active in the Free Methodist Church, where she became a minister. It was through her church work that she met her husband, Samuel La Due (b. 1867), whom she married in June 1907.

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