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From: Cathie <>
Subject: Re: [KSALLEN] Plea for help on emigrants!
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 09:25:26 -0500
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Thank you Nancy. I'm not hopeful that this is the same family. Nils, did not leave Sweden until September 10, 1889 and is
accounted for up to that time in the archives held in Lund, Sweden. That's why I did not check the 1880 census at LDS....they had
not come here until almost 10 years later.
There is a postcard from these folks mailed from La Harpe, KS to Nils' daughter, Maria (from his first marriage) in Sweden,
postmarked December 19, 1900 or 1901 (the last digit is curly-"q"'d with a tail so don't know if that was meant to be a zero or a
one). In that postcard, it states that they are standing in front of the home that they have lived in for 11 years which is about
the time the emigrated to America. I guess that would indicate that they pretty much headed to Kansas shortly after they hit
American soil. The birth years on the census below are way way off - a whole generation too early.
Can you or someone on the list check to see if there is an Alma Nelson in the 1900 census for La Harpe, KS? We are not sure but the
postcard is signed by Alma and addresses to sister-in-law and sent to this half-sister still in Sweden, that maybe this is the lady
that married August Nilsson/Nelson.
Any help to try to figure out where my relation was located in La Harpe or Savonburg Kansas is greatly appreciated.
Cathie

Nancy Willis wrote:

> Cathie, This is the 1900 census for Augustus Nelson. going by birth
> places Augustus may be on the 1880 census in Michigan. You might try
> http://www.familysearch.org for the 1880 census. Elsmore and Savonburg
> was settled by many Swedish people. Many of the names on the census
> page were born in Sweden.
>
> 1900 ALLEN COUNTY KANSAS, ELSMORE TWP. SERIES T-623-Roll 469
> 8 June 1900, SD 25? ED 7, Sheet 6A Pg 63
> Line 6
> -6/104/104
> NELSON, AUGUSTUS, Head, W M b. Oct 1842, Age 55, Mar30y b. SW SW
> SW,Year immigrated 1870, 30 yr US, Hardware Dealer
> NELSON, ANNA C., Wife W F b. Aug 1848?, Marr30yr, 7 children/1liv,
> SWDenmark. DE DE, Immigrated 1870. US 10 yr,
> NELSON, JOHN B., W M, Son, b. Mar 1879, Age 21, Single, MI SW DE, No
> Occ given
> NELSON, EMMA, Dau., W F b. Nov 1886, Age 13, single, b. NE SW DE, AT
> School
> NELSON, JENNIE, Dua, b. Sep 1881, Age 9, b. NE SW DE, AT School
>
> The year of birth for Augustus and Anna C are blurred on the last
> number, Also the age of Anna is difficult to make out. There appear to
> be errors in number of children living and the number of years Anna has
> resided in the United states, I've put what the census reads. Anna's
> place of birth has SW infront of Denmark.
>
> AT this site you will find a listing of the Elsmore cemetery where who
> may be Augustus and Anna are buried. They are listed only by initials.
> http://www.orwells.com/cemeteries.htm
>
> Please let me know if you are a resident of Kansas. Nancy in Kansas
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