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Nels F. Lindgren was born 12 May 1846 at Jonsbo, Kalmar Lan, Sweden. He immigrated in 1853 to the Knoxville, Knox Co., IL area, where he joined family and friends in a Swedish community there. He remained there until 1875 when he homesteaded on land in Saunders County, NE. Nels died 09 February 1916 at Wahoo, Saunders Co., NE, and is buried with his wife in Edensberg Lutheran Cemetery, Malmo, Saunders Co., NE. On 04 February 1871, at Knoxville, Knox, IL, he married Anna Regina Wahlstrom. She was born on 01 December 1849 in Sweden. She died 20 August 1935 in Saunders Co., NE. They had eleven children: 1. Carl Henry Lindgren born 25 July 1872, died 30 August 1913 2. Amanda Louise Lindgren born 05 May 1874, died 29 November 1963 3. Adolph Fred Lindgren, born 08 March 1876 in NE, died 9 Nov 1963 in SD
4. Agnes E. Lindgren, born 26
Mar 1878 in NE, died
29 July 1968 in Oakland, Alameda, CA. She married Mr. Jacobson
5. Hilma Amelia Lindgren, born in April 1880 in Saunders Co., NE.
She married
Anton
Danielson. He Was born 4 April 1880, and was listed as a naturalized
citizen on his World War I draft card. Children: Paul and Bernice
6. Jennie M. Lindgren born May 1882, died 1943
7. Anna Adele Lindgren, born 29 July 1885 at Malmo, Saunders, NE, died 14 Mar
1967 at Malmo, Saunders, NE., buried: Edensberg Lutheran Cemetery, Malmo,
Saunders, NE. She married on 27 Dec 1911 at Chicago, Cook, IL to Johan
William Gerhardt Berquist. He was born 03 Jul 1885 in Wakefield, Dixon, NE,
died 29 Jul 1912 in Malmo, Saunders, NE, buried: Edensberg Lutheran Cemetery,
Malmo, Saunders, NE
8. Herman Emmanuel Lindgren, born 09 August 1887 near Malmo, Saunders, NE, died 11
April 1947 in NE, buried: Sunrise Cemetery, Wahoo, Saunders, NE. His
draft card describes him as being medium in height and build, with blue eyes
and brown hair. He married on 29 June 1927 at Wahoo, Saunders, NE to Dorothy E. Hultin. She
was born 23 Aug 1902, died 09 Aug 1982 at Omaha, Douglas, NE
9. Lenard C. Lindgren, born 16 April 1891 in Saunders Co., NE, died 22 Nov
1891 in Saunders Co., NE, buried: Edensberg Cemetery, Saunders Co., NE.
He is buried in the family plot of Carl Henry Lindgren.
10. Lillie J. Lindgren born 16 April 1891, died April 1982 11. Nels Elias Walter Lindgren born 07 May 1893, at Wahoo, Saunders Co., NE, died 16 October 1952 |