G.W. ANDERSON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Oregon Death Certificate: 4239

Notes:

Or Gustav William. He was Gust W. in the 1900 census.

He was William G. in the 1910 census. At that time, he and his family lived in Little Falls. William was a coachman for a private family.

On the 1913 birth record for his son Virgil Alvin, William’s occupation is listed as coachman.

He registered for the draft on June 5, 1917, in Grant County, North Dakota. He was a self-employed farmer, was married, and had a wife and five children. His birth date is shown as August 13, 1887, and his birth place is shown as Troy, New York. He was described as of medium height and build with blue eyes and light hair.

His wife’s 1918 death record notes her county of residence as Grant County, North Dakota.

He was a farmer in Valley View Twp, Grant County, North Dakota, in the 1920, 1930, and 1940 censuses. The 1940 census showed that since 1935 they had relocated from another farm in Grant County. They were renting their farm in the 1940 census.

According to the 1940 census, he and Nancy had eighth-grade educations.

William married Nancy Emily DARBY on 20 Oct 1919 in Aberdeen, Brown County, South Dakota. Nancy (daughter of Moses DARBY and Mary Bell CLAYBURN) was born on 10 Dec 1891 in Osceola, St. Clair County, Missouri; died on 2 Dec 1981 in Salem, Marion County, Oregon; was buried in Lee Mission Cemetery, Salem, Marion County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Oregon Death Certificate: 81-20789

Notes:

Or Emmaline.

She is shown in the 1930 census as having been 24 years old when she was first married.

As Nancy Emily Lant, b. 10 Dec 1891, d. 2 Dec 1981, in Marion County, Oregon, she was the spouse of Lester. Her SS# was issued in North Dakota before 1951.

According to one of her granddaughters: “Her parents were Moses Darby and Mary Bell Clayburn, born in Missouri and had 3 brothers and a sister. She married William Gustaf Anderson who was a widower with 5 living children. She had one son of her own from a previous relationship. Together they had 8 more children, my mother being one of them. After Grandpa died, Grandma Nancy married Lester Lant. She outlived Lester and remained a widow until she died in 1981, lacking 8 days of being 90 years old.”

According to another granddaughter: “Nancy Emmaline Darby Anderson Lant was never married before marrying William Gustav Anderson. She had a baby boy fathered by Andrew Lee in 1917, but Andrew had a wife and family and left her immediately to go back to his family. Nancy was devastated, but loved her baby and raised him by herself until she married Bill who treated him as his own.”

An obit:

Nancy Emily Lant, 89, of 672 Hawthorne NE, died Wednesday in St. Timothy Nursing Home.

She was born in Osceola, Mo. and moved to Salem in 1946. She was a member of the First Christian Church.

Survivors include her sons, Vern and Don Anderson, both of Salem, Virgil Anderson, Bellflower, Calif. and Gordon Lee, Waterville, Minn., daughters, Louise Johnson, New Richland, Minn., Betty Swenson and Esther Pagel, both of Albert Lea, Minn., and Joyce Nelson, Salem, sister, Martha Rugg, Minneapolis, 51 grandchildren, 52 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

Graveside services will be at 3:30 p.m. Monday in Lee Mission Cemetery.

Notes:

Lived next door to the Erik Petersons in the 1895 state census.

“Killed at the brickyard crossing” in Little Falls, Minnesota, in the winter of 1899-1900. He was hit by a train while hauling cut trees.

He may have immigrated in 1880 but we know that Anna Charlotta came to the U.S. in 1882. For some reason they returned to Sweden and came back again in 1886. Their daughter, Astrid (Esther), was born in Sweden and celebrated her first birthday on the boat on the return to NY in July of 1886. They lived in Troy NY until 1891 or so and then moved to Little Falls, Minnesota. Alfred died in 1900 and left Anna with 8 kids; the oldest being 18. The youngest child was born after Alfred died, in June of 1900. She died when she was about 3. Her name was Olive.

Birth:
Raglanda, Amneharad

Alfred married Anna Charlotta LIND on 22 Jul 1884 in New York, New York. Anna (daughter of Lars Peter LIND and Carolina OLOFSDOTTER) was born on 22 Apr 1861 in Hova, Västergötland, Skaraborgs län, Sweden; was christened on 23 Apr 1861 in Hova, Västergötland, Skaraborgs län, Sweden; died on 17 Feb 1948 in Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y

Notes:

She is not the Anna Anderson who died in Morrison County on 24 Oct 1944 (1944-MN-008505).

Jan Johansson says that Emibas has her getting permission to leave Sweden (from Gustafsberg, Värmdö, Stockholms län (Uppland)) on 26 April 1882 and actually leaving the country for New York on 12 May 1882. She is shown as unmarried. She and her two daughters, Anna and Astrid, left Sweden the second time on 25 June 1886. The embarkation point was Göteborg both times.

In the 1905 state census, she and her family lived in Pike Creek Twp next to Sophia Peterson and her two children. Still living at home with Anna was Esther, 20, a domestic. The remainder of the children must have been listed on the back of the page, on a page that is missing, or were otherwise unrecorded.

The 1900 census reports that she had borne 8 children, all 8 still living. The 1910 census said only 7 still living. Harry, Herman, and Ethel were listed at home in 1910.

She was living in Minneapolis with her daughter Anna and Anna’s husband, as well as her daughter Ethel, at the time of the 1920 census.

Anna is living in Pike Creek Twp, Morrison County, in the 1930 census. Her widowed daughter Anna McCollem is living with her. Neither woman has an occupation.

Died:
At the home of her daughter, Mrs. Olaf Jackson (Ethel). (Obit from the Little Falls Daily Transcript, 18 Feb 1948, cited in TempestCHICK’s Jackson-Tracy Family Tree.)

Notes:

The only white Moses Darby in the 1900 census lives in the “State Lunatic Asylum, Number Three” in WashingtonTwp, Vernon County, Missouri. That Moses can read, write, and speak English, but no other data is provided for him in the census.

He’s still there in the 1910 census, now shown as age 51 and born in Missouri. He is listed as being unable to read or write.

Moses married Mary Bell CLAYBURN. Mary was born in Sep 1860 in Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Clabourne, the mother’s maiden name listed in Martha Rugg’s death certificate. It was Claburn in the 1900 census.

In the 1900 census, as Mary B Darby, she lived in Taylorville Twp, Christian County, Illinois, with her three children and her mother, 62 year-old Martha Claburn. She had been married for 12 years although no husband is listed for her. She had had five children, only the three still living. Those three children were Nancy, b. Dec 1891, Martha, b. Feb 1894, and Corbin, b. Nov 1895. Corbin’s father was born in Kansas, Martha’s father was born in “Miss”, and it’s not clear where Nancy’s father was born.

Lars married Carolina OLOFSDOTTER on 31 Dec 1837 in Hova, Västergötland, Skaraborgs län, Sweden. Carolina was born on 30 Jan 1819 in Hägghult, Hova, Skaraborgs län, Sweden; was christened on 30 Jan 1819 in Hova, Västergötland, Skaraborgs län, Sweden; died on 31 Oct 1894 in Bräckan, Hova, Skaraborgs län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born in Hägghult, Hova. Died in Bräcken, Hova.