In 1955, my great-grandfather’s first cousin wrote a simple autobiography about her life. Ellida Pearson was born in Sweden in 1882 and came to America in 1898. The early part of her biography is quite detailed about her life in Sweden and I got to wondering, how much of it can be verified in the Swedish […]
Christian Pearson’s Obituary
Out of the blue, I got an email this week from Cousin Lee who, while digging around at the Wahoo Museum, came across an obituary for Christian Pearson. I had never seen this before, and it has some great stuff in it! The text is as follows: C.P. Pearson died suddenly Friday morning from heart trouble, […]
Augusta Mathilda’s Irises
When I was in Nebraska last June (2014) with my parents, we visited the Fridhem Cemetery. We had long admired the big stand of irises near Gust and Augusta Rudeen’s grave but had never seen them blooming. Actually, the stand is probably too old and thick to bloom. We dug up a few rhizomes to […]
Comments on Johanna’s children
My last post included the text of an 1876 newspaper article about the death of my great-great-grandparents’ first two children. This is a long-standing family legend that has at least been substantiated by an outside source! I was able to track down the details thanks to a daily diary kept by a neighbor, Charles Hadsall. Based […]
Johanna’s “little sojourners”
Hello my friends, I’m back after nearly a month of graduation festivities and work commitments. I got an email last night that my microfilm FINALLY arrived. I cut out of work this morning to go take a peek. There it was, in the May 18th edition of the Wahoo Independent. The text is quite […]
