Anna Katarina JONSSON

Notes:

The 1865-1878 Household Examination for Möikelasön in Marby does not show a birth location for her. Presumably, it’s Marby but she is not included in the 1866 list of births for Marby.

According to the 1920 census, she emigrated in 1894 and was naturalized as a citizen in 1913.

At the time of the 1910 census, the family was living in Lincoln Township, Polk County. The family consisted of Faste (“F”), 48, “Mrs. Anna”, 46, John R., 14, and Simon, 13. Also living with the family was Per Nelson, 73, uncle. Faste and Anna had been married for 16 years. She had had two children, both still living. Faste emigrated in 1891 and Anna in 1894. They owned their farm without mortgage. Although everyone could read and write, none of the three adults could speak English.

Anna Catrina's great-granddaughter, wrote:

" ... Anna Jonsson Valgren was my great-grandmother. I never knew her, of course, as she died the month that I was born, January 1942. In fact, my mother did not attend her funeral as she was so uncomfortable with me. It was strange how my great-grandfather died exactly 21 years later in January 1963 and I was expecting my first child (my son, Troy, 20 years) and I did not attend his funeral for the very same reason. I still think that is so strange. I was born Jan 22nd, my son was born Jan 23.

" I do not know much about my great grandma except that she was a very fussy housekeeper (meticulous) and that she always wore floor length dress, always! And she always wore something on her head. She wore a hat in public and around the house, day or night, she wore one of those elasticized klutes. I think this is what they called them. From what I have heard, I think she was a very sensible and logical thinking person. Right up to her death. She had had a colostomy because of an obstruction in her colon. It was malignant and she lived just about one year after her surgery. And that is how long the doctor said she was going to live. She had always been a short heavy person most, all of her life. But that last year she went down to skin and bone. My grandmother Myrtle nursed her at home the last few weeks of her life. She loved vanilla ice cream and she had always eaten a lot of it. The day she died she was worried that there would not be enough blueberry sauce to go on it after the funeral and she wanted Faste to go to town in 30 below zero weather and get some. My grandma said she checked the cellar and there were better than 2 gallons of the sauce so Faste did not have to make that trip. Also, she asked my grandma to be sure and put her teeth in her mouth, as soon as she died, as she was in so much pain, she could not stand the teeth in her mouth while she was still alive. Now that takes character and fortitude to make a request like that when you are about to leave this world. At least I think so. I really look forward to meeting her in eternity and I am sure she will be a wonderful person.

“My mother (Rose Marie) feels so bad now that she did not appreciate her grandma more when she was young. Because my mother said she really was so good in so many ways. But, mother said, she was even ashamed sometimes to be in town with her as no one wore those old long dark dresses and everyone looked at them..”

Anna married Faste JOHANSSON, (Valgren) in 1895 in Wisconsin. Faste (son of Johan FASTESSON and Caroline NILSDOTTER) was born on 12 Sep 1862 in Frösö, Jämtlands län, Sweden; died on 2 Jan 1963 in Polk County, Wisconsin; was buried in Volga Cemetery, Amery, Polk County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Ruben VALGREN was born on 16 May 1896 in Wisconsin; died in 1918; was buried in Volga Cemetery, Amery, Polk County, Wisconsin.
2. Simon G VALGREN was born on 30 Sep 1897 in Wisconsin; died on 15 Dec 1986 in Amery, Polk County, Wisconsin; was buried in Volga Cemetery, Amery, Polk County, Wisconsin.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Horse trading (“Hemmansegare”, or freeholder - owning farmer, according to the 1890 Swedish Census)

Notes:

He is called Jonas Pehrson in Jonas Petter’s birth record.

The 65-78 household exam for their stay at Meikelsson in Marby seems to show that their marriage date was September 3, 1866.

The 1890 Swedish Census record lists “Marby Annex” as Jonas’s parish of birth. It also shows (in the Arkion version) that at the time of that census the family resided in Hösen, in the parish of Marby Annex, in the county of Jämtlands.

In the 1900 census, Jonas’s occupation is described as Lägenhetsinnehavare. At that time, all the children are gone and it’s just him and Karin. They are shown as residing in Kläppe, in the parish of Marby Jämtlands län, in the county of Jämtland.

From the Kläppe Marby parish records, ineptly translated by DRC:

1875 the family moved to Trappnäs in Hallen

November 11, 1883 moved back to Marby; Märta was married October 7, 1885 in (to?) Frösön, Jonas Petter was confirmed in 1887

November 13, 1891 Jonas Persson with wife Carin and Anna Catrina and Jonas Petter moved to Sölfbacken in Ovikens Socken {Could not find them in Sölfbacken at that time in the Household Exam. The 87-94 Household Exam for Hösen of Frappnäs says that the family of four, less Märta, moved to Oviken on November 9, 1891.}

1894 moved to Västnor in Oviken

August 20, 1894 Anna Catrina moved to North America

November 20, 1898 Jonas Persson and wife Carin moved to Kläppe, No. 2, Marby; their son Jonas Petter did not move with them and remained in Oviken until 1900 when he moved to Östersund

[Rudolph recounts that Jonas Persson died from cancer. He had earlier gone to a Stockholm specialist but to no avail.]

October 16, 1909 there was an auction after widow Carin Jonsdotter's death which yielded a sum of 737:25

Birth:
21 Feb in the 1885-1894 Household Exam (Sölfbaken)

Jonas married Karin JONSDOTTER in 1865. Karin (daughter of Jonas JONSSON and Marit ERIKSDOTTER) was born on 6 Mar 1836 in Kläppe Marby, Jämtlands län, Sweden; died on 24 May 1909 in Kläppe Marby, Jämtlands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Carin.

Other records say Karin Jonsson, born 2 Mar 1836. The household exam definitely shows the 6th as her birthdate.

Seems to have left her parents’ household on August 11, 1866. At that point they appear elsewhere in the Marby household exam: at a farm named Meikelsson. They leave that location, and move to Kläppe, before Jonas Petter is born because he is not listed although Anna Catharina is. In 1875, they move again, apparently to a different farm in or near Kläppe.

The 1890 Swedish Census records show the name as Karin Jonsdotter, born in 1836. In 1890, Jonas and Anna are still listed as single and living at home. The census record does not mention Marta who, according to other records, had married and, presumably, moved away from home.

Anna Jönsson Ellingboe's cousin Olof Jönsson found the records for the 1909 auction mentioned in the notes under Jonas Persson. At the time of Carin's death, Carin's daughter Märta had already died so that her share of the inheritance was to be distributed to her four children.

In February of 1982, Rudolph Johnson wrote to Mary Carlson as follows:

"The only information I got is the auction papers on the household goods of our father's mother. They are in a wallet in a trunk upstairs. She died in May 1909. Her daughter Martha died in February the same year. Her daughter Anna had gone to America. Her son our father was at the sale and bought quite a lot of stuff. Martha's daughter Karin also was at the sale and bought some stuff. After funeral expenses were deducted, 1/3 of the proceeds was given to pa, 1/3 was sent to Anna in America and 1/3 was given in equal amounts to each of Martha's four living children. Her oldest son had died from internal bleeding. He had lifted too hard in a piano they were moving up a stairway and busted an artery next to the heart.

"Our father's father had died earlier from cancer. He went to Stockholm to see a specialist but nothing could be done to save him. He bought and sold horses. Pa used to help his grandpa put up wood for the winter at their home in Oviken. His grandpa was his mother's father, Mr. Persson.

[Rudolph is apparently confused on this point. Persson was his father's father.]

"Dates of births and deaths I think are written in the old bibles that have been handed down from our grandparents. I think our parents were married in the fall in 1908 I'm not sure."

Notes:

Not in the Lit birth records for this date. He was of Mo at the time of his marriage to Anna Carlsdotter.

He may be the Par who was born to Jonas Ersson Haggiastorgard and Berit Parsdttr on 20 May 1817 in Häggenås, Jämtland.

Per married Anna CARLSDOTTER on 6 Jan 1842 in Lit, Jämtlands län, Sweden. Anna (daughter of Carl CARLSSON and Rachel) was born on 26 Apr 1818 in Mo Lit, Jämtlands län, Sweden; was christened on 27 Apr 1818 in Lit, Jämtlands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marriage record says that she was 23 years old.

Notes:

Birth:
Aug 3rd shown on Household Exam 65-78

Died:
per Household Exam -94

Jonas married Marit ERIKSDOTTER on 14 Jun 1835. Marit (daughter of Erik ANDERSSON and Anna OLOFSDOTTER) was born on 11 Dec 1815 in Kläppe Marby, Jämtlands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Shown in the 65-78 Marby Household Exam as having been born in Hallen.

Shown in the 1890 Swedish census as Märet Ersdotter, a widow, living by herself in Kläppe, Marby Annex, Jämtlands. Apparently still alive as of 1892 per the Household Exam.

Carl + Rachel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her family name was illegible in Anna’s birth record.

Jonas married Carin BENGTSDOTTER on 16 Oct 1808. Carin (daughter of Bengt ERICKSSON and Anna ERIKSDOTTER) was born on 30 Nov 1785; died on 30 May 1824. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Erik married Anna OLOFSDOTTER on 21 Oct 1804. Anna (daughter of Olof OLOFSSON and Karin MÅRTENSDOTTER) was born on 17 Dec 1780; died on 9 May 1847. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]