My mother, Elvera Maria Johansdotter Lundeen Lindberg, by Fillmore Lindberg:
Elvera Maria Lindberg was the first child of Johan and Bothilda Åkesdotter. She was born on September 29, 1879 (the church records show her birth date as September 30th) at Revsund, Jämptland, Sweden. [See note at end of bio.] The family lived at Rebsund, Morsil and Ragunda, Jämptland while Johan worked with the building of the railroad from Trondheim, Norway to Sundsvall, on the east coast of Sweden. In 1884 or 1885 the family returned to Elmaboda, Kronebergs Län and this evidently was where she went to school until they left for America in September 1891. On our 1997 trip to Sweden we stopped at this school which is now a historical center. Norma Elofsson Nilsson works here; her mother, Ellen Lilly Johansson Elofsson was my 2nd cousin and a sister to our dear friend Annie Johansson Karlsson. Norma and her husband, Jan Erik Nilsson, with the help of a friend brought us to the overgrown site of the homestead where Johan, Bothilda and family lived until the time when they journeyed to America in 1891. It was named torpet Grönalund, Åskefälla. Johan left Sweden in the spring of 1888 for Ironwood, Michigan where Bothilda's brother Franz was working in the iron mines. It must have been a difficult time for the family while John was in America but he must have sent them money to survive, especially difficult just prior to leaving. Johan returned to Sweden sometime in 1891 to make arrangements for the family's trip to America and then returned to Ironwood, Michigan. Prior to the family's arrival in North Branch, Minnesota, Johan joined his brother Petter in North Branch and made arrangements for a place for his family to live when they arrived here in late September 1891. Elvera was 12 years old at this time. I have not found any record of her going to school in North Branch but I know that she left North Branch not too long afterwards and went to Duluth, Minnesota and lived and worked for a Johnson family. This family evidently were friends in Sweden and it was during this time that she was confirmed at the Swedish Evangelical Bethania Church in Duluth on June 2nd, 1895. This is recorded in her "Några Minnesord för Konfirmander" book. Her her name is shown as Mary Lundin; her teacher was Carl O. Cassel. In the book there is a small envelope with a bible verse from Matthew 5 verse 23-24 a note on the envelope says, "ett mini fran Chicago till Elvera from Christina." I have never heard of a friend Christina. Sometime later she returned to North Branch. I know that she worked for a Berg family there. She was a good seamstress and also made many beautiful doilies and other fine handwork. Her siblings, Axel, Jenny, Hilma and Herman attended school at the Rystrom School, just northwest of North Branch. Also attending school there were the children of Peter Lindberg. Victor Lindberg became a good friend of Herman Lundin and may have had something to do with the developing friendship between the two families. Mrs. Lindberg passed away in 1908 at the time her youngest child, Ward, was only 5 years old. The Lindberg family had moved from the house in North Branch to the Stridbeck farm west of North Branch due to the illness of Mrs. Lindberg's mother Helena, who was married to Ole Stridbeck. Helena passed away in 1904. The Lindberg family continued to live with Ole Stridbeck. A few years later Hilma Lindberg became ill and it led to her death. I believe that at that time Elvera was hired as housekeeper and nursemaid in the Lindberg household and this arrangement probably continued until Peter and Elvera were married on January 28, 1909. At this time I don't know if they lived on the Stridbeck farm or if they lived in the house in North Branch until the time that they moved onto the farm that Peter bought for $3500 east of North Branch on May 10, 1910. It consisted of 100 acres with an old barn, an old house with 2 large bedrooms and 2 smaller ones upstairs, a large kitchen with pantry, a small room which served as a "bathroom", also a large dining room and next to it was the "parlor" which was occasionally used as the place to visit with friends and family. This room was on the north part of the house and therefore was used only in the summer because it was not heated during the winter but it was the place where the Christmas tree was always set up. I remember going across the road and going down to the "swamp" to find and cut the annual Christmas tree. Us kids would always take part in decorating the tree and hanging the candles on the branches in such a way that they would be vertical so as not to drip or cause the candle flame to ignite the tree. Someone always had to be on guard during the times that the candles were lit. "Kjugende knut" or 13 days after Christmas was the evening when Christmas was over and a time when our neighbors took turns entertaining and the Christmas tree was thrown out, ending Christmas. One of our neighbors, Oscar Johnson, told me that he remembers one such time when our house was the place of such an occasion and that my dad threw the tree out before they went home. It must have been a very stressful time for Elvera to move into a house that was not in very good shape and to settle in with children in Peter's first family ranging in age from 14 to 7 and Ole Stridbeck. On November 14, 1910 her first child was born. He was named Ervin Helmer and almost 5 years later a baby girl was born on October 25, 1915 and was named Elphie Olivia. Peter had a sister named Olivia. A third child, Carl Reynold, was born on February 25, 1917, followed by a fourth child, Fillmore Verner, born on July 23, 1918. Sometime after Carl was born Elvera had a serious illness that bordered on tuberculosis, but she recovered before I was born. Now she really had a house full of people to cook and care for, but in spite of being a small person she always found a way to manage the long hours and hard work. Her cooking skills had been learned very well into an excellent cook and she knew how to make the best krup kakor and blod pait (blood dumplings similar to krup kakor), rice pudding and other Swedish dishes. When she made rye bread she would take the excess dough from the loaves and flatten it and then lay it on the floor of the oven to bake. It seemed that it had an even better taste than the regular loaves. She also made the best biscuits. I remember being in the kitchen when she had just taken them out of the oven and I had to have 1 or 2 when they were so hot that I had to toss them from one hand to the other to cool them off before I could eat them.
MN certid# 1943-MN-002584
Date of Death: 02 Mar 1943
County of Death: CHISAGO
LINDBERG, ELVIRA MARIE
Date of Birth: na
Place of Birth: na
Mother Maiden Name: na
Father: Johannas
Mother: Bothilda
Spouse: Peter
NOTE: When I saw that the birth date did not match what is listed in the church records, I took a look at the Revsund birth records. Both of the previous dates are wrong. Elvira was born 3 September 1879.
-Dave Johnson
Elvera Maria Lindberg was the first child of Johan and Bothilda Åkesdotter. She was born on September 29, 1879 (the church records show her birth date as September 30th) at Revsund, Jämptland, Sweden. [See note at end of bio.] The family lived at Rebsund, Morsil and Ragunda, Jämptland while Johan worked with the building of the railroad from Trondheim, Norway to Sundsvall, on the east coast of Sweden. In 1884 or 1885 the family returned to Elmaboda, Kronebergs Län and this evidently was where she went to school until they left for America in September 1891. On our 1997 trip to Sweden we stopped at this school which is now a historical center. Norma Elofsson Nilsson works here; her mother, Ellen Lilly Johansson Elofsson was my 2nd cousin and a sister to our dear friend Annie Johansson Karlsson. Norma and her husband, Jan Erik Nilsson, with the help of a friend brought us to the overgrown site of the homestead where Johan, Bothilda and family lived until the time when they journeyed to America in 1891. It was named torpet Grönalund, Åskefälla. Johan left Sweden in the spring of 1888 for Ironwood, Michigan where Bothilda's brother Franz was working in the iron mines. It must have been a difficult time for the family while John was in America but he must have sent them money to survive, especially difficult just prior to leaving. Johan returned to Sweden sometime in 1891 to make arrangements for the family's trip to America and then returned to Ironwood, Michigan. Prior to the family's arrival in North Branch, Minnesota, Johan joined his brother Petter in North Branch and made arrangements for a place for his family to live when they arrived here in late September 1891. Elvera was 12 years old at this time. I have not found any record of her going to school in North Branch but I know that she left North Branch not too long afterwards and went to Duluth, Minnesota and lived and worked for a Johnson family. This family evidently were friends in Sweden and it was during this time that she was confirmed at the Swedish Evangelical Bethania Church in Duluth on June 2nd, 1895. This is recorded in her "Några Minnesord för Konfirmander" book. Her her name is shown as Mary Lundin; her teacher was Carl O. Cassel. In the book there is a small envelope with a bible verse from Matthew 5 verse 23-24 a note on the envelope says, "ett mini fran Chicago till Elvera from Christina." I have never heard of a friend Christina. Sometime later she returned to North Branch. I know that she worked for a Berg family there. She was a good seamstress and also made many beautiful doilies and other fine handwork. Her siblings, Axel, Jenny, Hilma and Herman attended school at the Rystrom School, just northwest of North Branch. Also attending school there were the children of Peter Lindberg. Victor Lindberg became a good friend of Herman Lundin and may have had something to do with the developing friendship between the two families. Mrs. Lindberg passed away in 1908 at the time her youngest child, Ward, was only 5 years old. The Lindberg family had moved from the house in North Branch to the Stridbeck farm west of North Branch due to the illness of Mrs. Lindberg's mother Helena, who was married to Ole Stridbeck. Helena passed away in 1904. The Lindberg family continued to live with Ole Stridbeck. A few years later Hilma Lindberg became ill and it led to her death. I believe that at that time Elvera was hired as housekeeper and nursemaid in the Lindberg household and this arrangement probably continued until Peter and Elvera were married on January 28, 1909. At this time I don't know if they lived on the Stridbeck farm or if they lived in the house in North Branch until the time that they moved onto the farm that Peter bought for $3500 east of North Branch on May 10, 1910. It consisted of 100 acres with an old barn, an old house with 2 large bedrooms and 2 smaller ones upstairs, a large kitchen with pantry, a small room which served as a "bathroom", also a large dining room and next to it was the "parlor" which was occasionally used as the place to visit with friends and family. This room was on the north part of the house and therefore was used only in the summer because it was not heated during the winter but it was the place where the Christmas tree was always set up. I remember going across the road and going down to the "swamp" to find and cut the annual Christmas tree. Us kids would always take part in decorating the tree and hanging the candles on the branches in such a way that they would be vertical so as not to drip or cause the candle flame to ignite the tree. Someone always had to be on guard during the times that the candles were lit. "Kjugende knut" or 13 days after Christmas was the evening when Christmas was over and a time when our neighbors took turns entertaining and the Christmas tree was thrown out, ending Christmas. One of our neighbors, Oscar Johnson, told me that he remembers one such time when our house was the place of such an occasion and that my dad threw the tree out before they went home. It must have been a very stressful time for Elvera to move into a house that was not in very good shape and to settle in with children in Peter's first family ranging in age from 14 to 7 and Ole Stridbeck. On November 14, 1910 her first child was born. He was named Ervin Helmer and almost 5 years later a baby girl was born on October 25, 1915 and was named Elphie Olivia. Peter had a sister named Olivia. A third child, Carl Reynold, was born on February 25, 1917, followed by a fourth child, Fillmore Verner, born on July 23, 1918. Sometime after Carl was born Elvera had a serious illness that bordered on tuberculosis, but she recovered before I was born. Now she really had a house full of people to cook and care for, but in spite of being a small person she always found a way to manage the long hours and hard work. Her cooking skills had been learned very well into an excellent cook and she knew how to make the best krup kakor and blod pait (blood dumplings similar to krup kakor), rice pudding and other Swedish dishes. When she made rye bread she would take the excess dough from the loaves and flatten it and then lay it on the floor of the oven to bake. It seemed that it had an even better taste than the regular loaves. She also made the best biscuits. I remember being in the kitchen when she had just taken them out of the oven and I had to have 1 or 2 when they were so hot that I had to toss them from one hand to the other to cool them off before I could eat them.
MN certid# 1943-MN-002584
Date of Death: 02 Mar 1943
County of Death: CHISAGO
LINDBERG, ELVIRA MARIE
Date of Birth: na
Place of Birth: na
Mother Maiden Name: na
Father: Johannas
Mother: Bothilda
Spouse: Peter
NOTE: When I saw that the birth date did not match what is listed in the church records, I took a look at the Revsund birth records. Both of the previous dates are wrong. Elvira was born 3 September 1879.
-Dave Johnson
My mother, Elvera Maria Johansdotter Lundeen Lindberg, by Fillmore Lindberg:
Elvera Maria Lindberg was the first child of Johan and Bothilda Åkesdotter. She was born on September 29, 1879 (the church records show her birth date as September 30th) at Revsund, Jämptland, Sweden. [See note at end of bio.] The family lived at Rebsund, Morsil and Ragunda, Jämptland while Johan worked with the building of the railroad from Trondheim, Norway to Sundsvall, on the east coast of Sweden. In 1884 or 1885 the family returned to Elmaboda, Kronebergs Län and this evidently was where she went to school until they left for America in September 1891. On our 1997 trip to Sweden we stopped at this school which is now a historical center. Norma Elofsson Nilsson works here; her mother, Ellen Lilly Johansson Elofsson was my 2nd cousin and a sister to our dear friend Annie Johansson Karlsson. Norma and her husband, Jan Erik Nilsson, with the help of a friend brought us to the overgrown site of the homestead where Johan, Bothilda and family lived until the time when they journeyed to America in 1891. It was named torpet Grönalund, Åskefälla. Johan left Sweden in the spring of 1888 for Ironwood, Michigan where Bothilda's brother Franz was working in the iron mines. It must have been a difficult time for the family while John was in America but he must have sent them money to survive, especially difficult just prior to leaving. Johan returned to Sweden sometime in 1891 to make arrangements for the family's trip to America and then returned to Ironwood, Michigan. Prior to the family's arrival in North Branch, Minnesota, Johan joined his brother Petter in North Branch and made arrangements for a place for his family to live when they arrived here in late September 1891. Elvera was 12 years old at this time. I have not found any record of her going to school in North Branch but I know that she left North Branch not too long afterwards and went to Duluth, Minnesota and lived and worked for a Johnson family. This family evidently were friends in Sweden and it was during this time that she was confirmed at the Swedish Evangelical Bethania Church in Duluth on June 2nd, 1895. This is recorded in her "Några Minnesord för Konfirmander" book. Her her name is shown as Mary Lundin; her teacher was Carl O. Cassel. In the book there is a small envelope with a bible verse from Matthew 5 verse 23-24 a note on the envelope says, "ett mini fran Chicago till Elvera from Christina." I have never heard of a friend Christina. Sometime later she returned to North Branch. I know that she worked for a Berg family there. She was a good seamstress and also made many beautiful doilies and other fine handwork. Her siblings, Axel, Jenny, Hilma and Herman attended school at the Rystrom School, just northwest of North Branch. Also attending school there were the children of Peter Lindberg. Victor Lindberg became a good friend of Herman Lundin and may have had something to do with the developing friendship between the two families. Mrs. Lindberg passed away in 1908 at the time her youngest child, Ward, was only 5 years old. The Lindberg family had moved from the house in North Branch to the Stridbeck farm west of North Branch due to the illness of Mrs. Lindberg's mother Helena, who was married to Ole Stridbeck. Helena passed away in 1904. The Lindberg family continued to live with Ole Stridbeck. A few years later Hilma Lindberg became ill and it led to her death. I believe that at that time Elvera was hired as housekeeper and nursemaid in the Lindberg household and this arrangement probably continued until Peter and Elvera were married on January 28, 1909. At this time I don't know if they lived on the Stridbeck farm or if they lived in the house in North Branch until the time that they moved onto the farm that Peter bought for $3500 east of North Branch on May 10, 1910. It consisted of 100 acres with an old barn, an old house with 2 large bedrooms and 2 smaller ones upstairs, a large kitchen with pantry, a small room which served as a "bathroom", also a large dining room and next to it was the "parlor" which was occasionally used as the place to visit with friends and family. This room was on the north part of the house and therefore was used only in the summer because it was not heated during the winter but it was the place where the Christmas tree was always set up. I remember going across the road and going down to the "swamp" to find and cut the annual Christmas tree. Us kids would always take part in decorating the tree and hanging the candles on the branches in such a way that they would be vertical so as not to drip or cause the candle flame to ignite the tree. Someone always had to be on guard during the times that the candles were lit. "Kjugende knut" or 13 days after Christmas was the evening when Christmas was over and a time when our neighbors took turns entertaining and the Christmas tree was thrown out, ending Christmas. One of our neighbors, Oscar Johnson, told me that he remembers one such time when our house was the place of such an occasion and that my dad threw the tree out before they went home. It must have been a very stressful time for Elvera to move into a house that was not in very good shape and to settle in with children in Peter's first family ranging in age from 14 to 7 and Ole Stridbeck. On November 14, 1910 her first child was born. He was named Ervin Helmer and almost 5 years later a baby girl was born on October 25, 1915 and was named Elphie Olivia. Peter had a sister named Olivia. A third child, Carl Reynold, was born on February 25, 1917, followed by a fourth child, Fillmore Verner, born on July 23, 1918. Sometime after Carl was born Elvera had a serious illness that bordered on tuberculosis, but she recovered before I was born. Now she really had a house full of people to cook and care for, but in spite of being a small person she always found a way to manage the long hours and hard work. Her cooking skills had been learned very well into an excellent cook and she knew how to make the best krup kakor and blod pait (blood dumplings similar to krup kakor), rice pudding and other Swedish dishes. When she made rye bread she would take the excess dough from the loaves and flatten it and then lay it on the floor of the oven to bake. It seemed that it had an even better taste than the regular loaves. She also made the best biscuits. I remember being in the kitchen when she had just taken them out of the oven and I had to have 1 or 2 when they were so hot that I had to toss them from one hand to the other to cool them off before I could eat them.
MN certid# 1943-MN-002584
Date of Death: 02 Mar 1943
County of Death: CHISAGO
LINDBERG, ELVIRA MARIE
Date of Birth: na
Place of Birth: na
Mother Maiden Name: na
Father: Johannas
Mother: Bothilda
Spouse: Peter
NOTE: When I saw that the birth date did not match what is listed in the church records, I took a look at the Revsund birth records. Both of the previous dates are wrong. Elvira was born 3 September 1879.
-Dave Johnson
Elvera Maria Lindberg was the first child of Johan and Bothilda Åkesdotter. She was born on September 29, 1879 (the church records show her birth date as September 30th) at Revsund, Jämptland, Sweden. [See note at end of bio.] The family lived at Rebsund, Morsil and Ragunda, Jämptland while Johan worked with the building of the railroad from Trondheim, Norway to Sundsvall, on the east coast of Sweden. In 1884 or 1885 the family returned to Elmaboda, Kronebergs Län and this evidently was where she went to school until they left for America in September 1891. On our 1997 trip to Sweden we stopped at this school which is now a historical center. Norma Elofsson Nilsson works here; her mother, Ellen Lilly Johansson Elofsson was my 2nd cousin and a sister to our dear friend Annie Johansson Karlsson. Norma and her husband, Jan Erik Nilsson, with the help of a friend brought us to the overgrown site of the homestead where Johan, Bothilda and family lived until the time when they journeyed to America in 1891. It was named torpet Grönalund, Åskefälla. Johan left Sweden in the spring of 1888 for Ironwood, Michigan where Bothilda's brother Franz was working in the iron mines. It must have been a difficult time for the family while John was in America but he must have sent them money to survive, especially difficult just prior to leaving. Johan returned to Sweden sometime in 1891 to make arrangements for the family's trip to America and then returned to Ironwood, Michigan. Prior to the family's arrival in North Branch, Minnesota, Johan joined his brother Petter in North Branch and made arrangements for a place for his family to live when they arrived here in late September 1891. Elvera was 12 years old at this time. I have not found any record of her going to school in North Branch but I know that she left North Branch not too long afterwards and went to Duluth, Minnesota and lived and worked for a Johnson family. This family evidently were friends in Sweden and it was during this time that she was confirmed at the Swedish Evangelical Bethania Church in Duluth on June 2nd, 1895. This is recorded in her "Några Minnesord för Konfirmander" book. Her her name is shown as Mary Lundin; her teacher was Carl O. Cassel. In the book there is a small envelope with a bible verse from Matthew 5 verse 23-24 a note on the envelope says, "ett mini fran Chicago till Elvera from Christina." I have never heard of a friend Christina. Sometime later she returned to North Branch. I know that she worked for a Berg family there. She was a good seamstress and also made many beautiful doilies and other fine handwork. Her siblings, Axel, Jenny, Hilma and Herman attended school at the Rystrom School, just northwest of North Branch. Also attending school there were the children of Peter Lindberg. Victor Lindberg became a good friend of Herman Lundin and may have had something to do with the developing friendship between the two families. Mrs. Lindberg passed away in 1908 at the time her youngest child, Ward, was only 5 years old. The Lindberg family had moved from the house in North Branch to the Stridbeck farm west of North Branch due to the illness of Mrs. Lindberg's mother Helena, who was married to Ole Stridbeck. Helena passed away in 1904. The Lindberg family continued to live with Ole Stridbeck. A few years later Hilma Lindberg became ill and it led to her death. I believe that at that time Elvera was hired as housekeeper and nursemaid in the Lindberg household and this arrangement probably continued until Peter and Elvera were married on January 28, 1909. At this time I don't know if they lived on the Stridbeck farm or if they lived in the house in North Branch until the time that they moved onto the farm that Peter bought for $3500 east of North Branch on May 10, 1910. It consisted of 100 acres with an old barn, an old house with 2 large bedrooms and 2 smaller ones upstairs, a large kitchen with pantry, a small room which served as a "bathroom", also a large dining room and next to it was the "parlor" which was occasionally used as the place to visit with friends and family. This room was on the north part of the house and therefore was used only in the summer because it was not heated during the winter but it was the place where the Christmas tree was always set up. I remember going across the road and going down to the "swamp" to find and cut the annual Christmas tree. Us kids would always take part in decorating the tree and hanging the candles on the branches in such a way that they would be vertical so as not to drip or cause the candle flame to ignite the tree. Someone always had to be on guard during the times that the candles were lit. "Kjugende knut" or 13 days after Christmas was the evening when Christmas was over and a time when our neighbors took turns entertaining and the Christmas tree was thrown out, ending Christmas. One of our neighbors, Oscar Johnson, told me that he remembers one such time when our house was the place of such an occasion and that my dad threw the tree out before they went home. It must have been a very stressful time for Elvera to move into a house that was not in very good shape and to settle in with children in Peter's first family ranging in age from 14 to 7 and Ole Stridbeck. On November 14, 1910 her first child was born. He was named Ervin Helmer and almost 5 years later a baby girl was born on October 25, 1915 and was named Elphie Olivia. Peter had a sister named Olivia. A third child, Carl Reynold, was born on February 25, 1917, followed by a fourth child, Fillmore Verner, born on July 23, 1918. Sometime after Carl was born Elvera had a serious illness that bordered on tuberculosis, but she recovered before I was born. Now she really had a house full of people to cook and care for, but in spite of being a small person she always found a way to manage the long hours and hard work. Her cooking skills had been learned very well into an excellent cook and she knew how to make the best krup kakor and blod pait (blood dumplings similar to krup kakor), rice pudding and other Swedish dishes. When she made rye bread she would take the excess dough from the loaves and flatten it and then lay it on the floor of the oven to bake. It seemed that it had an even better taste than the regular loaves. She also made the best biscuits. I remember being in the kitchen when she had just taken them out of the oven and I had to have 1 or 2 when they were so hot that I had to toss them from one hand to the other to cool them off before I could eat them.
MN certid# 1943-MN-002584
Date of Death: 02 Mar 1943
County of Death: CHISAGO
LINDBERG, ELVIRA MARIE
Date of Birth: na
Place of Birth: na
Mother Maiden Name: na
Father: Johannas
Mother: Bothilda
Spouse: Peter
NOTE: When I saw that the birth date did not match what is listed in the church records, I took a look at the Revsund birth records. Both of the previous dates are wrong. Elvira was born 3 September 1879.
-Dave Johnson
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