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Nancy Wiberg Jones (jonesna1@aol.com) on Tuesday, July 23, 2002 at 01:23:43
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realname: Nancy Wiberg Jones
email: jonesna1@aol.com
Address1: 17415 Gibraltar Court
Address2: San Diego, CA 92128
Phone: (858) 485-6069
Research_name: Sofia Mattsdotter
Birth_date: August 5, 1858
Birth_place: Westuitland
Emigration_date: before 1884
Emigration_to: Iron Mountain, MI USA
Death_date: June 23, 1903
Death_place: Lake Sarah, MN USA
Comments: Father: Mathias Anderson
Mother: Anna [--?--]
Marriage: July 28, 1884, Iron Mountain, MI, USA
Husband: Lars Otto Karlsson
Husband's place of birth: Gärdhem, Älvsborgs län
Excerpts from Nyquist Family Reunion pamphlet 8-11-1984:
Lars immigrated to the United States in 1879 (note: Immigration
records show Lars emigrated in 1881) and settled in Iron Mountain,
Michigan. As happened so often with Swedish immigrants, he changed
his last name from Karlsson to Nyquist, probably because of the
large number of fellow immigrants with the same last name of
Karlsson. (Nyquist may mean 'new branch,' or be broken into 'Ny'
for the original home in Sweden and 'Quist,' which means 'branch.'
At Iron Mountain, Lars worked in the area's copper mines, and later
managed a lodging house. There he met Sophie Mattson, who had also
immigrated from Westuitland (sic), Sweden and who was working in the
same lodging house. They were married in 1884. In 1885 they
homesteaded to Lake Sarah (Murray County), in the southwestern part
of Minnesota where they established a farm and would live for the
next 25 years.
Life at Lake Sarah was very much influenced by the Swedish farming
community that it was. Lars and Sophie had immigrated from Sweden
as part of a large group that stayed intact through their settlement
at Iron Mountain, Michigan. From there, half went to Lake Sarah,
and the other half to northern Minnesota. The community spoke
Swedish, and it wasn't until Mabel and Laura started school that
they actually started to learn English.
Lars and Sophie helped organize the Baptist Church at Lake Sarah.
Both liked to have a good time and would go out socially, either at
church activities or homes of friends. The fact remains, however,
that the farms were isolated and life was made up of long days in
the field, early to bed, with little time for getting with neighbors
except for Sundays.
Shortly after giving birth to Laura, Sophie contracted phlebitis.
She died in June 1903 and was buried under a tall, slender tombstone
at the lake Sarah Baptist Church, Slayton, Minnesota. The
inscription on her tombstone is the Swedish translation of John
11:25 - 'I am the ressurection, and the life; he that believeth in
me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.'
Locate_ancestor: Ja
Locate_realtives: Ja
Place: Ontario
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The servant maid Sofia Mattiasdotter born Aug. 5, 1858 at Tvättängen,
Rommele parish, Göteborgs- och Bohus county left for America from Karl Johan
parish in the city of Göteborg. She got her utflyttningsbetyg on June 28,
1882. Her parents are listed as tenant farmer Mattias Andersson and Anna
Britta Olofsdotter.
I also found her in the Swedish passengerlists: sophia Mattson, 23 years
old, left for America from the port of Göteborg on June 30, 1882. She is
listed as coming from Göteborg and she had a ticket for Quebec. Soruce code:
20:428:526.
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