Brita ELOFSDOTTER

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 21 Jan 1818, Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden

Notes:

Birth:
Emily Schlosser

Brita married Jan JANSSON in 1839. Jan (son of Jan SVENSSON and Catrina Andersdotter) was born on 16 May 1803 in Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden; died on 14 Jul 1873 in Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Not connected to her parents in Emily Schlosser’s family tree.

Kajsa is called Maria Jansdotter in Klara’s birth record.

Her February 9, 1837, birth is not recorded in the parish birth record for Övre Ullerud. The 9 Feb 1837 birthdate is confirmed by the entries in the Household Examinations. Her marriage record with Anders indicates that they both were from Olsäter.

She was not listed in Olsäter in the 1840-1844 Household Examination. She is listed on the same page (p. 204) as Anders’s family in Olsäter in the 1845-1852 Household Examination for Övre Ulleruds as well as p. 367 for her parents in N. Ås. She is shown as “flicka” Cajsa Jansdotter in the Olsäter 1845-1852 Household Examination. Under the Inflyttad column is “p. 367-51” which suggests she arrived on the scene in 1851. In another column is “Adm 52 3/10” which would be consistent with her arriving in Olsäter in 1851 or 1852. The N. Ås entry for her in the 1845-1852 Household Exam suggests that Cajsa left N. Ås in 1851.

She is also listed on the same page (p. 222) as Anders in the 1850-1860 Household Examination. She is still a “flicka” although she was promoted to “piga” in the decade.

All children but Britta were listed as still living at home (Olsäter, Öfre Ulleruds, Värmland county) in the 1890 Swedish census. Brita is living with her husband and child in Elfsbacka.

In the 1900 census, only Klara, Jan, and Gustaf are living with Kajsa in Olsäter. Anders has died and Britta and Anders Johan have married and moved away from home as probably has Lotta. Kajsa is shown with the occupation of Inhyseshjon which means lodger or tenant. This may be the status of a widow of a tenant farmer. In various references, including the death letter from Lotta in 1923 and Naomi’s notes, Kajsa’s and Klara’s home is referred to “Edvard i Knoten.”

Gust’s death certificate refers to her as Karin Wallbeck.

Birth:
Residence in 1890: Olsäter, Värmland county

Died:
as Kajsa Jonsson, born Jansson

Kajsa married Anders JONASSON on 26 Dec 1860 in Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden. Anders (son of Jonas ANDERSSON and Lena JANSDOTTER) was born on 17 Sep 1834 in Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden (District of Kil); was christened on 18 Sep 1834 in Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden; died before 1900 in Värmlands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Maja Lisa.

Family/Spouse: Jan JONSSON. Jan (son of Jonas ANDERSSON and Lena JANSDOTTER) was born on 19 Jan 1840 in Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden; died on 17 Dec 1925 in Munkfors, Värmlands lan, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Anders Petter.

Birth:
born on the 20th of an illegible month

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
1871-1876 Household Examination, Övre Ullerud

Notes:

Emily Schlosser

Notes:

Emily Schlosser

Notes:

Birth:
1871-1876 Household Examination, Övre Ullerud

Notes:

"Moved at Älvsbacka, October 10, 1886." (Or Elfsbacka.) This is so indicated in the 1886-1890 household survey although the date there is 2 Oct 1886.

At the time of the 1890 census, Britta and Anders Henrik and their son Albin were residing in Sund, in the parish of Elfsbacka, in the county of Värmland.

According to the 91-95 Household Examination, they were living near or with Anders Henrik’s parents in/on Sund Eg in Älvsbacka.

Had 5 children, one of whom lived in New Jersey.

Probably died before 1947 because she is not listed in the death index.

Brita married Anders Henrik SUNDSTRÖM on 17 Sep 1889. Anders (son of Jonas Jansson SUNDSTRÖM and Carolina ANDERSDOTTER) was born on 14 Aug 1859 in Sund, Älvsbacka, Värmlands län, Sweden; died on 7 Nov 1912 in Sund, Älvsbacka, Värmlands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Had one child.

Couldn’t find Lotta in the 1890 census offered by Arkion. In the 1886-1890 Household Examination, she was still living at home.

According to the clerical survey, left her parents’ home and moved to another home in Olsäter in 1892-1894 to become a maid.

Lotta wrote the letter to Klara that told of their mother’s death. At that time she lived in Munkfors.

She is in the death index as Lotta Maria Andersson.

Family/Spouse: Johan Daniel OLSON. Johan was born on 15 Nov 1843 in Värmlands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Had 10 children. Went by Johan. Called Anders Johan Andersson in the birth record for Agnes Matilda.

Changed name to Wallbäck. By the time of Heldine’s birth, he was Anders Johan Andersson Vallbäch.

At the time of the 1900 Swedish Census, he and his family were residing in Blia, in the parish of Ransäters annex, in the county of Värmland. Anders’s occupation is inhyses, probably meaning tenant farmer.

Elaine’s notes of what Mabel told her in the 1980s suggest that one of Johan’s descendants, a Heldine Wallbäck was living at Basungatan 28, 42140 Vastra Frölunda, Göteburg.

Died:
this date suggested by Naomi’s notes

Anders married Hilma Elisabet NILSDOTTER on 2 Mar 1898 in Värmlands län, Sweden. Hilma was born on 20 Sep 1875; died on 7 Sep 1945 in Munkfors, Värmlands lan, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1959-MN-003667

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.

Klara married Gustaf Jakob LANDSTRÖM on 5 Nov 1904 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Gustaf (son of Johan LARSSON and Sara Katrina LINDSTRÖM) was born on 14 Sep 1865 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden; was christened on 17 Sep 1865 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden; died on 28 Oct 1928 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 31 Oct 1928 in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1952-MN-028353
• Occupation: Carpenter For “Steam Railroad”, Carpenter For Building Construction

Notes:

According to the clerical survey, may have been confirmed July 8, 1894.

Emigrated to the US from Värmland, March 21, 1902. The ship’s manifest that Mark found shows that Jan crossed on the Commonwealth which sailed from Liverpool on April 10, 1902, and arrived in Boston (as 21 year-old Jan Anderson) that same month. Jan’s destination is shown as 208 Exter Street in Duluth. Jan was traveling with a friend named Johan Olson.

He is probably the Edward Wallback listed in the 1902 Duluth city directory. He is a laborer boarding at 124 Devonshire.

The 1902 year of immigration is confirmed by the citation in the 1920 census. Naturalized as a citizen in 1907. These are the same dates as are cited for his wife Marie.

In the 1905 state census, Edward and Gustav Anderson were living together on Exeter Street in Duluth. Each had been in the U.S. for three years. Each was a laborer.

In the 1910 census, he is Edward G. Anderson, 30, living in Proctorknott, St. Louis County with his wife, Marie E., 27, and daughter Gladys E., 3/12. The couple has been married for one year and Marie has had only one birth. Edward is a carpenter for the railroad.

Registered for the WWI draft on September 12, 1918, at Duluth as John Edward Anderson. Living at Box 228, Proctor, MN. Employed as a carpenter. Nearest relative is Marie Elizabeth Anderson, wife. Tall and of slender build with gray eyes and dark hair.

John E Anderson and family was visited by census enumerator Iver T Anderson on January 14, 1920, while the family was living on First Street in the village of Proctorknott, Saint Louis County, Minnesota (ED #189). This village probably became the current town or city of Proctor, just northeast of Duluth. All three children are listed.

The 1930 census showed John E. Anderson, 49, his wife Marie E., 48, and their daughter Florence, 15, and son Roland E., 14, living in Duluth in a $3000 house that they owned at 118 Park Avenue. The household had a radio. John and Marie emigrated from Sweden in 1902.

In the 1936 Duluth city directory, he is a carpenter living with Marie at 118 Park Avenue.

In the 1940 census, he may be the Edward Anderson, age 59, living in a boarding house at 1915 West First Street in Duluth. He is unable to work and has no occupation.

In the 1946 Duluth city directory, he is John E Anderson, a repairman for Goodwill Industries, living with Marie at 2808 West 3rd.

He and Marie and Florence live at 2808 W 3rd Street in Duluth in the 1950 census. He is a repairman for Goodwill Industries, Marie is a linen checker for a hotel. Florence is a stenographer.

He died as John Edward Anderson. His son Roland was the informant for his death certificate. Ed had been a carpenter in the construction business and had been in the Duluth area for 50 years. At the time of his death, he and his wife Marie lived at 2808-1/2 West 3rd Street in Duluth. Roland had no idea who his father’s parents were. Ed died of a coronary occlusion brought on by cardio-vascular disease.

According to David, Ed was crippled by a construction accident and used crutches. His wife left him after that accident. (This is probably the reason why they are shown as having separate addresses for many years). Ed lived with Klara in Deerwood for awhile, perhaps while he was recovering or perhaps because he had nowhere else to go. It was because of her leaving Ed that Naomi did not like Ed’s wife.

Died:
3:30 PM, at home

Jan married Marie Elizabeth STEINHOLTZ on 6 Aug 1908 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Marie was born on 1 Apr 1882 in Bjursås, Dalarnas län, Sweden; died on 21 Oct 1955 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried on 24 Oct 1955 in Park Hill, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1949-MN-001906
• Occupation: Shoe maker in the “shoe repairing” industry

Notes:

No children. Never married.

Emigrated to the U.S. from Varmland, Sweden, August 23, 1902, at age 18 (perhaps with his 24 year old sister, Klara).

Emigranten Populär (EmiHamn) shows Gustaf Wallbäck emigrating from the port of Göteborg to “North Mc Greg” on August 27, 1902. His place of origin was Ö Ullerud, Värmland.

A possibility from the St. Louis County District Court Naturalization records:
Anderson, Gust
B - D.C.
251
July 29, 1903

In the 1905 state census, Edward and Gustav Anderson were living together on Exeter Street in Duluth. Each had been in the U.S. for three years. Each was a laborer.

A Gust Anderson, shoemaker, is listed in the 1910 Duluth city directory as residing and working at 101 N. 59th. The 1915 city directory lists Gust L. Anderson, shoemaker, with business at 2532 W. Superior and rooming at “2717 W 2d.”

The 1917 Duluth city directory records Gust L. Anderson, shoemaker, working at 2532 W. Superior and rooming at 2717 W. 2nd.

Mabel’s old black birth date and address book lists Gust at the 2532 West Superior address.

Registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Duluth, Local Board #2. Living at 2717 W 2nd St., Duluth. His occupation is shoemaker. No employer is listed (perhaps it’s himself) but an address is: 2532 West Superior Street. His nearest relative is Edward Anderson, Box 278, Proctor. He is tall and of medium build with blue eyes and brown hair. He claims to have a dislocated hip.

Shown in the 1920 census (January 3) as living as a “lodger” at 2729 West First Street in Duluth. Shown as having emigrated in 1902 and naturalized as a citizen in 1911.

Elaine recalls: “He was always dressed to the T's....meaning dress pants with a shirt and vest....at least the times we saw him.”

In the 1930 census living as a lodger at 109 27th Avenue South in Duluth. Emigrated in 1902. Is a shoe repairer; apparently owns his business.

In the 1940 census, he lives at 2713 West Huron as a lodger. He’s a 56 year-old single tailor with an eighth-grade education. He was a shoe repairer.

The St. Louis County death index has:

#90003 Gust L. Anderson died May 17, 1949, with the comment “BP - Reel #2.”
(Minnesota Death Certificate #1949-MN-001906, county of death Carlton.)

In the 1942-43 Duluth city directory, he is Gust L Anderson, shoe rebuilder. His business is at 2527 West Superior and his residence is 2713 Huron. In the 1944 directory, he is a shoe repairer. Same in the 1946 city directory.

The July 13, 1946, edition of the Brainerd newspaper notes that “Gust Anderson of Duluth spent Saturday and Sunday with John Everson’s.”

He died of pneumonia as Gust L. His residence was 2713 Huron Street, Duluth. His death certificate gave his occupation as shoemaker. Because Gust died at the Moose Lake State Hospital, he was either mentally ill or an alcoholic. The hospital had a cemetery so he may have been buried there.

Died:
He died at the State hospital, a hospital for the insane.

Notes:

Emily Schlosser

Birth:
Heden, Nordsjö

Notes:

Emily Schlosser calls her Kristina Jonsson.

Family/Spouse: Johan Larsson BOSTRÖM. Johan was born on 24 Jun 1862 in Ransäter, Värmlands län, Sweden; died on 8 Dec 1935 in Munkfors, Värmlands lan, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

It’s somewhat speculative that Victor is her son.

Family/Spouse: Olof BERGLUND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There were two Emma Marias born on this date in Övre Ullerud, in each case the third child in the family. The _other_ Emma Maria was born to parents Lars Magi Hendricksson and Brita Stina Jansdotter, a couple who had been married for 3 years and lived in Rudsheden.

Birth:
Nordsjö

Emma married Johan Emil BERGMAN on 25 Aug 1895 in Ransäter, Värmlands län, Sweden. Johan was born on 5 May 1869. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emily Schlosser

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was dead at the time Naomi visited the Swedish relatives in the early 1970s.

Died:
Emily Schlosser

Notes:

His emigration is indexed in EmiHamn as “Lundström.” He left Göteborg on 20 Sep 1911, destination Duluth.

Naomi’s notes say that he died in an accident in the U.S.

Notes:

An Ester Linnéa Sundström emigrated from Värmland to New York on 15 October 1923. In Egon’s petition for naturalization, her date of entry at New York is shown as November 9, 1923.

In the 1930 census, she was Ester Anderson, a servant for a private family living in Englewood, New Jersey.

In the 1940 census, she and her family lived on East 174th Street in the Bronx. Egon and Esther each had had one year of high school. He was usually a waiter at a hotel restaurant. He had earned $1200 in 1939 but he was unemployed and not looking for work at the time of the census.

Her address at the time that Naomi made her trips to Sweden was c/o Robert Schnepf, 58 Hastings Road, Berkeley Heights, N.J.

Died:
last residence

Ester married Egon Gustaf Arne ZETTERSTROM on 29 Apr 1930 in New York, New York. Egon was born on 13 Dec 1901 in Horndal, Sweden; died in Jan 1983 in Berkeley Heights, Union County, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Has one son, Stig Åke.

Naomi had her address as Mrs. Helfried Erickson, 4410 Molkom, Varmland. Elsewhere Naomi located her “in Alvsbacka near Malcom.”

Family/Spouse: ERIKSSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Naomi had her address as Astrid Sofia Sundstrom, Avd K. B. 2, Syckhuset, Manieberg, 68101 Kristenhamn.

Naomi indicates that she was “ill.”

Notes:

Emily Schlosser

Notes:

Naomi’s notes had Agnes’s daughter’s name as Sonja.

Naomi had the address of Harold and Agnes as Bliavägen 58B, 68400 Munkfors.

Naomi stayed with Harold and Agnes during one of her trips to Sweden.

Birth:
Emily Schlosser says Älvsbacka

Agnes married Harold OHLSSON on 9 Nov 1935. Harold was born on 26 Sep 1897 in Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Naomi called her Ella.

Naomi’s notes suggest children for Ella named Börja, b. 1935 and Marta, b. 1926.

Naomi had the address for Ella as Mr. and Mrs. Johan Ohlsson, Blia 21, 68400 Munkfors.

Family/Spouse: Johan OLSSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Naomi had the address for Gustaf as Hera Gustaf Wällback, Bjurslattsliden 17, 41729 Göteborg.

Notes:

Died:
he died from pneumonia and a goiter operation

Notes:

She arrived in the U.S. at New York on December 13, 1933, aboard the S.S. Kungsholm which had sailed from Gothenburg. On the manifest, she is shown as Hulda Elise Bjellquist, age 25, married, born in Ransäter, last permanent address Munkfors.

Naomi’s notes say that Hulda had 2 sons.

Hulda and Roy’s address in the U.S. was 1215 N. E. Ocean View Circle, Jensen Beach, Florida. Possibly 161 Ocean View Circle was correct although that address had been intentionally crossed out.

Family/Spouse: Ragnar (Roy) BJELLQUIST. Ragnar was born on 18 Mar 1903 in Jönköpings län, Sweden; died on 17 Sep 1993 in Phillipsburg, Warren County, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to Naomi’s notes, her children are: Rune, b. 1930, d.?; Åke, b. 1931; Karola, b. 5 May 1933; and Leonart, b. 13 September 1939. Either the son Rune has a wife Carola or the daughter Karola has a husband Rune. In her notes, Naomi says, “They live in Anna’s house and it is very nice. Carola and Rune have 2 children. She works on week days.”

Later we learn that they are “Karola and Rune Hedlund.”

Naomi had her address as Mrs. Anna Ohlsson, Smedgatan, 5B, 68400 Munkfors.

Family/Spouse: OLSSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Naomi’s notes seem to say that Heldene had a daughter Erica. Other notes say Heldene was unmarried.

Naomi has her address as Heldene Wallbäck, Goteborg, Gitavngatan.

Notes:

Not indexed in the Indexed Birth Records.

Naomi’s notes seem to say that Ingrid had a daughter Linnea and a foster-daughter Eva, b. 1948. Eva probably married a man named Roland.

Naomi’s notes seem to give her address as Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Nystrom, Ekbladsvägen 5C, Lidköping 53100.

Family/Spouse: F.I. LANDEGREN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1905-05684
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1927-MN-003140
• Occupation: Teacher

Notes:

Helga graduated from Crosby-Ironton High School in the class of ‘24 whose commencement services were held on Thursday night, May 29, 1924. Also graduating in that class was Lillian Everson (#50). And graduating from the Crosby-Ironton normal school for teachers in that same commencement program was Eva M. Gustad (#135).

Lillian Everson and Helga knew each other well enough that Lillian wrote the following Christmas greeting to Helga, probably for one of the Christmases between 1924 and 1926: “A Merry Xmas & a happy New Year Mrs. Ske-- pardon me, I mean Helga. Lovingly, Lillian Everson.”

Helga probably also attended, and graduated from, the one-year normal school in Crosby-Ironton High School and would have graduated with the class of 1925, the same class as her sister Naomi’s high school class.

Taught for one year (1925-1926) in school district number 20 near her home. Entered St. Cloud state teachers' college in the fall of 1926 but had to drop out at Christmas time due to her developing heart ailment.

Died of a congenital heart ailment. DeAnn quotes Jackie: “Helga was the eldest, born with a heart condition. Diagnosis was far ahead of treatment. The parents were told that Helga would die of her heart condition in early adulthood. Yet her parents sent her to Normal school to study to be a teacher.”

Minnesota death certificate #1927-MN-003140.

Her birth certificate calls her “Hilga” Landstrom. Her mother’s maiden name is shown as “Walbeck.”

Extensive article and obituary in the Deerwood Enterprise, Friday, March 11, 1927.

Her father Gustaf was the informant for her death certificate. She died of myocarditis, which she had had for 3 months and for which she was treated by Dr. Baxter A Smith of Crosby. The death certificate also said that she had “patent foramen ovale” which she had had since birth.

Buried:
Funeral at home and at the Hamlet Lake Baptist church. Reverend Paulson of Grasston, officiating.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1906-05586
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1986-MN-014799
• Occupation: Teacher
• Social Security Number: 528-38-4627 was issued in Utah before 1951.
• Confirmation: 15 Jun 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

Naomi was still living at home with Klara and Carl, and shown as single, at the time of the 1930 census in early April. Naomi would have been 6 months pregnant with Ron at that time.

David recalls: “After we moved away from Cedar Lake [in 1943], my mother went back to teaching there. She continued to teach there until 1948 when the WWII vets started coming out of college and the standards for teaching were raised to a four-year degree. She went back to college during the winter quarter of 1950 and accumulated enough credits to get her certificate renewed. She continued to go to summer school every year and eventually got her degree after all of her children had graduated.”

Naomi taught grades 1-8 in District 90, Crow Wing County, in the 1926-27 school year. She then taught grades 1-8 in District 20 for the three years 1927-28 through 1929-30. She then taught grades 1-8 in District 27 in the 1930-31, 1932-33, and 1933-34 school years (she apparently did not teach during the 1931-32 school year). She then resumed teaching grades 1-8 in District 90 for the four school years 1944-45 through 1947-48. After two years of not teaching (part of which was spent attending two semesters at the University of Minnesota in Duluth), she taught grades 1-8 for two years in District 102 in Aitkin County (1950-51 and 1951-52). From the 1952-53 school year through the 1954-55 school year, she taught grades 1-6 in District 34 in Crow Wing County. For the three school years starting in 1955, she taught grades 1-6 in Independent School District 4 in Lawler, Minnesota. For one year only, the 1958-59 school year, she taught grades 1-3 in Tamarack, Minnesota. Finally for the seven school years beginning in 1959 she taught special classes in McGregor, Minnesota. Lawler, Tamarack, and McGregor were all in Independent School District 4 in Aitkin County. She apparently retired in 1966. Over the forty year period between 1926 and 1966, Naomi taught in 27 school years.

Naomi attended elementary school, 1911-1920, in District 20, Crow Wing County. She attended Crosby-Ironton High School and graduated with the class of 1925. She attended the high school training department at Crosby-Ironton in the 1925-26 school year. She attended Duluth State Teachers College in the summer of 1928. Between 1950 and 1960 she took correspondence courses, summer workshops, and summer sessions at the Bemidji and Mankato teachers colleges and at the Duluth and Twin Cities campuses of the U of Minnesota. She received her Bachelor of Science degree (as Naomi Landstrom Everson) from the University of Minnesota in August of 1960.

In his September 13, 1945 letter to his brother Harold, George Everson wrote: “Naomi is teaching school again at the same place.”

Naomi travelled to Sweden in the 1970s and kept up a regular correspondence with her father’s and mother’s Swedish relatives. Naomi “had hopes” of going to Sweden to be an “exchange teacher.”

Funeral at Immanuel Lutheran Church at Iron Hub. Pallbearers Mark Nelson, Paul Everson, Daniel Everson, Scott Everson, David Everson, Timothy Everson, and Michael Everson.

Minnesota Death Cert ID# 1986-MN-014799.

Her birth certificate reads “N. Johanna.” Her mother’s maiden name is shown as “Walbeck.”

In the November 6, 1985, issue of the Aitkin Independent Age, the Iron Hub correspondent, Mrs. Nora Jones, wrote,”Naomi Everson entered St. Joseph’s Hospital in Brainerd last Wednesday. She underwent surgery on Thursday. As I write this Sunday night, Naomi is seriously ill and not up to having company other than family members. Naomi is a friend to many of us and until she is well enough for company we will do best to remember her and her family in our prayers.”

Naomi married Albin EVERSON on 10 Jun 1930 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Albin (son of Anders (Andrew) EVERSON and Anna Gustava (Annie) Martinusdatter BYE) was born on 11 Jun 1901 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 11 Dec 1972 in Crosby, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 16 Dec 1972 in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1909-06029
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1999-MN-028538
• Occupation: Homemaker, Nurse
• Social Security Number: 469-40-2683, issued in Minnesota in 1954
• Baptism: 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 15 Jun 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

The October 25, 1944, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that Mrs. John Everson was re-elected secretary-treasurer of the Deerwood Farm Bureau.

Mabel, her brother Carl, and their mother attended Gladys Bergstrom’s funeral in Duluth in 1946.

In May of 1953, Mabel was elected to the Deerwood school board. She and Kenneth Burns were unopposed. Mabel got 22 out of the 23 votes cast.

She apparently had hip surgery in late 1997 or very early 1998.

Mabel’s obituary, as it appeared in the Crosby-Ironton Courier on Wednesday, October 20th:

Services planned for Mabel Everson, 90

Mabel Amanda Everson, 90, Crosby, died Monday, Oct. 18, 1999, at the Cuyuna Regional Care Center in Crosby.

She was born Jan. 4, 1909 in Deerwood Township to Gustav and Clara (Anderson) Landstrom. She married John E. Everson on January 24, 1929 in Aitkin. They settled on a farm outside of Deerwood and she worked at the Brainerd State Hospital. Upon retirement she received a letter from Gov. Wendell R. Anderson thanking her for many years of service and outstanding employment record.

She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, William and Edna Everson, Naples, FL, Robert and Cheryl Everson, New Berlin, WI; three daughters and sons-in-law, Elaine and Don Carlson, Bloomington, Joanne and Jack Davis, Hastings, Judy and Jerry Redfield, Shakopee; one brother, Carl Landstrom, Crosby; 13 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John; one son, John Andrew Everson; and two sisters, Naomi Everson and Helga Landstrom.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Thursday, October 21, 1999 at Salem Lutheran Church, Deerwood, with Rev. Jim Walth officiating. Friends may call one hour before services at the church. Burial will be in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery in Deerwood.

Memorials are preferred to the Alzheimer’s Association or the donor’s choice.

Arrangements are with Koop Funeral Home in Crosby.

[Carl was living in Brainerd at the time of Mabel’s death. Mabel said that she was married in Brainerd, not Aitkin.]

Not listed in the index of Minnesota births.

Minnesota Death Certificate 1999-MN-028538. Mother’s maiden name noted as Anderson.

She graduated from Crosby-Ironton high school on June 3, 1927, as Mabel A. Landstrom. The class celebrated its 50th reunion at the Deerwood Legion Club on July 16, 1977. Mabel was on the committee in charge of arrangements.

From a history of the Miners Hospital in Crosby:

Mabel Landstrom Everson remembers the early Miners Hospital

(a 1972 interview with Maryon Aulie)

"In those days, Dr. Shannon did most of the deliveries of babies. I would get the mothers and the room ready for the delivery. They had their babies right in the same room. There was no delivery room. We would bring a basket in for the baby. After the baby was born, we would take the basket into the X-ray room which we used for a nursery. We would carry the baby in to the mother to nurse but she didn’t keep the baby in the same room with her. The mothers stayed in the hospital eight to ten days. One time, when the nurses were gone on vacation, I was there alone when Dr. Shannon brought in a girl for delivery and I had to help. After the baby was born, Dr. Shannon said, ‘Oh, there’s another one!’ My first time helping with twins.

"We started work at 7:00 am and worked 12 hour shifts, either the day shift or the night shift. I can’t remember too many days off. We took temperatures first thing in the morning - we had a thermometer in a little jar of alcohol - and then we carried breakfast trays. The trays came up from the kitchen on the dumb waiter. Margaret Kellerman was the cook. She lived right there at the hospital with her little boy, Crone. I lived at the hospital too, up on the third floor. I shared a room with Fran Stark and Mabel Hasskamp who was a nurse’s aide too. We got our room and board plus $25 a month. After I had worked there two years, I got raised to $45 a month. But then I quit and got married.

"When you walked in the front of the hospital, Dr. Smith and Dr. Shannon each had an office, one on each side of the hall. There was a roll-top desk in Dr. Smith’s office and some cupboards that held all the medicines and instruments. They had jars of pills and jars of powders; sometime they would mix together the different types of powders into a prescription for a sick child. Dr. Smith kept all the patients’ records on a big spindle on his desk. The walls [of the rooms] were plastered, with hardwood floors. A stairway went up to the second floor where the patients’ rooms and the operating room was. One was a kitchen and two extra patients’ rooms. There was room for about 14 or 15 patients."

Of her own experience as a patient at the age of 12, Everson recalled: "My father just drove me up to the hospital and gave me a quarter and let me off. I went in all by myself and told them I came to get my tonsils out. They were really big ones. That night I got to walk uptown and spend part of my quarter for some peppermints. I almost lost my way coming back to the hospital but everyone trusted that I could take care of myself. The next morning, Dr. Shannon came in and put the ether over my nose and I remember fighting real hard. Then, after I woke up, I vomited and vomited all day. I stayed there two days and two nights. A tonsillectomy cost $15 in those days, including room and board. A baby delivery cost $45, including room and board. If you were a miner or a miner’s child, you didn’t pay anything because it was all in the mining contract. I remember the rivalry between the Miners Hospital and the other hospital on 1st Street called the Cuyuna Range Hospital owned by Drs. Hallenback and Pengilly. They each tried to get the most patients.

"Mabel Hasskamp worked there even after I did. After I got married, Dr. Smith delivered my babies at Miners Hospital. I remember when I had my first baby girl, Mrs. Smith came to see me and brought her little boy, Baxter, along. He (the little boy) wanted to know the baby’s name. He wanted me to name her Elaine. That was his favorite name. He grew up and married an Elaine."

... and from another interview, probably in the same publication:

My thoughts drift back ten years further to the 1920s, to Mabel Landstrom Everson’s account of going to work for Doctors Smith and Shannon right after graduation from high school. "I had what you might call ‘on the job training’ and got broken into working right away. By the second day, they showed me how to mix a hypo with the syringe and the powder and draw up the solution, all the sterile methods used. I worked with the charge nurse who was Lydia Halden from Aitkin and also a nurse named Barbara Friedstrom who used to come from Brainerd for special duty. We worked to take care of five or six patients, gave baths, and helped in the operating room too. They did tonsillectomies and appendectomies and gall bladders in those days. Dr. Shannon gave the anesthesia and Dr. Smith did the tonsillectomies."

Mabel’s Minnesota Practical Nurse License was No. 17728 and was valid through March 15, 1972, and perhaps later.

She made her claim on Social Security on 4 Oct 1973 through the Bemidji field office.

Birth:
“Reported by O. C. Coffin and officially filed in Book B, p. 119”

Died:
died at 5:30 PM

Buried:
Funeral at Salem Lutheran Church, Deerwood. Pallbearers William Everson,Robert Everson, Jerry Everson, David Everson, John Davis, and Donald R. Carlson.

Mabel married John Edwin EVERSON on 24 Jan 1929 in Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. John (son of Anders (Andrew) EVERSON and Anna Gustava (Annie) Martinusdatter BYE) was born on 28 Dec 1902 in Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 29 Apr 1982 in Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 1 May 1982 in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1911-06125
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2001-MN-516567

Notes:

See notes for Gust in which Carl describes clearing land.

Carl had a winter residence in Texas at 2100 S. Bridge Avenue, Weslaco, TX 78596.

According to the 1940 census, Carl’s education ended after 10th grade.

Carl’s Social Security number was issued in California before 1951. His last residence was Naples, Florida, so apparently his nephew Bill was managing Carl’s finances. Bill made distributions from Carl’s estate in 1999.

Buried:
Cremated. Memorial service on this date. His funeral program said that he was to be buried at Scanda Cemetery.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1910-25486
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1946-MN-028029

Notes:

She was baby, no name, on her birth certificate. She was child #1.

Gladys had no children. She wasn’t in good health.

In the 1944 Duluth city directory, she is Gladys Bergstrom, widow of Hugo. She lives at 2808 West 3rd with her mother. She is not listed in the 1946 directory.

Her mother was the informant for Gladys’s death certificate. Gladys died from heart failure complicated by a TB operation she had had ten years before. She was the widow of Hugo and lived at 2808 West 3rd Street in Duluth. She had lived in Duluth for 21 years.

Died:
St. Luke’s Hospital

Buried:
Mabel, Carl, and Clara attended her funeral.

Gladys married Hugo Waldemar BERGSTROM in 1929. Hugo (son of Magnus BERGSTROM and Märta JONSSON) was born on 27 Jan 1896 in Frösö, Jämtlands län, Sweden; died on 29 Sep 1943 in Broward County, Florida; was buried in Park Hill, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1914-29791
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1991-MN-030967

Notes:

In the 1936 city directory, she lives at 118 Park Avenue. She is a “compt opr” for Standard Oil Co.

In the 1940 census, she lives with her mother and brother at 2617 West 3rd Street, a rented residence. Florence was a high school graduate, Roland had two years of high school. Marie had a sixth-grade education. Florence was a “comtometer operator” for a wholesale gas and oil company. Roland was a grocery salesman for a retail grocery store.

In the 1940 city directory, she lives at 2617 West 3rd and is a “compt opr” at the Standard Oil Company. In the 1942-43 Duluth city directory, she is Florence I Anderson, a clerk for the Standard Oil Company. She resides at 2131 West 2nd (the same address as her siblings). In the 1944 city directory, she is still Florence I Anderson, now a secretary for the Standard Oil Co. She lives at 2808 West 3rd. In the 1946 directory, she is now a “comp opr” for Standard Oil.

In the 1950 census, she is divorced and living with her parents. She is a stenographer for the city.

Florence was probably a comptometer operator at Standard Oil. A comptometer was an electro-mechanical adding machine and computational device used before digital computers.

The June 25th birthdate is the birthdate on her birth certificate and on her death certificate. Mabel or Helga’s little book had Florence’s birthdate as May 25th.

According to her obituary in the Duluth newspaper, she died on a Sunday at her home on West 12th Street. She had been a lifelong Duluth resident and had graduated from Denfield High School in 1932. She was a veteran of the U. S. Navy and had been a WAVE in World War II. She worked for Standard Oil Co. and for the City of Duluth’s engineering department. She was a member of Hillside United Methodist Church and its Elizabeth circle. She was also a member of the Ensign Garden Club and of Bethany Lutheran Church’s Sunshine Club. She was survived by her two sons and seven grandchildren.

Florence married Harold Allen SIEVERS on 27 Jan 1951 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Harold (son of HARWOOD) was born on 26 Apr 1912 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; died on 1 Dec 1987 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1916-31540
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1982-MN-018537
• Occupation: Grocer
• Social Security Number: 470-07-7609

Notes:

Gladys wrote her cousin Mabel a postcard in April of 1917 in which she says that her mother and “the baby” (perhaps Roland) had been sick and in the hospital.

In the 1936 city directory, he lives with his parents at 118 Park Avenue and is a clerk for “G M Hjehn.” In the 1940 city directory, he lives with his mother at 2617 West 3rd and is a clerk for G M Hjelm.

In the 1940 census, he lives with his mother and sister at 2617 West 3rd Street, a rented residence. Roland had two years of high school. Marie had a sixth-grade education. Roland was a grocery salesman for a retail grocery store.

In the 1942 Duluth city directory, he is probably the Roland E Anderson, a clerk for Gust Hjelm, who lives at 2131 West 2nd (the same address as Hugo and Gladys).

In the 1944 city directory, his occupation is “USA” which probably means U.S. Army. He and Melba reside at 917 88th Avenue West (MP). In the 1946 directory, he is a switchman for the Soo Line. He and Melva live at 1023 87th Avenue West (MP). The MP designation probably means Morgan Park, a neighborhood in Duluth.

His residence at the time of his death (and at the time of his father’s death, for which he was the informant for the information on the death certificate) was 1023 87th Avenue West in Duluth. He was the owner/operator of a retail grocery and meat store. He died of a stroke.

His obit was published on p. C3:2 of the July 3, 1982, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune:

Roland Anderson, 66, Morgan Park grocer

Roland E. “Bud” (Melva M.) Anderson, 66, a Morgan Park grocer since 1935, died Friday in St. Mary’s Hospital.

He lived at 1023 87th Ave. W. and owned and operated Anderson’s Shop-Rite Inc. He was born in Proctor and was a longtime resident of Duluth. He was a World War II veteran and a member of Euclid Masonic Lodge No. 198, Scottish Rite, and AAD Temple of the Shrine.

Surviving, besides his wife, are two sons, Charles E. of Rochester and Scott W. of Duluth; a sister Florence (Harold) Sievers of Duluth; and two grandsons, Christopher E. and Kevin J. A memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Filiatrault-Foley Funeral Home, Duluth.

Died:
St. Mary’s Hospital

Roland married Melva Mae POTTER on 21 Jul 1942 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Melva (daughter of Charles Scott POTTER and Jennie Alma SCHAUBE) was born on 23 Apr 1921 in Cottonwood County, Minnesota; died on 7 Jun 2009 in Ocala, Marion County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gustaf Alfredsson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called Ivar in his wife’s obit.

Family/Spouse: Bertha Jane HALL. Bertha was born on 16 Jul 1897 in Oklahoma; died on 19 Jun 1976 in Salem, Marion County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He departed Göteborg on 18 Oct 1927 on the Stockholm, bound for the USA.

Notes:

She left Gothenburg, Sweden, aboard the Kungsholm on 24 May 1930, bound for Chicago. She arrived in New York on June 2nd.

She became a U.S. citizen in 1949.

Birth:
Munkryd or Munkerud was the parish within Ransäter

Ellen married Alfred Hjalmar NELSON on 4 May 1935 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Alfred was born on 7 Jul 1904 in Soden Hulta, Sweden; died on 22 Feb 1989 in Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dagmar married Erik Gustav TIDERMAN on 29 Oct 1932 in Munkfors, Värmlands lan, Sweden. Erik was born on 6 Dec 1905 in Ransäter, Värmlands län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

An Einer died 19 Jan 1911. He was the son of Johan Emil and Emma Maria so he was either another twin whose birth record we don’t have or it was Ernst.

Notes:

He may be the 8 year-old Josef Bergman who departed Liverpool, bound for New York, on 21 Sep 1921, aboard the Seythia, a Cunard Line ship.