SWANSON, Christina (1829-1919)

SWANSON, JOHNSON, ANDERSON, DEGERMAN, ROSEWALL

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Daily Nonpareil, Sunday, March 16, 1919, Council Bluffs, Iowa Page: 3

Special to Daily Nonpareil:
EMERSON, Ia, March 15 - Mrs. Christina Swanson, was born in Sweden, July 15, 1829, and died March 12th at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hilma Johnson, in Allaince, Neb. She was married in Sweden in 1841 to John Swanson, coming to the United States in 1884. They settled at Hawthorne, Ia., and lived there for three years, coming to Emerson in 1888, where she has lived until two years ago, when she went to Alliance to live with her daughter, Mrs. Johnson. Her death came very suddenly and she will be greatly missed by her children who survive her. If she would have lived to July she would have attained the age of ninety years.

Eight children were born to her, six of them survive. They are; One girl, Ida who died in Sweden at the age of 19, Charles Anderson who died in Essex, Ia., at the age of 51, and Mrs. Anna Degerman, of Omaha, Mrs. Aaron Johnson, Mrs. Hilma Johnson, Mrs. O. P. Anderson and Mrs. C. A. Rosewall, all of Emerson, who survive her. Clara Anderson, a daughter, of Sweden, is still living. The funeral was held March 15 at the Aaron Johnson home, with burial in Emerson Cemetery.