Tolle Olsson in Fagerhult had 13 children in two marriages.
With his first wife Anna Jonasdotter born 1810 in Sigfidshogen, five children are born: Anna-Britta 1831, Hedda 1833, Christina 1836, Johannes 1839, and Hans 1842.
In his second mariage to Maja-Stina Kristoffersdotter, born
One son dies as a baby, one son dies at 24 years of age, and five of his sons emigrate to
The first son who emigated was Olaus. He and Niklas Edvard Eriksson, leave together on the ship
Citat from a newspaper:
Niklas Eriksson, early pioneer in
“When he was 20, Niklas and a friend Olaus Tollesson, came to the
Citat: Olaus was responsible for choosing the name Lundberg and made it known in the new country.
Niklas marries Christina Larsdotter, a sister to Olaus wife.
Olaus married Clara Larsdotter, who was born in1855, in Faglavik, Vastergotland.
She came to
Three years later Olaus dies.
They had two daughters, the youngest was born after his death.
Teodor Julius Tollesson and his sister Hedda
There is very little information about Teodor Julius. He left for America on 16, April 1880. His sister also had a certificate to emigrate for this date but she never left.
In the Swedish church records, he is declared dead in America, 14 of Dec.
I can not read the year.
I have heard that he went west working on the railroad, and was not heard from again.
Hans Tollesson and his wife Maria Sofia Andersdotter, born 1846 in Röane.
They are farmers and live in Öster Elgeland with their five children. Mathilda Augusta born 1870, Victor Alfred born 1873, Charlotta born 1875, Oscar born 1877 and dies 1882, 4 years of age, and Hilma born 1881.
The 28 of April 1882, two months after their son died, they emigrate to America. The children are then 12, 9, 7, and little Hilma is only 10 months.
It must have been harder for them to go with small children, then it had been for his brothers who only had themselves to care for. They had three more children in the USA, Oscar born 1884, John born 1888 and the third we know nothing about.
They Settled at Rock Lake, and farmed, like most of the other Lundbergs.
Hans Tollesson and his wife Maria Sofia Andersdotter
Johannes Tollesson
Johannes bought a part of his fathers farm, called Kasene. The 5th of January he married Anna-Stina Johannesdotter, she was a neighbor and his cousin, they had eight children, five sons & three daughters. In 1888 he went to America for the first time, and took his son Alfred Julius with him. Four of Johanne´s brothers had already seattled in the Detroit Lakes area so he went there.
He came home to take the family back, but Anna-Stina his wife, was sick and died 18/4 1890. She was 56 years old. Their daughter Emilia Charlotta died a little less then a year later 5/3 1891. She was 25 years old.
After this, he returned to America and took his sons, Teodor 20 and Johan Albin 18 with him.
In 1893, he returned once more to bring the rest of the children to the new country. They were, Augusta Josefina 28, Carl Ferdinand 18, Oscar Emanuel 15 and Amanda Eleonora 12.
The eldest son Alfred Julius had died in America the same year. Johannes died 28/2 1912, 73 years old, he had been a farmer in Detroit Lakes township for twelve years.
Johannes grandchild, Carl Ferdinands daughter Fern, is visiting Kasene, where her father was born 1875
Fern holding a brick from the old stove
Johannes Tollessons daughters
Augusta Josefina Johannesdotter1865-1905 And her husband Axel Brattlie 1875-1944 Married 17/12 1808
Amanda Eleonora Johannesdotter 1881-1970 and Halvor Lethenström, they were married 5/12 1906
Amanda & Eleonora came to America in1893. They settled in the same area in Audubon, not far from where their brothers had settled Amanda and Halvor had five children, but Augusta and Axel never had any.
Johan Albin Tollesson b. 1873, came to America 1891 and died the
following year, only 19 years old.
Alfred Julius Tollesson b. 1869 came to America 1888 and died 1892, 23
years old. The cause of death is unknown. Both are buried at Upsala
cemetery, in Minnesota. This is the same cemetery that so many
Tolleson-Lundberg are buried at.
Upsala church Minnesota Alfred Julius grave.
Johannes´son Teodor 1871-1932.
He came here with his brother Johan Albin, and their father Johannes via Oslo, Norway. They left there, June 19, 1891. Teodor was a farmer on the adjoining farms to Oscar, Charlie and Johannes. He never married. He died in December 1932.
Johannes son Carl Ferdinand
On hes third trip to the US he brings, Augusta Josefina, Amanda Eleonora, Oscar Emanuel and Karl Ferdinand with him. They all took the name Lundberg as Olaus had done before them. Oscar, Carl, and Teodor became farmers in the Detroit Lakes area.
Carl later moved out on the prairie where the soil was better. 1909 he married Alma Johnson born1885 in Becker county. (her perents came from Sävar in Nothern Sweden and Högsäter, not far from (an hour by car) where Carl was born.
Carl and Alma had eight children. He moved back to DL area during 1930-39.
Karl and Almas wedding photo. There is a Hilma Sall, could be Hilma Sell in Swedish.
Does anyone Know if she came from the same area in Sweden as Tollessons. Please, let us know!
Johannes son, Oscar Emanuel
He married Amanda Victoria Johnsson born in Fränstad, Torp parish in Medelpad.
She came to America in 1893 with her parents and six siblings. Oscar and Amanda had 8 children. She dies in 1940.
In 1944 Oscar marries Alma, the widow, of his brother Carl Ferdinand.
Oscar as a young boy
Oscar Emanuel came to America in 1893, at 15 years of age.
He became a farmer, but he was more interested in politics and held several offices in the township, school, farm organizations, telephone companies and the like. He left farming and moved to town and worked for the Becker County Highway Department until he retired. He also ran a gas station for a few years. His wife Amanda died in 1940, and in 1946 he married Charlie´s wife Alma Johnson Lundberg. Charlie had passed away in 1935. This doubled the family and they really had a lot of good get-to-gethers.
Oskar as young photo to the right
Oskar & Amanda
to the left
Oskar and Alma
to the right
Oscar E Lundberg, 92, of Detroit Lakes died at
St. Mary´s Hospital on Tuesday, May 18 1971.
Funeral services will be held
Friday, May 21 at 2 pm,
at the Trinity Lutheran church,
with Rev. Marwin L. Larson officiating.
His grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Burial will be at Oak Grove Cemetery.
West-Kjos Funeral home is in charge
of arrangements.
Mr. Lunberg was born in Sweden
on Nov. 5, 1878.
He maried Amanda Johnson
at Detroit lakes in April 1909,
and she preceded him in death 1937.
He married Alma Lundberg at Park Rapids on July 21, 1944,
and she preceded him in death on Aug. 9 1969
Mr Lundberg was a retired farmer and had worked for
the Highway mintenance Department.
He was amember of the Trinity Lutheran church,
had been a member of his school board, township board,
Floyd Lake Telephone board and had been township assessor
Survivors include four sons-
Oscar of Lebanon, Oregon
Carl of Harrisburg, VA.
George of Rochester,
Edwin of Detroit Lakes
And four daughters-
Mrs. Esther Linden Teasch of Squim Wash.
Mrs. Ethel Monty Bannon of Anpa, Idaho
Mrs. Ellen McDuell,
and, Mrs Effie McDuell
both of Seattle, Wash.
23 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren
Karl Magnus Tollesson
There isn´t much we know about him, he came to America two years after Olaus. He left Sweden, the 28 of April 1876, on the ship Angelo. He married in the states, but was divorced, and he died in 1925.
Chas. Lundberg a cancer victem.
Chas. Lundberg an old member of the community, died last Sunday in Oscar Lundbergs home at 1949 Lake Avenue. Chas. was 79 years, 10 months and 9 days old. He died of cancer in his stomach, which he had suffered from for some time
The funural was held yesterday at the Swedish Lutheran church, and his burial was at oak Grove cemetery
The deceased was born in Sweden on January 6, 1849, and came to this country many years ago, and became a farmer. For the last two and a half years, he has been staying with Oscar Lundberg.
Chas. was married, and divorced.
He was a gentle old man and highly respected by those who knew him well