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From: Lana Summerlin <>
Subject: [SDCLAY] Julia Hanson
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:21:38 -0800

Posted on: Clay Co. SD Obituaries
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Surname: HANSON, ANDERSON
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AGED PIONEER PASSES SUNDAY AFTER STROKE
Mrs. Julia Hanson One of Few Great Great Grandmother in the State
A stroke, suffered on the 80th birthday, resulted in death to Mrs. Julia
Anderson Hanson, one of Clay county's oldest pioneers in point of residence.
Mrs. Hanson passed away at her home on West Main street at 10:30 Sunday
evening from the effects of a stroke the preceding Thursday. Funeral services
will be held at the home here at 1:00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and at
2:00 o'clock at the Bergen Lutheran church. The Elmore funeral service
will have charge of the interment at the cemetery, two miles north of the
Bergen church.
Mrs. Hanson was a life-long member of the Bergen Lutheran church and was
a member of the first class to be confirmed there.
Mrs. Hanson's death broke up one of the few families in the state, and
the nation as well, in which there were five generations living. She had
been a great great grandmother for some time.
Julia Anderson was born October 29,1856, at LaCrosse, Wis., and came to
what was then Dakota Territory with her parents when only four years old
and had resided here ever since. When they first arrived here and settled
just west of Vermillion, they were one of the first families to settle
in that section and suffered all the hardships usual to that day and age
on the unsettled prairie. At that time the Indians still considered themselves
as the owners of this state and were frequent visitors, both friendly and
otherwise, to the Anderson home. In 1872 she was married to Elling Hanson,
of this community, who passed away November 17,1926. During the latter
years of their lives they made their home on West Main street. Since his
death, Mrs. Hanson had made her home with her son, Oliver, on West Main
here, and with a daughter at Centerville,Iowa. She had just returned from
a visit with the daughter a week before her death. There were 12 children
born to Mr. and Mrs. Hanson, seven of whom passed away in infancy. Surviving
are two daughters and three sons. They are Mrs. A.C. Anderson and Oliver
Hanson, both of Vermillion, George, of Sioux City, Alfred of Vermillion,
and Mrs. Frank Vickery, of Centerville,IA. Twenty-nine grandchildren, 23
great grandchildren and one great great grandchild also survive.

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