Known as "Ted". Born February 6, 1898. Went to Alaska in 1944 to work on the Alaskan highway; he worked for the Herman Cole Construction Company of Ames, Iowa, in Valdez, 80 miles from Fairbanks, and saw black bears up there.
Died April 6, 1992, in Boone, Iowa.
Lived at 409 College in Boone in 1954.
Lived the last few years of his life in room 105B at the nursing home,
112 W. 4th St., Boone, Iowa.
Buried in the Story Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
Known as "Ted". Born February 6, 1898. Went to Alaska in 1944 to work on the Alaskan highway; he worked for the Herman Cole Construction Company of Ames, Iowa, in Valdez, 80 miles from Fairbanks, and saw black bears up there.
Died April 6, 1992, in Boone, Iowa.
Lived at 409 College in Boone in 1954.
Lived the last few years of his life in room 105B at the nursing home,
112 W. 4th St., Boone, Iowa.
Buried in the Story Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
Address, 1991: 211 Harrison, Apt 1, Boone, Iowa 50036;
phone 515-432-1602.
Address, 1995: 3001 Regency Court, Apt 219, Ames, Iowa 50010;
phone 515-232-1355.Address, 1991: 211 Harrison, Apt 1, Boone, Iowa 50036;
phone 515-432-1602.
Address, 1995: 3001 Regency Court, Apt 219, Ames, Iowa 50010;
phone 515-232-1355.
Marriage Notes for Gustav Theodore Emmanuel Lind and Grace Elizabeth Tigner-3192
MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Jackson, Minnesota.
Claus' birth record is online at https://app.arkivdigital.se/volume/v36458?image=46 , and it mentions Ekelund and Hult, as mentioned also in the letter we have from the archivist.
Claus was born June 11, 1864, in Vetlanda, Sweden, and attended grade school there 1871-1877. In July, 1880 he started as an apprentice in a furniture shop where he worked for three years. He emigrated to the US March 26, 1883, as is recorded in the census, because he was about to be drafted into the Swedish Army for four years. His opportunity came when a Mr. Swan Carlson from Pilot Mound went to Sweden to get farm workers, to be indentured for one year. He arrived in Pilot Mound on April 18, 1883. He hired out to a farmer in that community and began at once to take an active part in the Grant Center Congregation which is now, Trinity Lutheran Church of Boxholm. When he was 21 the church was built, and he drew the plans for it and helped with the construction. When Claus was 21 he drew the plans and supervised the building of Grant Center Lutheran Church near Boxholm, Iowa, in Boone County, Iowa. Then he farmed nearby until 1887 or 88, and went to Stratford, in Hamilton County. There he managed a furniture store and built caskets for C. J. Danielson, who had another store in Dayton. He met Anna Carlson in Dayton, and married her December 23, 1890. He was superintendent of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Orphan Home for 16 years at Stanton, Iowa, starting in 1892: all five children were born during this period. He managed another orphan home for two years at Vasa, Minnesota. They were very much interested in Sunday School and congregational work, and both sang in the choir. He went to the ``79 Ranch" in Barber, Montana, for two years, for a Mr. Eklund, whose son still owns the ranch, which is now called the Eklund Ranch. (Is there any connection between Eklund ranch and the village "Ekelund" where Claus was born?) Claus worked as a carpenter, helped them build shacks, an irrigation system, and started a lumber company. The ranch was near the Musselshell River, where there was sheep herding and sheep shearing. Mr. Dawson was the ranch foreman. They had 18-28 Hereford bulls and three cowboys. The log cabin they lived in near Ryegate is still there. In 1912 he came back to Dayton, bought a farm north of town, and farmed until 1925, when they sold out and moved to town. Anna died November 8, 1932. In 1935 he retired and moved from Dayton to Boone, where he became a cabinet maker and painter. He married Alice Wiley in 1938. He was a faithful member of the Lutheran Church throughout his life. He died April 11, 1955, at home, 1728 Crawford Street, Boone, Iowa, and is buried in the Dayton cemetery.Rebecca Grayson has (1992) a dresser with a mirror that Claus built, which she got from her mother, June. She also has a silver set that used to belong to her mother June
on which is inscribed "Complements of Manrelunds Församling, to C. G. & A. Lind." Dan Grayson has a wall cabinet that Claus built.
We have a picture of the tombstone, and it looks like this:
LIND
ANNA CLAUS G.
1859 1931 1864 1955Dan Grayson's baby book has a family tree in it that lists Claus' father as Carl Wilhelm Lind.
Claus was born June 11, 1864, in Vetlanda, Sweden, and attended grade school there 1871-1877. In July, 1880 he started as an apprentice in a furniture shop where he worked for three years. He emigrated to the US March 26, 1883, because he was about to be drafted into the Swedish Army for four years. His opportunity came when a Mr. Swan Carlson from Pilot Mound went to Sweden to get farm workers, to be indentured for one year. He arrived in Pilot Mound on April 18, 1883. He hired out to a farmer in that community and began at once to take an active part in the Grant Center Congregation which is now, Trinity Lutheran Church of Boxholm. When he was 21 the church was built, and he drew the plans for it and helped with the construction. When Claus was 21 he drew the plans and supervised the building of Grant Center Lutheran Church near Boxholm, Iowa, in Boone County, Iowa. Then he farmed nearby until 1887 or 88, and went to Stratford, in Hamilton County. There he managed a furniture store and built caskets for C. J. Danielson, who had another store in Dayton. He met Anna Carlson in Dayton, and married her December 23, 1890. He was superintendent of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Orphan Home for 16 years at Stanton, Iowa, starting in 1892: all five children were born during this period. He managed another orphan home for two years at Vasa, Minnesota. They were very much interested in Sunday School and congregational work, and both sang in the choir. He went to the ``79 Ranch" in Barber, Montana, for two years, for a Mr. Eklund, whose son still owns the ranch, which is now called the Eklund Ranch. Claus worked as a carpenter, helped them build shacks, an irrigation system, and started a lumber company. The ranch was near the Musselshell River, where there was sheep herding and sheep shearing. Mr. Dawson was the ranch foreman. They had 18-28 Hereford bulls and three cowboys. The log cabin they lived in near Ryegate is still there. In 1912 he came back to Dayton, bought a farm north of town, and farmed until 1925, when they sold out and moved to town. Anna died November 8, 1932. In 1935 he retired and moved from Dayton to Boone, where he became a cabinet maker and painter. He married Alice Wiley in 1938. He was a faithful member of the Lutheran Church throughout his life. He died April 11, 1955, at home, 1728 Crawford Street, Boone, Iowa, and is buried in the Dayton cemetery.
Rebecca Grayson has (1992) a dresser with a mirror that Claus built, which she got from her mother, June. She also has a silver set that used to belong to her mother June
on which is inscribed "Complements of Manrelunds Församling, to C. G. & A. Lind." Dan Grayson has a wall cabinet that Claus built.
We have a picture of the tombstone, and it looks like this:
LIND
ANNA CLAUS G.
1859 1931 1864 1955Dan Grayson's baby book has a family tree in it that lists Claus' father as Carl Wilhelm Lind.
BIRTH: Also shown as Born Hvetlanda, Småland, Sweden.
Born July 27, 1859, in Sjorynge, Halland, Sweden; I can't find that town on the map. In Sweden, her name was Carlsdotter, but in the USA it was Carlson. She came with her parents to the US in the early 1880s (with 10 siblings), stopping in Brooklyn for a year. She was a school teacher before marriage, and was paid $22 per month, according to a letter in Swedish dated 1891 to Mrs. C. G. Lind. Lived in Dayton, Iowa. Died November 8, 1932, in Dayton, Iowa.
Gertrude June Lind recalls: "My grandmother, Anna Cecilia Carlson, had 10 siblings and they were all born in Sweden. Some of the names were: John, Andrew, another boy, name?., Canna Cecilia, Hannah, Eltine. The first 3 boys went to Texas and all became oil millionaires. In 1921 Uncle John came back to visit to Iowa and he was already rich. Anna Cecelia was born in 1860 and married in 1890."
We have a letter in Swedish from Claus announcing the
birth of Naomi. The letter seems to be dated March 5th
and refers to the birth on Tuesday, so the date of birth
might actually be Feb 27, 1894.
Died 1896.
Born June 7, 1854, in Roklum, Saxony, Germany; the birth is recorded in the
old church books of Roklum now stored in Semmenstedt. Baptised June 18.
Came to the US at age 14 with his parents. Married May 5, 1887, to Emilie
Henrietta in Trinity Lutheran Church with Henry Kramer, August Abel and his
cousin Emma Preiss, as attendants. Lived in Burnside, Iowa. Emilie
remembers that her father was very religious, and went to church every
Sunday. Died at home (6 miles northwest of Dayton, Iowa), on September 2,
1935, in Webster, Iowa. Buried in Dayton, Iowa, beside his wife. Also
buried there are Alwin, Johanna, Alma, Henry, Lydia, and Jimmy.After their mother died in 1912, Johanna took over her mother's duties, and
Alwin devoted himself to helping out on the farm, too. According to Emilie,
Johanna always made an angel food cake on birthdays, and everyone appreciated
it. Johanna also played the organ at church for 32 years. After their
father died in 1935, Alwin and Johanna continued to live on the family farm.From a draft of his obituary: ``Mr. Kinne was a splendid member of Trinity
Evangelical Lutheran Church from the time of his moving into its territory.
Since 1870 he has been faithfully attending its services loyally assisting in
whatever Trinity undertook for its welfare, communed regularly at its altar,
had his name placed on the roster of voting members and cheerfully gave well
for the upkeep of congregation, church and synod. He never missed a service;
he sang an attentive ear to the divine message. His name appears among the
eight who in 1878 built their beloved church home. He was also well known in
the Synod, because often chosen as a delegate to the conventions. He read
his church papers assiduously and was a diligent reader of many worthwhile
books. Above all, he read his Bible, started and closed every day with
devotion, perused his catechism time and again. He meditated deeply upon
its precious contents and made these sweet and precious contents the firm
foundation and the faith and hope of Everlasting life. He had the firm
foundation and the clear-cut attitude on all religious questions and issues,
a divine persuasion that could weather the most severe storm and calmly
encircling shadows of death itself.''
Born June 6, 1865, in Gräfenhainichen, Germany. Baptised June 19. Emigrated
to the US from Germany at age 12, with her supposed father, William
Reichenbach, who had previously been in America. They settled in Fort Dodge,
Iowa, for a year, and then in Boone, where she attended the German Lutheran
church school. Confirmed March 21, 1880, at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Boone, Iowa.The birth record in the old church book in the church office in Gräfenahinichen
shows that she had no father, but the family has been told in the obituary, for
example, that her father was named William Reichenbach. She lists Reichenbach
as her maiden name on her marriage certificate, I'm told. Donald Kinne
remembers his grandfather Henry Kinne telling him that her maiden name was
Zander; her mother married Carl Louis Wilhelm Zander a year after she was born.Her ``father'' left her before she was married, and went off to live in
Carroll, Iowa, and never came back. Her mother never came over from Germany,
and we don't know why. The children Henry and Emilie remember while they were
living at home, a black-bordered letter arrived from Germany for her. They
conjecture that this was a notice of her mother's death. [The information in
this paragraph is from daughter Emilie in a 1995 conversation with her daughter
Janice.]Married May 5, 1887. Though being of a frail constitution she enjoyed a fair
health during the greater part of her life. Died in Fort Dodge, Iowa, of
tetanus, October 20, 1912.Throughout her life she has been a devoted member of her church at the
services of which she was a regular attendant. At the home it was her
constant care to have her children brought up, not only in a good secular
education, but preeminently in the fear and admonition of the Lord.The Word of God having been her guiding star in life it was her staff and
final consolation during her great suffering from which she was delivered
amid the prayers of those near and dear to her when she passed from this life
to her heavenly home.A woman named Marie Knittel has been corresponding with Emilie Mathilda Theresa
Kinne for years, and corresponded with Johanna Henrietta Amanda Kinne before
she died. Presumably she is related to the Zander or Seelemann families in
some way. Her address was Dimitroffstrasse 42, Gräfenhainichen, D.D.R. 445.
When Dan, Jan, and Lisa visited Gräfenhainichen in 1995 they were told that
Marie and Otto Knittel had died. Here are the contents of one of the
postcards, dated May 3, 1974: ``Liebe Emilie. Für Euch Alle ein Andenken aus
dem Geburtsort Eurer lieben Mutter. Unsere Kirche ist heute noch im alten
Stil. Allen wünsche ich Gesundheit und viele herzliche Grüße. Mariechen.''
The picture on the front is of the interior of the old church in the city.
Another post card portrays the house of Paul Gerhardt in Gräfenhainichen; he
was a composer of many Lutheran hymns. He was born in 1607, and lived through
the Swedish invasion of 1631, led by Gustavus Aldolphus. In 1632, the body of
the king was carried from Lützen to Sweden through Gräfenhainichen. On Easter
day, April 11, 1637, the Swedes came to Gräfenhainichen, demanded money, and
after receiving it, burned the town to the ground. That same summer, 322
residents of the town died from plague. These events helped shape the hymns
composed by Gerhardt. (This information comes from a book by William Dallmann
on Paul Gerhardt published by Concordia, St. Louis.) It is ironic that one of
Dan's Swedish ancestors named Lind, according to family history, was with
Gustavus Adolphus when he died, and might have marched through Gräfenhainichen
in 1632.We used to have relatives in Raguhn, which is a town near Gräfenhainichen.
Emilie Mathilda Theresa Kinne gave me a photo of a woman and her daughter,
produced by a photographer in Raguhn, with ``Zum Andenken an meine
Konfirmation, Mutti und Brigitte'' written on the back. Brigitte turns out to be Brigitte (Weise) Kunkel, whom I have met in 2018, and Mutti is her mother, Ernestine.Janice Lind has a gorgeous quilt from Emilie, black on the back, made of silk
and velvet. Inscriptions on the squares say: "June 14, Amada Kramer", "Emilie
Reichenbach, Geb I, 19 Juni, 1865", "D J S Norfolk", "M K", "D R", "A K", "E
R", "S P", "A", "S", and "Maria Treband, 1887". Who are all those people?
Never married.
Johanna Henrietta Amanda Kinne
Born Oct 29, 1890, in Burnside, Iowa. Baptized December 7, 1890, in Trinity
Lutheran Church, Dayton, Iowa. Confirmed March 2, 1904, in Trinity Lutheran
Church, Dayton, Iowa. Known as Jennie. She was the church organist at
Trinity Lutheran for many years. Died March 16, 1962, at the Lutheran
Hospital in Fort Dodge. Buried in Dayton, Iowa. Never married.Karin says that Johanna had influenza in 1919 during the worldwide epidemic.
Born at home in Burnside, Iowa, on Dec 29, 1896. She attended the parochial school of Trinity church until her confirmation March 20, 1910. Following her confirmation she attended Fort Dodge Business college, from which institution she graduated with the class of 1916. Some time later she entered the Nurses Training school of the Lutheran hospital at Hampton, and finished training in 1921. For some years she successfully followed her chosen profession in various states, cheering the patients and those with whom she worked by her comforting words, gracious smiles and ready wit. As it became evident that the profession of nursing was too heavy for her, she attended the Northwest Institute of Technology at Minneapolis, Minn., and graduated in 1929. (Janice Emilie Lind
still has her golden graduation pin with a tiny microscope on it.) She then became a laboratory technician and assistant superintendant at the hospital in Atlantic, Iowa. She died at 4:50 Saturday afternoon, Oct 5, 1929, at that hospital. Death followed an operation performed several days before for the relief of an obstruction of the bowels, for which she had submitted to several operations in the past. She had been a long time sufferer from a condition which surgery was inadequate to remedy. She had been employed at the local hopsital for three months. Buried in Dayton, Iowa. Never married.
src: Joel Bridgham
src: Joel Bridgham
src: Joel Bridgham
Elmer G. Bridgham says he died young.