Anna Olsson
1832-1903
Born: Oppmanna, Skane, Sweden
Died: Vasa, Goodhue, Minnesota, USA
<p><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"></span></p><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">Transcriber is Holly Hedborg Miller. Copied exactly. Comments by transcriber are in italics and smaller font. This was written by Florence Hedborg Haddock to her nephew, Melvin Edgar Hedborg. </span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"> </span><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">Seattle, 10/24/71</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">Dear Mel: - The following copied from Grandfather's Testament:</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">Nils <span> </span>Anderson born Oct 31st, 1828, in Kopinge (?) Sweden came to Vasa, Minn. September 1865</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"></span></font><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"><font size="3">Anna Olsen (</font></span><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">his</span></em><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">wife) born in Oppmanna, (Skonne) July 24th, 1832</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">Aunt Anna " " " " Nov 30th, 1859</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"></span></font><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"><font size="3">Elna </font></span><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">(their daughter)</span></em><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"> " " " " Oct. 21, 1861 - 5/ /49</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"></span></font><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"><font size="3">Anders </font></span><font face="Times New Roman"><em><span style="font-size: 9pt">(</span></em><em><span style="font-size: 9pt">their son</span></em><em><span style="font-size: 9pt">)</span></em></font><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> " " " " Mar. 5 1864 ---1874</font></span><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"><font size="3">Axel Albert <span> </span>" " Vasa, Minn. Jan. 15, 1869 - 5/23/41</font></span><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"><font size="3">August Olaf " " Vasa, Minn. Mar. 13, 1871 </font></span><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"><font size="3">Esther Amanda " " Vasa, Minn. Aug. 13, 1876 ---June'02</font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"> </span><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">Grandmother died Dec. 27th, 1903</span><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"> </span></font><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">(</span></em><em><span style="font-size: 9pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Anna Olsen, wife of Nils Anderson</font></span></em><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">)</span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"></span><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">Grandfather <span> </span>" March 16, 1906</span><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"> </span></font><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">(Nils O. Anderson)</span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"></span><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">Anton Sigfried</span><em><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"> </span></em></font><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">(Hedborg)</span></em><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">12/14/83 died Oct 24/17</span><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"> </span></font><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">(Florence Hedborg Haddock's brother, died 24 Oct 1917)</span></em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"></span><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">Edgar Carl</span><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"> </span></font><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">(Hedborg)</span></em><font size="3"><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"> </span><em><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">12/4/88 - Nov. 13/23 </span></em><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"> </span></font><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">(Florence Hedborg Haddock's brother, died 13 Nov 1923 of TB)</span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"> </span><span style="font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'"><font size="3">Cousin Emma Strom - whom I visited in Zumbrota, Minn. Gave me the following information: - all born in Malmo, Sweden.</font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">Father</span><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> </font></span><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">(Edgar Christian Hedborg/Eskel Christianson was his original name)</span></em><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">was the youngest of six children: 1 brother, 4 sisters. </span><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">Now she lists the siblings</span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">Nels Hedborg, was Edith's father. She had no brothers or sisters.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">Sevenborg</span><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> </font></span><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'calibri','sans-serif'">Christianson</span></em><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">Lindgreen was the mother of four boys, two girls. All of these cousins are dead. It was her oldest son and wife who gave me the parsol. I have the family picture.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">Johanna</span><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> </font></span><em><span style="font-size: 10pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Christianson</font></span></em><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">Strom, Emma's mother had three girls, one son. Emma will be 92, Dec. 31st, and is the only cousin in my generation living.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">Betty Gjerstad, had no children. the last name seems familiar but I can't remember of ever seeing her.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">Cecelia Nelson, had one daughter, one son. I knew Selma, she lived in St. Paul. Had a daughter who dies in her teens.</span><em><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt">end sibling list...</span></font></em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">Grandmother</span><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> </font></span><em><span style="font-size: 10pt"><font face="Times New Roman">Anderson (Anna Olsen)(notation was written on the letter by Melvin Hedborg)</font></span></em><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">had two brothers, one lived in Vasa, the other St. Paul, She had one sister, Ida's mother.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">All I know about Grandfather's family is that he had one sister in Sweden. Had lost track of her, but the winter of 1903-04 he stayed with us in Minneapolis. Two Swedish carpenters rooming at mother's he discovered lived across the road from his sister in Sweden.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">Fru Karna Person,</span><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> </font></span><em><span style="font-size: 10pt"><font face="Times New Roman">[Melvin Hedborg's notation on letter... this is Nils Anderson sister (married name)]</font></span></em><font face="Times New Roman"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span> </span>( Fru means Mrs.)</span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"></span></font><span style="font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'"><font size="3"> </font></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'verdana','sans-serif'">Mr. Asum, No 16 Asumtorp, Sweden.</span> <p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>