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...