Swedish lung disease victim. Mrs. Peter F. Falkman (most Swedish women did not use their husbands' last names in those days). Beautiful Matilda was the daughter, and youngest of eight children, of Johan Petter Andersson and Anna Katrina Andersdotter. She had recently married the corpulent baker Falkman when she caught 'lung soot', as a variety of pulmonary diseases was called in Swedish in those days. The illness rapidly destroyed her health and killed her. The couple had not had time to have any children. Falkman bought a grave, in perpetuity, for his young wife's remains in Enköping, and she was buried there. He moved way up north to Umeå, where he had family, and passed away there a few years later himself. Members of his family inherited the grave certificate, and members of hers didn't get a copy of it until the early 2000's. The location of her grave was then able to be determined, after having been unknown to current generations. It is now occupied by other people, the 'perpetuity' of the grave purchase having been disregarded by 1935.
Swedish lung disease victim. Mrs. Peter F. Falkman (most Swedish women did not use their husbands' last names in those days). Beautiful Matilda was the daughter, and youngest of eight children, of Johan Petter Andersson and Anna Katrina Andersdotter. She had recently married the corpulent baker Falkman when she caught 'lung soot', as a variety of pulmonary diseases was called in Swedish in those days. The illness rapidly destroyed her health and killed her. The couple had not had time to have any children. Falkman bought a grave, in perpetuity, for his young wife's remains in Enköping, and she was buried there. He moved way up north to Umeå, where he had family, and passed away there a few years later himself. Members of his family inherited the grave certificate, and members of hers didn't get a copy of it until the early 2000's. The location of her grave was then able to be determined, after having been unknown to current generations. It is now occupied by other people, the 'perpetuity' of the grave purchase having been disregarded by 1935.
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