Waterloo Daily Courier
Tuesday, May 5, 1936
Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Danielson, 91, mother of Mrs. Mable McCall and Mrs. Mae Cramer, 624, Fourth street West, who died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. L. Tang, Fort Dodge, will take place at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Wilder Chapel, Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery Fort Dodge. Mrs. Danielson was born in Sweden and came to the United States with her parents when a young girl. She had been a resident of Webster County for 74 years.
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The Fort Dodge Messenger & Chronicle, August 17, 1935
"EARLY WEBSTER COUNTY AS RECALLED BY EARLY PIONEERS"
(Mrs. Hattie Danielson of Ft. Dodge, born in Sweden, November 22, "1844", came to Webster county in 1859.)
"When I arrived in Webster county, I couldn't talk English--only Swedish. When I went to school, I memorized English words without understanding them. Generally, school was in session only three months in the fall and three months in the spring. Often, there was school only three months of the entire year. When I first came to Webster county , the other boys and girls ridiculed my wooden shoes and Swedish clothes. In those days, we made our own clothes of homespun materials. Our dresses reached our ankles, and unless they weren't newly pressed, they weren't very handsome. Such things as cosmetics were unknown to us.
The young people, then enjoyed themselves just as much as they do now. The dances were called cotillions. Often all the orchestra we had was a single violinist.
Travel was difficult in the early sixties. Horses and oxen drew our lumber wagons and we sat on hard board seats. My father in Dayton, had one of the first spring seats, and this was considered a great luxury. To come from Sweden to Boston in our sailing ship took us six weeks and three days.
Winters were more severe then. Often it began early in the fall; and never much later than November. When it came, it was something to remember. There were deep snows and intense cold. Travel of any kind at such times was impossible. People didn't leave their houses for weeks at a stretch.
Money was scarce in the sixties. Butter sold for a Nickle a pound, eggs 3 cents a dozen. Hired girls were paid two and one half dollars per week. However, the first hog my father sold brought him 17 1/2 cents a pound. But prices rose as the Civil War got underway. Sugar was too expensive to buy, and we used sorghum in our coffee. Calico print cloth cost 45 cents a yard.
I remember the Indians roaming the woods near our home in Dayton. They were friendly, and there was nothing to fear of them. The gypsies were the real menace and bands of them came often."
NOTE: This article says year of birth 1844 but headstone has 1845 (Her death certificate also has 1845). She is my GG grandmother. Thanks.
Contributor: John Owen (49663049)
Tuesday, May 5, 1936
Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Danielson, 91, mother of Mrs. Mable McCall and Mrs. Mae Cramer, 624, Fourth street West, who died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. L. Tang, Fort Dodge, will take place at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Wilder Chapel, Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery Fort Dodge. Mrs. Danielson was born in Sweden and came to the United States with her parents when a young girl. She had been a resident of Webster County for 74 years.
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The Fort Dodge Messenger & Chronicle, August 17, 1935
"EARLY WEBSTER COUNTY AS RECALLED BY EARLY PIONEERS"
(Mrs. Hattie Danielson of Ft. Dodge, born in Sweden, November 22, "1844", came to Webster county in 1859.)
"When I arrived in Webster county, I couldn't talk English--only Swedish. When I went to school, I memorized English words without understanding them. Generally, school was in session only three months in the fall and three months in the spring. Often, there was school only three months of the entire year. When I first came to Webster county , the other boys and girls ridiculed my wooden shoes and Swedish clothes. In those days, we made our own clothes of homespun materials. Our dresses reached our ankles, and unless they weren't newly pressed, they weren't very handsome. Such things as cosmetics were unknown to us.
The young people, then enjoyed themselves just as much as they do now. The dances were called cotillions. Often all the orchestra we had was a single violinist.
Travel was difficult in the early sixties. Horses and oxen drew our lumber wagons and we sat on hard board seats. My father in Dayton, had one of the first spring seats, and this was considered a great luxury. To come from Sweden to Boston in our sailing ship took us six weeks and three days.
Winters were more severe then. Often it began early in the fall; and never much later than November. When it came, it was something to remember. There were deep snows and intense cold. Travel of any kind at such times was impossible. People didn't leave their houses for weeks at a stretch.
Money was scarce in the sixties. Butter sold for a Nickle a pound, eggs 3 cents a dozen. Hired girls were paid two and one half dollars per week. However, the first hog my father sold brought him 17 1/2 cents a pound. But prices rose as the Civil War got underway. Sugar was too expensive to buy, and we used sorghum in our coffee. Calico print cloth cost 45 cents a yard.
I remember the Indians roaming the woods near our home in Dayton. They were friendly, and there was nothing to fear of them. The gypsies were the real menace and bands of them came often."
NOTE: This article says year of birth 1844 but headstone has 1845 (Her death certificate also has 1845). She is my GG grandmother. Thanks.
Contributor: John Owen (49663049)
Waterloo Daily Courier
Tuesday, May 5, 1936
Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Danielson, 91, mother of Mrs. Mable McCall and Mrs. Mae Cramer, 624, Fourth street West, who died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. L. Tang, Fort Dodge, will take place at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Wilder Chapel, Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery Fort Dodge. Mrs. Danielson was born in Sweden and came to the United States with her parents when a young girl. She had been a resident of Webster County for 74 years.
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The Fort Dodge Messenger & Chronicle, August 17, 1935
"EARLY WEBSTER COUNTY AS RECALLED BY EARLY PIONEERS"
(Mrs. Hattie Danielson of Ft. Dodge, born in Sweden, November 22, "1844", came to Webster county in 1859.)
"When I arrived in Webster county, I couldn't talk English--only Swedish. When I went to school, I memorized English words without understanding them. Generally, school was in session only three months in the fall and three months in the spring. Often, there was school only three months of the entire year. When I first came to Webster county , the other boys and girls ridiculed my wooden shoes and Swedish clothes. In those days, we made our own clothes of homespun materials. Our dresses reached our ankles, and unless they weren't newly pressed, they weren't very handsome. Such things as cosmetics were unknown to us.
The young people, then enjoyed themselves just as much as they do now. The dances were called cotillions. Often all the orchestra we had was a single violinist.
Travel was difficult in the early sixties. Horses and oxen drew our lumber wagons and we sat on hard board seats. My father in Dayton, had one of the first spring seats, and this was considered a great luxury. To come from Sweden to Boston in our sailing ship took us six weeks and three days.
Winters were more severe then. Often it began early in the fall; and never much later than November. When it came, it was something to remember. There were deep snows and intense cold. Travel of any kind at such times was impossible. People didn't leave their houses for weeks at a stretch.
Money was scarce in the sixties. Butter sold for a Nickle a pound, eggs 3 cents a dozen. Hired girls were paid two and one half dollars per week. However, the first hog my father sold brought him 17 1/2 cents a pound. But prices rose as the Civil War got underway. Sugar was too expensive to buy, and we used sorghum in our coffee. Calico print cloth cost 45 cents a yard.
I remember the Indians roaming the woods near our home in Dayton. They were friendly, and there was nothing to fear of them. The gypsies were the real menace and bands of them came often."
NOTE: This article says year of birth 1844 but headstone has 1845 (Her death certificate also has 1845). She is my GG grandmother. Thanks.
Contributor: John Owen (49663049)
Tuesday, May 5, 1936
Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Danielson, 91, mother of Mrs. Mable McCall and Mrs. Mae Cramer, 624, Fourth street West, who died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. L. Tang, Fort Dodge, will take place at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Wilder Chapel, Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery Fort Dodge. Mrs. Danielson was born in Sweden and came to the United States with her parents when a young girl. She had been a resident of Webster County for 74 years.
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The Fort Dodge Messenger & Chronicle, August 17, 1935
"EARLY WEBSTER COUNTY AS RECALLED BY EARLY PIONEERS"
(Mrs. Hattie Danielson of Ft. Dodge, born in Sweden, November 22, "1844", came to Webster county in 1859.)
"When I arrived in Webster county, I couldn't talk English--only Swedish. When I went to school, I memorized English words without understanding them. Generally, school was in session only three months in the fall and three months in the spring. Often, there was school only three months of the entire year. When I first came to Webster county , the other boys and girls ridiculed my wooden shoes and Swedish clothes. In those days, we made our own clothes of homespun materials. Our dresses reached our ankles, and unless they weren't newly pressed, they weren't very handsome. Such things as cosmetics were unknown to us.
The young people, then enjoyed themselves just as much as they do now. The dances were called cotillions. Often all the orchestra we had was a single violinist.
Travel was difficult in the early sixties. Horses and oxen drew our lumber wagons and we sat on hard board seats. My father in Dayton, had one of the first spring seats, and this was considered a great luxury. To come from Sweden to Boston in our sailing ship took us six weeks and three days.
Winters were more severe then. Often it began early in the fall; and never much later than November. When it came, it was something to remember. There were deep snows and intense cold. Travel of any kind at such times was impossible. People didn't leave their houses for weeks at a stretch.
Money was scarce in the sixties. Butter sold for a Nickle a pound, eggs 3 cents a dozen. Hired girls were paid two and one half dollars per week. However, the first hog my father sold brought him 17 1/2 cents a pound. But prices rose as the Civil War got underway. Sugar was too expensive to buy, and we used sorghum in our coffee. Calico print cloth cost 45 cents a yard.
I remember the Indians roaming the woods near our home in Dayton. They were friendly, and there was nothing to fear of them. The gypsies were the real menace and bands of them came often."
NOTE: This article says year of birth 1844 but headstone has 1845 (Her death certificate also has 1845). She is my GG grandmother. Thanks.
Contributor: John Owen (49663049)
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