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 | 01 Apr 1894 Carl Herman Brodd confirmation photo Confirmation Class Lutheran Church 1894 On April 1, 1894 the above class was confirmed at the Swedeburg Lutheran Church. The man seated in the center is the pastor, Rev. J. Torell, one of the best men who ever came to this country. He was one of the early supporters of Luther College. He came to this country in 1888. Left to right (back row): Minnie Helsing Isaacson, Emily Anderson, Albert Gustafson, Victor Hedlund, Mary Anderson (Mrs. Axel Nelson, Ceresco), and Ellen Johnson (Mrs. Willie Bengston). Front row: Lilly Bengston (Mrs. Herman Brodd), Hanna Louis (Mrs. Dr. Woeppel), Rev. J. Torell, C.H. Brodd and Theodore Brostrom. (This newspaper clipping was not contemporary, it is retrospective from unknown paper, unknown date) | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | 02 Feb 1912 Jeanette Whitehouse Obituary Houston Valley Signal | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | 05 May 1932 Charlie Whitehouse Obituary | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | 1 Jan 1777 Death Henric Pehrsson | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | 1 Jan 1781 Birth Isac Johansson | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | 1 Nov 1761 Marriage Sven Jaensson and Lisken Mattsdotter | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | 10 Feb 1875 Death Magnus Johansson | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | 10 Mar 1812 Marriage Abraham Fyr and Catharina Månsdotter | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | 10 Mar 1879 Death of son of H Olson | 23 Nov 2025 |
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| 1 Jan 1777 Death Henric Pehrsson | 23 Nov 2025 | |
| 1 Jan 1781 Birth Isac Johansson Jean Elaiasson and Stina Larsdotter from Wasselda. Baptized 1 Jan. Godparents Anders Berggquist Johannes Jeansson, Maja Elaiasdotter and Lena Petersdotter. | 23 Nov 2025 | |
| 1 Nov 1761 Marriage Sven Jaensson and Lisken Mattsdotter Marriage of drängen och gårdsbrukaren Sven Jaensson from Ekeryd and Lisken Mattsdotter from Kårarp. Bride's father Mattis Nilsson. | 23 Nov 2025 | |
| 10 Feb 1875 Death Magnus Johansson Died 10 Feb 1875, buried 21 Feb. Förre arrendatorr (former leaseholer) Magnus Johanson i Marbäcks Vestergård. Age 85 years,3 months, 22 days. Married. Cause of death "slagonfall" = stroke. On page 48 of HER. Comment: "En stiller och fridsom man. Efter[..?..] enken Maja Stina Nilsdotter." A quiet and peaceful man, leaves a widow Maja Stina Nilsdotter. | 23 Nov 2025 | |
| 10 Mar 1812 Marriage Abraham Fyr and Catharina Månsdotter No. 2. Bridegroom Soldat No. 23 Norra Vedbo Compagni, Jönköping regiment. Bride: Bondsdotter i Kopparp, banns read 23 Feb, 1 and 8 March. Married in church. | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | 11 Oct 1784 Birth Peter Månsson Baptized 17 Oct. Parents Måns Persson and h. Cathrina Pehrsdotter i Kopparp. Godparents: Nils i ??, h. Maja i ??? Jonas i Högelid, h. Stina i ?? Sold Magnus Bomqvist, pig. Sara i Högelid | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | 12 Mar 1817 Wedding Magnus Johansson and Maria Pehrsdotter Groom Dräng och tillträdande hemmansbrukare (farm hand and prospective lease holder) at Högaskog (part of Håljarp) and bride daughter of Torparen (crofter) at Busshemmet Per Claesson and his wife Maria Nilsdotter. Banns read February 7, 14 and 21. Married in the church. | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | 13 Oc 1812 Marriage Bond for Samuel Black and Elinor Howard | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | 13 September 1937 Marriage Percy Cota and Gertrude Hanson | 23 Nov 2025 |
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 | Carl Arthur Anderson obituary 1974 CARL ANDERSON Carl A. Anderson, longtime South San Francisco resident and principal of Polytechnic High School in San Francisco, died Wednesday at the age of 84. Anderson joined the San Francisco school system in 1924 as a teacher. He served as principal of Noe Valley Junior administrative High, Hamilton Junior High and Galileo High School before becoming the founding principal of Presidio Junior High in 1930. In 1939, he became principal of Poly, serving for 15 years, when he retired in 1954. Anderson was a past president of both the California School Masters Club and the Alfa Field Chapter of the Phi Delta Kappa professional educational fraternity. He began teaching the summer of 1908 I a one-room Nebraska school. He held administrative posts in Nebraska, New York State, and Rawlins, Wyo. where he was superintendent. Anderson was an ordained elder in the United Presbyterian Church, and a longtime member of the Lakeside Presbyterian Church of San Francisco. Survivors include his widow, Beulah Davidson Anderson - their golden wedding anniversary was celebrated in 1961 - a daughter, Phyllis Anderson Wood, and three grandchildren. Private funeral services were held under direction of Garden Chapel in San Francisco. He was buried at Cypress Lawn Cemetery. (copy from Findagrave memorial) | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | Dec 29, 1892 - Swan Carlson accidental death Omaha World-Herald, 29 Dec 1892, Thursday, Page 1 | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | Emma Caroline (Hanson) Carlson obituary 17 Aug 1926 MRS. EMMA CARLSON DIES Wife of Randolph Man Had Lived in and Near Home Most of Life Mrs. Emma C. Carlson, wife of Godtfrey Carlson of Randolph died Tuesday evening at the family home. With her at the time of her death were her husband, her son, Waldon and wife and her son Frank of Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Carleson was born in Watago, Ill., 66 years ago. She came to Kansas as a small child with her father, Lewis Hinson and family, who settled on a homestead west of Randolph. Most of her life has been spent in and near Randolph. She was a sister of L.A. Hanson of this city. The funeral will be held in Randolph Friday at 2 p.m. with interment in the Rose Hill cemetery. | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | Jan 5, 1893 - Swan Carlson accidental death Randolph Enterprise, Randolph, Kansas, Thursday, January 05, 1893 | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | Lewis Alphonso Carlson obituary 18 April 1918 HE GAVE HIS ALL FOR HIS COUNTRY Lewis A. Carlson, who was in Government service with the Aviation section, signal corps, Kelly Field, South San Antonio, Texas, died April 18. The body was brought to Randolph arriving here Monday in charge of Sergeant Simpson B. Smith. Funeral service were held in the Methodist church yesterday afternoon, conducted by the pastor, Rev. R. Gano, assisted by Rev. Perry Cedarhold pastor of the Rose Hill church and Rev. Frank Carlson, now of Fairfield, Conn., a brother of the deceased. Special music was furnished by the High School chorus. As Alfonso was the first Randolph boy to die in the service of his country, whose body was brought here for burial, there was a large attendance at the funeral, and most of the stores and business houses were closed during the funeral hour. Interment was in the Rose Hill Cemetery. Lewis Alfonso Carlson was born in Wahoo, Nebr., May 10, 1998. At the early age of five years this young child was left fatherless. Mr. Carlson having met his death in a railway accident. The next year, in company with his mother and brother, found him planting his feet upon Kansas soil claiming as his home the little farm north of Randolph. Keeping closely in touch with the spirit of the times in which he lived, yearning for the advantages of a higher mental learning at the age of 19 years he entered a business college in Abilene, Kansas. It was during his study in that city that he felt the higher calling to a better life. To this call he surrendered to his Heavenly Father and united with the Methodist Episcopal church of Abilene. During these years he has proven himself true to his Master and to his church, being a member of the Ada Methodist Episcopal Church at the time of his death. After leaving college he began a career in the business world having been in the employ of several different mercantile companies in Kansas and Nebraska. So well did he please his employers and so earnestly did he labor for the success of his firm as well as himself that during the last eight months of his business life he was made traveling salesman for one of the companies. As time passed by and our country was plunged into this great struggle for freedom and justice, Alfonso again heard a call, coming this time from his country to which he responded Dec. 6, 1917. He was first sent to Ft. Logan, Colo., then was transferred to the training camp at San Antonio, Texas, where he met his death, seemingly of heart disease while in bathing in the Medina river near the camp in the early evening of April 18, 1019. He is survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Carlson and his two brothers Frank and Waldon and numerous other relatives and very close friends. Our loss is his coronation. God again has called. True to the spirit of his life again he responds. That true loving patriotic spirit God will honour. The following special to the Enterprise from the publicity bureau Kelley Field, Texas, gives the official account of Mr. Carlson's death. Corporal Lewis A. Carlson, 30 years old, of Randolph, Kansas, stationed with the Aviation section, signal corps, Kelley Field, San Antonio, Texas, was accidentally drowned on Thursday afternoon, April 18 in Medina river, six miles from camp. Accompanied by sixty other soldiers connected with Construction Detachment Headquarters, First Training Brigade to which he was attached Carlson went out to the river for a swim immediately after supper. They boarded several trucks and journeyed down as they had done on various other occasions. Carlson was a very good swimmer and no one paid any particular attention to him until after the soldiers were ready to depart one of them spied a bundle of clothes near shore. Up to this time he had not been missed and inquiry and a search of the clothes established hi identity. His body was found in six foot water lying on the bottom the position indicating that death was probably due to heart failure. As no one heard any cries, or saw him struggling in the water it is not believed by his companions that he suffered any cramp, but that natural causes led to his untimely end. For some time past, Carlson was apparently not in the best of health as he fainted a couple of times during the past few weeks. The body was shipped home Friday evening in charge of Sergeant Simpson Smith, who was a personal friend of the deceased. Lewis A. Carlson was born in Wahoo, Nebr., May 10, 1887. He resided in Randolph, Kansas an enlisted at Fort Logan, Colo., Dec. 11, 1917. He served as a clerk and his first assignment was with the 327th Aero Squadron, from which he was transferred to the Construction Detachment where he was stationed to the time of his death. He was promoted to the rank of Corporal March 1, 1918. Carlson took out a war risk insurance of $10,000 which will be paid to his mother, Emma Caroline Carlson, of Randolph, Kansas. | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | Murders of Percy and Gertrude Cota A Former Blue Rapids Girl Killed in Wyoming Mrs. Percy Cota and Husband Murdered at Ranch Home July 2, Near Laramie, Wyo Mr. and Mrs. Percy Cota, Laramie, Wyo., were shot and instantly killed at their ranch home near Laramie Friday night, July 2. Mrs. Cota was the former Gertrude Jewell, Blue Rapids, where she was born and reared. For 13 years she was a teacher in Marshall county rural schools. The couple were found dead the morning of July 3 by Charles Johnson, foreman of a neighboring ranch. Mrs. Cota had been shot through the head and her husband through the throat. Their bodies had been dragged by the feet from the doorway of their home to a garage 100 feet away and thrown together beside the wooden building. A short piece of rope was knotted about Mrs. Cota’s throat. The couple apparenlty were killed the night before, on their return from a grocery shopping trip to the Tie Siding store at Dale Creek, small depot on the Union Pacific railroad. Cota drove to Laramie July 2 to get his wife, who had been attending summer school for teachers at Wyoming university. Together they started home and stopped at the Tie Siding store. They had carried one load of groceries from their car into their house and were shot as they went back to their car for the rest of the purchases. Their killer apparently had stolen into the house after Cota left for Laramie and lurked there awaiting their return. A meal had been eaten in the Cota’s kitchen and one bed looked as if someone had slept on it for short time. Nothing of value apparently had been taken from the home. Two empty .32 shells lay near the front door. Near the bodies was a man’s green sock in which were found about 30 loaded .32 shells. Johnson had gone to the Cota ranch after he found the Cota’s coupe – blood on one running board – bogged down in a mudhole on a country road a few miles from the ranch. Sheriff Ed A. Wood, Laramie, theorized that the killer drove away from the ranch in the coupe, got on a road that grew smaller as he drove, tried to turn around, got stuck in the mudhole, then fled on foot. After an intensive search by police officers and ranchmen, first degree murder charged were filed July 6 at Cheyenne against Howard W. Pichell, 24, alias Pickell, ex-convict from New York, who was jailed at Cheyenne as Wyoming’s mad triple killer. Pichell is believed to be the man who also killed Matt Katmo, 44, Cheyenne war worker, June 30, in a mountain camp ground near Laramie. Katmo was killed and his companion, Mrs. O. W. Larson, Laramie, was beaten and her hands tied by a man who accosted them as they stepped out of Katmo’s car to pick some flowers. Mrs. Cota was married in 1915 to Al E. Hanson and moved from Blue Rapids to Green River, Wyo., where her husband was express agent for the Union Pacific. Later the family moved to Laramie and a son, Jean, was born. When then son was 10 years old, he and his mother were walking along a Laramie business street when the boy slumped to the sidewalk. He was rushed to a hospital, where it was learned that a rifle bullet had penetrated his abdomen and he soon died. It was later learned that a boy, cleaning a rifle in a second-story barber shop, accidentally discharged the rifle that sent the bullet into the child’s body. Three months after her son’s death, Mrs. Hanson’s husband died on the operating table, while undergoing a major operation. After the death of her son and husband, she returned to teaching and four years ago married Percy Cota. | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | Notice of Death of Hultman twins In English: Notice is hereby given to relatives and friends, that our little children Sigrid Ester and Margaretha Julia, passed away in Wataga, the former on the 26th and the latter on the 29th of June. Both were born on the 4th of the said month, and thus their stay in this foreign land was not long. Wataga, Ill., July 30, 1862. Lars Hanson, Lena Stina Hultman. In Swedish: Tillkännagifwes för slägtingar och wänner, att wåra små barn Sigrid Ester och Margaretha Julia, afledo i Wataga, den förra den 26 och den sednare den 29 Juni. Båda woro födda den 4 i nämnde månad, och war sålunda deras wistelse i främlingsskapet ide långwarig. **Wataga, Ill., den 30 Juli 1862.** **Lars Hanson, Lena Stina Hultman.✱ | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | Obituary Carl Anderson 1929 Obituary Carl Otto Herman Anderson, born June 28, 1863, in Malmo, Sweden, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl August Anderson, died October 29, at 9:45 a.m., aged 66 years, 4 months, and 1 day. In 1881, at the age of 17, Mr. Anderson came to America and at Wahoo, Nebraska, began learning the harness making trade. He accepted Christ as Savior's and Lord in 1885 and after being baptized became on of the five who organized the Swedish Baptist Church at Wahoo along with his mother who also was one of this little group. On August 4, 1888, he was married to Emma Christina Rudeen and they established their home in Wahoo. Of this union were born Carl Arthur Anderson now residing in San Francisco; Clarence W. Anderson, now residing in New York; Arnold Anderson of San Jose and Alice E. Anderson of Redondo Beach California. In 1885 Mr. Anderson entered into partnership with Mr. J.A. Mollerstrom, now deceased, establishing a harness business in Wahoo. This partnership continued for 35 years. The business was sold out in 1920 and Mr. Anderson, accompanied by his wife, his daughter Alice, and son Arnold, set out for San Jose, Cal., intending to retire from working at his trade and to locate in San Jose where many friends from Wahoo had already preceded them. The wife and mother died en route and was buried at San Jose. With the loving help of his widowed sisters, Mrs. Anna Oberg, a home was established in San Jose, Mr. Anderson affiliating at once with the Swedish Baptist Church in which he was an active member until his last illness and death. Mr. Anderson is also survived by a brother, Mr. O.L. Anderson of Seattle, Wash., besides a number of relative sin this country and in Sweden. Peace be to his memory. | 23 Nov 2025 | |
 | Obituary Emma Christina Anderson 1920 Emma Christina Anderson was born in Smoland, Sweden, March 24, 1862. She came to this country in 1882. While quite young she accepted Christ as her Savior, was baptized and joined the Swedish Baptist Church of Wahoo, Nebr. August 4th, 1888 she was united in marriage to C.O. Anderson. This union continued for 32 years, when it pleased God to call her to Himself while enroute to San Jose where the family had decided to spend the remainder of life. She intended to join the Baptist church of San Jose, but is now a member of the Church Triumphant where she will meet with her sorrowing husband and children. She is survived by her husband, C.O. Anderson, three sons, C. Arthur of Rawlins, Wyoming, Clarence of New York City, Arnold of San Jose, and one daughter, Alice, of San Jose. | 23 Nov 2025 |
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