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Alice Maria Bååv Kemp died in July of 1970, in Chicago. She had lived in the United States since the spring of 1913, almost 57 years.
Alice’s name appears alongside her husband’s on documents between their 1915 wedding and her husband’s death in 1939. After 1939 her son, Walden, is listed as the head of household. Alice is listed as a widow. I don’t know if she ever worked outside the home after she married. The notes for her on the censuses say housework, or “at home”. She left no other marks.
William Nelson Kemp, carpenter, died on Jan. 6. 1939. He was 52.
His death certificate states that he had been born on Jan. 14, 1886, in Delaware, Penn., that his father’s name was Edward, and that Edward had been born in Manchester, England.
At the time of William’s death the family lived in Palatine, Ill. Alice Bååv Kemp was 50 years old. Her son, Walden, was 23.
Provisoriska barnbördhuset, c. 1890
On Oct. 4, 1873, Anna Cajsa Hedberg gave birth to a second son. She gave him the same name as his older brother, Bror Johan. He was baptized on Oct. 6.
Women who couldn’t afford to bring a midwife to their home were forced to give birth in a hospital, where the risk of contracting infections was high. Anna Cajsa gave birth at Provisoriska Barnbördshuset, a temporary hospital in the southern part of Stockholm where she lived.
On Oct. 16, 1873, Anna Cajsa died from barnsängsfeber (childbed fever or puerperal fever). She was buried on Oct. 19. She was 25 years old.
Two of Johanna’s younger sisters moved to Stockholm. Anna Cajsa, b. 1848, and Gustafva, b. 1852. Anna Cajsa left Falköping for Stockholm in 1866, when she was 18 years old.
In 1867 Anna Cajsa lived in Katarina parish, in the southern part of the city. On Dec. 2, 1870, she gave birth to a son, Bror Johan Theodor.
Anna Cajsa must have been without means because the little boy was taken care of at Allmänna Barnhuset, a home for children. According to the established system, Anna Cajsa paid for the care by nursing other children as well as her own son. She is the only parent listed for Bror Johan.
On March 28, 1871, Bror Johan Theodor was placed with a family in Rosendal. They would raise him and receive a small stipend in return.
“Död” is Swedish for death, or dead. While in the care of the family in Rosendal, Bror Johan Theodor died on January 7, 1872. He was a little more than 13 months old.
Liberty County Times (MT), 15 Mar 1945:
Funeral services were held on Wednesday of this week for John E. (Dutch Ed) Trommer, old-time settler of this section of the country. Trommer passed away Friday evening after only a very short illness, although his health has been failing for a number of years.
He was born in Colberg, Germany in April of 1859 and came to the United States as a young man, shortly after the Northern Pacific started their railway westward. He had been in Montana for 65 years. Among the first jobs he held after leaving the employ of the Northern Pacific was freight-boss on a freighting string from Fort Benton to Fort Browning.
Later he married a woman that had come to Montana to teach school. She was employed at the schools in Browning. After their marriage they came to the Lothair district and he settled there to make his home and operate a ranch. At the time the land was opened to homesteading he was operating a successful horse ranch north of Lothair. By squatter rights he obtained a homestead and has remained on it the rest of his life.
The most of his family has been gone from this country for considerable time. It is known that he had five children, 2 boys and 3 girls. One of the boys has been in Panama for a number of years. The whereabouts of the rest is not certain.
Interment was made in the local cemetery following services in the local Methodist Church.
Sandra Olivia was born on November 4th, 1868, in Marka, Skaraborg, Sweden. She was the fourth child and the first daughter of Anders and Maja Christina Grov. When she was about a year and a half, in the summer of 1870, her family emigrated to Jefferson County, Iowa.
In the 1890s, when Zanna Olive Groves was in her 20s, she worked for a few years at the Willow Creek Boarding School on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation west of Browning in northern Montana.
In Montana she met John Edward “Dutch Ed” Trommer, a German immigrant who had come west working on the Northern Pacific Railroad. Olive and Ed married on August 29, 1898, and filed claims for land close to Chester, Montana. They became sheep ranchers and quite successful.
In the fall of 1905 Olive was visiting her parents in Iowa, giving birth to her fifth child. From the Fort Benton River Press, Nov. 29, 1905:
From the Fairfield Daily Journal, Nov. 25, 1905:
“…. This community was shocked Monday evening to hear that Mrs. Ollie Trammer was dead. She had come from her home in Montana with her husband and children two months ago to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. GROVE. The husband had gone back and Mrs. TRAMMER and children remained. A little babe was born three weeks ago and the mother was apparently on the road to recovery. Monday she was bright and hopeful all day, planning when she would be able to return to her Montana home, but about six o’clock she was stricken with heart failure and in half an hour she had gone to her Heavenly home. Messages were sent to the husband and to a brother and sister in Colorado. The deepest sympathy of the entire community goes out to the bereaved husband and parents and to those who cared for her so faithfully and to the five little ones who so much need a mother’s care.”
Anders Hedberg, laborer, died in Falköping on Sept. 21, 1875. He was 64.
The estimated total value of his belongings was 90 kronor, around $10.
The estate inventory states that his daughter Maria Christina’s whereabouts were “unknown”.
Christina and her family had emigrated in 1870, and in 1875 they were living in Cedar Township, Jefferson Co., Iowa.
Signe Emilia Båf married Johan August Pettersson Haller on Dec. 3, 1912. Their son Bengt Arnold was born in Göteborg on May 24, 1915. He died on Dec. 17, 1923, from the measles. He was 8.
Johan August died in Örebro on Oct. 2, 1946. He was 65.
Signe died in Göteborg on May 25, 1965. She was 86.