Elwyn Anderson
November 11, 2023 No Comments
My great-grandaunt Anna Swenson-Anderson (second from the right) is shown in the first image seated with her husband Nels Anderson (far left), their son ๐๐น๐๐๐ป ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐ป (far right) and his first wife Marie (second from the left). This photograph from my great-grandmother’s photo album was taken in about 1930, just a few years after Elwyn […]
Nels and Anna Anderson’s Farm
November 10, 2023 No Comments
The first image is a photograph, from my great-grandmotherโs photo album, taken in 1926 at Nels and Anna Andersonโs farm, located in section 14 of Bertha township, one mile southeast of Bertha, Minnesota. My great-grandaunt Anna (fourth from the left) was the second of five children, born to Carl and Mathilda Swenson on April 29, […]
Herman Hokanson
October 13, 2023 No Comments
This is the last known photograph of my great-grandfather, ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ป. He was the eldest of six children born to John and Mathilda Hokanson. He was 8 years old when his father purchased more than 200 acres of land in Todd county, one mile south of Bertha, Minnesota, where the Hokanson family moved in the […]
Clara Hokanson
October 12, 2023 No Comments
The first image is a photograph of my great-grandmother ๐๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ. According to the words inscribed on the back, she was 20 years old when this photograph was taken in 1901. She was born to Carl Gรถran Svensson and Mathilda Rydberg on June 7, 1881 in Hรถgstad, Mjรถlby, รstergรถtland, Sweden. The second image is a photograph […]