Jonas Petter JONSSON

1871 - 1949  (77 years)

• Name	Jonas Petter JONSSON
  Birth	7 Aug 1871	Marby, Jämtlands län, Sweden
  	Kläppe
  Gender	Male
  Confirmation	Aug 1887	Kläppe Marby, Jämtlands län, Sweden
  Occupation	Stone cutter, farmer
  Death	17 Mar 1949	Milltown, Polk County, Wisconsin
  	12:20 AM with daughter Karin at his bedside
  Burial	19 Mar 1949	Milltown Cemetery, Polk County, Wisconsin
  Notes	Jonas Petter was confirmed in 1887 according to Kläppe Marby parish records (August 23 or 26 according to the Hösen of Frappnäs 87-94 Household Exam). He was still living at home (Hösen, Marby Annex) at the time of the 1890 Swedish census. From the Brunflo parish records, as translated ineptly by DRC: January 21, 1900 previously mentioned Jonas Petter moved from Oviken to Östersund for work, what kind of work we don’t know {This is consistent with what is shown in the 1900 Swedish census in which Jonas is shown as one of two bachelor farmhands living on the farm owned by Olof Huldberg at Gård N:o 53 in Östersund Jämtlands län.} May 10 to December 3, 1908, Märta Greta worked in Östersund where they met October 13, 1908 the newlyweds moved to Berge No. 1 in Brunflo at a farm owned by A. Genberg in Östersund 1909 Jonas Petter and Märta Greta moved to No. 1 Åkre where their first children were born 1914 According to information, they then lived in No. 2 Åkre for there Anna was born After that they moved to Viken, but what year can not be determined, because that move was not reported. The emigration certificate was printed from Åkre to North America on July 11, 1917. Jonas (46) and Marta (36) emigrated to the US from Sweden in August, 1917, with Rudolph (7), Karin (6), and Anna (3). According to EmiHamn, the family emigrated on August 18th, bound for Amery, WI. They crossed the Atlantic north of the German submarine zone during the World War. They arrived at Amery on September 25, 1917, via Ellis Island and Chicago. The Ellis Island records show: Bergensfjord, "sailing from Christiana," arrived at Ellis Island on September 22, 1917. Among the passengers were: Jonsson, Jonas Petter 45y Jonsson, Marta Greta 36y Jonsson, Jon Rudolf 7y Jonsson, Karin Margareta 6y Jonsson, Anna Teresia 2y and further down the page, just as Rudolph remembered: Ordell, Gustaf Vilhelm 25y All 6 were listed as "Sweden-Scand." for ethnicity and "Brunflo, Sweden" as place of residence. Here's the URL for a page on the Bergensfjord: http://www.museumsnett.no/mka/ssa/ber-fjor.htm The Jonssons (“Johnsons”) were renting a farm in Apple River township east of Balsam Lake at the time (March 31) of the 1920 Census. They had a boarder: a 36 year old Norwegian man named Nils Hildrum. They couldn’t have lived at the Apple River Twp farm for very long if Lizzie Swanson had to have lived nearby to be the midwife for the birth of Carl. (See next paragraph.) The Johnsons were renting a farm in Balsam Lake township at the time of the census in 1930. The household consisted of John P Johnson, 58, Martha, 49, Rudolph J, 20, Anna T, 15, and Carl R, 9. They did not have a radio. Karin is not listed so was not living at home. Their neighbors were the Axel Greens on one side and the Lester Fullers on the other. Oscar and Lizzie Swanson lived next to the Fullers. In the 1940 census, he was still John P Johnson. He and Martha, Rudolph, and Carl, lived in Balsam Lake Twp, “on south town line road near east end.” It was the same house that they lived in in 1935. John P is still a citizen of Sweden. A few entries down the form is the entry for Shirley Engels (#640) and his wife and daughter. John P and Martha had fifth grade educations, Rudolph and Carl were high school graduates. Jonas died from cancer, either prostate or bladder. Jonas’s pallbearers: Carl, Rudolph, Ed, Gene, Robert Valgren from St. Paul, and Simon Valgren from Amery.
  Person ID	I306	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	Jonas PERSSON,   b. 27 Feb 1842, Mo Lit, Jämtlands län, Sweden d. 5 Jan 1904, Kläppe Marby, Jämtlands län, Sweden (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Karin JONSDOTTER,   b. 6 Mar 1836, Kläppe Marby, Jämtlands län, Sweden d. 24 May 1909, Kläppe Marby, Jämtlands län, Sweden (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	1865
  Family ID	F233	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Märta Greta JÖNSSON,   b. 24 Sep 1880, Lockne, Jämtlands län, Sweden d. 2 Oct 1956, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	31 Oct 1908	Brunflo, Jämtlands län, Sweden
  	he was of Berge, she was of Vamsta
  Children	1. John Rudolf (Rudolph) JONSSON, (Johnson),   b. 8 Mar 1910, Brunflo, Jämtlands län, Sweden d. 10 Jan 1991, Balsam Lake, Polk County, Wisconsin (Age 80 years)   2. Karin Margareta (Corinne) JONSSON, (Johnson),   b. 17 May 1911, Brunflo, Jämtlands län, Sweden d. 27 Dec 2006, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Age 95 years)   3. Anny Elisabet JONSSON,   b. 11 Feb 1913, Brunflo, Jämtlands län, Sweden d. 13 Apr 1913, Brunflo, Jämtlands län, Sweden (Age 0 years)   4. Anna Terésia JONSSON, (Johnson),   b. 25 Jul 1914, Brunflo, Jämtlands län, Sweden d. 3 Dec 2007, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Age 93 years)   5. Karl (Carl) Ragnar (Ranger) JOHNSON,   b. 20 Sep 1920, Polk County, Wisconsin d. 27 Sep 2005, Washington (Age 85 years)
  Photos		The Jonssons in Sweden This picture was apparently taken in the Summer of 1912, judging by the children. This was the entire family of Jöns Danielson (later Jonsson) and his wife Margareta. Jonas Petter Jonsson sent the picture postcard to his sister in Amery, WI. From Left: Karl, (27), son; Margareta, (67), mother; Jöns, (72), father; Märta, (31), daughter; Karin, (1), granddaughter; Rudolph, (2), grandson; Jonas, (39), son-in-law.
  		Jonssons in the U.S. Probably taken shortly after they arrived in the U.S.: Anna, 3, Märta, 37, Karin, 6, Rudolf, 7, and Jonas, 46.
  Family ID	F228	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Aug 2017

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Jonas as a young man Taken at the Elin Rosdahl studio in Ostersund.
  		Jonas and Märta, Wedding Taken by Axel Olsson studio of Brunflo in the fall of 1908.
  		Märta and Jonas in the 1940s
  		Jonas Petter Jonsson