My Trails into the Past

This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. Mathilda Lovisa Eriksson was a small woman. Born 21 December 1871 in Tidersrum, Östergötland län (county), Sweden, to parents Karl Johan Ericksson and Stina Maja Samuelsdotter, she came to America in spring of 1888 with her sister, Karolina, who was a year older. [1] Their travels included the trip to Hull, England by the ship Marsdin , a train across England to Liverpool, and then the ship Republic to New York. [2] Their jobs in America were supposedly as au pairs and they assumed the name Holm. There are no records of their lives before marriage. Mathilda was called Lovisa. She married Per Alfred Lundquist in Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa on 15 March 1892. [3] Per Alfred and Lovisa had three children: J...

This is my second year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. I have shared many family photos on my blogs, so trying to find one that has not been shared before was tough. Nils Malkom Nilsen was my husband’s great-grandfather. He emigrated to America in 1889. [1] He married his first wife, Ida Christina Svensson in 1890, [2] but she and her young son passed away in 1891. [3] He returned to Sweden and returned to America with Hulda Charlotte Anderson-Carlson, to whom he married in Youngstown, Ohio, on 20 May 1893. [4] They had six children: Nils Arthur Nathaniel, Carl David Harry, Joseph Andrew Walter, Ernest Gedion Ferdinand, Berger Malcolm Sylvania, and Esther Hulda Victoria. This photo was probably taken in Hilmar, California, where Nils Malkom was pas...

Pehr Alfred Andersson Lundquist was my husband’s maternal great grandfather. He was born in Sweden 19 May 1856 in Wädbäcken, Grolanda, Skaraborg to Anders Eliasson and Cajsa Pehrsdotter. [1] Last week’s 52 Ancestors post on Anders Eliasson is here . Pehr Alfred immigrated to America when he was just 9 years old, arriving with his family in New York on 9 Jul 1866 aboard the City of Manchester . [2]  Once in America, the family's surname became Lundquist. By 1870, he was the only child still living with his parents on a farm in Jefferson County, Iowa. [3] He purchased 80 acres of land on 11 Oct 1883 in Montgomery County, Iowa from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company for $1120. [4] The railroads only needed the land wide enough to lay their tracks and build a few stations and yards, so then sold the excess land to farmers. Pehr Alfred married Mathilda Lovisa Ericksdotter-Holm on 15 Mar 1892 in Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa. [5] Their marriage application...