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1	Thomas F. and Rachel C. Hamm appear on the 1900 Hill Co. census with child, Annie B., and other siblings	Family: F10986
2	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: F15729
3	13 Jun 2010 sent email to family tree owner "quadsevenprinted"	Family: F15731
4	1785 Marriage Records: Married the 13 Feb. Soldier SVEN GLAD from Sjöafall also Maid ANNIKA JOHANSDOTTER from the same place, morning gift was 10 lode silver. Wittnesses: Urberg, Malmgren and Magnus in Prestegården.	Family: F14936
5	1829 Marriage Records: Married the 25 Okt 1829 JONAS SVENSSON from Barkery?s Skattegård and ANNA MARIA JOHANSDOTTER from Barkeryd?s Prestegård (Preacher?s farm). Bridegroom serving as a farm worker is 28 years old and Bride is a maid, 27 years old. Banns were read 4 Oct. by Com. Almark also the 11 and 18 Oct by v.Pastor Lönblad on the 12 (unreadable). Charter between Bridgroom as he was a farmerworker and poor did not have any witnesses after second?(I do not know, but probably after the second reading of banns). Brides service records are found in the Archives. After wedding was finished in church a Bible was presented to this couple from Frunthimmersällskapet of Stockholm by v. Pastor Lönblad. Wedding was performed during the church service. Their residence is at Soldier farm Månsarp under Ribbingsnäs which the Bridal couple rented. Morning gift according to law.	Family: F4112
6	1910 census indicates 2nd marriage for both	Family: F5776
7	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: F15107
8	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: F15729
9	At the time of the 1900 census, Mons Erick and Johanna were living at 704 East 12th Street in Austin, Texas. Then they moved to Dallas and are found with their son August Cervin's family in 1910 and 1920.	Family: F3221
10	Before Anna Christina and Anders Gottfrid emigrated to Austin Texas they had four children. Only one of them were still alive when they left Sweden. Anders Gottfrid was a farmer at Ryssby in Barkeryd and Brånna in Nässjö parish.	Family: F5053
11	Burial Notes Pensacola Cemetery This cemetery is located about 3 miles west of Carthage, MS. Turn north off of Hwy 16 onto old Hwy 16 and it is about 1/2 mile on NW side of road in a pasture belonging to Sam W. Waggoner. "This is fenced with heavy wire, but badly overgrown with honey suckles and brush. This cemetery is referred to by some as the WALLACE cemetery; but there was a church near here known as PENSACOLA Baptist Church until in the 1880s, when the Baptist Church in Carthage was organized." ________________________________________________________________________ Smith, Francis M. Wife of Adam Smith 11/20/1825 ?(broken)	Family: F7406
12	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
13	Christina was identified as the 2nd wife of C. A. Anderson in the 1910 census.	Family: F916
14	Contact: Catherine Adoue-Greenwood -- catherine.f.greenwood@gmail.com	Family: F6591
15	CORRECTION to SIT page 664: Hildegard was the daughter of Clara Olson and John Lundgren. (Update submitted by Brant Lundgren, Beverly Burkman and Greta Corbitt.)	Family: F5974
16	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: F15712
17	East Sweden, Texas: View Larger Map	Family: F5475
18	Eric and Anna Stenstrom lived at 2724 Morrisson Street, Houston, Texas, USA, beginning around 1930.	Family: F4152
19	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
20	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
21	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
22	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
23	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
24	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
25	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
26	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
27	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
28	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
29	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
30	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
31	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
32	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: F42
33	HerbalGram The Journal of the American Botanical Council Issue: 34 Page: 67 Cyrus Longworth Lundell 1907-1993. HerbalGram. 1995;34:67 American Botanical Council In 1928, as a 21-year-old sophomore at Southern Methodist University (SMU), Cyrus Lundell accepted an appointment as Assistant Physiologist at the Tropical Plant Research Foundation in Washington, D.C. He was to serve as a field assistant in British Honduras (now Belize), undertaking tapping experiments on the sapodilla (Achras zapota) tree, which yields chicle, for the U.S. chewing gum industry. The tapping experiments extended through two seasons. His work was a combination of conservation and economics. Raw chicle soon became one of the principal exports and in 1930, the U.S. importation of chicle had risen to 14 million pounds -- a retail value of more than $100 million. Dr. Lundell loved Mayan culture and archaeology as well as botany. In the fall of 1931, at 24, he continued his sapodilla experiments, studying and collecting the flora of southern Campeche, Mexico. Travel into the Mayan area deep in the forest was only possible by the narrow roads and trails. On the morning of December 29, Lundell and his assistant were cutting their way through wild and lonely jungles in an uncharted area of Campeche 70 miles north of the Guatemalan border. He discovered a large monolith and, for three days he and his assistant explored the site, discovering 65 stelae -- more than any ever found in any other Mayan city -- and two great pyramids. From 1931-33 Dr. Lundell discovered 16 ancient cities and explored numerous other Mayan cities. For the next 11 years he directed botanical expeditions to Guatemala, Mexico, and British Honduras for the Carnegie Institution of Washington and University of Michigan -- all this time studying the flora and researching the fall of the Mayan civilization. He and his wife also found some 450 Guatemalan plants, among which were the parents of such crop plants as squash, pinto beans, chili peppers, and cacao. In fact, Dr. Lundell thought his research on the plant life in this area he called "the food cradle of the Western world" was far more important than the discovery of 16 ancient cities. Years of research of the Mayan civilization helped guide Dr. Lundell's vision and recognize the long-term benefits of conserving our natural heritage. He ignored the all-too-familiar voice saying, "You have to pay the price." He wasn't interested in paying prices but in benefits. You don't pay the price for good health, you enjoy the benefits of good health -- you pay the price for bad health. Dr. Lundell said years ago after much research of the Mayan culture, "The fate of the Maya was the fate of their soul." You don't pay the price for a healthy environment, or a wealth of biodiversity, you enjoy the benefits of a healthy environment and a wealth of biodiversity. You pay the price for a deteriorated environment and a "Sinking Ark." Dr. Lundell was committed to saving the Texas blacklands, a natural heritage. While studying the environmental background of the Maya, he found the blackland soils of the Maya region to be similar to those of his boyhood home south of Austin, Texas, which his grandfather had brought under the plow. Through his interests in archaeology and botany, Dr. Lundell began a crusade related to his roots: saving the Texas blacklands in 1944. He began working to reverse the depletion of north Texas prairies through the establishment of the Institute of Technology and Plant Industry. Two years later the institute was chartered as the privately supported Texas Research Foundation. What began at SMU in 1944 continues today in the same spirit as the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT). A few other highlights in Dr. Lundell's long list of achievements: - Discovered and named over 2,000 plants, many of them Texas natives - Started the botanical journal Wrightia; authored or co-authored over 200 scientific and popular papers, various books, including Flora of Texas, and sponsored publication of the Manual of Vascular Plants of Texas - Trustee, Carver Foundation - Member Agricultural Board, National Academy of Science, National Research Council, Washington - Awarded Guatemala's greatest honor, the Order of Quetzal, commemorating 50 years of research in botany, agriculture, and Mayan Archaeology (1981) (Based on a memorial presentation delivered at the First Annual International Excellence in Botany Award of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, February 21, 1995.) Article copyright American Botanical Council. ~~~~~~~~ By Barney Lipscomb American Botanical Council, 6200 Manor Rd, Austin, TX 78723 Phone: 512-926-4900 \| Fax: 512-926-2345 Website: www.herbalgram.org \| Email: American Botanical Council The information on this site is intended for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for the advice of a qualified healthcare professional. The American Botanical Council does not endorse or test products, nor does it verify the content or claims made, either implicit or explicit. ABC does not accept responsibility for the consequences of the use of this information or its most up-to-date accuracy. ABC is a nonprofit, tax-exempt research and education organization under IRS section 501(c)(3). All text, images and content Copyright © 2005 American Botanical Council, unless otherwise noted.	Family: F8061
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35	Hulda was a mail order bride, according to Florence Helgren Eanes and Alick "Bud" Helgren.	Family: F6097
36	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: F68
37	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: F89
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42	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
43	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
44	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
45	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
46	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: F71
47	Justice J.P. Yearnigan performed the ceremony, which was one of the first in Fisher County.	Family: F111
48	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: F11443
49	Lillie died in childbirth, along with the child. Date unknown.	Family: F842
50	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Family: F186