Swedish Immigration Story, 1854
Who They Left Behind
With Anders Gustaf Sohlberg's and Ingrid Elis Anderson's exciting decision to go to America came the fateful reality that they would never see their families again. The only letters from the Sohlberg Deere Estate are from Anders' brother, Ulric and his family. If Ingrid was receiving correspondence from her family, we have yet to find a letter.
This photograph is of Ingrid's home in Bårarp, Sweden, and it was there that she and Anders had their wedding celebration on Midsummers Day, June 24, 1854 with 100 guests present. These were the people they would leave behind.
This photograph is of Ingrid's home in Bårarp, Sweden, and it was there that she and Anders had their wedding celebration on Midsummers Day, June 24, 1854 with 100 guests present. These were the people they would leave behind.
Ingrid's home in Bararp, Sweden
Not far from Bårarp, they would travel to Jönköping to begin their honeymoon journey from Sweden to North America.
A Jönköping, Sweden Post Card
Anders Gustaf's Brother's Family
The Ulric Sohlberg Family of Kosta and Stockholm
Ulric Sohlberg and Antoinette Wittborg Sohlberg
Ulric would become the Superintendent of the Kosta Klasbruk Factory in Kosta, Sweden.
(The Kosta Klasbruk Factory is the Kosta Boda Company of today.)
Daughters
Alma, Nina and Emma Sohlberg
They were seamstresses and embroiderers and would take their "samplers" of gold thread embroidery to the
Royal Palace in Stockholm and elsewhere for commission work with the Swedish government.
Alma, Nina and Emma Sohlberg
They were seamstresses and embroiderers and would take their "samplers" of gold thread embroidery to the
Royal Palace in Stockholm and elsewhere for commission work with the Swedish government.
Sons
Ernst Sohlberg
seated on left
He would immigrate to America, to McPherson, Kansas in 1885.
Ernst Sohlberg
seated on left
He would immigrate to America, to McPherson, Kansas in 1885.
Ernst (Ernest) Sohlberg is seated on left, in school in Växjö (Wexjö) Sweden.
He would not be left behind and eventually joined his Uncle Anders in 1885 in McPherson, Kansas.
He married his Uncle Ander's daughter Selma Sohlberg in 1888 in Kansas City, Missouri,
because cousin's were not allowed to marry in Kansas.
Ernst and Selma Sohlberg would become my great grandparents.
He would not be left behind and eventually joined his Uncle Anders in 1885 in McPherson, Kansas.
He married his Uncle Ander's daughter Selma Sohlberg in 1888 in Kansas City, Missouri,
because cousin's were not allowed to marry in Kansas.
Ernst and Selma Sohlberg would become my great grandparents.
Bror Sohlberg
Unfortunately no information has been found on this son.
Unfortunately no information has been found on this son.
Final resting place at norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm
for
Ulric, Antoinette, Alma, Nina, Emma, Bror
They are all buried together in a family grave that is unmarked now,
since there has been no one to pay for its maintenance since 1955.
Ernst final resting place is at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, California with his wife Selma.
for
Ulric, Antoinette, Alma, Nina, Emma, Bror
They are all buried together in a family grave that is unmarked now,
since there has been no one to pay for its maintenance since 1955.
Ernst final resting place is at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, California with his wife Selma.
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