Shopping Saturday: Shopping in Gary, Indiana

Vidette-Messenger, 9 August 1929,  page 5

My 2nd-great-grandmother's sister Anna Christina (Borg) Greandahl and her daughter Lillian (Greandahl) Nelson, residents of Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana, went shopping in Gary, Lake County, Indiana on Wednesday, 7 August 1929.

Several other residents of Chesterton also went shopping in Gary that day: Frances Sherman, Mrs. Austin Brooks, and Mrs. Brook's daughter Mrs. William Vaughn.

Gary was the fifth largest city in Indiana by 1930. It was only about 17 miles away from Chesterton.

Sunday's Obituary: Anna Christina (Borg) Greandahl

Vidette-Messenger, 29 February 1944, page 1

From the February 29, 1944 issue of the Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana):

Pioneer of County Dies

CHESTERTON, Ind. – Mrs. Anna C. Greandahl, 83, a pioneer resident of Porter County died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Carl Nelson.

She was born at Baileytown north of here on Aug. 25, 1860. All her life has been spent in north Porter County.

Surviving besides the daughter Mrs. Lillian Nelson are a granddaughter; two brothers, Gus and Daniel Borg, and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Dahlquist, Mrs. Minnie Olson and Mrs. Malinda Lawrence, all of Chesterton.

Memorial services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Carl Nelson residence and at 2 p.m. at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Rev. Cecil Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Chesterton cemetery.
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Anna was the oldest sister of my 2nd-great-grandmother Mary/Marie Louise Borg. Their parents, John (Johannes) and Johanna Carolina (Samuelson) Borg, emigrated from Sweden in the 1850s. Anna married John Lewis Greandahl, a Swedish immigrant, on 28 April 1894. Her only child, Lillian V. Greandahl, was born on 8 February 1896. John Lewis Greandahl died in 1930.

Malinda was actually the only one of her siblings who was still living in Chesterton. Daniel was living in San Francisco, California, and the others were living in Chicago, Illinois. Four brothers and a sister predeceased her.

Census Sunday: Not Just a Servant

In 1880, my great-great-grandparents Andrew and Martha (Erickson) Anderson and their children were living in Chicago, Illinois. Also in the household was a 15-year-old servant, Christine Nelson.

1880 United States census, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, population schedule, enumeration district 177, page 12. NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 198, image 360.
 
Christine was not just a servant. She was Andrew's niece. Andrew's sister Elna married Nils Jonsson, and their first child, Christina, was born in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden on 5 November 1864. Her surname would have been a patronymic derived from her father's given name, Nils. In the United States, other members of her family used the surname Nilsson instead of Nelson. Christina came to the United States before her mother did, and she would have been 15 years old at the time of the 1880 census. Her father never came to the United States; he died in Sweden in 1892. Because Christina came to the United States without her parents, it makes sense that she would live with her uncle and his family.

Sibling Saturday: The Five Anderson Siblings Who Came to America

Five of the children of Troed Andersson and Christina Jacobsdotter left Sweden and came to the United States.

Andreas Troedsson, my great-great-grandfather (born 24 February 1851 in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden), was the first come to the United States. He immigrated in 1872 and changed his name to Andrew T. Anderson; the middle initial T was from his original patronymic, Troedsson. He settled in Chicago, Illinois, where he married Marthe Elisabeth Erickson on 31 March 1877. They had seven children. He died in Chicago on 24 Jaunary 1916 and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Johanna (born 16 February 1849 in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden) came to the United States in the mid-1870s and settled in Chicago. She married Frans Ludvig Oscar Sandquist, a widower, on 19 December 1885. They had four children. Johanna died in Chicago on 4 February 1934 and was buried in Oak Woods Cemetery.

Sven (born 30 December 1856 in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden) came to the United States in the mid-1870s. He changed his name from Sven Troedsson to Sven T. Anderson. In 1880 he lived in Suez Township, Mercer County, Illinois. By 1885 he had moved to Morris County, Kansas. He married Hannah Louise Abramson on 18 October 1887. They had thirteen children. Sven died on 6 October 1914 and was buried in Hebron Lutheran Church Cemetery in Morris County, Kansas.

Nils (born 14 November 1852 in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden) came to the United States in the early 1880s. He changed his name from Nils Troedsson to Nils T. Anderson. He settled in Chicago, where he married Ida C. Anderson on 27 November 1886. They had three children. Nils died in Chicago on 6 July 1928 and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery.

Elna (born  in 23 August 1845 in Grevie, Skåne, Sweden) married Nils Jonsson in Grevie on 15 April 1864. Their children came to the United States. In 1903, Elna and her son Sven Peter Nilsson came to the United States. Elna changed her name to Elna Nelson, because her children used the surname Nelson. Elna died in Chicago on 27 September 1925 and was buried in Graceland Cemetery.