Klara Andersdotter WALLBÄCK

1878 - 1959  (81 years)

• Name	Klara Andersdotter WALLBÄCK
  Birth	19 Jan 1878	Olsäter, Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden
  Gender	Female
  MN Death Cert Checked	Y
  Minnesota Death Certificate	1959-MN-003667
  Death	18 Nov 1959	Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
  Burial	22 Nov 1959	Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
  Notes	Just “Klara” in the födelsbok. That entry shows her mother as Maria Jansdotter, age 40. According to the clerical survey, may have been confirmed June 26, 1892. Listed as “Clara Walbuck” on Mabel’s birth certificate. (Some of Klara's siblings took the name Wallbäck.) The name on her transportation contract was Klara Andersson. Obituary says, incorrectly, that she was born January 19, 1877, as does her death certificate. Nevertheless, the household examination for the family in the 1876-1880 period shows 1878. She also claimed to be 24 on her transportation contract which supports the 1878 date for her birth. She and Gust had engraved wedding invitations: The pleasure of your company is requested at the marriage of Miss Clara Walbeck to Gustave Jacob Landstrom at 1911 West First Street, Duluth, on Saturday evening, October 5, 1904, at 8 o’clock. The 1937-38 Brainerd city directory, which includes other communities in Crow Wing County, Mrs. Clara Landstrom is shown as living on land in Deerwood Twp that she does not own. In the 1939-40 directory, she is shown as the owner of land in section 35 of Deerwood Twp. Same in the 1942-43 directory. In the 1949 directory, her land seems to be in Carl’s name but still may be with a mortgage. In the 1940 census, Carl and Clara live on their farm in Deerwood Twp in the same house in which they had lived in 1935. Clara had an eighth-grade education. The entire obit, from the November 25, 1959, Crosby Courier: Services for Mrs. Landstrom “Mrs. Clara Landstrom, a pioneer resident of Deerwood township, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Albin Everson, on Wednesday of last week. “Born in Sweden on Jan. 19, 1877, Mrs. Landstrom had been a resident of the Deerwood area since 1903. Her husband, Gust, preceded her in death in October of 1928. “In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Albin Everson, she is survived by another daughter, Mrs. John Everson, and a son, Carl, all of Deerwood township. Ten grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren also survive. “Funeral services for Mrs. Landstrom were held from the Koop Funeral Home in Crosby on Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. The Rev. Ewald Eisele of the Deerwood Baptist church officiated and burial was in Scandia cemetery in Deerwood.” Emigrated to the U.S. from Varmland, Sweden, August 23, 1902, at age 24 (perhaps with her 18 year old brother, Gustaf Ludvig). The transportation contract was executed through J. Oscar Reis, who was apparently a transportation agent for the Cunard Lines in Gothenburg. The contract, for 228 Kronor, was to take Klara Andersson from Gothenburg to Duluth via Hull or Grimsby, Liverpool, and either Boston or New York. The contract says that the embarkation date from Gothenburg was August 27, 1902. Passenger list records show that Klara, as K Anderson, arrived in Boston on September 17, 1902, aboard the S.S. Ivernia which had sailed from Liverpool on September 2nd. The manifest for the Ivernia shows that her ultimate destination was Duluth where she would meet her brother, Edward Wallbak, of 208 Eater Street. Ron has the immigration inspection card that she was given in Sweden which showed that she had been vaccinated and which also shows that she was #28 on the ship’s manifest and that her contract ticket was 32006. She seems to have been living at 1944 W 1st Street at the time of her marriage. It appears that she was not married to Gust Landstrom at this time. According to the 1910 census, taken in early May of 1910, Gust and Klara had been married for 6 years. In that census, Klara is shown as having emigrated in 1902 and as having had 3 children, all living. Mildred Monson interviewed Clara in August of 1936, perhaps for a newspaper. The report of that interview, with corrected spellings and punctuation, is as follows: “The Landstroms came to Shirt Lake, District #20, in the late 1800’s, building a two-room home. Later they built a large frame house, barn, and granary and machine shed, garage, and a nice large hen-house. “They raise berries on the flat below their building locations, overlooking the lake. It really is a beautifully laid out home. They’ve recently planted Chinese elms as the old box elders do not stand up through the years as well. “In 1902, they were married. They were the parents of four children, all living now, save the oldest girl, Helga. “Naomi ---- Mrs. Albin Everson of Cedar Lake, Crow Wing Co. She has three children. Her husband is a farmer. “Mabel ---- Mrs. John Everson of Deerwood, Rt. 1. Farmer, formerly diamond drill setter. “Carl ---- at home, farming. “Mrs. Landstrom was born in 1870, coming to the United States at twenty-two, with her two brothers, now of Duluth. There she worked for two years, cooking for the Colonel Grover family. (Colonel Grover is in the Swedish consular office.) There she had many liberties and was treated very well, enjoying her stay in Duluth. “But since, owing to her husband’s ill health and ultimate death, Mrs. Landstrom has worked exceedingly hard -- outdoors daytimes and indoors, night. But she always seems to have won out, being of that slender, smiling, plucky type of woman. “Mr. Landstrom died at the age of sixty-three of heart trouble and rheumatism. ‘During his later years he had to sometimes lay off for a year at a time; but then he would go back to work, trying to make up for lost time, and would overdo.’ “Mrs. Landstrom and her son carry on berry farming and dairying and raising poultry, etc. From the wonderful east hill on which they built their home, one can look out across Shirt Lake over a fine neighborhood, and up across the way to the Alfred Johnson home.” Klara sent quite a bit of money back home. According to receipts for an international money orders, somebody, most likely Klara, sent money back to Sweden as follows: $ 7 to someone in Munkebol, Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 17 November 1902. $ 5 to someone in Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 5 December 1903. $10 to someone in Blia, Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 28 March 1904. $ 5 to someone in Munkebol, Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 6 October 1904. $10 to someone in Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 6 October 1904. There were probably other transmittals; these are the ones for which, for some reason, the receipts were saved. It’s probably significant that the sending back of money may have ended after Klara’s marriage. Clara, Carl, and Mabel attended Gladys Bergstrom’s funeral in Duluth in 1946. Her son was the informant for her death certificate. Clara died from pneumonia, myocarditis, and artersclerosis. She spent the last 6 days of her life at the home of her daughter Naomi in Rabbit Lake. Klara only spoke Swedish. David says that he never could understand her but Ron, who spent more time at the Landstrom farm, could.
  Person ID	I58	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	9 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	Anders JONASSON,   b. 17 Sep 1834, Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden (District of Kil) d. Bef 1900, Värmlands län, Sweden (Age < 65 years)
  Mother	Kajsa JANSDOTTER,   b. 9 Feb 1837   d. 30 Jan 1923, Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	26 Dec 1860	Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden
  Family ID	F45	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Gustaf Jakob LANDSTRÖM,   b. 14 Sep 1865, Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden d. 28 Oct 1928, Crow Wing County, Minnesota (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	5 Nov 1904	Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota
  	as Gustave J Landstrom and Clara Walbeck
  Children	1. Helga LANDSTROM,   b. 2 Sep 1905, Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota d. 3 Mar 1927, Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota (Age 21 years)   2. Naomi Johanna LANDSTROM,   b. 1 Nov 1906, Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota d. 3 Jun 1986, Crow Wing County, Minnesota (Age 79 years)   3. Mabel Amanda LANDSTROM,   b. 4 Jan 1909, Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota d. 18 Oct 1999, Crosby, Crow Wing County, Minnesota (Age 90 years)   4. Carl Edward LANDSTROM,   b. 8 Nov 1911, Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota d. 16 May 2001, Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota (Age 89 years)
  Photos » Slide Show		Landstroms Gust Landstrom family in front of their house. Probably taken in 1915. Helga (10), Gust (50), Mabel (6), Klara (37), and Naomi (9). Camera-shy Carl (3) is hiding behind his mother.
  		Klara's family, probably the summer of 1928 Naomi, 21; Carl, 16; Gust Landstrom, 62; Klara, 50; Mabel, 19; Gust Anderson, 44; and Ed Anderson, 48. Probably taken on the Landstrom farm on Shirt Lake.
  		At the Landstroms', 1927 or 1928 Mabel is on the left. Carl has the cap on in the back, over his mother's left shoulder. Ethel Berglund, a family friend, is next to Mabel. Gust is on the far right with the dog. We don't know who the other people are.
  		Landstrom children 1 The four children of Gustaf and Klara Landstrom. This was taken in front of the Landstrom farmhouse overlooking Shirt Lake in, say, February of 1916.
  		Landstrom Children 2 Klara with her four children. This was taken in front of the Landstrom farmhouse overlooking Shirt Lake in, say, February of 1916.
  		Landstrom farm This is a scene from the Landstrom farm on Shirt Lake. The caption on the back of this photo: "Mom in back seat. Going to Ladies Aid. Sent home from school - thought she had chicken pox."
  		Another scene from Landstrom farm The description on the back of this picture: "Carl by barn, Mabel on ladder, Naomi walking."
  Family ID	F42	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Dec 2018

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Klara Anderson Landstrom with granddaughter About 1934. Klara would have been 56 years old. John Everson's house is in the background.
  		John, Mabel, Klara, Gust, and Naomi John identifies this as 1928. The party is John, 25; Mabel, 19; Klara, 50; Gust Anderson (Klara's brother), 44, and Naomi, 21. The two men on the right are not identified.
  		Klara Anderson From about 1900, perhaps taken about the time that she emigrated from Sweden.
  		Gust and Klara Landstrom Presumably taken at the time they were married in 1904.
  		Klara and three of her siblings Probably in the mid to late 1890s. Klara, on the left, and Ed (behind her) are in their late teens and Gust is in his early teens. The woman on the right is probably one of Klara's two sisters, either of whom would have been about 30.
  		Klara Landstrom Klara Landstrom, perhaps in front of her house overlooking Shirt Lake.
  		Klara Andersson Wallbäck Klara, probably taken not long after she arrived in Duluth in 1902.
  		Klara Anderson