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Sara Catarina Johansdotter

Birth
Sweden
Death
27 Oct 1868 (aged 59)
Illinois, USA
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Sara Catharina's father bonden Johannes Samuelson died before her birth "avlidne-deceased". Birth record #135550 Mellby Parish, Jonkoping, 1809. Parents married in 1808. In October of that year, her father died of dysentery, one of 20 people that died in that year's epidemic. Her mother died in June 1813 when Catharina was only four years old. She was 18 years old when she married Jonas Johansson from Ustorp, who at that time was 33 years old. Within this marriage, 9 children were born. In 1856, when she was 47 she became a widow. The oldest son took over the farm, married and had two sons. He died in 1862. His widow and 2 children (5 and 7 years old) emigrated to America together with two of her late husband's sisters. A brother-in-law, Jonas Magnus, had moved to Flisby in 1863 and taken the name of Lindstrom. (From Gunnar Ellehammar, pastor of Höreda/Mellby, July 1995 letter.)

Sara came to America with her children in 1866, per records from the Andover Lutheran Church as found in the Swenson Swedish Emigration Research Center. She is buried in the Andover cemetery not far from the Jenny Lind Chapel. On the gravestone her name is spelled Sara Catarina and she is said to have been born at Naseby.
Sara Catharina's father bonden Johannes Samuelson died before her birth "avlidne-deceased". Birth record #135550 Mellby Parish, Jonkoping, 1809. Parents married in 1808. In October of that year, her father died of dysentery, one of 20 people that died in that year's epidemic. Her mother died in June 1813 when Catharina was only four years old. She was 18 years old when she married Jonas Johansson from Ustorp, who at that time was 33 years old. Within this marriage, 9 children were born. In 1856, when she was 47 she became a widow. The oldest son took over the farm, married and had two sons. He died in 1862. His widow and 2 children (5 and 7 years old) emigrated to America together with two of her late husband's sisters. A brother-in-law, Jonas Magnus, had moved to Flisby in 1863 and taken the name of Lindstrom. (From Gunnar Ellehammar, pastor of Höreda/Mellby, July 1995 letter.)

Sara came to America with her children in 1866, per records from the Andover Lutheran Church as found in the Swenson Swedish Emigration Research Center. She is buried in the Andover cemetery not far from the Jenny Lind Chapel. On the gravestone her name is spelled Sara Catarina and she is said to have been born at Naseby.

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