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Facts and Events
EMPL:
Place: dressmaker, seamstress
ILL: senility and liver problems
Anna was the first born in Vasa about 12 months after the marriage. There was a twin that died at birth. She was about 6 when the family moved to Traverse County. She could read, write, speak english and learned seamstress skills. Anna moves to Mpls. from Wheaton in about 1890/91 (age 17/18) and becomes employed as a dressmaker. She lives in South Mpls. possibly near Peter. Both of them share the same birthdate of December 8. They meet and Anna becomes pregrant in about January 1892. Marry about July 27, 1892, and give birth September 14, 1892. There is no wedding certificate in Mpls. or Wheaton records. They live at 311 13th Ave. S. in 1893-94. They must be boarding or renting these first years of marriage. Anna is age 27 when Peter died in 1900. She lives at several other locations including 611 Jackson St. NE, and finally 827 3rd Ave. NE where she remains for Cliff’s upbringing and her life. She never remarries and is a seamstress. Cliff becomes employed as a young man at McLeod and Smith furniture makers which is about 2 blocks from his home. She becomes religious and attends Emanuel Evangelical Luthern Church (1916) located at 697 13th Ave. NE across from Logan Park. She remained friendly with Peters extended family and her Wheaton family. She may have spent a time in a nursing home at 3205 2nd Ave. So. and eventually died at St. Mary’s Hospital.
Anna was born in Vasa, MN, the first born child of Ture and Inga Swanson.
At the age of
References
- ↑ there is no marker on her grave next to Peter
- ↑ Red River Valley offering 160 acres of homestead land
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