Category: Johan Adolf Abrahamsson
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a long way from Stenstorp
Johannes Bobeck was the half brother of Anders Hedberg, my great great grandfather, the father of Johanna Hedberg. Anders’ father died young, and his mother Stina remarried. Johannes left Sweden in 1869. His children and grandchildren followed. Those grandchildren and my grandfather Carl Adolf were second cousins. Here is one of Johannes’s grandsons, William, with…
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Anders Andersson (1765-1823)
Anders Andersson, second husband of Stina Andersdotter and father of Johannes Bobeck (who emigrated to Indiana with his family), died on January 29, 1832 in Stenstorp, Skaraborg, Sweden. He froze to death. He was 58 years and 18 days old.
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Bobecks of Indiana
Minnie Green married William (Johan Vilhelm) Bobeck, on Oct. 5, 1905, in Noble, Indiana. On Aug. 8, 1818, a Sunday, she and her three sons, Orba, Wallace, and Everett, were invited to Mrs. Arthur’s house in Waterloo. Their outing made it into a newspaper in Ft. Wayne. Lulu…
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