MELQUIST Beverly

Oscar married HOFFMAN Emma Freda on 03 Jul 1919 in St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN. Emma (daughter of HOFFMAN Carl Fredrik and WERDER Wilhemina "Minnie") was born on 03 Feb 1891 in St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN; died on 24 Apr 1967 in Newport Beach, Orange Co., CA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Received death certificate Dec. 14, 1988. Cause of death given as pneumonitis which she had for two weeks. Contributing condition given as "Chronic brain disease - cerebral arterioschlerosis".

Emma didn't get married until age 28, then she eloped. Her husband died 26 years later and she never remarried. She was a widow for 22 years. Her occupation in the 1912 St. Paul city directory was given as seamstress.

Died:
Buried in Union Cemetery, Ramsey Co., MN

Notes:

Occupations given as driver for a department store and assistant shipping clerk on 1900 census and death certificate. Both parents given as being born in Sweden. 1910 census shows Carl as having come to the U.S. in 1881. Found him living with Per Ekström in Litchfield in Minnestota state census of 1885, age 21, born in Sweden. City directories of St. Paul give occupation in 1910 and 1912 as driver for Golden Rule. Address in 1910 was 328 Van Buren, address in 1912 was 756 W. Central Ave.
"Emihamn" database found on Ancestry.com Sep 2009 shows Karl Fredrik Hoffman left Stockholm on 9 Dec. 1881 bound for Litchfield, MN. His archive call no. is 18:763:14299 if we ever find out what that document is. He apparently made some other trips back to Sweden. On one of them he left Stockholm on 2 Sep 1908 headed for St. Paul. Archive call no for that trip is 87:182:80974.

Died:
Buried Feb 27, 1931 in Union Cemetery, Ramsey Co., MN

Carl married WERDER Wilhemina "Minnie" on 27 Jun 1886 in Litchfield, Meeker Co., MN. Wilhemina (daughter of WERDER John and Fredericke) was born on 28 Jan 1860 in Dalmin, Prussia; died on 06 May 1928 in St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Minnie came to U.S. in 1874, had been in U.S. 24 years as of 1900 census.
Place of birth variously given as Germany or Prussia. On map of what is currently East Germany, a town of Dalmen is near a town of Werder.

Died:
Buried May 8, 1928 in Union Cemetery, Ramsey Co., MN

Notes:

Tradesman

Died:
Buried Feb. 3, 1884 in Stockholm, Stockholms Län, Sweden
Buried in plat 3879 in a church garden, possibly moved in 1915 to Åtta. Occupation "Kladesfabrikor" in Norrköping. Clerical record survey shows Carl moved to Norrköping Oct. 22, 1845.

Carl married EKSTROM Fredrika Sofia Johanna in Jun 1849. Fredrika (daughter of EKSTROM Johan Petter and BEHMER Sofia Margareta) was born on 30 Apr 1830 in Sweden; died on 03 May 1914 in Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Buried in a church garden May 7, 1914 in Stockholm, Stockholms, Län, Sweden. May have moved toÅtta. Original plot was 3879.

John married Fredericke in 1857 in Prussia. Fredericke was born in Dec 1836 in Prussia; died on 16 May 1901. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]