Alice Maria Bååv gave birth to a boy on June 17, 1916 in North Collins, New York. North Collins is south of Buffalo, NY., and close to Lake Eire and the Canadian border. The little boy’s given names were William Walden. Alice’s husband, William Nelson Kemp, had been born in Pennsylvania in 1887. His father…
Spreckels, Calif. A potential relative (through a strong candidate for great grandfather Johan Adolf Abrahamsson) moved to Spreckels, Calif. in the 1890s to work on the sugar factory that dominated the town back then. Spreckels is still agricultural. Central California is very pretty.
Johanna worked at an inn in Torbjörntorp north of Falköping at the end of the 1860s. I am pretty sure that’s where she met Karl Adolf’s father, whoever he was. The owner of the Inn was Adolf Ruckman. The son of a minister who’d been forced to resign for drunkenness, Adolf started out as a…
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