MATTS ANDERSON & AGDA TORSTENSON
(A Potato Field at Harvest Time when wooden crates were still used, possibly a picture from a farm in WI
or AL where Walter had potato farms, from the Collection of Walter A. Johnson)
Part IV by Karolyn Rae Roberts
Descendants of
MATTS
ANDERSON & AGDA TORSTENSON
(A
Potato Field at Harvest Time when wooden crates were still used,
possibly a picture from a farm in WI
or AL where Walter had potato farms, from the Collection of
Walter A. Johnson)
Part IV by
Karolyn Rae Roberts
MM544-Lillian
(Lillie) Marie Swanson (signed
her name as Lillian on a postcard
to Walter Johnson; Carrie, her
sister, named her daughter Lorene
Lillian) b12/11/1889
Chuluota, Orange [now Seminole],FL - d8/30/1971
Langlade Memorial
Hosp.,Antigo,Langlade,WI(Antigo
Journal Obit) - m9/27/1916
Mattoon,Hutchins,Shawano,WI Harry
Delbert Jersey (Son of
Walter Minions Jersey & Mary
Elizabeth Dorsey) b12/27/1889
Hutchins,Mattoon,Shawano,WI, (Obit)
-d7/27/1972 Auto
Accident;Jamestown,ND (Obit) Bur:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Block 4, Lot
20. Resided in Town of Hutchins
Occupation: Grader Operator for
Shawno County Hwy Dept. Note:
Triple Wedding: Lillie M.
Swanson & Harry D.
Jersey; Sibyl Esther Swanson
& Adin George MacKay; and Carrie
Evelyn Swanson & Joseph
Rettinger, Jr. (all cousins) Note:
Harry's sister Ruby married
Adolph Swanson MM532. Lilly was
the daughter of John Magnus
Swanson & Adolph was the son
of Nels Swanson who were
brothers, making Lilly &
Adolph cousins. Members of the
Mattoon Methodist Church.
(Pictures:
Wedding Picture of Lillie &
Harry 9/27/1916 contributed by
Deanna Kaebisch; Lillie Swanson
contributed by Deanna Kaebisch)
MM5441-Myrtle
Faye Jersey
b7/21/1917
Mattoon,Shawano,WI,
d1/30/1996 Billings,MT (Aspen
Meadows)-m1/13/1938
Mattoon,Shawano,WI Arnold
Alvin Klemp b9/1/1918
Rollings,WI, Resided:
Ashland,MT bur: Hall
Cem., Antigo,Langlade,WI
Note: Myrtle was ill for
about ten years from
complications of
diabetes, and had been on
dialysis for over nine
years. She was in Aspen
Meadows Rest Home for the
last four months. (Source:
Cheryl Klemp)
(Picture:
Myrtle, Lucille, &
Iris Jersey contributed
by Deanna Kaebisch)
MM545-Sybil
Esther Swanson b7/30/1893 (Tombstone)
Lead,Lawrence,SD,-d7/22/1952
(Tombstone) Sturgeon
Bay,WI-m9/27/1916
Mattoon,Shawano,WI - m9/27/1916 Adin
George MacKay b4/14/1892 (Toambstone)
Mattoon,Shawano,WI (Son
of Mr. & Mrs. Edwin MacKay)
(Obit) - d4/16/1975 (Tombstone)
Sturgeon,Bay,WI. (Obit) Resided:
Algoma,Kewaunee Co., N of Green
Bay up the peninsula-bur:
Woodlawn Cem. Block 4,Lot 17,
Town of Hutchins,Shawano,WI Note:
Triple Wedding: Lilly M. Swanson
& Harry D. Jersey; Sibyl
Esther Swanson & Adin George
MacKay; and Carrie Evelyn Swanson
& Joseph Rettinger, Jr. (all
cousins) Adin remarried to Merna
Otis. ((Antigo Journal Obit
of Adin, 1975)
(Pictures of Sybil Swanson
contributed by Deanna Kaebisch)
(Wedding
Picture of Sybil & Adin from
collection of Carrie Swanson
Johnson)(Pictures of Sybil
Swanson contributed by Deanna
Kaebisch)
MM5452-Ihone
MacKay b4/3/1919
Mattoon,Shawano,WI, mEugene
VanPrice Occupation:
Greenhouse, Algoma,WI
(Baby Picture
of Ihone MacKay from the
collection of Carrie
Johnson Swanson; picture donated by Rena
McAuly)
MM5453-Elaine
MacKay b4/22/1922
Mattoon,Shawano,WI,-mEarl
Zieman b1919 Note:
Farmers at Beaver Dam,WI
(Picture
of Elaine McKay
contributed by Deanna
Kaebisch)
MM5454-Darrel
(Bud) Adin
MacKay b12/31/1924
Mattoon,Shawano,WI,-d4/16/1979-mCarol
Lee Anderson -
Members of the Moravian
Church - Burial: Bay
Side,Sturgeon Bay,WI (Schaver
& Schumacher Funeral
Home Memorial) Resided
at Green Bay, WI (Telephone
Book)
(Picture
of Bud MacKay in service
uniform contributed by
Rena Johnson McAuly)
MM546-Abel
Garfield Swanson b4/25/1895
Lead,Lawrence,SD, (SD State
File #601497) - d7/30/1972-
At Home,Elcho,Langlade,WI (Antigo
Journal Obit) - m9/21/1916
Stevens Point,WI Ednamae L.
Sutton b3/7/1899
Rhinelander,Oneida,WI,(Daughter
of Alexander Douglas Sutton b8/6/1861
Waterford,Racine,WI-d1937 (obit of Carrie) &
Carrie (Elisabeth) Hansen b2/12/1866 Brevek,Norway, (Married 50 yrs, Shawano Co. Jour.
7/12/1934)2nd marriage to Edward Evenson d1946 (obit
of Carrie) - 2/6/1959 Antigo,Langlade,WI & burial at
Rhinelander) - d2/1/1994
Green Bay,WI-At the age of five,
Abel came with his siblings to
Twp. of Hutchins, Shawano Co., WI
following the death of his mother
in Lead, SD. He moved to Elcho in
1924. Occupation:
Farmer,Logger,Elcho Cemetery
Sexton for 18 years - Resided:
Hunting River Dr., Elcho Rural
Area-Bur: Elcho Cemetery,Elcho,WI
- Note: Abel died the day that
his brother-in-law, Harry Jersey,
was being viewed at the funeral
home. The family was told while
they were at the funeral home.
(Picture
of Edna & Abel from the
collection of Rena Johnson
McAuly; Picture of Abel Swanson
as a young man from the
collection of Carrie Swanson
Johnson) (Postcard of Matton
Mill? below sent from Mattoon by
Abel to his cousin, Walter A.
Johnson at Potosi, Grant County,
WI)
MM56-Elna
Marie Swanson (Svensdotter)
b8/10/1854
Harslöv,Skåne,Sweden-d3/12/1923
Mattoon,Shawano,WI- m10/24/1875
Olstorp,Skäne,Sweden, Peter
C. (Petter,Per) Johnson
b3/6/1847 Kvistofta,Skåne,Sweden
(Parent was James (Jim)
Johnson) - d2/28/1926 Death
of Elna: Chronic Myocarditis
Cardiac Dililation, Dr.
Partridge, Mattoon,Shawano,WI
(v14-682,Shawano Co. Courthouse)
Notes: Elna moved from the family
to No. 15 Härslöv in 1870. She
moved into the family from
Roddinge on August 13, 1875 with
moving certificate No. 10. She
moved away again on November 13,
1875. This time moved to No. 3
and 10 Hilleshög. The banns were
published for her and the farm
hand Per Jonsson from No. 1
Olstorp on October 3, 1875 and
they were married October 24,
1875 Note: The farm hand Per
Jonsson from No. 3 & 10
Hilleshög got a certificate of
moving with No. 8, on March 31,
1880 and emigrated to America.
According to the household
records from the parish of
Härslöv 1881-1890, vA I:32,p66,
the following family are noted as
living at no 11 Härslöv: Elna
Svensdotter, Hilda Christina,
& Johan Sigfrid. The
following three people moved into
no 11 Härslöv, and Sven Nilsson
from Hilleshög no 3 & 10 on
November 4, 1880: Crofter Sven
Nilsson, Karna Mattsdotter, son
August who moved in from the
parish of Kvistofta on October
31, 1882, with moving certificate
n22. Lodged wife (their daughter)
Elna Svensdotter (Per moved to
America), Elna moving from
Hilleshög on April or November
4, 1880. Hilda Kristian, and
Johan Sigfrid. Note: Elna
together with one son and one
daughter, got a certificate of
moving with No. 28 on October 14,
1881 and emigrated from Härslöv
No. 11 to America. Peter &
Elna lived in Chicago for a brief time. In 1882,
they moved to the
town of Hutchins, south of
Mattoon. She was one of the first
settlers. On the 1900 Twp. of
Hutchins 1900 Census, Peter & Elna are listed, and Peter is a
farmer, all the children, Hilda,
John, Walter, & Selma are
living at home. John is listed as
a farmhand, and Walter is in
school. -Elna's funeral was held
at the Elim Church of the Luthern
Brethern. Burial: Woodlawn
Cemetery, E Dr., near pump.
Comments: Elna Marie Johnson had
a stroke. Grandma Carrie Johnson,
her daughter-in-law, saved this
wheelchair in her attic during
her lifetime. It had a foothold
to slide your foot into, and it
was used for steering. After Elna's death, Peter came to live
with John & Carrie. Peter
& John always talked in
Swedish. Peter & Elna had
owned the farm on the right side
of Wolverine Road behind the Elim
Church of the Luthern Brethern
(farm is no longer) and Charlie
Swanson owned the farm across
from the Bottomless Lake called
Cramberry Lake (Source: 1952
Platt Book). Take Red River Road to the
west off of County D past Bakers Lake a couple miles
further west. (This road is now gone leaving
no excess to the location and all the homes back
there are gone and turned into farm land, Karolyn
2005) For some reason of
which no one is sure, the two
families decided to trade farms.
Note: Elna & her sister,
Mary, married Peter and his
cousin, James. Peter's son, John,
and James son, Charles married
sisters, Carrie & Anna
Swanson, who were their cousins.
Peter loved Gladys's (my mother)
long hair. One day, about the age
of 12, she went to town and had
her hair cut without permission. When she came
home, her Grandpa Peter cried. Peter
died at the home of his daughter,
Hilda Mathisen.
MM561-Hilda Christina Johnson b7/12/1876 Härslöv,Skåne,Sweden-At age 5, Hilda came to Chicago, IL with her parents-dMattoon,Shawano,WI 1950 - m1907 Mattoon,Shawno,WI (Obit of Iver) Iver I. Mathisen (Son of Matheas Iversen b10/11/1853 & Karen Loype; grandson of Iver Nilsen b4/8/1820 of whom he was very attached)(Kåre Nustadhaugen of Lillehammer, Norway) b8/4/1876 Norway, when 18, came to the U.S (obit) .-d6/6/1950 Tigerton,,WI (obit) - Hilda & Iver were well thought of in the community and Iver was a farmer in the Twp. of Hutchins. Hilda was Carrie Johnson's mentor when Carrie lost her own mother (Hulda Swanson) at 12 years of age, and later her father and baby brother (John & Emil Swanson). Hilda was always there for her. Hilda was a favorite aunt of my mother Gladys. As a child, one Halloween night, myself along with my older girl cousins went Trick-or-Treating to Iver & Hilda's. We were given a great welcome, and we had to go in and show off our customes (attic clothes). That was my first time going out and I was probably about 10 years old. Bur: Woodlawn Cemetery
(Wedding Picture of
Iver & Hilda;
contributed by Kåre
Nustadhaugen of
Lillehammer, Norway)
(Picture of
Tombstone of Iver &
Hilda)
(Picture
of Bullers Camp from the
collection of Walter A.
Johnson, written to
Walter from Oscar B.
Johnson, "I guess
you know this picture by
the looks of the
horses.")(Picture of
a load of lumber on skids
from the collection of
Walter A. Johnson)
MM563-Walter
Alfred Johnson b7/27/1890
Town of
Hutchins,Shawano,WI-d11/26/1965 Memorial
Hosp.,Antigo,Langlade,WI
- m1/17/1951 Stevens
Point, WI Bessie
O. Wood (Bossell) (dau. of George &
Euphrasia (Aldrich) Wood) b8/31/1894 Twp of
Hutchins,Shawano,WI (Obit)
- d12/22/1981
Antigo,Langlade,WI (Obit)
(2nd Marriage for
Bessie; previously married to Richard
Bossell, died in 1942) Resided: AL &
WI -
Walter was a
U.S. Navy Veteran, served in WWI;
ran a potato farm in N.
WI in the summer time and
one in Alabama during the
winter time.
(See
picture at top of page) -
Letter to Walter from
Adolph Swanson in
Victoria, TX in 1910 is
sent to Potosi &
Mattoon, WI. (Potosi
is in Grant Co. &
Matton in Shawano Co.,
and yet both were listed
on the same card, I guess
if not in one place
forward it on) Letter
from Lillian Swanson in
1915 to Walter at
Stratsford, SD of Brown Co., c/o Chas.
Hello Kiddo. Will answer
your letter in a couple
of days. Would of
answered the first part
of the week but stayed up
to Wood's until Mr. Wood
was buried. He died Sun.
night. Thrashers will be
here tomorrow. Don't
suppose you know who
these people are, well
guess anyway. (front
of postcard) Must
ans. Oscar's letter which
I got five week's ago. As
ever. Lillian. One
postcard says Potosi, WI,
c/o Kratz Brothers. -
(No
children) Burial:
Woodlawn Cem.
(Picture
of Walter Johnson and ??,
MHS [Mattoon High
School??] written on both
ties, from the collection
of Walter Johnson)
ANOTHER MYSTERY PHOTO: Walter Johnson is center; picture is taken in same setting as the couples of the triple wedding. These must be the wedding attendants. Who are the other 3? Contact me at: krob@surfbest.net Picture from collection of Walter Johnson.
MM56411-Lewellyn
J. (Bing) Miller (Info on
High School Graduation
Picture; (obit of Vera)) - mJoyce
? (obit of Vera)
Reside in Mesa,AZ (HS
Grad picture of Lewellyn
found in collection of
Carrie Swanson Johnson)
MM5643-Darwin
Hansen Resided at
Rhinelander,WI (Obit
of Selma)(Picture
of Darwin with his mother
Selma from collection of
Carrie Swanson Johnson)
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009