**************** THE JOHNSON AND ALM LINE: ********************
The information gathered for the Johnson and Alm families was originally started by Romona Johnson Larson many years ago. The work she did was very accurate considering she had to do it the hard way.
Ramona did not have the convenience of a computer.
A lot of information that I have added is now available on the internet. I have been able to get access to many kinds of records, including actual pictures of the records in Sweden.
I have made contact with our distant Swedish family members in Sweden who have helped find and translate some of the old Swedish records.
Over the years a lot of people have been added to the family and I have included as many as I could find into the database.
There are notes on a lot of the people here. Some are documentation notes, but there are other interesting notes on several of them.
For example check out Anders Jonasson (and his family), he is the grandfather of John Johnson on his mothers side.
Also, check out Johan Petter Johansson, John's grandfather on his father's side.
A lot of the pictures were donated by Eldora Johnson Swenson and Cathy Thomas.
Please come back often. As more family members make contact with the site, the information & photos that they supply will be added to the family site.
When viewing the family tree, be sure to check the bonus view so you can see additonal family members and how they relate in the tree.
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************** THE NYBERG & ERIKSSON RUDIN LINE *****************
Thanks to some very helpful family members, we have added a lot of their memories and stories, pictures, postcards, etc. to our research. We could not have gotten this far in such a short time without the help from Bev Adams, Agnes Valen, Sonny Nyberg, Leona Nyberg, Jean Nyberg, and Al Johnson, along with others who have completed their family information that was requested from them.
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You are a descendent of the people in this picture, either by birth, adoption, or marriage.
This picture of August and Mary (Maria Rudin) Nyberg, and their eleven children, was taken circa 1911.
These thirteen people have grown. Each person adds a lot to our history.
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The Grandparents
Maria Casja Olsdotter, was born to Olof Hansson and Anna Andersdotter on July 28, 1810 in Björkenäs, Ny, Värmland, Sweden.
Per Andersson Hällfelt was born December 12, 1812 in Hälle, Ny, Värmland, Sweden.
He was a soldier.
Anders Persson was born to Maria Olsdotter and Per Andersson Hällfelt in Ny, Värmland, Sweden, on February 3, 1834. Several years later, Maria married Nils Andersson Nyberg, (a soldier) and they had four children. Anders did not take the name of Nyberg but continued to use his patryonic name Persson.
Eric Tomasson was born in Sweden on 20 Jun 1793. Marta Ericsdotter, was born on October 3, 1797 in Långserud, Värmland, Sweden. They were married on December 26, 1820. On September 4, 1821, they had a daughter named Maria Ericsdotter. She was born in Rudsbyn, Värmland, Sweden. They also had a son by the name of Olof Ericsson born in Rudsbyn on August 21, 1832. In approximately 1860, Olof added the name Rudin after Ericsson.
Eric Larsson was born in Långserud, Värmland, Sweden on May 24, 1792. His wife Malin Jonsdotter, was born in Långserud, on January 15, 1793. They were married on December 26, 1818. They had four daughters, Catherina was born in Mölnerud, Värmland, Sweden, on November 17, 1823, and Christina Charlotte was born in Eldansnäs, January 5, 1827, Johanna was born in Eldansnäs, on July 13, 1835. Gustava was born on February 27, 1830, in Eldansnäs. They also had one son named Carl. He was born on November 4, 1820 in Gilberga, Värmland, Sweden.
Eric Larsson and his family were tenant farmers, and moved often, but never moved very far away. They always stayed in Långserud Parish in Värmland.
Eric and Malin's daughter Catherina married Anders Persson in Långserud on April 22, 1860. They had a daughter Johanna, born September 9, 1860 in Långserud. She died on December 2, 1865. Their son August was born November 15, 1865, just prior to Johanna's death.
Their daughter Christina married Olof Ericsson Rudin on January 10, 1864. They had a daughter named Maria, born on August 27, 1867.
On May 21, 1869 Anders and Catherina and August left Sweden and sailed to North America. After arriving in America, Anders changed the family name from Persson to Nyberg. We lose track of them until they show up in Stillwater, Minnesota in 1873.
The Rudins moved in with the Nybergs on William Street in downtown Stillwater. On February 8, 1886 August and Maria were married.
They either bought or built a home of their own next door to his parents.
August and Maria's first five children were born in Stillwater, MN.
In approximately 1893, August and Maria left Stillwater and moved to Livonia, Minnesota where Maria's parents had moved to previously. They bought land from the Railroad, on Lake Fremont adjoining property that Olof and Christina had homesteaded.
Anders and Catherina continued to live in Stillwater in the home that they owned on William Street. In 1899 Anders died in a tragic accident at work. Shortly after his death, Catherina went to Livonia to live with August and Maria.
Even when they came to America, they seemed to move a lot. In spite of this, they were very active in their local church. It is said that they helped to start a church in Zimmerman, Minnesota.
In approximately 1909, the Nyberg family moved to Minneapolis. August was a salesman, and was gone from home often. However, he kept in touch with his family. We have postcards, originals and copies, that he sent home to his family members when he was away. Most are from places in Minnesota, some are form Canada and North Dakota. He was a salesman of Nursery Stock.
As our research continues we find that the church was an important part of the families lives. When Anders, Catherina, & August Nyberg came to America in 1869, they joined the Trinity Lutheran Church in Stillwater, MN.
When Olof Rudin and his family came to America in 1885, they met up with Anders and Catherina and August in Stillwater.
Eventually Olof and Christina moved to Livonia. Several years later when August and Maria Nyberg joined Olof and Christina, there evidently was not a church that could fill their needs like the church they belonged to in Sweden.
August W. Nyberg had helped to organize a church in Livonia after he moved his family there from Stillwater.
When we went to the Sherburne County Historical Society to substantiate this they could not find any record of the church's existence.
Recently on a trip to the American Swedish Institute we were fortunate to get to meet with the director of the research center. She spent three hours with us helping to translate and understand the Swedish records we have been accumulating from the Mormon Family History Center.
She also found records of the "Livonia Swedish Lutheran Church" that August W Nyberg, along with Olof Rudin and others in the area, had founded in 1898.
These records were on a microfilm that the Swedish Institute had on file there. We were able to view the actual church records on a microfilm reader. This included everything from the minutes of the meetings, (written in Swedish), to marriages, baptisms, death notices, and attendance. August was the church secretary. (At this time we were not able to get copies as the printer on their microfilm printer was not working.) In 1904 the Trinity Lutheran church of Princeton was founded as a spin- off of the Livonia Church. A trip to this church turned up some of the original books we were looking for. Hopefully the rest will show up. (The Livonia Swedish church was disbanded in 1942. The Nybergs had left the area by this time.) In 1910 after they had moved to Minneapolis, they joined the Emanuel Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northeast Minneapolis.
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Anna Andersdotter was born to Anders Jonsson and Maria Larsdotter in 1779 in Ullen, Värmland, Sweden.
Olof Hansson was born February 3, 1775 in Ny, Värmland, Sweden.
Anna married Olof Hansson in Ny, Värmland, Sweden in 1809. On July 28, 1810 they had a daughter, and named her Maria Cajsa Olsdotter.
When Maria Cajsa was 6 years old, her mother died of lung folk (pneumonia) on April 29, 1816 at the age of 37.
A year later, her father Olof, who was a farmer and a tailor, married Ingeborg Nilsdotter, and they had 3 children. (Anna Olsdotter, born June 30, 1822, Stina Olsdotter, born March 29, 1824, and Nils Olsson born November 29, 1830.)
Maria Cajsa lived with her father and Ingeborg and her 2 half sisters and half brother in Fiskevik, Ny, Värmland, Sweden, until 1828 when she left to go work at another farm.
On February 3, 1834, Maria gave birth to a son. She named him Anders.
Ander's father, a soldier, was Per Andersson Hällfelt, born December 12, 1812 in Hälle, Värmland, Sweden) Per and Maria never married.
Shortly after Anders was born Maria and her son moved back to live with her father in Fiskevik.
On October 26, 1839, Maria married Nils Andersson Nyberg from Ny, Värmland, Sweden. They continued to live in Ny and had four more children.
Ander's brother, Olof Nilsson Nyberg was born November 30, 1839 in Björkenäs, Ny. He was confirmed in 1855. Due to poor records for that area we then lose track of him until he shows up in Asker, Akershus, Norway. He married Kaisa Nilsdotter from Gunnerskog, Värmland, Sweden on September 9, 1866. They had a son named Johan Olsson (Nyberg), born August 7, 1866, and a daughter named Marie Oline (Nyberg), born December 13, 1869. We cannot find any record of Johan after this. In 1901, Olof and Kaisa and Maria are living in Christiana, (Oslo), Norway. Maria is listed as working in a tobacco factory.
Ander's other brother, Nils Nilsson Nyberg was born May 31, 1842 in Björkenäs, Ny. On November 5, 1870 he married Magdalena Andersdotter in Arvika, Värmland, Sweden. They had three children.
Christina Elisabeth Nyberg, was born January 14, 1871, Karolina Nyberg born January 23, 1874, and Karl Albert Nyberg, born October 8, 1876, in Arvika, Sweden.
Nils wife, Magdalena Andersdotter died June 11, 1893. Nils, now a widower, was still living in Arvika in 1910. This is the last record we can find of him.
Ander's sister, Anna Nilsdotter Nyberg was born April 17, 1845 in Björkenäs, Ny, Värmland, Sweden. On September 5, 1865 she gave birth to a daughter and named her Maria Fredrika Andersdotter. The record for this time period states (the best that we can translate) that after Maria was baptized, Anna sent her daughter to live elsewhere. (She may have possibly put her up for adoption, or put her in the equivalent to a foster home) Anna shows up living elsewhere with out her daughter, and due to the fact that Swedish clerical surveys end in 1895 we cannot follow Anna and completely lose track of where she or her daughter went.
Ander's other sister, Stina Cajsa Nilsdotter Nyberg was born November 5, 1849 in Björkenäs, Ny, Värmland, Sweden. She married Johan Magnus Andersson on March 9, 1873 in Ny. Their first three children were all stillborn.
On July 7, 1876 Johan changed his name to Johan Magnus Lundell, and they moved to Åmål, Alvsborg, Sweden.
On March 26, 1877, they had twin boys. Johan lived two days, and Carl lived for twenty days.
Hulda, their first daughter, was born October 15, 1878. She died July 8, 1893.
Their Niece Maria Fredrika Andersdotter (daughter of Anna, who was given up for adoption) shows up living with Stina Cajsa Nyberg and Johan Magnus Andersson Lundell in Åmål on 12/22/1879. Unfortunately we have not yet found out where she had been all this time.
A son Carl Magnus was born October 3, 1880.
Signe Elfmina was born September 1, 1883, (she died: January 20, 1885)
They all move to Stockholm, Sweden on July 9, 1883. Maria Fredrika also moved to Stockholm, with her Aunt and Uncle under the name Hansson and she died, unmarried in the same parish January 12,1886.
Sigrid Anna was born, December 23, 1887 in Stockholm.
Marta Arabelle was born July 26, 1887 and she died on August 25, 1907.
Nils Johan Isreal was born on August 29, 1885.
Stina Cajsa Nyberg Lundell died in Stockholm, Sweden on May 19, 1915.
Anders Persson married Catherina Eriksdotter on April 21, 1860 in Längserud, Värmland, Sweden.
They had a daughter born September 9, 1860 and named her Johanna. Johanna died December 2, 1865, at the age of 5.
On November 15, 1865, they had a son and named him August.
Anders, Catherina and August continued to live in Värmland Sweden in various small villages, until May 21, 1869, when they left Sweden.
They went to Christiana, (Oslo) Norway and boarded the Bark Immanuel, to come to America.
After landing in Canada, they continued their journey by taking another ship through the Great Lakes and entering the United States of America at the port of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in August 1969.
Anders and his family made their way across Wisconsin and settled in Dakota County, where he applied for his intent for citizenship to the US on the first day of April 1870.
It is at this time that he changed his name to Andrew Persson Nyberg.
A.P. (as he was also known) and his wife Catherina and son August eventually moved to Stillwater, Minnesota. He finalized his US Citizenship in Washington County on November 22, 1876.
He owned several pieces of property on William Street in Stillwater and they continued to live there.
Anders was a stonemason.
Anders brought his mother, Maria Cajsa Olsdotter Nyberg to America. On June 16, 1876 she left Sweden and came to America on the "Hero" She later went back to Sweden. She died there in 1890. Her husband Nils Andersson Nyberg died in Myre, Ny, Värmland Sweden on November 18, 1881.
In 1885 Olof Rudin and his wife Christina (Catherina Nyberg's sister) and their daughter, Maria, along with Christina's niece, Ida Andersdotter, came to America and joined Anders and his family in Stillwater. (See Volume II to read about Ida Andersdotter and Olof Fredrick Dahlstrom)
Maria Rudin married August Nyberg on 2/8/1886.
On Sunday, September 9, 1899, A.P. was building a cistern at a home in Stillwater. As he was completing the project, he climbed down into the cistern to take out the scaffolding, and it collapsed on him and killed him.
He is buried in paupers field in a cemetery in Stillwater, MN.
After his death, his wife Catherina moved to Livonia to live with her son August and his family. She died on January 15, 1906 and is buried in an unmarked grave in the Livonia Cemetery.
