Descendants of Carl Fredrick Hanson

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Generation 1

CARL FREDRICK1 HANSON was born on 01 Jan 1837 in Degerfors, Vasterbotton, Sweden. He died
on 22 May 1912 in Brandon, Minnehaha, South Dakota, USA. He married Maria Maja Helena
Emanuelsdotter, daughter of Emauel Olofsson and Margareta Greta Johanna Ersdotter, on 19 Oct
1862 in Ortrask Socken, Vasterbotten, Sweden. She was born on 08 May 1837 in Ortrask,
Vasterbotten, Sweden. She died on 30 May 1917 in Brandon, Minnehaha, South Dakota, USA.

Notes for Carl Fredrick Hanson:

Carl Fredrick Hanson was born January 1, 1837 in Degerfors Parish, Vasterbotton,
Sweden. On April 15, 1855 he moved to the parish of Ortrask, Vasterbotton, Sweden and worked
as a farmhand to his brother Per.
Maria Maja Helena Emanuelsdotter was born May 8, 1837, in Ortrask, Sweden. She
married Carl Fredrick Hanson on October 19, 1862. They were both twenty-five years old and
lived in the village of Ortrask as owners of a farm.
Three daughters were born to them while in Sweden. They were Ida Maria, Beda
Christina, and Johanna.
In the late 1860's Carl Fredrick Charles Hanson and his young wife, Maria
Emanuelsdotter, left Sweden with hopeful dreams of a better life in the New World. The local priest
made a note in the parish book in July of 1869 stating, "Taken out moving papers to unknown
places."
Stopping en route, Carl worked at the docks in England for two years handling salt barrels
in order to make enough money to take the trip across the Atlantic. A child, Freda G. Hanson, was
born to them at Liverpool, England on Jan 20, 1870.
In 1871 they set out to sail to America. When they went to board the ship, the boarding
official stopped them at the gang plank because it was obvious that Ida, Beda, and Johanna were
seriously ill. The three girls ages eight, six, and four had diptheria.
In those days the immigrants were given neither meals nor medical care on board the ship.
Diptheria was very contagious and as well as fatal, so the captain couldn't allow it on board his
ship. Carl was faced with a sudden decision. Having given up his job and living quarters (neither
of which were easy to replace) he would lose all the money spent on the tickets and likely for the
trip to Ohio, too. All that is known is that the girls were left behind in England and very likely died.
Once on their way Carl, Maria and little Freda faced more trouble, in the form of contrary
winds, storms, repairs, and even an attack by pirates, dogged the ship so that the voyage from
England to the U.S. took six months.
While making their way to the open land of the West in 1872, their son, Erick Hanson was
born in Ashtabula, Ohio. Shortly thereafter, they reached South Dakota. Mr. Hanson spent his last
ten dollars filing on a homestead. With no cash left for incidentals, such as fences or harness, a
ditch was dug around the pasture to keep the cow in. The ox learned to be guided by words only"Gee" and Haw", as there was no money to buy reins. Groceries, such as sugar and one hundred
pound sacks of flour, were carried thrown over the shoulder from the store eight miles away.
Four children were born to Carl and Maria Hanson while they lived near Brandon, South
Dakota. Mary was born Sept 21, 1873, Carl Johan (Charley) on Jan 2, 1874, Nora in 1879, Olivia
on March 12, 1880, and J. Albert on June 24, 1882.
Twenty years or more had passed when word began coming that good homesteading land
was available in Canada. Mr. Carl F. Hanson and his three sons, Erick, Carl J., and Albert,
decided to search it out. So, in 1900 they reached Wetaskiwin, Alberta, which was a village then.
They took wagon teams from Wetaskiwin. Carl J. and Albert took title to land east of New
Norway. Erick and his father Carl F. Hanson, went further west and south into the Ferintosh area
and took land adjoining each other. A log house was built on the homestead of Carl Fredrick
Hanson. He then sent for his wife, Maria Emanuelsdotter Hanson, and his two daughters, Freda
and Olivia.
They were a God-fearing family and before long, joined with other neighbors in building a
church on the top of Bald Hill. The district became known as the Highland Park Church District.
Those who participated in the construction became charter members. Carl Fredrick and Maria
Hanson along with their daughter Mary and her husband Erick Borgstrom were among the twelve
charter members. Carl Fredrick Hanson was the first chairman of the church. He held this position
until 1909 when he returned with his wife and daughters, Freda and Olevia to his original
homestead in South Dakota.
Carl Fredrick Hanson died May 22, 1912 at Brandon, South Dakota from apoplexia. Maria

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Hanson died May 29, 1917 as the result of a fire in the stove can. The fire came back and burned
her badly. Julia (Mrs. Albert Hanson) tried to save her.
Carl Fredrick and Maria Hanson are buried at the Swedona Covenant Church Cemetery
near Brandon, South Dakota. The Swedona Covenant Church is actually on a quarter section of
land that was owned by Carl F. Hanson in 1903.
Biography entry: Little Beaver Tales, pg. 198. Ferintosh, Alberta, Canada community history book.
Census: June 10, 1880, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. Pg. 8 Dw #87.
Probate: #3110 Probate Record of Mary Hanson, Minnehaha County, South Dakota.

Carl Fredrick Hanson and Maria Maja Helena Emanuelsdotter had the following children:
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IDA MARIA2 HANSON was born on 08 Oct 1863 in Ortrask, Lycksele, Sweden. She
died in 1871 in Liverpool, England.

BEDA CHRISTINA HANSON was born on 25 Jan 1865 in Ortrask, Lycksele, Sweden.
She died in 1871 in Liverpool, England.

JOHANNA HANSON was born on 10 Mar 1867 in Ortrask, Lycksele, Sweden. She died
in 1871 in Liverpool, England.
FREDA G. HANSON was born on 22 Jan 1870 in Liverpool, England. She died on 06
Dec 1915 in Brandon, Minnehaha, South Dakota, USA.

Notes for Freda G. Hanson:

Freda G. Hanson or Frida J. Hanson was the daughter of Carl and Maria
Hanson. Freda was born in England while her Swedish parents were working in
England to earn enough money to buy passage to the United States.
Freda never married and spent her life living with her parents. They had a
homestead near Brandon, South Dakota and had homesteaded for a short while
near Ferintosh, Alberta before returning to their homestead in South Dakota.
Freda died at the age of forty-four and is buried beside her parents at the
Swedona Covenant Church near Brandon, South Dakota.

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viii. ELIZABETH ELINORA (NORA) HANSON was born in 1879 in Brandon, Minnehaha, South
Dakota, USA. She died in 1945. She married NELS LUNDGREN BORGSTROM. He was
born on 21 Jun 1883 in Olofsback, Degerfors, Vannas, Vasterbotton, Sweden. He
died in 1948 in Ferintosh, Alberta.

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ERICK AUGUST HANSON was born on 11 Dec 1872 in Ashtabula, Ohio. He died on 03
Apr 1939 in Summerland, British Columbia. He married Lina Rosendahl, daughter
of Sven Rosendahl and Wilhelmina, on 31 May 1911 in Ferintosh, Alberta. She was
born on 08 Feb 1883 in Vannas, Vasterbotton, Sweden. She died on 09 Oct 1935 in
Highland Park, Alberta,.
MARY (MARIA) HANSON was born on 22 Sep 1873. She died on 08 May 1923 in
Kandiyohi, Minnesota. She married Erick Borgstrom, son of Samuel Jonsson
Borgstrom and Eva Sophia Forslund, on 01 Jan 1894 in Brandon, Minnehaha,
South Dakota, USA. He was born on 05 Jun 1873 in Vnns, Vsterbotten,
Sweden. He died on 02 Sep 1941 in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA.
CARL JOHAN HANSON was born on 02 Jan 1874 in South Dakota. He married
Amanda on 24 Jun 1909 in Salem, South Dakota.

OLIVIA (OLEVIA) HANSON was born on 12 Mar 1880 in Brandon, Minnehaha, South
Dakota, USA. She died on 08 Apr 1921 in Worthing, South Dakota. She married
Carl Oscar Johnson, son of Charles Johnson, on 05 Jun 1907 in Brandon,
Minnehaha, South Dakota, USA. He was born on 13 Dec 1872 in Worthing, South
Dakota. He died on 16 Mar 1945 in South Dakota.
J.ALBERT HANSON was born on 24 Jun 1882 in South Dakota. He died on 24 Sep
1964 in Highland Park, Alberta. He married Julia Ringwall, daughter of Peter
Ringwall and Golin Skanse, on 19 Dec 1911. She was born on 02 May 1886 in
Copperstown, South Dakota. She died on 30 Aug 1968.

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ERICK AUGUST HANSON (Carl Fredrick1) was born on 11 Dec 1872 in Ashtabula, Ohio. He died on
03 Apr 1939 in Summerland, British Columbia. He married Lina Rosendahl, daughter of Sven
Rosendahl and Wilhelmina, on 31 May 1911 in Ferintosh, Alberta. She was born on 08 Feb 1883 in
Vannas, Vasterbotton, Sweden. She died on 09 Oct 1935 in Highland Park, Alberta,.
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Notes for Erick August Hanson:

Erick Hanson came to Canada in 1900 with his father, Carl Hanson, Sr., and two brothers:
Carl Jr. and Albert. It has been said of Erick that he was a quiet man and that he went about his
business in a calm manner.
While Carl Jr. and Albert were actively engaged in farming, Erick turned his ambition to
other lines. He took a quarter of land at the same time that his father did. The farmers feeling that
the long trek to Wetaskiwin was too far to supply them with their staple goods, financed Mr. Erick
Hanson so that he could set up a small store and post office in 1900. The first store was a small
log building built on the Frank Backstrom land. All the supplies were brought in from Wetaskiwin
along with the mail. As his business grew, he formed a partnership with J.D. Johnstone and the
two built a store in another location in 1905 and a creamery was also added to the enterprise.
Cream was hauled from farms many miles away. The power to run the churn was a
sweep. Two horses were used to turn this sweep which in turn was connected to a tumbling rod
and a flywheel and a belt which turned the churn. Later they installed a gas engine. There was a
lot of buttermilk, so the resourceful men bought and fed pigs and in this way, they used their
byproduct for a profitable business.
The grocery store was in operation until 1910. The railway bypassed it, so they decided to
move to the nearby village of Ferintosh. Here, Mr. Hanson and Mr. Johnstone operated the store
for a few years.
Mr. Hanson won acclaim in the creamery for having the distinction of being near the top of
the privately owned creameries. In 1910, they were making 100,000 pounds of butter.
Erick Hanson married Lina Rosendahl in 1911 and after he discontinued in the store, he
moved his family to the John Backstrom farm where they stayed for a year. He then bought a
quarter of land from the C.P.R. and also another quarter acre across the road. It was there that he
built his home. Here he lived until 1935 when they sold the land to Conrad Johnson.
Lina Hanson died a month before the family left. Erick Hanson, son Altee, and youngest
daughter Marcia, went to Summerland, B.C. Erick Hanson passed away in 1939.

Biography entry: Little Beaver Tales, pg. 198. Ferintosh, Alberta, Canada, community history book.
Biography entry: Memory Opens the Door, pg. 91-93. New Norway, Alberta, Canada, community
history book.

Erick August Hanson and Lina Rosendahl had the following children:
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VIVIAN ADELINE3 HANSON was born on 02 Jul 1912 in Ferintosh, Alberta. She died on
14 Aug 1955 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She married Sven Einar (Ernie) Dahl,
son of Peter Dahl and Sofia Hanson, in 1934 in Ferintosh, Alberta. He died in 1994
in Haney, British Columbia.
Notes for Vivian Adeline Hanson:
Vivian Adeline Hanson and Ernie Dahl were married in the winter of 1934.
She had been a school teacher before they were married. They lived first in the
"Livingstone House" which was later bought by Mrs. Mabel Nesbitt and moved out
to the Nesbitt farm shortly afterward. Ernie built a house and a garage later on the
corner of Johnstone Street and McQuarrie Avenue. Ernie built a snowmobile, a real
invention in those days and used it to haul the doctor around, and the mail, when
the roads were tough.
They had three children and moved to British Columbia. Vivian was
stricken with Multiple Sclerosis and passed away when her youngest child was
fourteen years old.
Ernie remarried and lived at Haney, British Columbia, and passed away
there in 1988.
Biography entry: Little Beaver Tales, pg 302, 234. Ferintosh, Alberta, Canada,
community history book.

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ATLEE SVEN FREDERICK HANSON was born on 25 Mar 1914 in Ferintosh, Alberta. He
died on 28 Sep 1988 in Penticton, British Columbia. He married (1) PHYLLIS HELLEN
MARETTA MILLER, daughter of Arthur Miller and Helen Spencer, on 25 Mar 1937 in
Castor, Alberta. She was born on 22 Aug 1913 in Castor, Alberta. She died on 30
Jun 1985 in Penticton, British Columbia. He married (2) MARY MARGARET "JOYCE"
PAUL on 09 Jun 1986.

Notes for Atlee Sven Frederick Hanson:

In 1914, Atlee Sven Fredrick Hanson was born to Eric August Hanson and
Lina (Rosendahl) Hanson in Ferintosh Alberta. He had a sister, Vivian, less than
two years older, and Marcia the final addition to the family, who arrived eight years
after Atlee. Ferintosh still is a rural farm community. In 1914 it was the hub of a
community of Swedes and Norwegians settling the vast empty prairies that were
open for homesteading. Atlee had playmates from Uncle Albert's family, just the
next farm over and they had the Community Covenant Church for fellowship with
like minded Christian Swedes.
So close knit was this community that he spoke only Swedish until he
started school. Marcia remembers Atlee being very good at building things; bird
houses, slingshots, rafts, kites, stilts and skis. The skis he frequently used to travel
the 1.5 miles to school. Because of the family's need for farm hands, Atlee could
only stay in school through grade 8. It is a pity that he couldn't go farther, because
he excelled in school and received the Governer General's medal for getting the top
grade 8 marks in the school district.
From 1928 to 1935, life consisted of the daily adventures on a farm for
Atlee and his father. I'm sure they put in long hard days of labour in the warmer
months and much labour of a different sort, looking after livestock and woodpiles,
milking and eggs in the cold months. In 1935, the family decided to sell out and
move to the Okanagan Valley. Before they could make the move, mother Lina died
and the funeral was held not long before the farm auction which sold off all the
family farming equipment.
So Atlee, father Eric and 14 year old Marcia moved to BC's Okanagan
Valley in November of 1935, into the house that mother Lina had helped choose a
few months before. Atlee soon found a wife from good Alberta farm stock living in
the rural community of Trout Creek. It took him a while to persuade Phyllis Miller to
marry him, but finally, she became his 23rd birthday present as they were married
on Atlee's birthday in 1937. Phyllis moved into the family home in Trout Creek and
became an instant mom with a 15 year old "daughter", husband and father-in-law.
Father Eric passed away just two years later and Marcia left home in there
somewhere too. In 1938, son Arne was born and just two years later, Dennis
appeared, followed by Nancy in 1943. This kept Phyllis very busy with the three
little ones to clean up after and to keep out of mischief. The warm sunny Okanagan
Valley hosted a lake and a nearby creek to pique the exploring instinct of little ones.
Atlee was earning a living by working in the orchards in the area in
whatever ways he could. Pruning, picking, thinning, spraying, hauling, selling eggs
and fruit from his own small orchard, but then in 1949 a janitor's job opened up at
the government research station so he gladly took the steady income. Being of an
industrious sort, Atlee built several log cabins beside Trout Creek and hung up a
sign "Cedarbrook Auto Court". This helped keep Phyllis busy doing laundry,
running the Auto Court, keeping three youngsters out of trouble and finally child
number four, Eric arrived in 1950. He was the smartest and most talented of the
bunch but nobody knew it at the time. In 1953 Phyllis was worn out from all the
work so they sold the Auto Court and moved seven miles to Penticton where they
lived the rest of their days at 378 Windsor Avenue. They bought a three year old
house in a new subdivision. It came complete with a small pear orchard in the back
yard. This orchard was gradually over the 35 years turned into a highly productive
vegetable, fruit and flower garden that was the envy of the neighbors.
As a big surprise to everyone, Brenda was born into the family in 1958.
Phyllis was 44 at the time. Arne had left home the year before to begin an
accounting career. Life was good in Penticton, peaceful, unhurried, a great place to

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raise children. Atlee continued working at the research station for a full 30 years
and retired in 1979. Phylis and Atlee were steady workers in the church they loved.
They spent a lot of time helping the sick and the elderly with shopping, garden work,
and providing them with fresh produce from their own garden. Shortly after
retirement, they took a long awaited trip to Sweden, the home of Atlee's parents.
They had corresponded regularly with Aunt Emma and Cousin Arne Asplund over
the years and it was an exciting time meeting Arne for the first time in person. They
enjoyed four wonderful weeks touring Sweden and meeting cousins, seeing places
that mother Lina had told them about.
Atlee had a passion for hunting and fishing in the wilds of British Columbia
and with friends and sons, he enjoyed many happy hunting and fishing expeditions
for over 50 years.
Atlee and Phyllis raised their five children with much love and faithfulness.
Church was always a part of Hanson family life and the effects of their Godly living
were passed down to the latest generation. God has blessed the honest, simple,
faithful, lifestyle that they modelled resulting in stable marriages and loving
relationships in the lives of their children and 15 grandchildren.
In June of 1985, 48 years of marriage came to an end when Phyllis passed
away with pancreatic cancer. Atlee missed the warmth of her companionship so
much that he remarried a year later. Then finally in September of 1988, after
spending the day building a fence, he had a heart attack and died in his sleep
Eric Hanson,
May, 2001.

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MARCIA INA HANSON was born on 05 Feb 1922 in Ferintosh, Alberta. She married
Clarence A. Billett on 12 Dec 1961 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Notes for Marcia Ina Hanson:

Mother and Dad, like all the other Scandinavian folk of the area, were
faithful church goers, hitching up the tram and setting off for church every Sunday,
summer and winter, for both morning and evening service, though we didn't live as
far distant as some, being only two miles away. Not to mention the Wednesday
prayer meetings which were held in the homes bi-monthly.
I arrived on a cold Sunday morning in February 1922. Mother, seemingly
having a vast array of names, decided on Marcia Ina Eletta.
Mother took quite ill with pneumonia for the second time in April, 1923,
baby getting off with just a light touch. Farm houses in those days were usually
un-insulated, and ours was chillier and draftier than most, it seemed, perhaps one
reason being there were 7 doors in the kitchen, that being the room mostly lived in.
We all liked to read and would sit at the round kitchen table after supper reading by
the light of the kerosene lamp in the short while before bedtime, for we did not eat
until 7 or 8, which I suppose was a carry over from Old Country customs.
The hilly, treed area where we lived was ideal for children to grow up in.
Small sloughs dotted the farmyard and adjoining wooded pasture, the dry areas
being reserved for the grain fields. Winters we could skate on the slough, and when
the snow melted in spring it was a child's delight to play around the rivulets gurgling
from the snow banks into the sloughs. In summer Atlee made a raft and we
paddled around the largest slough, building our own private fantasies of farther
scenes and larger travel.
Lacking a swing, we were as happy with small trees that conveniently bent
toward the water, on which we would stand, grasping a higher branch for balance.
There are many games a child can invent, especially with an old tire or a ball. And
of course, there were barnyard animals, chickens and turkeys for interest, and
always cats. Atlee used to make kites, slingshots, and birdhouses every year, and
once stilts. He was always good at making things. He would later snare and skin
rabbits.
Our one room school this side of church provided friends and a rudimentary
education. Drugs were unheard of, we had to stay in or get the strap if we were

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heard swearing, and it was not the teacher only who monitored the playground and
halls for such infractions, we weren't backward in telling on each other; but I must
say, strappings were few, and most of our lady teachers were remembered with
pleasure. Some children walked up to 3 1/2 miles but mostly these distant ones
came on horseback or were driven until old enough to ride. When Atlee was in
grade 7 or 8 he made himself a pair of skis and he would ski the 1 1/2 miles to
school very often. Sometimes during lunch hour the teacher would let us take our
sleighs and slide down Bald Hill, the high old hill on which stood the church, not far
away.
Threshing was always a big event. Excitement would always mount when
the threshing rig pulled into the yard headed by the threshing machine, that looked
like a cross between a small dinosaur and an oversized goose. But there was no
time for the women folk to watch; they were kept busy running around the kitchen
preparing meals and lunches, for nobody, but nobody, can eat like a hungry
thrasher, and there were always 6-10 of them. The woodstoves were pushed to the
limit and sometimes beyond. One time Mother had dinner nearly ready when the
chimney caught fire. However, the men could see it from the field and quickly
unhitching the hay racks came running home with the horses. They soon had the
fire out and were able to get their dinner. A standard method of extinguishing such
fires was to ladle salt into the chimney from an upstairs chimney hole.
Before the next story I should explain that though Mother's voice didn't
come quite up to John Wesley's standard, who could be heard it is said, two miles
away when conditions were right, she could probably have made a record in a kid
calling contest. Her voice soared above everybody else's in church. Well, one cold
winter night, it was a Saturday and mother was just lifting the tub on the stove so
she could fill it with water for our Saturday night baths. The rest of us were
peacefully reading around the table, and she happened to look out and saw a red
reflection on the snow, FIRE! she yelled (the tub meanwhile dropping to the floor
with an awful clatter.) The fire was soon put out (with salt); but then again, one
could never know at first how serious it was. Once Uncle Albert had a close call
and their roof started burning before they were aware of it.
A lot of people in the early days had dirt cellars instead of a concrete
basement, in which they stored their preserves and potatoes etc. for the winter.
Often they would have a little old heater burning on the coldest nights to keep every
thing from freezing, and that was another menace. One couple in the area lost not
only their two-story home but all four children, who slept upstairs. It so unsettled
the poor woman's mind that a year or so later she committed suicide. A terrible
tragedy.
The nickels and pennies had to be watched very carefully in those early
days, but Mother and Dad did the best they could and we always had enough to eat
and wear. Maybe we did occasionally have to put cardboard soles in our shoes as
the soles began to go, but there were plenty, especially in towns and cities that
went barefoot and there is nothing wrong with that I suppose, if one does it by
choice rather than necessity or health's' sake.
In better times our folks had bought a pump organ, nicely scrolled with a
stand on each side for a lamp to see by. Vivian learned to play quite well and also
served as church organist when required. The three Hanson brothers, Dad, Carl
and Albert, sometimes sang trios at church; they all had music in them, and they
blended well.
Dad was a quiet man, seldom ruffled. The Hanson colouring was unusually
varied for one family, running through red, black and flaxen hair. Dad had black
hair and green eyes. Mother had blue eyes the colour of Nancy's. She and Dad
were quite different in temperament.
Father is buried in the cemetery near the bottom of Peach Orchard Hill,
Summerland, and Mother in the Highland Park Cemetery. Dad's parents are both
buried in South Dakota. As mentioned, Grandpa Carl Hanson passed away in
1914, so then Uncle Albert and Aunt Jo went back to South Dakota to take care of
Grandma, taking Mildred and Doris with them, and also sister Ella Ringwall to help
with the children. Stanley was born down there in 1915 and in 1917 an unfortunate

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accident took Grandma's life. She went to light the fire in the kitchen stove one
morning, and as it didn't seem to want to burn, she held the kerosene can over it to
pour a few drops in to bring it along. The can exploded and enveloped Grandma in
flames. Aunt Jo rushed to her aid and in trying to help her, was herself badly
burned, carrying the scars the remainder of her life.
Like many others, my life has been a series of ups and downs. I had
several years at Bible College and hopes for a missionary career, but was in an
accident, followed by another in 1970. Both were serious enough to change the
pattern of my life. In between was a short nine year marriage in which I raised two
step daughters, Mary Anne and Patti Lynn.
In 1994 I had the opportunity to work at an orphanage in Mexico and loved
it and would have liked to stay in the country if possible.
by Marcia Hanson

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MARY (MARIA) 2 HANSON (Carl Fredrick1) was born on 22 Sep 1873. She died on 08 May 1923 in
Kandiyohi, Minnesota. She married Erick Borgstrom, son of Samuel Jonsson Borgstrom and Eva
Sophia Forslund, on 01 Jan 1894 in Brandon, Minnehaha, South Dakota, USA. He was born on 05
Jun 1873 in Vnns, Vsterbotten, Sweden. He died on 02 Sep 1941 in Great Falls, Cascade,
Montana, USA.

Notes for Erick Borgstrom:

Erick Borgstrom was born June 5, 1873. He was the fourth child of Samuel and Eva
Sophia Borgstrom of Olofsback, Vasterbotton, Sweden. The home parish was Vannas.
Samuel Borgstrom gave permission for his son, Erick Borgstrom, to leave Sweden for
America on April 16, 1892. Erick Borgstrom was eighteen years old at the time. Before leaving
Sweden, Erick had worked as an apprentice shoemaker.
Records at Ellis Island show that Erick and his brother, Carl Anton Borgstrom, arrived on
July 11, 1892. They had left Sweden from Gothenberg and traveled on the ship, Etruria, from
Liverpool, England. Erick was 19 years old and Carl Anton was 21.
Erick Borgstrom filed a declaration to become an United States citizen and denounced the
King of Sweden on October 25, 1892 in Menominee County, Michigan. Erick was naturalized in
1897. He went to South Dakota where he married Mary (Maria) Hanson in 1898.
Erick Borgstrom and brother, Carl Anton Borgstrom, arrived in the Wetaskiwin, Alberta,
area in the spring of 1899. Their wives followed a year or two later.
Erick and Mary Hanson Borgstrom were two of the twelve charter members in 1901 of the
Highland Park Swedish Mission Covenant Fellowship Church. Mary's parents were also charter
members.
Carl Anton settled on NW 32; Erick owned NE 32 and SW 33.
Erick Burgstrom (misspelled on document) was naturalized as a British Subject in
Edmonton, Alberta, on November 9, 1903.
In 1905 both Borgstrom brothers sold their land and moved back to South Dakota. Carl
Anton and family returned to Alberta, but Erick and Mary stayed in South Dakota.
From South Dakota, Erick and Mary Borgstrom moved to Kalispell, Montana. By 1909,
they were living to the west of the fairgrounds near present day Kalispell. The Borgstrom's lived in
many different places. They ran a hotel (three stories, rooms and apartments) at Bay City, Oregon.
Also in Oregon, they lived at Eugene and Scio. They also lived for a while in Richfield,
Washington.
They had been living near Kandiyohi, Minnesota, for four years when Mary Hanson
Borgstrom passed away on May 8, 1923 at her home after a long illness. She was only forty-nine
when she died of Myocarditis and Hypothyroidism. Mary is buried at Kalispell, Montana, in the
Demersville Cemetery.
After Mary's death Erick remarried. He married Hilda on or about September 17, 1924 in
St. Paul, Ramsey County, MN. They moved to Kalispell. Hilda reportedly shot at him and tried to
take an ax to him while he was in bed. He had not told her about his children! They divorced and
Phoebe (Marion) had to testify because she was up in a second floor room playing with her little
brother Robert when she heard yelling, then a gunshot, and looked out the window to see her
father Erick running across the yard. Hilda left the family about May 3, 1926. They were divorced
July 18, 1927. Her summons for the divorce was sent to her at Rice Lake, Wisconsin.
Erick Borgstrom's third wife was Ester Swenson. After leaving Kalispell, Erick and Esther

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lived in the Eden community south of Great Falls, Montana for 5 1/2 years. They were both
naturalized as US citizens in Great Falls, Montana on April 11, 1940.
Erick passed away Sept 2, 1941 at the age of 68. His death certificate lists immediate
cause of death as Hodgkins Disease (six months) and other conditions as Secondary Anemia.
Ester Borgstrom passed away in 1951. Both Ester and Erick are buried at the Highland
Cemetery outside of Great Falls, Montana.
It is unclear as to when the name Borgstrom became Bergstrom. All of Erick and Mary's
children went by Bergstrom except for Albert and Gus who went by Borgstrom.
Erick and Mary seemed to use both variations of the name. The Swedish document dated
April 16, 1892, where Samuel grants Erick permission to leave Sweden, the name is Borgstrom.
On Erick and Mary's marriage certificate in January, 1894 the name is Erick Bergstrom. However,
the birth certificate for their first born child, Beda Maria, in December of that same year uses
Borgstrom.
When Mary Hanson Borgstrom died her English obituary listed her as Mary Bergstrom.
Her Swedish obituary gave her name as Maria Borgstrom. Her grave marker reads Mary
Bergstrom.
Erick's death certificate gives his name as Erick Borgstrom and his widow signed her
name as Ester Borgstrom. His grave marker reads Erick Borgstrom.
The farm outside of Kalispell, Montana is at the corner of W. Spring Creek and 3 Mile Dr.
** It is unclear is unclear about Erick's naturalization in 1897. His naturalizations in 1903 as a
Canadian citizen and in 1940 as a US citizen are documented.
Erick used both the Swedish spelling, Borgstrom, and the English spelling Bergstrom throughout
his life. Some sons used Bergstrom, and some used Borgstrom.

Erick Borgstrom and Mary (Maria) Hanson had the following children:
i.

ii.

iii.

iv.

BEDA (MAE) MARIA3 BERGSTROM was born on 03 Dec 1894 in Brandon, Minnehaha,
South Dakota, USA. She died on 11 Aug 1926 in Hot Springs, Montana.
Notes for Beda (Mae) Maria Bergstrom:
Beda May Bergstrom died of Tuberculosis at Montana State Tuberculosis
Sanitarium in Deer Lodge County at the age of 29. She is buried at Kalispell, MT.
Her birth certificate which is written is Swedish, gives her name as Beda
Maria.

FRED SEIGFRED BERGSTROM was born on 22 Mar 1896 in South Dakota. He died on
07 May 1931 in Portland, Oregon. He married Esther Magnusen on 08 Jun 1921 in
Kalispell, Montana. She was born on 01 Aug 1901 in Kalispell, Montana. She died
in Aug 1986 in Astoria, Clatsop, Oregon.
Notes for Fred Seigfred Bergstrom:
Cause of death: Pneumonia, contributory cause Myocarditis

RUDOLPH BERGSTROM was born on 16 Dec 1897 in Garretson, South Dakota. He

died on 07 Jun 1964 in Somers, Montana. He married Alma Sorenson, daughter of
Anton Sorenson and Olive Berg, on 24 Jun 1922. She was born on 24 Apr 1900 in
Eau Claire, Rice Lake, Wisconsin. She died on 10 Jul 2000 in Kalispell, Montana.

Notes for Rudolph Bergstrom:

Rudolph came to the Flathead Valley and engaged in farming there until
moving to Somers in 1927, where he was employed by the Somers Lumber
Company. He retired in March of 1963. He was the chief engineer at the Tie Plant
where railroad ties were treated before they were used on the railroad.
Rudolph died of a heart attack or aneurysm in the brain.
NELS VEGO BERGSTROM was born on 17 Jan 1900 in South Dakota. He died on 04
Apr 1931 in Kalispell, Montana. He married Doris Mae Gunderson in 1929.
Notes for Nels Vego Bergstrom:
Cause of Death: Cancer - Secondary Anemia

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DAVID ALEXANDER BERGSTROM was born on 16 Feb 1902 in Highland Park, Alberta.
He died on 06 Apr 1966 in Conrad, Montana. He married Margaret Eliza McLean,
daughter of John McLean and Rosa Annie Snell, on 23 Mar 1933 in Great Falls,
Cascade, Montana. She was born on 26 Jan 1913 in Lytle, Montana. She died on
19 Mar 1976 in Conrad, Montana.

Notes for David Alexander Bergstrom:

David Bergstrom was born February 16, 1902 in the Highland Park,
Alberta, Canada area. He was the fifth of thirteen children born to Erick and Mary
Hanson Borgstrom (Bergstrom). David's mother was born in South Dakota, so
even though he was born in Canada, David had US citizenship.
His family moved a lot when he was growing up, living at Highland Park,
Alberta, Mapletown and Brandon, South Dakota, and Kandiyohi, Minnesota.
As a young adult, David worked in the timber industry and also for the
railroad in the Kalispell, Montana area. In 1927 or 1928, he came to the Knees
area east of Brady, Montana, looking for work. He worked for John McLean for
several years.
That is where Dave met Margaret McLean. She was the daughter of John
and Rosa Snell McLean. They were married March 23, 1933. They lived east of
Conrad on the Gahgen place for a year. Then they lived on the Ralph Bishop land
and with Margaret's folks for a while. In 1940 they moved to the Ed Nelson place
near the Strauss School.
David Fred Bergstrom was born January 15, 1934 and Velma Margaret
Bergstrom was born March 18, 1937.
In about 1945, Dave and Margaret Bergstrom bought the McDermand
place east of Brady and other land holdings in the following years. They built a two
story house facing a large reservoir.
Evelyn Dea Bergstrom was born January 24, 1948 and Glenn Alexander
Bergstrom was born July 12, 1951.
Margaret and Dave bought a house in Conrad at 405 S. Michigan so Fred,
Velma, Evelyn, and Glenn could go to high school in Conrad. Summers were spent
on the farm.
David Bergstrom died of a heart attack April 6, 1966 at his home in Conrad.
Margaret Bergstrom died March 19, 1976 in Conrad, MT. Both are buried at
Conrad.

vi.

vii.

Biographical entry: Country Roads, East Community History Book, p. 62-64.

SAMUEL RUBEN BERGSTROM was born on 03 Feb 1904. He died in 1904.

ELIAS OLIVER BERGSTROM was born on 08 Sep 1905 in Highland Park, Alberta. He
died on 04 Apr 1955 in Billings, Yellowstone Co., Montana. He married Bertha
DeYong on 19 Apr 1929 in Kalispell, Montana. She was born on 31 Jan 1906 in
Clam Union, Missaukee, Michigan. She died on 18 Nov 1991 in Arden Hills, St.
Paul Co., Minnesota.
Notes for Elias Oliver Bergstrom:
Elias and Bertha were divorced. Elias died of thyroid growth and heart
problems.

viii. EDNA WIKTORIA OLIVIA BERGSTROM was born on 07 Oct 1908 in Mapletown, South
Dakota. She died in 1909.
ix.

Notes for Edna Wiktoria Olivia Bergstrom:

Died as a toddler of Membraneous Laryngitis. Date of birth might be 1907.

GUSTAF EMIL BORGSTROM was born on 11 Jul 1910. He died on 02 May 1989 in
Conrad, Montana. He married Phoebe Lantz on 17 Oct 1951. She died in Dec 1987
in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA.
Notes for Gustaf Emil Borgstrom:
Gus served in World War II with the U.S. Navy on the USS Enterprise. After his

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discharge he farmed south of Great Falls, Montana in the Eden area. His funeral
was May 8, 1989 at the Central Assembly of God Church in Great Falls, Montana.

EMMA FREDRICKA BERGSTROM was born on 02 Aug 1912 in Sioux Falls, South
Dakota. She died on 08 Oct 1978 in Willits, California. She married Wallace Ward
Whitehorn on 15 Apr 1945. He was born on 18 Nov 1913 in Lawton, Iowa. He died
on 07 May 1989 in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA.

Notes for Emma Fredricka Bergstrom:

Emma Bergstrom was born August 2, 1912 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The family moved quite often as has been stated. She remembered that when she
started school she spoke only Swedish and one of her older brothers had to go with
her to translate. When she was 11 or 12 years old she was ill for several months
with what was probably chronic appendicitis. Emma finally was admitted to the
hospital and had surgery.
During Emma's hospitalization, her mother, who had been sick for some
time, died and was buried. At that time Emma was the oldest girl at home and was
the one called on to take over the household chores. She did reminisce once
about her first stepmother, only to say that the children were afraid of her and were
glad when she was no longer in the picture.
When she was in high school in Kalispell, Montana, her family moved again
and Emma decided to stay in Kalispell and graduate. She lived with families, did
housework and took care of children for her room and board. After finishing high
school, she went to a business school in Portland, Oregon and worked there for a
time at the Myron Frank department store. Eventually she relocated to Montana
and stayed with her brother Dave and his wife Margaret in Brady and then worked
in Conrad at the courthouse.
During this time she met Wallace Whitehorn who farmed with his father and
brothers north of Great Falls, Montana. They corresponded while he was with the
army in the Pacific for 3 years during WWII and were married on April 15, 1945,
when they were both 32 years old. They were married in Missouri where Wallace
was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood. They recalled that their wedding day was on
the day that Roosevelt was buried so the streets were quiet as everyone was inside
listening to the funeral on the radio. After his discharge from the army they moved
back to Montana to the farm. They lived for a time with Wallace's parents until they
could fix up a homestead house nearby that had belonged to his aunt and uncle.
They remembered that the only insulation was tarpaper, so there were many cold
times during the winter. Wallace continued to farm with his brothers after his father
died. They remodeled and improved the house several times and it is still being
lived in by a nephew and his family.
Carol was born in 1947 and Laurel was born in 1949. Emma was active in
supporting the local country school. When Carol was high school age they made
the decision not to move to town, but to drive the twenty miles to Great Falls each
school day. They were the first parents in the area to do this, but not the last, and
eventually there were enough students to justify a bus for transportation. Between
school activities and music lessons sometimes there were several trips to town a
day on the Bootlegger Trail.
Emma was a good cook and loved to have family gatherings at her house.
She enjoyed reading, music and had a large vegetable garden. She was surprised
when an acquaintance asked her how she could keep from getting lonely and bored
out in the country. She said she always had plenty of things to do.
She started to have problems with high blood pressure after her 60th
birthday, but remained active and rarely complained of her health. She was
traveling with Wallace and her daughter Carol to visit Laurel and her family in
California when she had a heart attack and died two days later in the hospital in
Willits, California on October 8, 1978. She was buried in the Manchester Cemetery
near Great Falls, Montana.

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xi.

ALBERT CORNELIUS BORGSTROM was born on 29 Mar 1915 in Kandiyohi, Minnesota.

He died on 28 Jan 1978 in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA. He married June
Muir, daughter of Tom Muir and Kathrine Ross, on 07 Jun 1950. She was born on
01 Oct 1924 in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA. She died on 14 Jun 1979 in
Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA.

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Notes for Albert Cornelius Borgstrom:

Albert and his brother Gustaf went by Borgstrom, while their other siblings
went by Bergstrom.
Albert and June farmed south of Great Falls, Montana in the Stockett area.
They adopted four children: Larry, Warren, Donna, and Brian.
Albert died of a heart attack.

MARIAN PHOEBE TWELVINIA BERGSTROM was born on 29 Dec 1916 in Kandiyohi,

Minnesota. She died on 04 Jun 1994 in Newport, Lincoln Co., Oregon. She married
Joseph Lovretich on 17 Apr 1937. He was born on 11 Mar 1913 in Molat, Dulmatia,
Yugoslavia. He died on 09 Mar 2009.

xiii. ROBERT JOHN BERGSTROM was born on 13 Mar 1919 in Kalispell, Montana. He died
on 02 Feb 1972 in Sweetgrass, Montana. He married (1) MARLYS HARALDINE
PLUMMER on 20 May 1945 in Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, USA. She was born
on 05 Feb 1921 in Aberdeen, South Dakota. She died on 08 Jul 1959 in Great Falls,
Cascade, Montana, USA. He married (2) IRENE VIOLET CRAWFORD on 11 Feb 1961.
She was born on 19 Nov 1926.
Notes for Robert John Bergstrom:
Robert (Bob) Bergstrom and Marlys Plummer were married just before
Robert was released from the Army in 1945. Their first son, Roger, was born in
July 1946 and not long after that, they moved to the East Community of Brady,
Montana, where they rented 360 acres from Ed Nelson, directly west of the Strauss
School.
In April 1948, Dennis was born and in October 1953, Karen joined her two
older brothers. Having outgrown the small house, an addition was built on in 1955,
complete with indoor bathroom, finally.
In 1959, the family moved to Sweetgrass, Montana, where they bought 900
acres from Bert McVey, Marlys's stepfather. Marlys died in July of 1959 from a
brain tumor at the age of 37, before the family moved into the remodeled home on
their new farm.
In February of 1961, Bob married Irene Crawford, daughter of Laurence
and Goul Crawford, and a son Randy was born in December of 1963.
Bob died at home suddenly from a heart attack in February 1972. Irene
continues to live at Sweetgrass and is married to Charlie Gerner.

4.

Biography entry: Country Roads, pg. 66, Brady, Montana, community history book.

CARL JOHAN HANSON (Carl Fredrick1) was born on 02 Jan 1874 in South Dakota. He married
Amanda on 24 Jun 1909 in Salem, South Dakota.
2

Notes for Carl Johan Hanson:

Carl J. Hanson, Jr. came to Alberta with his father and brothers, Eric and Albert Hanson.
Carl J. took up a homestead in Alberta, was a resident for a few years, and then he returned to the
Dakotas where he married Amanda.
After the death of Amanda, he again came to Canada, making his home with the Albert
Hansons.
Carl Johan Hanson had four children. Dorothy, Inez, and Vincent were put up for adoption
after their mother died. Inez and Vincent were twins. Lloyd stayed with his father.
Carl Johan or "Uncle Carl" as he was fondly called met a tragic death. He was a quiet,
cheerful person and so it was not fully realized he was failing mentally. He had spent his years
after moving back to Canada alternating between the homes of J. Albert Hanson in Ferintosh,
Alberta and Atlee Hanson in Summerland, British Columbia. That final spring he had gotten on the
bus in Summerland and was intending to go to Ferintosh. He never was a letter writer, nor was
Altee, so no one knew he was missing, as J. Albert didn't know he was coming.

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Some weeks later the police contacted Atlee and it turned out that poor Uncle Carl had
gotten off the bus while yet in British Columbia and started walking, thinking he was at Ferintosh.
Apparently he was accompanied by some kind of vagrant who killed him for the money he had on
him and threw Carl's body over the bank in a lonely spot.
Later on, a bum in jail a hundred or so miles away confessed to having killed an old man
for his money; but such is the law, he wasn't charged, for lack of proof.

Carl Johan Hanson and Amanda had the following children:

i.

JOHN LLOYD3 HANSON was born on 19 Sep 1910. He died on 16 Aug 1991 in
California. He married Amy Anderson on 25 Jun 1968.

Notes for John Lloyd Hanson:

John Lloyd Hanson went by the name Lloyd. He married Amy in mid-life.
She was a widow from South Dakota. She had grown children, but she and Lloyd
did not have children.
Lloyd lived and worked most of his life in Palo Alto, California before
moving to Salem, Oregon. Lloyd passed away in his early 80's from bone cancer.
Amy moved to Silverton.

ii.

iii.

iv.

5.

Notes for Amy Anderson:

Amy's children are Martin Anderson, Ralph Anderson, Lois Anderson
Heine, and Virgil Anderson.
DOROTHY HANSON STONE. She married WAYNE HEINEKE.

Notes for Dorothy Hanson Stone:

After Dorothy's mother died, Dorothy was adopted by the Stones. Dorothy
married and had children. She worked at Boeing in Seattle during World War II. In
later years she lived in Colorado.
INEZ HANSON DUNCAN. She married HERBERT VAUGHN.

Notes for Inez Hanson Duncan:

Inez and Vincent were twins. When their mother died Inez was adopted by
the Duncans and Vincent was adopted by the Andersons. Inez married and had
two children.
VINCENT HANSON ANDERSON. He married RUTH.

Notes for Vincent Hanson Anderson:

Vincent and Inez were twins. When their mother died Inez was adopted by
the Duncans and Vincent was adopted by the Andersons. Vincent and Ruth had
two children.

ELIZABETH ELINORA (NORA) 2 HANSON (Carl Fredrick1) was born in 1879 in Brandon, Minnehaha,
South Dakota, USA. She died in 1945. She married NELS LUNDGREN BORGSTROM. He was born on
21 Jun 1883 in Olofsback, Degerfors, Vannas, Vasterbotton, Sweden. He died in 1948 in
Ferintosh, Alberta.
Notes for Elizabeth Elinora (Nora) Hanson:
Norah got tuberculosis when her children were young. Dr. McLeod gave her two weeks.
All prayed for her recovery. Later on, x-ray showed healed scar tissue.

Notes for Nels Lundgren Borgstrom:

Nels Borgstrom, who was born in Sweden in 1883, came to Canada in about 1904, when
he was about twenty-one years of age. He married Elizabeth Elinora (Nora) Hanson of the
Highland Park District. She was born in 1879.
They spent their first years in the Highland Park District living in a log house. Their first
two children were born there. They decided to go to South Dakota, and while there, their little
daughter passed away.
They and their son Edwin returned to the Highland Park District, and after a short time,
they bought land in the Big Four District from Mr. Almas. It was the NW 30-43-20-W 4th and they
moved there in about 1909.
The house there was to remain their home for the rest of their lives, with additions being

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made to it through the years. Five more children were born into the family there: Edla, Elof, Adelia,
Albin, and Jonas. They each attended the Big Four School when they reached school age.
Nels and Nora Borgstrom were members of the Highland Park Mission Covenant Church,
but since they lived nearer to the Fridhem Baptist Church, they and their family began attending
Sunday School and church services there. Their home was often a gathering place for the young
people of the community.
Nora Borgstrom enjoyed playing the organ and singing. She had been in the church choir
at Highland Park in her younger years.
Nels Borgstrom raised horses, and served as a butcher as well as farming. The fall of
1919 is remembered because the snow came early, the stooks had to be dug out of the snow, and
a hard winter followed. He and Charlie Howe were kept busy vaccinating horses during the
epidemic of equine encephalitis (sleeping sickness) in about 1934 or 1935.
Nora passed away in 1945 and Nels in 1948.
In some of the Swedish records Nels Borgstrom is referred to as Nils Lundgren. Several
of the Borgstrom brothers used the name Lundgren while in Sweden.
Biography entry: Little Beaver Tales, pg. 236. Ferintosh, Alberta, Canada, community history book.

Nels Lundgren Borgstrom and Elizabeth Elinora (Nora) Hanson had the following children:
i.

ii.

iii.

NELS EDWIN3 BORGSTROM was born on 02 Feb 1904.

ADLA BORGSTROM was born in 1907 in Highland Park, Alberta. She died in 1910 in
South Dakota.
Notes for Adla Borgstrom:
Cause of death was accidental poisoning.

EDLA ELIZABETH OLIVIA BORGSTROM was born on 14 May 1909 in Highland Park,
Alberta. She died on 14 Jun 2005. She married Charles Thomas Howe on 21 Feb
1930 in Ferintosh, Alberta. He was born on 11 Jan 1905 in Colkirk, Norfolk,
England. He died on 01 Feb 1986.

Notes for Edla Elizabeth Olivia Borgstrom:

Edla Borgstrom was the daughter of Nels and Nora Borgstrom. In 1930
Edla married Charles Howe. He had come to Toronto, Ontario from England in
1923. After his parents came to the Big Four District in 1925, he came west and
joined the rest of the family. Charlie, as he was better known, worked for farmers in
the area, doing a great deal of brushing. He also did some farming.
Edla and Charlie had eight children: Charles, Myrtle, Samuel, Margaret,
Walter, Thomas, and twins John and Fredrick.
The Borgstrom family lived on the old Larson farm for seventeen years. In
1967 Edla and Charlie moved to the farm that had been his parents' when they
came from England. The other farm was sold to Fred Riemer.
Charlie passed away in 1986.

iv.
v.

vi.

Biography entry: Little Beaver Tales, pg. 245. Ferintosh, Alberta, Canada,
community history book.
Biography entry: Trails, Trials, and Triumphs, pg. 291. Edberg, Alberta, Canada,
community history book.
EDLA'S TWIN was born on 14 May 1909.

ELOF ERIC ALLEN BORGSTROM was born in 1912. He died on 13 Sep 1990. He
married (1) RITA. He married (2) ELLEN MARY GEORGINA on 14 Jul 1956. She was
born on 13 Oct 1926.
ADELIA BORGSTROM was born on 14 Apr 1914. She died on 17 Nov 1992. She
married WALTER HALL. He was born on 21 Jun.

Notes for Adelia Borgstrom:

Adelia Borgstrom was born April 14, 1914. She grew up in Ferintosh,
Alberta. She went to Summerland, British Columbia to join her brother Elof. She
worked picking fruit in orchards.

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She met her husband Walter Hall here. They married and had three
children. The children, Gary, Beverly, and Shirley were born in Summerland.
Shirley died at nine months of pneumonia.
Walter and Adelia owned an orchard which they sold and then moved to
Revelstoke, where they lived the rest of their lives.
During her years in Revelstoke, she took in boarders to make extra money
and Walter worked at the hospital as an orderly.
In retirement, they enjoyed gardening and their grandchildren. Walter
passed away in 1982 and Adelia in 1992.
ALBIN BORGSTROM was born on 16 Jan 1918 in Highland Park, Alberta. He died on
20 Apr 1990 in Edmonton, Alberta.
Notes for Albin Borgstrom:
Albin died of heart failure.

viii. JONAS A. BORGSTROM was born in 1919. He died in 1965 in Ferintosh, Alberta.
6.

Notes for Jonas A. Borgstrom:

Jonas became ill while working as part of an elevator gang.

OLIVIA (OLEVIA) 2 HANSON (Carl Fredrick1) was born on 12 Mar 1880 in Brandon, Minnehaha, South
Dakota, USA. She died on 08 Apr 1921 in Worthing, South Dakota. She married Carl Oscar
Johnson, son of Charles Johnson, on 05 Jun 1907 in Brandon, Minnehaha, South Dakota, USA.
He was born on 13 Dec 1872 in Worthing, South Dakota. He died on 16 Mar 1945 in South
Dakota.
Notes for Olivia (Olevia) Hanson:
Olivia Hanson was the youngest daughter of Carl Fredrick and Maria Hanson's ten
children. Her parents had immigrated to South Dakota from Sweden before Olivia was born.
Olivia was born March 12, 1880 at the family homestead near Brandon, South Dakota.
When Olivia was about twenty, her father and brothers Carl J. and Albert went to the Ferintosh,
Alberta area to file for homesteads. After building a log house, Olivia's father sent for Olivia, her
sister Freda, and Olivia's mother Maria.
Olivia returned to Brandon, South Dakota and married Carl Oscar Johnson on June 5,
1907. Her parents returned to their original homestead in South Dakota in 1909.
Olivia and Carl Johnson lived near Worthing, South Dakota all there lives. They had four
children: Clarence, Mabel, Rudolph, and Edith.
Edith was 18 months old when she died during the flu epidemic of 1918.
Olivia Hanson Johnson died April 8, 1921 in Worthing, South Dakota at the age of
forty-one. Her children were twelve, eleven, and eight years old.
Carl Oscar Johnson died March 16, 1945.

Carl Oscar Johnson and Olivia (Olevia) Hanson had the following children:
i.

ii.

iii.
iv.

CLARENCE C.3 JOHNSON was born on 11 Nov 1908 in Worthing, South Dakota. He
died on 26 Jan 1978 in Canton, South Dakota. He married (1) ANNA BERG on 04
Aug 1945 in Canton, South Dakota. She was born on 26 Jun 1914 in Saint Paul,
Minnesota. She died on 14 Jul 1966 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He married (2)
IDA REYNOLDS .

MABEL S. JOHNSON was born on 07 Dec 1909 in Worthing, South Dakota. She died
on 13 Jun 1999 in Windom, Minnesota. She married Selmer Lind, son of Louis Lind
and Mary Fodness, on 13 Sep 1931 in Worthing, South Dakota. He was born on 13
Sep 1904 in Canton, South Dakota. He died on 13 Apr 1984 in Sioux Falls, South
Dakota.
RUDOLPH JOHNSON was born in Dec 1912 in Worthing, South Dakota. He married
Selma Lind, daughter of Louis Lind and Mary Fodness, on 29 May 1938 in Canton,
South Dakota. She was born on 09 Mar 1915 in Canton, South Dakota.
EDITH IREEN JOHNSON was born on 12 Mar 1917 in Worthing, South Dakota. She
died on 22 Oct 1918 in Worthing, South Dakota.
Notes for Edith Ireen Johnson:

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7.

1918.

Edith Johnson was 18 months old when she died during the flu epidemic of

J.ALBERT 2 HANSON (Carl Fredrick1) was born on 24 Jun 1882 in South Dakota. He died on 24 Sep
1964 in Highland Park, Alberta. He married Julia Ringwall, daughter of Peter Ringwall and Golin
Skanse, on 19 Dec 1911. She was born on 02 May 1886 in Copperstown, South Dakota. She died
on 30 Aug 1968.

Notes for J.Albert Hanson:

J. Albert Hanson came to the New Norway and Ferintosh Districts from South Dakota in
1900 with his father and two brothers, Erick and Carl Jr. They claimed homesteads. Albert's was
east of New Norway.
When Albert's father moved back to South Dakota in 1909, Albert sold his homestead near
New Norway and took over his father's quarter section which was WSW, section 21, and NW
21. Albert bought the J. Andrew Johnson homestead, west from the 80 acres of NW21, which was
to become the site of the final farm home.
On December 19, 1911, Albert married Julia Ringwall, daughter of P.E. Ringwall of Red
Deer Lake. They established their home in the log homestead house.
In 1914, Albert and Julia, with their first two children, Mildred and Doris, went to South
Dakota to care for Grandma Hanson, as Grandpa had just passed away. Ella Ringwall, Julia's
sister, went with them in order to help with the growing family. Stanley was born in 1915, and
Grandma passed away in 1917.
In the early fall of 1918, the farm there was sold, and the family returned to the log house 3
miles from Ferintosh. That year, 1918-1919, Julia taught in the Kensington School, a school
district south of the Highland Park Church - quite a task with three small children.
In 1921, Marvin was born, and Lois in 1925. Ivy Noonan became part of the family in 1938
when she was five years old. They were a happy family.
Before his marriage, Albert was engaged in construction in Edmonton, New Norway, and
Ferintosh. In Ferintosh, the first town hall had a second floor which was engineered by Albert. He
put in special trusses to ensure safety which were discovered when it was demolished many years
later. In 1928, he built the large family home on the farm.
Albert Hanson was one of the early pioneers in tractor farming. His first tractor was a
15-30 International, with a separate carburetor for each of the four cylinders. It was used to break
up the woodland with a breaking plow, but proved to lack weight and necessary power to pull the
plow without problems so was soon replaced by a bigger model 24-45 Titan. With this tractor, he
was also able to empower a threshing machine and do his own threshing and some custom
threshing.
In 1929, he bought a 30-60 Rumley Oil Pull and was able to do road grading as well as
custom threshing to help make necessary payments on its purchase.
Albert always had his own blacksmith shop and did his own repair work on all his
machinery. Once, during threshing, a connecting rod on the tractor burnt out. Albert stayed up all
night to work on it so as to have it running the next day. The quickest way was to take the whole
piston with the crank out through the crankcase end, instead of taking the engine head off and
taking the piston out in the normal way. There was only one hitch to putting the piston back
through the crankcase, a ring compressor had to be manipulated to compress the piston rings into
their grooves in order for the piston to enter the cylinder. None of the men were small enough to
get their shoulders through the crankcase opening. Fortunately, Stanley was small enough to
squeeze through the opening and do the job.
Albert also possessed some inventive talents. In 1930, after breaking the C.P.R. quarter
with a breaking plow, he made a three section grub harrow to be pulled with the Rumley tractor.
He also designed a grub rake to be pulled by six horses, which raked all the grubs and roots into
rows. Pitch forks were used to assemble them into piles for burning. His last invention was a
stook loader, pulled and powered by a Model L. Case tractor. The power take-off powered the
stook pick-up and elevator to put the stooks into a large rack, so make that the whole load could be
dumped at the threshing machine. In a test run, he almost met his end. Not having put on the
power take-off shield, his clothing got caught, torn, and wound up, even pulling his arm out of its
socket. He was thrown on the ground into the pathway of the oncoming machine. Clarence Strom
and David Fredlund were home at this time, and one of them pulled the clutch just six inches
before it would have been too late. As a result of the accident in 1946, Albert had to leave farming
sooner than he would have otherwise.

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In 1960, the farm was sold to Stanley Ringwall, Julia's brother, who later sold it to the Guze
brothers. Albert and Julia moved to Three Hills where they lived until their passing - Albert in 1964
and Julia in 1968. Later the farm house was sold and moved to Ferintosh Lake.
Notes for Julia Ringwall:
Before Julia's marriage to J. Albert Hanson, she had attended Normal School in Calgary,
graduating in the first Normal Class in Alberta in 1906. She taught school in several districts before
her marriage.

J.Albert Hanson and Julia Ringwall had the following children:

i.

MILDRED ALBERTINA3 HANSON was born on 12 Nov 1912 in Highland Park, Alberta.
She died on 29 Dec 2002. She married Clarence Strom, son of Nels Strom and
Elna Eckentein, on 05 Nov 1938. He was born on 14 Dec 1911 in Burdett, Alberta.
He died on 18 Jun 1999 in Three Hills, Alberta.

Notes for Mildred Albertina Hanson:

Mildred Albertina (Hanson) Strom was born in Camrose, Alberta on
November 12,1912, the first child of Albert and Julia (Ringwall) Hanson. When she
was two years old and her sister Doris was a baby, the family moved to South
Dakota to care for Grandma Hanson as Grandpa had died and Grandma needed
help. They worked on the farm and Grandma had her own apartment in the
farmhouse until Grandma died from the effects of a terrible stove explosion in 1917.
By the fall of 1918 the farm had been sold and the family moved back to the log
homestead in the Ferintosh area in Alberta.
Though Swedish was usually spoken at home when Mildred started school
English became the main language so the children would be able to become fluent
for their education. She attended the little schoolhouse in the district called the
Kensington School. She took her grade nine and ten in Ferintosh and had to board
in town to attend there.
Albert and Julia were God-fearing people who were very involved in the
Highland Park Mission Church of which Albert's parents were charter members,
and his father had been the chairman of the Board. Mildred took confirmation
classes with their pastor and a group of young people. Later through the joyful life
of a hired girl helping her mother at home, Mildred understood that going to church
was not enough, she needed to make a personal decision to repent of her sin and
receive God's free gift of salvation through the finished work of Jesus Christ on the
cross. She said that after taking this step, she felt the same peace and joy in her
own
life that she had seen in her friend.
In 1932 Mildred enrolled at the Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, Alberta
graduating four years later. That summer she planned on working with the
Canadian Sunday School Mission up north. She was glad to be going away
because a classmate from Prairie was going to be the student pastor in their church
and she didn't want anyone getting "ideas". Struck with an undiagnosed abdominal
illness, she was not able to go; however, the physical symptoms cleared up a short
time later, but the window of opportunity had closed for going.
During that summer the respect and admiration Mildred felt for the tall,
handsome, hard-working Swede who pitched in and worked on the farms where he
was billeted grew into love. He left for Seminary in the States that fall, but their
correspondence further drew them together, and sensing God was making of them
a team for ministry, they were the first couple to be married in the Highland Park
Mission Church on November 5, 1938.
They had a one night honeymoon in a hotel in Camrose and then were
driven by Clarence's brother, Walter almost to Carlea, Saskatchewan. They were
supposed to be at the Two Rivers Bible Institute to teach for the winter, but a
sudden severe snow storm meant that they were unable to make it by nightfall and
had to be put up with friends of the school and brought the rest of the way the next
day.
The next spring, Mildred's church who had appreciated Clarence as a
student pastor, sent an invitation for them to move back and be their full time

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pastor. They served this church faithfully for almost four years.
Since they didn't have a car, they walked over wintry fields a mile and a
half to a mid-week meeting on December 13, 1939. The next day Mildred gave
Clarence the most outstanding birthday present he had ever had - his first son who
they named Arthur Kenneth after his father, Arthur Clarence.
In the spring of 1943 they moved twenty miles south-east to Meeting Creek
where they spent the next almost fourteen years sharing the joys and sorrows of
that congregation. Daughter, Nola had been born in 1942 and shortly after they
moved Donald joined the family. Mildred, ever a supportive partner to Clarence fit
into the rural community so well. She was very hospitable and participated in
visiting people with her pastor husband. She taught Sunday school, played the
piano and sang many solos for church, weddings and funerals.
Clarence and Mildred learned to empathize with others even more after
their six year old son, Kenneth contracted the dreaded disease, polio. He was
paralyzed from his chest down and was in hospital in Edmonton for about seven
months. The first two weeks he was in Edmonton Clarence and Mildred were cut
off from family and friends by a red isolation card that hung on their door. Most of
that quarantine period their phone was not working, so they couldn't even find out
how Kenneth was doing. After months of hospitalization and treatment and surgery
when he was fourteen, Kenneth was able to lead a normal life - his limp giving mute
evidence of his fight with polio. After this difficult time in the summer of 1946 their
youngest daughter, Sharon was born.
In the summer of 1956 the family of six said a tearful goodbye to their many
dear friends in Meeting Creek to take up new responsibilities at the Prairie
Tabernacle in Three Hills, Alberta. Again Mildred opened her home in warm and
generous hospitality to scores of dorm students connected with the Bible School,
and to countless community folks. These activities were in addition to being a
homemaker to their family and tending a large garden with all the canning and
freezing of vegetables and fruits.
Clarence and Mildred were sent by the church in 1978 to visit missionaries
in Germany, Switzerland and France as well as to visit their roots in Sweden. The
next year a mission invited them to visit and minister to their missionaries in Japan
which took them away for two months. They both enjoyed being available to meet
people's needs.
In November of 1998 around four hundred relatives and friends gathered to
honor them and show their love and admiration for Clarence and Mildred as they
celebrated sixty years of marriage. Clarence never retired from ministry and
Mildred supported him by being with him when she could, and by letting him go to
services and visitation when her poor health confined her to home. By this time the
tables had gradually turned so that after years of serving her husband, he was able
to be the one cooking and cleaning for her. He served as a pastor to the Prairie
Tabernacle Congregation for almost forty-three years.
Clarence was called to "Higher Service" on June 18, 1999 after a three
year struggle with cancer. People came from all over Alberta to pay their respects
to a man who was known as a faithful friend and minister to many. Mildred lived
with her daughter, Sharon and Selmer Hanson in Edmonton for the last six months
of Clarence's illness and for another eight months after his death. She is now being
cared for in the Linden Nursing Home in Linden, Alberta.

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DORIS KATHERINE HANSON was born on 26 Oct 1913 in Highland Park, Alberta. She
died on 29 Jan 1990. She married David Oscar Fredlund on 18 Aug 1938 in
Ferintosh, Alberta. He was born on 14 Jul 1914.
Notes for Doris Katherine Hanson:
Doris Katherine Hanson was born October 26, 1913 and grew up on the
farm near Ferintosh, Alberta. As a young person she worked hard at teaching

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herself to play the church organ, and became the church organist, also singing in
duets and quartets. In 1935 she enrolled in a college course at Prairie Bible
Institute, Three Hills, Alberta.
On August 18, 1938 she married David Fredlund. They became involved in
a pastoral ministry in Manitoba.
In 1942 and for a number of years, she used her musical talent as they
carried on a daily radio ministry at Yorkton, Saskatchewan, then Grande Prairie,
Alberta. Rally meetings were also held at town halls and churches throughout the
radio coverage area. This was terminated when her husband contracted chronic
laryngitis.
In the following years David became involved in various business activities.
They made their home in Calgary, Alberta, Cranbrook, British Columbia, and finally
in the greater Vancouver area - Surrey, White Rock, and then Richmond. Doris was
always faithful to and very supportive of her husband and family.
During the last nine years of her life she struggled with cancer and passed
away January 19, 1990.
STANLEY HOWARD HANSON was born on 19 Jun 1915 in Brandon, Minnehaha
County, South Dakota. He died on 25 Dec 1997 in Three Hills, Alberta. He married
Gladys Mae Wakelin on 03 Apr 1943. She was born on 02 May 1917.

Notes for Stanley Howard Hanson:

Stanley Howard Hanson was born at Brandon, South Dakota, June 19,
1915 while his parents were temporarily in the States caring for Grandma Maria
Hanson until her decease May 30, 1917.
Shortly afterwards, they returned to the farm near Ferintosh, Alberta, where
Stanley spent his growing up years. He faithfully attended the Highland Park
Mission Church in the district.
In 1936 he enrolled as a student at Prairie Bible Institute, Three Hills,
Alberta, graduating in 1941. That fall he attended the Missionary Medical Institute
in Toronto, Ontario, as further preparation for missionary service. There he met and
married Gladys Wakelin on April 3, 1943.
They returned to Western Canada where Stanley pastored two Mission
Covenant churches in Saskatchewan. In 1948 they went to Haiti, West Indies, to
serve for twenty-six years with UFM International. For twenty of those years they
supervised a Boys' Home (averaging thirty boys) while at the same time Stanley
worked with local national leadership in pastoral ministry in several churches.
They returned to Canda to live in Three Hills in 1974. Stanley was on the
staff of Prairie Bible Institute for several years, working in the garage, then Power
Plant. He passed away on December 25, 1997.
MARVIN HANSON was born on 15 Jun 1921 in Ferintosh, Alberta. He died on 18 Nov
2001. He married Madeline Burridge on 31 May 1947. She was born on 05 Oct
1921. She died in Nov 2006.
Notes for Marvin Hanson:
Marvin Hanson was born June 15, 1921. He was the son of J. Albert and
Julia Hanson.
He served in the Army during World War II in the radio corp. After the war
he went to radio college in Toronto. There he met Madeline Birridge and they were
married May 31, 1947.
He later went to Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and studied
refrigeration. He owned his own refrigeration service for many years. He waited to
retire until after the Calgary Olympics because there was such a need for his skills.
LOIS BERNICE HANSON was born on 13 Apr 1925 in Ferintosh, Alberta. She married
JACK JOHN M. HAYNES . He was born on 08 Mar 1922 in Empress, Alberta.
IVY NOONAN was born on 06 Apr 1933 in Kamloops, British Columbia. She died on
06 Jul 1985. She married NICK GAWRYLETZ. He was born on 08 Jun 1934.
Notes for Ivy Noonan:

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Ivy
Ivy joined the family as a foster child at the age of five in 1938. She was
never adopted because her father and mother would not let it happen. She was
considered a family member.
Ivy married Nick Gawryletz after Bible School and nurse's training. They
promoted missionary work for many years, serving in the Philippines for a time.
Ivy died as the result of an automobile accident.