Scott JOHNSON

Notes:

Scott was from a previous relationship. His mother took off so he was raised by Carl and Mary.

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Mel Johnson passed away peacefully at his daughter’s home in Eckville on November 20, 2004 at the age of 64 years after a courageous battle with cancer. He is survived by his loving wife, Linda; three sons, Perry, Derek and Brett; three daughters, Melinda (Ryan) Carver, Mary (Ed) Symchyck and Theresa (Chris) Marshall; eight grandchildren, Mackenzie, Jacob, Owen, Joseph, Shawn, Amber, Alfred and Britney. He is also survived by Sandra Sutter (his “almost” daughter) and his best friend Rudi. Mel was predeceased by his son Scott and parents Carl and Mary Johnson. Special thanks to Shannon Gibbs. In living memory of Mel Johnson, a tree will be planted in the Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium Memorial Tree Park

Melvin married Gloria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1911-15695

Notes:

He was his parents’ 7th child.

Shown as born in Saskatchewan in the 1916 Canadian census.

Living in Saskatoon at the time of his father’s death.

Birth:
In MHS birth index as “Johnson”, no first name. Mother’s maiden name “Lunder.”

Carl married Mary Eva BACHMEIER on 17 Jul 1934 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Mary was born in 1915 in Devils Lake, Ramsey County, North Dakota; died on 14 Aug 1994 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
736 7th Avenue

Notes:

He married his first cousin.

Supposedly had relatives living in Boston. On the ship’s manifest, he is referred to as “son Carl O. Lundberg, Boston” as the relative that his parents and three youngest living siblings were to meet in Boston. His sister Emma is also mentioned as meeting the family in Boston.

The Södra Hestra Household Examination for 1891-1897 (p. 209) shows him leaving for N. Amerika on October 6, 1891.

Terry says: I found Oscar Johnson leaving Sweden in year 1892 and arriving finally in Foreston, Minnesota, where my family lived and my grandmother Annie Josephine was born. It is near Milaca, Minnesota.

In the 1899 Superior city directory, and going by the address shown for him and his family in the 1900 census, he is Oscar Johnson, laborer, 1205 N 3d. In the 1900 city directory, he is shown as still at the same address and working as a laborer for the “St P and W Coal Co.” He is probably then the Oscar C. Johnson in the 1901 city directory who is a laborer for the St P & W Coal Co and lives at 510-1/2 Bay.

Shown in the 1900 census, and the 1910 census, as having come to the U.S. in 1890.

In the 1905 state census, he and his family were farming in New London Twp, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota. He was Oscar J. Lundberg, 30. His household was Mrs. Tilda Lundberg, 28, Esther, 8, Sophie, 4, and Nellie, 9 months. The family had been in the present location for 2 years. Oscar claimed to have been in Minnesota for 20 years and Tilda for all 28.

In the 1910 census, he and his family were farming in Grove City, Swede Grove Twp, Meeker County, Minnesota.

Terry’s check of the border crossing records: On June 14, 1911, Oscar Johnson and his father Johan August Lundberg cross the border {going from the U.S. to Canada} at Emerson, Manitoba by train. Their destination: Englefelt, Saskatchewan, which is the closest railway station to the Naicam area at that time. On the same train is J. J. Quaid, husband of Annie Rebecka Lundberg but his destination is Edson, Alberta. At that time it was a small town.

In the 1916 Canadian census, as Oscar Johnson, he, Tillie, and family were in St. Peter in Humboldt, Saskatchewan (39, 19, 2, St. Peter). The household consisted of Oscar, 45, Tillie, 43, Esther, 19, Frieda, 17, Sophia, 15, Emma, 12, Josie, 9, Myrtle, 6, and Charley, 5. They had come to Canada in 1910. (Although we know that Carl was born in Minnesota in March of 1911.)

Terry says that Oscar was denied Canadian citizenship but no reason was given. The 1916 census shows that Oscar became a Canadian citizen in 1915.

Terry says: Oscar Johnson and Tilley homesteaded west of Naicam about ten miles and moved into Naicam later. They had the cafe and rooming house above across the street from the railway station near the bank on the corner. (The cafe was on Railway Avenue according to Claudia.) They moved east of Naicam in the country later and had some land there. In later years they moved to the City of Saskatoon, Sask., where Tilley died and was buried in the Naicam Cemetery. Oscar Johnson also died in Saskatoon, I think.

According to his obit, Oscar had resided in Saskatoon for 15 years when he died in 1962.

According to Terry, Harlen Vollum, Oscar’s grandson, remembers Oscar Johnson arriving by bicycle from central Saskatchewan for a visit to his North Dakota daughter and family at age eighty plus.

Carl married Thilda Maria (Tillie) LUNDBERG on 4 Sep 1907 in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota. Thilda (daughter of Carl Gustaf (Charley) LUNDBERG and Britta Maria (Mary Or Mare) SVENSDOTTER) was born on 20 Mar 1875 in Kånna, Småland, Kronobergs län, Sweden; died on 7 Dec 1941 in Naicam, Saskatchewan, Canada; was buried on 12 Dec 1941 in Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery, Naicam, Saskatchewan, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She married her first cousin.

Born in Björkelund, Berghem Andersgard. (The Berghem south of Ljungby.)

Lived in Naicam, Saskatchewan.

Her birthdate is shown as Jan 1871 in the 1900 U.S. Census. Shown as having come to this country in 1875.

Britta, Tilda, and baby Emma arrived in New York from Liverpool on October 14, 1881, on the City of Paris.

A Tilda Lundberg, of legal age, married Andrew J Swanson in Red Wing on 20 Nov 1891. The witnesses were John Lundberg and Ann Anderson. The “M.G” who performed the ceremony, Gustaf Rast, also performed the Blixt marriage.

Her father “Charles Lumberg”, had to give his consent for her marriage to Oscar Blixt in 1892. That consent form said that “Tilda Marie Lumberg” was 17 although actually she would have been still 16.

In the 1895 Minnesota state census, Tillie is 21 and living with her parents and siblings in Athens Twp, Isanti County.

Jan says: Oscar Johnson and wife Thilda Maria lived in West Superior in year 1900 for a while as some of his children were born there in Wisconsin.

In the 1900 census, Oscar and Tilda and their family are living at 1205 Third Street in Superior. The family consists of Oscar, Tilda, Ester, and Alfreda. These are the only two children Tilda had had at that time. Also living with them is Charlie Johnson, still single, and relatively recently arrived in the U.S. in 1898. Both men are shown as day laborers. Charlie may be Oscar’s brother Karl.

In the 1910 census, Tillie is shown as having had 5 children, all 5 still living. That seems to exclude Josephine who was not listed with the five daughters in the 1910 census.

Perhaps there was an earlier marriage. Family sources also have 27 May 1896 or 27 May 1894.

Birth:
her gravestone says 1874

Died:
Terry says Tillie died in Saskatoon

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Married:
Married in Princeton. Perhaps there was an earlier marriage. See notes for Tillie.