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1 C. G. AHLBERG, Hutto, served the Crown in Sweden, as a soldier, before he emigrated in 1889 with Texas as his destination. His home was in Balaryd, Småland, and his father, Carl Holm, was a farmer in Torstorp for over fifty years. Born in 1862, he married Hanna Gustafson, from Jersnäs, in 1885. She was born in 1863 and with one child she set out on the journey to America. Mr. Ahlberg has been a farmer in this country, partly a tenant farmer around Circleville and Georgetown, and partly as a farm-owner in Hutto for several years. Their children are: Dan, Oscar, Ruth, Gustaf and Celess. The two eldest sons are married and Ruth is a nurse. They are members of the Swedish Methodist Church. Family: F71
 
2 Christina was identified as the 2nd wife of C. A. Anderson in the 1910 census. Family: F916
 
3 Eric and Anna Stenstrom lived at 2724 Morrisson Street, Houston, Texas, USA, beginning around 1930.


 		Family: F4152
 
4 Etta M. Byers-Nelson-Mosier/Mosher was born in , Bastrop, Texas, 13 Sep 1877 or so. and marriage took place around the 17th of Sep 1894 in Travis Co., Texas; Hubert Nelson was first born Apr 1896 and Urean was born sometime between 2 Jun 1895-1898 depending on which record one looks at in Gonzales, Gonzales, Texas. There are two birth certificates listed for him there. Etta M. Nelson-Moshier/Mosher was an accomplished dressmaker/seamstress and made vaudevillian costumes for troops coming through Houston, Harris, Texas. Family: F6076
 
5 From Swedes in Texas, Page 1078.
CARL YOUNGREN, a tenant farmer on the farm of the widow, C. Almquist, in Manda , Travis County, came to that community from Sweden in 1895. He had his first home in this country with his maternal uncle, Mr. John Anderson, but for eight years he worked for different farmers in the area. He spent a year in Denver, Colorado, where he was a gardener, and also a year in Austin, Texas.
Mr. Youngren is from the district of Kronoberg and was born at the Moheda station in 1878. The son of a shoemaker, C. A. Youngren, the son learned the same trade. At the age of seventeen he left this profession and country, and set out for the land in the west. Still he returned home in 1907 to visit friends at home and relatives, but he returned to Texas in the same year. In 1909 he married Miss Julia Almquist, daughter of the Carl Almquist family in Manda. She was born in Gregg, Travis County, in 1888. Her father is dead, and the mother is living in Austin. The couple’s two children are: Emery, 1910, and Estella, 1912. Mr. Youngren has two brothers on Chicago, both are shoemakers, and five brothers and sisters in Sweden. He and his wife belong to the Methodist congregation in Manda and take an active part in its activities. He is a conscientious, intelligent and competent farmer.
 		Family: F56
 
6 From Swedes in Texas, page 1164.
J. A. YOUNG, Swedonia, Fisher County, Texas, is one of the two settlers, who with their families remained in this once so promising Swedish community, when all the others left and scattered in different directions. In the company of August Johnson, Salomon Johnson, John Swenson and Henry Gustafson, Young came to Fisher County in 1884 to try the life of a settler. He had already bought a piece of school-land there for $2.00 per acre; and with the others and a family, who later moved in, they laid the foundation for the Swedish community of Swedonia, and the Swedish Methodist church congregation which was formed shortly thereafter. Even though the climate is the best and the land is fertile, this part of the state is surely not suitable for growing cotton , and when our Swedes were not successful, like those in central Texas, from where they came, most of them gave up and left. But those who stayed and devoted themselves to raising livestock along with a mixture of farming had better luck. Mr.Young was one of them. He now owns about 800 acres and a comfortable home, and his wife sits in peace and quiet with grown-up sons and daughters around her. The proverb is true: “Persistence wins!” Mr Young was born in Katrineholm in Södermanland, in 1860. By the age of 20, he immigrated to America, and first came to San Antonio, Texas. He went to the southern parts because in Sweden he read a little brochure which told about the great advantages that Texas offered. After a couple of years there, he moved to Austin where he had a position as caretaker at the University of Texas, and he also worked the land and became familiar with farming.
In 1885, Mr.Young married Albertina Wilhelmina Carlson, who had arrived in Austin, Texas a couple of years before from the same place in Sweden as himself. Her year of birth was 1858. Their marriage has been blessed with seven children. The oldest daughter, Laura 1886, is married to T. E. Johnson, and resides in Fisher; Richard,1888, Lillie 1890, Fred 1891, Gertie 1893, Ernest 1896, and Esther 1901. Mrs. Young passed away in 1917.
The Young family has always had a big interest and have taken an active part in the church. Mr. Young has been local preacher in the Methodist Church for many years and has held many positions of trust. Since the Swedish church activities ceased the family has joined the American Church and now belongs to the Nazarene Society.
 		Family: F111
 
7 From Swedes in Texas, Page 298:
FRANS ROBERT ZAKRISON is from Värmland, where he was born in Väse parish, in 1850. He immigrated to America in 1879 and first settled in Brooklyn, New York. He came to Austin, Texas, two years later in 1881. Zakrison learned the trade of a baker as a young man and has been in this trade since he was sixteen years old almost exclusively. His parents were the furniture-maker. Per Emanuel Zakrison from Västergötland, and his mother, Ingeborg, from Hammaron, Värmland.
Zakrison married Emma Kristina Kihlberg from Filipstad, where she was born in 1851. Mrs. Zakrison came to Brooklyn, New York, in 1880, where her husband had arrived the previous year.
The family has lived and had their business in Austin except for a few years when they lived as farmers in Decker, Travis County.
They are both healthy and active and are running their store on East Sixth Street, a place Swedish bakerycustomers like to visit.
The children of the family are: Jennie, Annie, Gustaf, and Lillie.
Zakrison is a member of the order of “Woodmen of the World.”
 		Family: F41
 
8 From Swedes in Texas, page 370.
C. G. YOUNGQUIST, born in 1866 in Barkeryd, the region of Jönköping, Småland, he has been a farmer in Williamson County for over thirty years. He came there from Sweden in 1886. He had to work his way up, like so many other immigrants. He is a well-to-do farmer in the Brushy community. Since 1906, the family belongs to the Lutheran Church in Palm Valley and carry their load in the community. He has been married twice. First to Sofia Anderson from Västergötland, who died without any children. In his second marriage, his wife was Minnie Mattson, from Onsala, Halland. They have been married since 1911 and have two children: Roy and Elmer. He also has a stepdaughter, Pearl. Mrs. Youngquist is the daughter of Andrew G. Mattson in Brushy, and the sister of Louis Mattson. 		Family: F76
 
9 From Swedes in Texas, page 442.
JOHN YOUNGQUIST. He was from Småland, but born in 1867 in Berga parish in the region of Kronoberg, where his parents, Andreas Hagg, a soldier, and his wife, Christina, were living. John immigrated to the United States and came to Edensburg, now called Maimö, in Saunders County, Nebraska, in 1887. He was a farmhand until he left the windy Nebraska in 1889 and went to Texas. A couple of years later, he married Emelia Sofia Olson. She was born in Finja parish, Skåne and came with her parents to Swedeburg, Nebraska in 1878 and then she moved with them when they went to Texas in 1888. In this marriage the Youngquists have four children: Harry, born in 1896, Julius, 1897, Johnnie, 1899, and Martha, 1902. They are faithful members of the Lutheran Church in New Sweden. Youngquist was elected by the congregation to collect its part of the $500,000 fund which the laymen of the Augustana-Synod have taken on to collect for the Mutual Relief Treasury. The family now lives on the beautiful property, which Youngquist bought in 1895. It is located six miles northeast of New Sweden, bordering his brother in-law, John Nelson’s, farm. Part of the land was cleared when he bought it, but there were hardly any houses. Everything is now very attractive. There are well-kept fields, shaded gardens, a modern farmhouse, and good farm buildings. There is a good water system, and all these things make it one of the most inviting in the community. 		Family: F80
 
10 From Swedes in Texas, page 469.
C. O. YOUNGBLOM, farmer and landowner in Brushy, came to this country when he was twenty years old. He took up farming and has made that his profession. Youngblom is from Svartarpsbo, but grew up in Högstorp, where his father, Johan Blom, was a farmer. Young Youngblom left his home in Småland in 1884 and travelled to America with Round Rock as his destination. The first home was at Ludvig Johnson’s, where he found rest after the long journey. His first job was working for Enoch Johnson, close to Georgetown, for monthly wages. After two or three years, he started on his own as a tenant farmer on the Dimmitt estate close to Georgetown. Here and in nearby Hutto, Youngblom farmed until 1900, the year of the large harvest in Texas when he bought some land. He later sold it when he bought the farm he now lives on. This farm of 220 acres is well situated with a nice, modern home and other buildings.
He also owns some land half a mile from this farm. Our Swedish immigrants were fortunate to be able through thrift and skill in this part of the country to soon own their own home and be well to do.
In 1888, he married Christina Johnson from the Lekeryd parish, Småland, where she was born in 1858. Her parents, who later came to this country and died in Brushy, were J. T. Svenson. a carpenter, and his wife, Maria Katarina. She came to this country in 1882 and has four siblings here. In the Youngblom home, six children have grown up. The two oldest sons are married. Three children died when young. The single children which are still at home are: George, born in 1895, Rosie, 1897, Naomi, 1898, and Elna, 1900. Mr. Youngblom is chairman in the Free Church to which the family belongs. He is a hard worker with a sincere interest in the welfare of his church. From the beginning of the Free Church, he has been a strong supporter.
 		Family: F104
 
11 From Swedes in Texas, page 470.
PHILIP NATANAEL YOUNGBLOM is the second son of the couple C. O. and Christina Youngblom. He mairied Alice Anderson in 1914. She is from Brushy and her father, Claes H. Anderson, is a farmer in the community. In this home she was born in 1895. They have one daughter, Ora Mae Hortence, who was born in 1916. Mr. Youngblom was born in the Georgetown area in 1892, and besides the usual public school education, he also attended Trinity College in Round Rock. He has been a farmer since he grew up, leasing one of his father’s farms close to the parents’ home. Both he and his wife are members of the Free Church. 		Family: F107
 
12 From Swedes in Texas, page 635.
P. H. YOUNGQUIST, a farmer living in Decker, came to that community from Sweden in 1889. He has lived there and in Kimbro since then, except for three and a half years when he lived in California. He was raised in Byarum, Småland, where he was born in 1865. Youngquist married Amanda Gustafson, born in Adelof, Småland in 1871. She came to Iowa in 1886 in the company of her parents, and to Texas four years later. Then-children are: Alfred, Hannah, Willie, Dora, Mabel, Evelyn and Irving. The family belongs to the Free Church in Decker, where Mr. Youngquist has served as Sunday-school leader. 		Family: F82
 
13 From Swedes in Texas, page 695.
C.E.YOUNGQUIST. In 1890 C.E. Youngquist, as a 20-year old young man, went from Sweden to New Sweden, Texas. He came to his brother, John Youngquist, and stayed in New Sweden as a farmer for eighteen years. He married Tilda Olson, daughter of the late Johannes Olson and his wife, Johanna, who then lived in New Sweden. They have four children: Ebba, born in 1903, Ethel 1905, Bertil 1912, and May 1917.
C. E. Youngquist was born in Kvänarp, Berga parish, Småland, in l870. Mrs. Youngquist was born in 1876, in Finja parish, Skåne.
At the age of one and a half, in 1878, she and her parents came to Swedeburg, Nebraska, and the Johannes Olson family moved from there to New Sweden, Texas, in 1888.
Around 1908 the family moved to Ericsdale, Jones County, Texas where Youngquist bought a property of 167 acres. At that time you could buy land for $15.00 per acre.
This hospitable and friendly family now lives in a nice home, they belong to the Lutheran Church in Ericsdale and take an active part in the community and the church.
 		Family: F69
 
14 From Swedes in Texas, page 696.
FRANK YOUNGQUIST. He was born in Berga parish, Småland, 1876 where his father, Anders Hägg, was a soldier. Frank grew up in the country and worked on the farm as a young man. He emigrated in 1894 and came to America and Elgin, Texas. He first worked as a farm-hand for farmers in Manda and Lund. For a short time he had his own store in Elgin. For a few years he leased land near Littig, Texas. He bought land near Manda but sold it after three years and bought land in Lund. He sold that property in 1916, and moved to Stamford, Jones County, Texas.
In 1900 he married Edith Almquist. She was born in 1882 in Jamestown, N. Y., and she came with her parents, the C. O. Almquists, to New Sweden, Texas in 1883. They have the following children: Elmer 1901, Leonord 1903, Ella 1904, Ruby 1906, Herbert 1908, Louis 1910, Paul 1912, Mabel 1914 and Roland 1917. While the Youngquist family lived in New Sweden, they belonged to the Lutheran congregation there. When they moved to Lund they joined the congregation there, and they are now members of the congregation in Ericsdale.
We predict that this solid and industrious family will have a bright future on the wide farm-fields in Jones County.
 		Family: F68
 
15 From Swedes in Texas, page 847.
AXEL FRITHIOF YOUNGQUIST has lived with his family near Melvin since 1909. He was born in 1868 in Byarum parish, the district of Jönköping, Sweden. His father was Sven Gustaf Peterson. A brother, Henning Youngquist, and a sister, Mrs. Claus Johnson, live in Travis County. Alex was a polisher in Forserum but had a desire for something else and another country. Like so many other young men he set out for this country and came to Manor, Texas, in 1890. His mother arrived four years later to live with her children but she died in 1904. After a short time in Texas he was driven by a desire for adventure and he went further west, all the way to California. He tried panning for gold and worked hard in the logging camps. One time he stole a ride and broke his leg. After a string of adventures he returned to the peaceful Texas, and to a quieter occupation. He came in contact with Christian people, was converted, and started to work for his faith. He joined the Free Church and he still belongs to that church.
In 1900 he married Christina Anderson, daughter of the Nels Anderson family in Decker. She was born in Saxtorp parish, the district of Malmöhus, in 1874, and she came to Texas at the age of 11. The young family has leased land in different places in Travis County, until they moved to Melvin, where they own a beautiful farm of 150 acres near town. They have five children: A daughter, Ebba 1905, and the sons, Elof 1903, Walter 1911, Albert 1914, and Daniel 1917.
 		Family: F52
 
16 From Swedes in Texas, page 940.
JOHN W. YOUNGBERG is counted among El Campo’s oldest Swedes and has lived in the community since its earliest years. He and his family emigrated in 1883, settled in Iowa as a farmer, and moved from there to El Campo in 1894. He was born in Nona Ljunga parish, Småland in 1833 where his father, Johannes Swenson, was a farmer. In Sweden he married Carolina Anderson in 1860. She was from Wallsjo parish, Småland, and was born in 1834. The couple’s two children are the daughter, Anna, 1860, now Mrs. Lundquist, and living in Garwood, Texas, and the son, August Sereen, 1865.
When the family left Sweden, Mr. Sereen was about eighteen years old; his sister had left the previous year. From Iowa, he came with the second excursion from the northern states to this new land-area for settlement. He bought land in 1892 and they cleared, cultivated and built on the land when they arrived a couple of years later. Father and son have always stuck together, both in the early pioneer days and later. They have been successful and own a beautiful property just south of town which the son is now running. The family belongs to the Swedish Methodist congregation.
 		Family: F109
 
17 http://home.comcast.net/~jackycat/ocarlsn.htm Family: F932
 
18 John and Edith Seth had no children. Their farm was adjacent to Carl and Leontina Johnson's farm 2 miles northeast of Round Rock. Family: F4143
 
19 John F. Adolphson's occupation was recorded as a capenter in four (4) census records (1900, 1910, 1920, & 1930). In the Swedes in Texas book he is documented as an automobile mechanic. Family: F60
 
20 John joined Swedish Army in 1858, changed sur name from Pantzar to Borg to increase opportunity to get paid, being that the letter "B" is early in the alphabet.
Karolina was from Jarna, Sweden.
John and Karolina immagrated to Texas in 1885 (25 years after their wedding) and settled in Frame Switch, Texas, which is east of Hutto.

 		Family: F2871
 
21 John Westling is identified as Andrew Anderson's father - source 1900 US Federal Census Record.
The SIT book on page 379 states that Andrew Anderson's father was Anders Johanson. 		Family: F785
 
22 Lillie died in childbirth, along with the child.
Date unknown.
 		Family: F842
 
23 Louis L. Johnson, an uncle, is living with the John Adolfson family in the 1930 census. Family: F57
 
24 Minister: M. E. Chappell of Hemphill Presbyterian Church Family: F4705
 
25 Ref 1900 US Federal census for (Manda) JP 1, Travis County, Texas.

Ref 1910 US Federal census for JP 2, Travis County, Texas.

Ref 1920 US Federal census for Austin Ward 3, Travis County, Texas.

SIT ref page 199.

The widow, MARIA ABRAHAMSON, resident of Austin at 1112 W. 10th Street, came here from Sweden in 1890 with her husband and some of their children. She was born in Öggestorp, Småland, in 1846, where her father, Stefanus Anderson, was a farmer. Her husband, Per Otto Abrahamson, whom she married in 1872, was from Ödestugu in the same region, He was born in 1849. His father, Abraham Person, was also a farmer.
The Abrahamsons lived in Sweden for many years, before they decided to leave their home and seek their fortune on the other side of the Atlantic. This was advantageous, especially for the children, who came here when they were young enough to benefit from the education and other opportunities in this country. The family first came to Manor, Texas, where they probably had acquaintances and soon found more friends. They soon tried to make a living in the area, and for the first four years, they leased some land from Mr. August Lind in Kimbro, and then for a while by Rice’s Crossing in Lund.
In 1900, he bought some land in Lund for $13.00 per acre. Now they had to clear, plant and build, because the land was a wilderness covered only with mesquite. But he who endures come out a winner, and soon the family had a beautiful and valuable home. When the property was sold twelve years later, it brought in $140.00 per acre. Mr. Abrahamson died in Lund in 1900. In 1913, the family moved to Austin and gave up farming.
Eight of the family’s nine children are still living. One son is dead, Hilma, born in 1878, has had a good position with the I & G. N. Railroad; Samuel, born in 1882, is a gifted musician, and for nine years he has been employed as such with one of the country’s regiments; Carl, born in 1885, is a machinist at a big slaughterhouse in Oklahoma City; Ellen, 1888; Alex, 1890 is with the Austin Fire Department; and Annie, 1894. Five of the children are married. Their son, Samuel, graduated from the “Washington Conservatory of Music.”
The family belongs to the Swedish Lutheran Church.
 		Family: F3
 
26 Ref: SIT book page 852

AXEL EDWARD ADOLPHSON from Norra Solberga, Småland, was born in 1874. His father was a carriage maker by profession and lived in Eskhult. The son learned the same profession, which was an advantage to him in this country, and this profession he has been in all this time. In 1889, he immigrated to America and first came to Round Rock, Texas. Here it is true he started farming, but soon took up his old profession. After having worked in several places in Texas, Anderson settled in Fort Worth, where he has held a good position with the “Keller Carriage Works” for the last twelve years.

In 1911, Mr. Adolphson married Miss Annie Martinson, daughter of the Oscar Martinson family in Fort Worth. She was born in 1884 in the city of Fort Worth, has graduated from high-school, and has been the organist in the Swedish Methodist Church for eleven years. Both she and her husband are members of that congregation where they have been very active through the years in the Sunday-school, youth organization, choir and much more.

The couple’s three children are: Annie Marie 1912, Ruth Elizabeth 1915, and Ebba Axeline 1917. Mr. Adolphson owns a nice modern home in the city and is financially well off. In 1899 he went back to Sweden to visit his parents but returned in the Fall of the same year.

 		Family: F50
 
27 See 1910 and 1920 US Federal census records in Justice Precinct 2, Jackson County, Texas. Family: F4
 
28 SIR Ref Page 497

Pastor O. F. LINSTRUM, now living in Kingsburg, California, spent several years in Texas and served Georgetown’s Swedish Methodist Church. He was also District Leader for six years for the Swedish Methodist Churches in the state. He was born in Skede parish, Östergötland, on November 9, 1857, came with his parents to America in 1869, and spent his youth in Keokuk, Iowa. He got a good education, joined the Swedish Methodist Church, and was given the right to preach. After he had completed his studies at the seminary in Evanston, Ill., he was ordained, joined the Conference, and has devoted his life to serving his church. After forty years of service in the pulpit, he resigned from his congregation in Los Angeles, California, in the Spring of 1918 and settled down in his country-home in Kingsburg. He has served the following congregations: Keokuk, Iowa, one year; Minekaune and Escanaba, Mich., one year; Stillwater, Minn., three years; Lake View, Chicago, three years; Jamestown, N. Y., five years;
St. Paul, Minn., one year; Rockford, Ill., two years; and Evanston, Ill., for five years. In 1900, he had to leave Evanston because of his health and had to seek a milder climate in the south. He therefore went to Alabama for a couple of years. He came to Texas in April, 1902, and became a preacher of the Georgetown congregation. He stayed there until October, 1910. During that time, the work was centered in town, lots were bought and a parsonage and a church were built. From Texas he moved to Kingsburg, California in 1910 and stayed there until 1912, when he went to Oakland for three years, and he was in Los Angeles from 1915 to 1918. Mrs. Linstrum’s home was in Iowa, where they were married. Three sons and three daughters have grown up in their home. The oldest daughter, Lydia, is married to Dr. F. A. Lundberg, rector of the Swedish Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill., and Oscar E. is a preacher in the Swedish Methodist Church and is working in Texas.

 		Family: F5753
 
29 SIR Ref Page 542

CLAUS A. LUNDELL is one of our well-known and highly respected Swedes in Taylor. He has lived on his beautiful farm close to the town since 1901, and he’ had moved there from Decker in Travis County. Mr. Lundell is the son of the pioneer, Mr. Gustaf Lundell, who came to Texas from Sweden in 1867. The family came over a year and a half later, when the son Claus was nine years old. After a short stay in Austin, the family settled in Decker, where the children grew up, got their education , their religious schooling and learned to work and take care of what a rocky, but fertile soil produced. The old Decker community was in its pioneer-phase then and the Lundells, like many other, had to endure the hardships of that kind of life. C.A. stayed home until he was twenty-one and helped his father with the farming, but then he bought his own land in the same area. He kept that land for seven years and he then sold it to his brother-in-law, Mr. Albert Bergstrom. He bought a beautiful farm in 1890 in the southern part of Decker, a farm he later sold to Mr. Carl Bergstrom. Mr. Lundell was the first of the Decker Swedes. who bought land in the Taylor area and moved there, but later many have followed his example, and many of the Swedes around Taylor have earlier lived in Decker.
In 1884 he married Miss Mary Peters. She was born in 1861 in Iowa of English descent. Her parents emigrated from England. She got a good education and was the first school teacher in the Decker community. For many years she stood faithfully by her husband’s side and raised her children as a loving mother. After a short illness, she died on February 6, 1915. Even though she was of English descent and American upbringing, she felt at home in Swedish circles. She learned Swedish and took part in the Swedish religious activities, particularly while she lived in Decker. The children in this home are: Walter, 1886, married and living in Taylor; Maud, 1888, married to Mr. Walter Oatt, died in January, 1915, leaving two children;
Bertha, 1890, married to Mr. Lawrence Heard, living in Temple, Texas; Lawrence, 1894, Grace, 1896, Dewey, 1898, Eunice, 1900, and Joe, 1904. The family belongs to the American Methodist Church. Mr. Lundell has also showed a warm interest and given financial support to the Swedish organization.

 		Family: F5813
 
30 SIT Page 520

JONAS AHLGREN came together with his wife, Carolina, born Swensdotter, to Texas to visit his sons and daughter living here in 1913. It does not happen often, that parents come to this country to visit their children, but the children often go to Sweden to see their parents and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ahlgren had six sons and a daughter in this country. They did not mean to stay here, but the years have passed and since it is a time of war, they have not wanted to return. They also enjoy living in this country. They have their home with their son, Emil Ahlgren, who is a farmer west of Taylor.

Mr. Ahlgren and his wife were both born in 1845, he in Ökna parish, Småland, and she in Ödestugu in the same area. Mr. Ahlgren’s father was Axel Thor, a soldier. She is the daughter of Sven Assarson, a farmer. They married in 1866. Of their ten children, three are still in Sweden. Their names are: Axel, Emil, Carl, Sven, Anna, Anders, Edward, Ludvig, Oscar, and Ellen. Their daughter, Ellen, is living in Denver, Colorado, and Sven, Anna and Ludvig are married and living in Sweden.

The Ahlgrens are members of the Swedish Methodist Church in Taylor.

 		Family: F64
 
31 SIT Page 524

AUGUST AHLGREN is one of the few Swedes who has devoted himself exclusively to business in Taylor. He was originally a stone-cutter, and he is part owner and manager of the Taylor Marble and Granite Works, a prosperous business, and the only one of its kind in Taylor and its vicinity. Monuments and gravemarkers of different kinds are what they mostly produce. Mr. Ahlgren learned this trade after he got here, and he started the business in Taylor in 1904. The business has developed considerably, and orders are coming in from neighboring counties as well. He was born in Snöstorp, Halland, in 1862 and came to New York state at the age of nineteen. He first started working in the country and stayed there for about three years. He went to Texas in 1885 and stayed for a couple of years, working in Burnet County, and then at Granite Mountain in the big quarries and workshops. He learned the art of stone-cutting there and has continued in that craft. Like many others, through diligence and thrift, he has come from poverty to become independently wealthy.

Mr. Ahlgren married Miss Martha Broline in 1903. At that time she lived in Burnet. She was born in 1873, in Mårdsjön, Stugun parish, Jämtland, where her father, Erik Broline, was a farmer. She came to this country in 1889 and she fust settled in Burnet County, Texas, and lived a short time in Austin. They have three children: Arthur, 1905, Mildred, 1906, and Bennie, 1908. The family goes to the Swedish Methodist Congregation’s services and Sunday school.

 		Family: F85
 
32 SIT Ref 517

AXEL AHLGREN is one of Taylor’s best-known Swedes. He has lived in the area for many years and is one of those who take an active interest in the church and the community. With his pleasant personality, honesty, and Christian life style, he has won respect and a large circle of friends.

Mr. Ahlgren is the oldest of ten siblings, seven of them living in this country and three in Sweden. He is the son of Jonas and Carolina Ahlgren, both of whom came from Sweden in 1913 to visit their children who are living here, but never returned after that. He was born in Ödestugu, Småland, in 1866, got an elementary education, and for a few years he was a miner. Like so many of Småland’s sons and daughters, he too, was thinking about Texas and decided to seek his future in the distant land, and try to improve his lot in life. He had a friend in Round Rock, Texas, John Johnson, who later was to become his brother-in-law, and that was to there he bought a ticket. He got his first experiences in farming here, and he worked for monthly wages for a few years. He then became a tenant-farmer and continued with that in different places near Hutto and Taylor for fourteen years.

Three years after he came here, he married Miss Ida Johnson in 1892. She is the daughter of Johannes Anderson, a farmer in Ödestugu, Småland. She was born there in 1870 and came to Texas with her parents in 1884. The family first came to Round Rock and then lived in Hutto. The Ahlgrens have nine children. The oldest daughter, Lina, 1893, is married to Frank Carlson, and living near Taylor. The rest are: Rudolph, 1895, Ruben, 1897, Ruth, 1899, Elsa, 1902, Ellen, 1904, Maria, 1907, Martha, 1910, and Nina, 1913. In 1905, Mr. Ahlgren bought a farm around three miles east of Taylor, where he worked and lived for four years. He then sold it and bought a larger farm, just south of the town. This beautiful farm, which is partly located within the city limits, is very valuable, and the family has a beautiful home there and a profitable farm. Mr. Ahlgren takes an active interest in the church for many years. He and his family belong to the Swedish Methodist Congregation, and for many years, he has been a leader, Sunday school director, etc. He is a faithful and reliable servant in the church.

 		Family: F116
 
33 SIT Ref Pag 890

Pastor ERIC JULIUS ANDERSON, the pastor of the Swedish Methodist Congregation in El Campo, took on that church position in the summer of 1917. He had earlier been an officer in the Salvation Army and at the rank of Captain, and had been stationed in different cities in the Northern States, like Minneapolis, Minn., Superior, Wis., Denver, Colo. and Des Moines, Iowa. He was educated for this position at the Salvation Army Bible School in Chicago.
Mr. Anderson was born in Botilsäter parish, Värmland, in 1893, where his father, Anders Gustaf Larson, was a furniture manufacturer. The son left his home and country in 1912 and went to Minneapolis, Minn. where he worked as a baker for a year before he went to the Bible School to prepare for his Christian career. He is an intelligent young man and a faithful worker in the service of the church. He has a sister, Anna, who lives in Badger, Minn. and a brother, Axel Anderson, who has also been active in the Salvation Army work but he now lives in Kansas.

 		Family: F2086
 
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MAGNUS BENGTSON. The well-being and sound development of a community depends on good and upright citizens. The cultivation of the land that is to give bread to eat also cultivates and seeds the spiritual field, and is therefore a double blessing to God. The Bengtson family has been part of this for a third of a century. He was born in 1845, in Ausås parish, the district of Kristianstad, Skåne. His father, Bengt Tureson, was a carpenter. Magnus Bengtson emigrated and came to the United States in 1880. He first arrived in Austin, Texas.
In 1883 he married Johanna Swenson, who was horn in Kattarp’s parish, the district of Malmöhus, Skåne, in 1853. Her father’s name was Swen Bengtson. She immigrated to this country and came to Austin, Texas, in 1882.
In this marriage, the following children were born: Betty 1886, married to Oscar Sandström; Frida 1888, married to Bernhard Nelson; Botvid 1890, Oscar 1892, married to Agda Gustafson; and Esther 1897. In 1894, Mr. Bengtson and his whole family went to Sweden and it was his intention to settle there for the future. After he returned home he bought a small farm but found conditions at home too different from America, and he soon decided to go back to Texas. When he arrived here for the second time, he bought beautiful land near the church in Lund and the family has lived there since 1894. He was a land-owner before he returned to Sweden, but he sold that property. The Bengtsons belonged to the Lutheran congregation in New Sweden for eleven years and have belonged to the congregation in Lund since it was founded. They are all active members of the church and the community.

 		Family: F6427
 
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OSCAR ARNOLD BENGTSON was born in Manda, Travis County, Texas, in 1892, where his father, Magnus Bengtson, was a farmer. When his parents bought a farm in Lund and moved there, Oscar came with them. He stayed in his parents’ home and worked on the farm until he established his own home. He leased his father’s farm by the church in Lund. He is happily married to Agda Cornelia Gustafson since 1915. She was born in Manda in 1895. Her father, Magnus Gustafson, is now a farmer in Type and Mrs. Bengtson lived with her parents until she married. The young couple belongs to the Lutheran Church in Lund and have always been faithful and active members of the congregation. As a girl, Mrs. Bengtson was an assistant and Sunday school leader in the chapel, took an active part in the Luther League and held summer school in the congregation school in Type for four semesters. They were both raised in good homes and no doubt this couple has big prospects of becoming a credit and honor to both the community and the church.

 		Family: F6428
 
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ARVID CARLSON is the son of the well-known veterinary, Mr. Carl August Carlson, who came to this country in 1885 and to Texas in the following year. He lived in Williamson County until 1900, when he moved to Lund, Travis County. In 1913, he moved to Bishop, Texas, where he died two years later. Arvid Carlson was born in Hulls parish, Småland, in 1878, and he immigrated to the United States and to Round Rock, Texas, in 1888. He came to Lund, Texas, in 1897, where his father had bought land. In 1908 he married Emelia Johnson, daughter of the late Albert Johnson, in Lund. She was born in Hutto, Texas, in 1888.
Four nice children are a pleasure to the couple: Hildred, 1909, Helen, 1910, Arvie, 1912, and Evelyn, 1915. Mr. Carlson has a pleasant and friendly nature who sees the future in a positive light. The family belongs to the Lutheran Church in Lund.

 		Family: F6429
 
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CARL E. CARLSON is one of our countrymen who have settled in the Type community. He came to this country at the age of fourteen from his home in Lindesberg, where he was born in 1865. His father, Carl Johnson, was a shoemaker and died in 1874 while the children were still under age. In 1880 the mother immigrated to America with her children, and they all went along, except Carl, who stayed for a few months to complete his confirmation classes. Mr. Carlson was trained as a typographer in Sweden but after he arrived in this country he became interested in painting. For the first fifteen years Mr. Carlson lived in Pennsylvania and Chicago. During this time he visited Texas twice, but returned home. But the third time he stayed in the south. In 1907 Mr. Carlson bought a farm near Elgin, Texas, but he sold it after a few years and started investing in real estate in the city. Mr. Carlson owns a farm near Thomdale that he bought in 1916.
In 1911 Carlson married Sara Peterson from Kimbro, Travis County. She is the daughter of Gustaf Peterson, a farmer. She was born in Kimbro in 1889 and lived with her parents until she married. Their daughter, Agnes Adelia, was born in 1911.
Mr. Carlson has a brother, Victor, living in Travis County, and a sister, Mrs. John Matson, living in San Antonio. After the children all moved to different places, the mother lived with Carl until she died in 1909.

 		Family: F6430
 
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Dr. CARL AUGUST CARLSON. When this veterinarian passed away, one of the well-known and respected Swedes in Williamson and Travis counties in Texas was lost.
He was born in Ekebyborna parish, Östergötland, emigrated with his wife and came to the United States and arrived New Jersey in 1885. He did different types of manual labor there. He got sun-stroke and had to seek a different climate. In 1886 he came to Andrew Nelson in Round Rock, Texas. He worked as a farmer but was often in demand as a veterinarian. In 1900 he moved to Lund, Texas, and lived there on his farm until 1913 when he moved to a new settlement in Bishop, Texas. After two years he died there in 1915. He was buried in the Lund cemetery, where his wife had been buried twelve years before her husband. Mrs. Carlson, born Mathilda Person, was also from Östergötland, and born in Åsbo parish. The couple had these children: Vemer, Anna, Arvid, Jennie, Elin, Richard and Oscar. Two children, Nina and Erik, are dead. Dr. Carlson and his family belonged to the Lutheran Church in Lund and they took an active role in the work.
Mr. Carlson had further education than elementary school in Sweden. He went to a private school run by Countess Reutherskold; went to agricultural college, and attended the forestry training school at Anneherg. He was then forest-keeper for Baron Hermelin on a large manor estate in Östergötland. He also attended veterinary school. For a few years before he went to America, he was the head supervisor at a large sawmill. He was involved in some speculative ventures and suffered heavy losses. Mr. Carlson, like many others, then decide to immigrate to America.

 		Family: F5303
 
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VICTOR CARLSON was born in Hammarn, Lindesberg parish, Västmanland, in 1856. His father’s name was Carl Johnson. Mr. Carlson immigrated to the United States in 1880 and he first came to Houtzdale, Pa., stayed there for a year and then went to Ishpeming, Mich. From this place he later went to Austin in 1883 and leased land around Manor and Kimbro until 1904, when he bought land in Type and moved there right away.
He has been married to Johanna Lindroth since 1879. She was from Ljusnarsberg, Västmanland, and was born there in 1860.
They have these children: Ed., 1881, Ruth, 1890, Daniel, 1893, Elias, 1895, Esther, 1897, Eva, 1899, Joseph, 1901 and Richard, 1903. Esther died in Chicago and is buried in Lund, Texas, 1917. Mrs. Carlson died on October 17, 1912, in Lund, where she too is buried.
The family belongs to the Free Church in Type. Mr. Carlson is a good farmer. The thoughtful writings that have flowed from his pen and circulated in the Swedish press bear witness that Mr. Carlson has more than just the usual elementary education and that there is a scribe under the farmer’s shirt.

 		Family: F6432
 
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A. J. CARLSON. An emigrant group of one hundred of Småland’s young and strong sons and daughters said farewell to their old homeland in 1869 and went to Manor, Texas. Among them were Anders Johan Carlson, and his future wife, Anna Christina Carlson. They had made contracts with Johan of Långåsa to work during their first year in Texas, to pay for their passage. Mr. Carlson was employed by Bill Gregg and his future wife by Captain Gregg.
A. J. Carlson was born in 1843 in Vrigstad parish, Småland. His father, Carl Johan Frans, was a soldier. In 1872 he married the above mentioned Anna Christina Carlson. She was born in Lekeryd parish, Småland, in 1845. Her father, Carl Johan Carlson, was a soldier. There are eight children in this marriage and seven are still living: Carl, 1847, married to Tilda Blomberg; Hulda, 1876, married to Hans Christianson; Ernest, 1879, married to Beda Eklund; John, 1881, Frans, 1882, Ester, 1886, Josefina, 1888, and Anna Maria, 1873, who died on April 2, 1893. Mr. Carlson’s mother, Helena Frans, died in New Sweden on November 12, 1897, and is buried there.
During the first seventeen years in Texas, Mr. Carlson leased land, except for the first and the third year. In 1886 he bought land in Kimbro, and he and his family joined the Lutheran Congregation in New Sweden. In 1904 he bought land in Type, moved there and joined the Lutheran Congregation in Lund. Mr. Carlson has held positions of trust in both congregations. Among others positions he has held the office of deacon. The Carlsons hold an honored place in the history of the Swedish culture in Texas.

 		Family: F6422
 
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OLOF EDLING. Son of Jonas Edling- now living in Ericsdale, Jones County, Texas- Olof Ediing was born in the Swedish community of Swedesburg, near Clay Center, Kansas, in 1884. Olof came to Pflugerville, Texas, in the company of his parents. The parents settled in Ericsdale in 1911, but Olof stayed in Lund and leased land which has been very profitable. In 1908 he married Elsa Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of the late Per Johnson in Lund, and born in Sprinkle, Texas, in 1887. The nice young couple has been blessed with three pink-cheeked little girls: Loraine, 1909, Blanche, 1911, and Gladys, 1915. They are active members of the Lutheran Church in Lund.

 		Family: F6434
 
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AXEL J. ERIKSON. It is now many years since the farrier and blacksmith, Axel J. Erikson, bought Nels Ankarstolpe’s blacksmith shop in Lund, Texas, and many winds have blown since then; but Mr. Erikson has remained by his post at the forge and anvil. Early and late you could hear the hammer and vespers’ song of the smithy in Lund.
He was born in Ousby parish, Skåne, in 1861. His father, Johan Swenson, was a miller. His son, Axel, learned the blacksmith trade in Sweden and worked for about ten years. In 1888 he went to America and he first came to a brother, Sven Johan Erikson, who lived near Manor, Texas. He served as a farmhand for two years. In 1891 he married Julia Augusta Peterson. She was born in 1866 in Karlshamn, Blekinge. Her father, Carl Johan Peterson, was a carpenter. In 1890 she immigrated to the United States and came to Manor, Texas. After Mr. Erikson married, he started leasing land in New Sweden and Lund, and continued as a farmer for ten years until he bought his own blacksmith shop. Erikson was skilled in his profession and reliable in everything. He has won the trust of his fellow Swedes and has never been lacking for work. The Erikson family has always taken an active role in the Lutheran Church. They belonged to the Lutheran congregation in New Sweden until the congregation in Lund was founded, where they are charter members .Mr. Erikson has held many positions in the congregation, among others, Sunday school leader. Mrs. Erikson is a hospitable and friendly woman. They have a nice family. The children are: Mary 1893, married to Oscar Almquist in New Sweden; Helga 1896, married to Alfred Thomquist in Lund; Gustaf 1899, and Fred 1902.

 		Family: F6435
 
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A. W. FREDRIKSON At the Sundholm estate in Jernsnäs parish, Småland was born in 1872, A. W. Fredrikson. His father, Fredrik Frans Oscar Swartz, was a builder and died when Wilhelm was only a little boy. The son grew up and stayed in the home until he emigrated in 1890, and came to the United States of America. Mr. Fredrikson first came to Manor, Texas, where he worked as a farmhand for a few years. In 1895 he went to Sweden but he soon returned to Texas. In 1898 he married Adga Charlotta Swenson. She was born in Barkeryd parish, Småland, in 1876, and she is the daughter of J. V. Swenson, farmer and organist in Hofryda. She came to America and Elgin, Texas, in 1895. After Mr. Fredrikson married, he leased land in the Hutto and Taylor area. In 1904 he bought his own farm near Lund where the family now lives. Mr. Fredrikson is a first class farmer proven by the wellkept fields.
Two children were born into this marriage: Albert Werner, 1906, and Leon Herbert William, who died as a young child.
The Fredrikson family belong to the Lutheran church in Lund.

 		Family: F6436
 
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CARL OSCAR FREDRIKSON was born in Jersnäs parish, Småland, in 1861. His father, Fredrik Frans Oscar Swartz, was commonly known under the name “Builder Swartz”. Mr. Fredrikson immigrated to the United States in 1887, and first came to Gilden, Texas. He has been in farming ever since he came here. As soon as he could save enough to buy draft animals and farming equipment, he started leasing land. The first farm was Gustaf Johnson’s farm near Manda. In 1889 he and three other young men Aug. Josefson, Frank Rosenquist, and Carl Anderson - went to Victoria, Texas. They had all, except Mr. Fredrikson, bought land in Victoria. He leased land for cultivation. The harvest looked promising. The corn produced from 75 to 100 bushels per acre. The cotton also looked good, but then the cotton worm destroyed most of the harvest. After only thirteen months in Victoria, he left the settlement. In 1904 he bought land in the vicinity of Lund, and he now owns three beautiful properties, which prove that hard work and perseverance have their rewards.
In 1899 he married Hanna Sophia Carlson. She is from Malmbäck parish, Småland, and was born in 1873. Her father, Carl Abrahamson, was an innkeeper. She came from Sweden to Austin, Texas, in 1896. In this marriage the following children were born: Herbert 1899, Signe 1900, Theodor 1904, Howard 1906, Ester 1908, Wesley 1910, Roy 1912, and Florence 1914. One girl, Ella is dead.
The family belongs to the Lutheran congregation in Lund.

 		Family: F6438
 
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HANS GULLBERG is from Dalame and from the historical Rattvik. He was born there in 1874 and at the age of ten, he came with his parents to the United States and to Clay Center, Kansas. It was in 1884 that he exchanged the beautiful shores of Lake Siljan for the vast prairies of Kansas. Seven years later, in 1891, we find the Olof Gullberg family in New Sweden, Texas, as well as their son, Hans. The father died in 1894, and Hans Gullberg has since then taken care of the farm for the mother Gullberg. He now lives in Lund on the farm his mother first bought, belongs to the Lutheran congregation here, and is a respected member in the community.
In the year 1916 he married a friendly and likeable girl from Småland, Hanna Johnson, from Lekeryd parish. She was born there in 1879 came to America and to Elgin, Texas, in 1905. For several years she was employed as a housekeeper for the state’s governors, Campbell and Colquitt. The couple Gullbergs have one of the most attractive homes in the Lund community. The couple’s son, Howard Erik Gunnar, was born in 1917.

 		Family: F6439
 
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MAGNUS GUSTAFSON. He was born in Östra Ljungby parish, Skåne, in 1866, where his father, Gustaf Monson, now living in Lund, Texas, was a farmer. In 1888, Mr. Gustafson married Mathilda Green, born in Ausås parish, Skåne, in 1862, and the daughter of Per Green, a soldier. In 1891 the couple immigrated to the United States, and first came to a brother-in-law, August Green, who lived near Manor, Texas. For the first few years, Mr. Gustafson worked as a farmhand for others, but he later leased land in the vicinity of New Sweden, Texas. Seven years after his arrival he bought 100 acres of land in Type at $30 per acre. He had saved $400 for the first payment and everything looked promising. Then Mr. Gustafson met with an accident and broke one of his legs. Half of his savings, which should have paid for his land, now had to pay for a doctor. He therefore had to take out a mortgage. He has managed to become financially independent, and now owns two properties, a total of 300 acres. The family lives in a comfortable home, they belong to the Lutheran congregation in Lund, and Mr. Gustafson has served the congregation as deacon and trustee. He is also in charge of the Sunday school in the chapel in Type. The family is respected and valued in the community and in the church. There are nine children: Frida 1889, Henning 1891, Hilding 1893, Agda 1895, Joel 1897, Edith 1899, Elof 1901, and Nora 1905. Their son, David, was born in 1902 and died in 1905.

 		Family: F4244
 
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OLOF GUSTAFSON was born in Östra Ljungby parish, Skåne, in 1870 and he emigrated at the age of twenty-one and came to the United States. He arrived in Chicago, Ill., in 1891, where he married Eva Green in the following year. She was born in Humlarp, Ausås parish, Skåne, in 1872, and had arrived in this country and Chicago, Ill., in the same year as Mr. Gustafson. In 1893 the young couple went to New Sweden, Texas. During the following seven years Mr. Gustafson leased land in different places in Travis and Williamson counties, but in 1901 he bought one hundred acres in Bennet’s Pasture near Type community. He cleared the land and cultivated it without any hired help. In 1906 he bought another hundred acres from Carl Johan Peterson who was moving to Jones County. Mr. Gustafson has later bought a third farm of 110 acres near Beaukiss, Texas. It is true the Mr. Gustafson like most other Swedish immigrants had a good education from Sweden. But in the American competition, it is necessary to be hard working, industrious, and frugal. We find these characteristics in the Gustafsons. Their comfortable and beautiful home bears witness that the ones who want to work and can save for some time, will eventually prosper.
The Gustafsons have a nice, big family of ten children: Olga 1894, Pritz 1896, Clara 1897, Axel 1899, Hilma 1902, Maria 1904, Olle 1907, Herman 1908, William 1910, and Martina 1911.
The family belongs to the Lutheran Congregation in Lund.

 		Family: F6441
 
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HENNING EDWIN GUSTAFSON. Son of Magnus Gustafson in Type, Henning Edwin was born in Manda, Travis County, Texas, in 1891. He grew up in his parents’ home in Manda and Type and helped his father on the farm until he settled down on his own. Mr. Gustafson is a very nice young man, a good farmer, sober and respected by all.
In 1915 he married Anna Carolina Anderson, daughter of C. L. Anderson, a farmer. She was born in 1893 in Manda, Texas. She has been active in Sunday school as a teacher and is well liked by the young people. The young couple belongs to the Lutheran Congregation in Lund and the good upbringing they have received in their homes is a good foundation for a good future.

 		Family: F6442
 
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Pastor S.P. HOLMBERG was born in Östra Frölunda in Västergötland on June 28th, 1875, and he arrived with his father and only brother (now a pastor in Pomeroy, Iowa) to Moline, Ill., in 1890. He studied at Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill., and graduated in 1905. He studied for a year at Dr. Weidner’s Theological Seminary in Chicago and completed his studies at the Seminary in Rock Island, Ill. He was ordained in Red Wing, Minn., in June 1909. During his school-years, he was the Augustana Synod’s first missionary in Alaska. As pastor, he has served the congregation in Gardner, Mass., Merrill, Wis., Cheyenne, Wyo., and since April 1918, the Bethlehem Congregation in Lund, Texas.
He is married to Esther Elvira Clementson from Moline, Ill. Their marriage has been blessed with two children, the sons, Earl 11 years, and Arthur 9.

 		Family: F6443
 
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ERIK GUSTAF JOHNSON. It was in 1867 that John Ljunggren, a carpenter, made a cradle for Erik Gustaf, the newborn son of Jonas Swenson, a farmer in Frövik, Jersnäs parish, Småland. The little boy grew up and as there were nine brothers and sisters in the family, Erik decided to immigrate to America. He tried to travel with a large emigrant group like the S. M. Swenson excursion, but he was told he was too young. The one who had made his cradle was now about to help him get to America. Mr. John Ljunggren was also Erik’s maternal uncle. He worked for a few years in Austin, first for Dr. Steiner, and later for Bishop Kinsolving.
In 1901, he married Hannah Mathilda Fredrikson in Austin. The ceremony was performed by the pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church in Austin, C. G. Widen. Mrs. Johnson was born in Sundsholm, Jersnäs parish, Småland, in 1879, and she arrived in America and Elgin, Texas, in 1904. The Johnsons moved to the country in the vicinity of Austin. They later settled in Hutto, Texas, for about six years. In 1907 Mr. Johnson bought land in the Lund community, where they now have a beautiful farm and a comfortable home. There are three children: Alice 1903, Francis 1906, and Margareth 1910.
They are members of the Lutheran Congregation in Lund, where Mr. Johnson is a deacon in the congregation. He has been honored with the position of school trustee in the community.

 		Family: F6444
 

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