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Sven Johan Svensson Storm/Frej

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Augusta Swanson ← Sven Johan Svensson Storm/Frej

Born

June 28, 1850, in Vallsjö, Jönköping County, Småland, Sweden

Died

April 7, 1891, in Shelton, Mason County, Washington, USA

Married

March 1, 1873, in Nävelsjö Parish, Sweden

Migration

Abt. 1885 from Sweden to USA

Photos

Family

Father

Sven Magnus Petersson Lilja

Mother

Anna Maria Johannesdottir

Child in this line

Augusta Josefina Swanson

Spouse

Jöhanna Sophia Björk

Children

Emma Kristina Cecilia “Ellen” “Ella” Swanson
b. January 10, 1873, in Bringetofta, Sweden · d. September 8, 1947, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Eugene, Oregon
m. John B. Peterson in 1892 in Shelton, Washington
Anna Sofia Olivia
b. December 7, 1875, in Bringetofta, Sweden
Carl/Karl Emil “Charles” Swanson
b. November 8, 1877, in Bringetofta, Sweden
m. _____ in Wisconsin
Frans August “Frank” Swanson
b. December 12, 1881, in Sweden · d. April 14, 1909, in Olympia, WA
Jennie “Jen” Elizabeth Swanson
b. February 20, 1884, in Sweden · d. February 6, 1971, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Corvallis, Oregon
m. Guy L Banta, May 26, 1904, in the ME Church in Shelton, WA
Edward Swanson
b. Abt. 188646/188739 (probably Wisconsin) · d. March 31, 1917, in Tacoma, WA
Annie Amelia “Ann” Swanson
b. December 26, 1888, in Tacoma, Pierce County, WA · d. March 18, 1961, at Shelton Hospital in Shelton, WA
m. Guy F. Kneeland, September 6, 1911, in Tacoma, WA
Merlin “Mearl” Swanson
b. 1890 in Shelton, WA · d. 1890 in Shelton, WA
Adoptive Siblings:
Jane Day
b. September 22, 1911, in Portland, OR
Frances Bertha Day
b. June 29, 1913, in St. Helens, OR

Siblings

Lovisa Sophia Svensdottir
b. July 9, 1844, in Norra Sansjö Parish, Jönköping County, Sweden · d. March 6, 1950, Vallsjö Parish, Sweden
Carl August Svensson
b. April 18, 1846, in Norra Sansjö Parish, Jönköping County, Sweden · d. March 17, 1867, in Rosendahl, Eksjöhofgård, Vallsjö Parish, Jönköping County, Sweden
Anna Christina Svensdotter
b. April 21, 1848, in Norra Sansjö Parish, Jönköping County, Sweden · d. June 5, 1918, in Vallsjö Parish, Sweden
m. Frans August Jonasson, April 14, 1867; Klas Johan Plym, February 27, 1905, in Vallsjö Parish, Sweden

In brief

Born June 28, 1850, in Vallsjö, Jönköping County, Småland, Sweden. Abt. He married March 1, 1873, in Nävelsjö Parish, Sweden and worked as farmhand. He died April 7, 1891, in Shelton, Mason County, Washington, USA.

Life story

A Swedish Grenadier

Sven Johan Svensson was born on June 28, 1850, at a croft called Perstorp in Vallsjö Parish, Jönköping County, in the Swedish province of Småland. In December 1872 he was recruited into the Life Company of the Småland Grenadier Battalion, replacing a soldier named Johan Tapper, and was given the military surname Storm and later Frej — a common Swedish practice of assigning enlisted soldiers a short, distinct name for military record-keeping. He served as a grenadier for roughly a decade, based at Lönsås croft in Bringetofta Parish, with a period of sick leave and a hospital stay during at least one muster. On March 1, 1873, he married Johanna Sophia Björk in Nävelsjö Parish.

Leaving Sweden

By the mid-1880s, food shortages in Sweden convinced Sven Johan to leave for America. In August 1884 he and his family moved out of their home in Bringetofta with plans to emigrate, arriving in the United States around 1885 and settling eventually near Shelton, in Mason County, Washington, where he anglicized his name to John August Swanson. In April 1890 he rented a home and orchard down the bay from Shelton from a man named William Walter, intending to care for and improve its orchard, and in August of that year he moved his family into Shelton itself as his wife's health failed. John worked as a laborer in his final months and died in Shelton on April 7, 1891, at the age of forty.

At a glance

Work

Farmhand, Recruit, Grenadier, Laborer

Lived

Shelton, WA

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