Swedish matriarch. She was Mrs. August T. Anderson (Swedish women did not normally use the last names of their husbands at that time) and had six children among which the first, a daughter, died in infancy. She played the piano and wrote engaging letters. Her parents got married eleven years after her birth and until then she went by the surname of Mellström in school. It seems clear that she then often stayed with her maternal grandmother with whom she was photographed in a very early portrait. She moved in with her parents as soon as they were married. On the invitation to her wedding her father and mother are clearly identified. She died of pneumonia and left her five surviving children in the ages of 4 months to 11 years. Her widower was devastated. In 1989 on the 100th anniversary of her death, nine of her grandchildren and a large amount of great-grandchildren remembered her at her recently rediscovered grave. The location was then recalled by the First Lady of her husband's greater family Greta Höök, and it was then the same grave as that of non-related Mr. & Mrs. Karl Elof Modig.
Swedish matriarch. She was Mrs. August T. Anderson (Swedish women did not normally use the last names of their husbands at that time) and had six children among which the first, a daughter, died in infancy. She played the piano and wrote engaging letters. Her parents got married eleven years after her birth and until then she went by the surname of Mellström in school. It seems clear that she then often stayed with her maternal grandmother with whom she was photographed in a very early portrait. She moved in with her parents as soon as they were married. On the invitation to her wedding her father and mother are clearly identified. She died of pneumonia and left her five surviving children in the ages of 4 months to 11 years. Her widower was devastated. In 1989 on the 100th anniversary of her death, nine of her grandchildren and a large amount of great-grandchildren remembered her at her recently rediscovered grave. The location was then recalled by the First Lady of her husband's greater family Greta Höök, and it was then the same grave as that of non-related Mr. & Mrs. Karl Elof Modig.
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