# Lisbon, Ransom County, North Dakota Lisbon sits along the Sheyenne River in the southeastern corner of North Dakota, a farming town that drew settlers looking for land in the years when the northern plains were still filling in. For the Bartosh family, it became home relatively late — a place reached only after a longer journey that had begun a half-century earlier and an ocean away. Frank Louis Bartosh was born in 1864 in the village of Neznašov, in the Pisek region of Bohemia, the son of Jakub Bartos, a cottager of house number 3. He was only seven months old when his family left Bohemia and crossed the Atlantic, settling first in Iowa. There he grew up, and there on June 7th, 1887 he married Mary Reha. Their eight children were all born in Iowa. It was not until 1911 that Frank moved his family north to North Dakota. The years in Lisbon were few for him. He died there on July 14th, 1919 and was buried in the town that had become the family's final home. Mary Eva Bartosh long outlived her husband, remaining connected to Lisbon for the fifty years that followed. She died on November 9th, 1969 and was buried there as well, laid to rest half a century after Frank. Lisbon also holds the burials of others bound to this family — John Frank Bartosh, Florence Anna Portz, and Frank Zerr — marking the town as the gathering ground where the family's American story, carried from Bohemia through Iowa, came to rest.