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From: "Pat Smith" <>
Subject: Re: Will Look-up
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 06:35:01 PST


> Tom,
First I want to ask you a few questions. How do you make the neat
little dots over their names? You said you might go to Galesburg to do
some checking, how far do you live from there? If you ever do go and
are in the coutr house could I get you to check 2 births for me?
Now, the only Freeburg I found was an Andrew. Maybe it will help
someone else. Born 30 May, 1858 at Emmetslov, Skane; emigrated in 1875.
Settled in Galesburg; visited Sweden in 1876 and rented a farm 5 miles
southwest of Abington.
I found Katrina and Karolina Svensons but these were before yours came
over. Most of the people in the book came from 1832 to 1860.
John Carlson of Altona was a trustee of the Mission Society in 1877.
I found some Hawkinsons,doubt they are any of yours. G.,
Louisa(Erickson), Olaf, Peter, P.L.
Well send on the others. We have to find someone in all this.
Pat

>

>
>Thank you very much for taking the time. So much of what we do is
fruitl=
>ess, but every once in a while, there is a nugget that keeps us going.
>
>None of the Olsons appear to fit my g-grandmother, who was born in
Kristi=
>anstad l=E4n in southern Sweden. When I checked to see where
S=F6derala =
>parish is located, I found it a healthy distance north of Stockholm.
Olo=
>f or Olaf would have been considered the same name as Ole. Is there
anyt=
>hing additional about the Nils Olson that was a tailor? We don't know
wh=
>at our Nils did for an occupation.
>
>However, the information you provide on Nils Hakanson is startling.
If, =
>indeed, this is the same Nils H=E5kansson, it would explain a few
mysteri=
>es. =20
>
>If he was a deacon in the Wataga church, it could explain how my
g-grandp=
>arents met. When I asked my grandfather that question twenty years
ago, =
>his only response was that it was his understanding that they met "at
som=
>e church doins'." It had puzzled me how they could live so far apart
(So=
>perville to Barefoot was a sizable distance in those days) and carry on
a=
> courtship. We know that in 1877, they were in Soperville, but they
coul=
>d easily have moved eastward toward Wataga, which we _don't_ know
about. =
> We do know that about 1890 or 1891, Thomas and Nila moved to
Galesburg.
>
>We know that my grandfather's memory was faulty -- he may remember that
N=
>ils was buried in the churchyard, but it may have been Wataga instead
of =
>Soperville -- especially if Nils were deacon there in 1879 (although
he =
>didn't die for another twenty years). It might also explain why there
wa=
>s no mention of Nils in the records at the Messiah Lutheran Church in
Sop=
>erville, while I did find Thomas' name.
>
>Is there anything else about this Nils Hakanson you found? I can see
tha=
>t I'm going to have to find time to get back to Galesburg so I can
follow=
> this up. In the meantime, I'll check with Swenson at Augie to check
it =
>out as well.
>
>
>That was my paternal grandfather's family; since you asked, perhaps you
c=
>an check for my paternal grandmother's family. "Gus" Freeburg (born
Carl=
> Gustaf Carlsson) and his brother John apparently came to America
before =
>1878 (Gus was naturalized in 1883), coming from the village/parish of
Nyk=
>il in Oestergoetland, Sweden. He married Hilma Kristina Svensson
(Svensd=
>otter), who came to the US in 1883 with her sister, Karolina Mathilda,
fr=
>om Morlunda in Kalmar lan in Sweden. They had seven children -- Anna,
Ca=
>rl, Nellie, Florence, Reuben, Ruth (who died in infancy) and David, who
w=
>as born after Gus died in a railroad acciddent in November of 1897. In
1=
>902, Hilma died in Rock Island, leaving the six surviving children as
orp=
>hans.
>
>In 1873, Gus' brother John married Vandla C. Schon (about whom we know
no=
>thing). They had three children -- Charles (who was killed in another
ra=
>ilroad accident a few years before Gus), John Thor (who had moved to
Denv=
>er by 1935) aand Gust W. (who worked in Washington DC, returning to die
i=
>n Galesburg in 1958). =20
>
>Don't think you'll find much on them, as they all moved back and forth
be=
>tween Galesburg and Kewanee a lot. If you're still anxious to look
thru =
>the book, there's still my maternal grandparents!
>
>

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