Amelia Sophia Carlsdotter (mother of Albert William Lindstrom) was born on March 31, 1852 at Fröseke/Kulla in Älghult Parish, Kronobergs Län, Småland Province, Sweden. The name Beckman was reported added by a judge in America. Amelia’s paternal grandparents were Magnus/Måns Persson (b. Nov. 30, 1780; d. Jan. 17, 1852) and Maria Jonsdotter (b. 1787; d. Dec. 31, 1860), both of Älghult Parish.
On June 1, 1850, Magnus’ and Maria’s son Carl Johan Magnusson/Månsson (b. Nov. 14, 1825, at Fröseke) married Anna Lisa Danielsdotter (b. Apr. 1831 at Högsby, Kalmar Län) in Älghult Parish. They had a dozen kids, including my great-grandmother Amelia (Emily). About half of the kids were born in Sweden, half in Illinois. The family migrated on the same ship as did Carl Gustaf Jonsson Lindstrom, whom Amelia later married.
I was able to uncover some ancestry of Amelia/Emily while researching in 2002 at the Emigrant House in Växjö Sweden. A Beckman Tree at Ancestry.com, by a Beckman cousin of mine, lists additional ancestry, back to Olof Jonsson. Olof was reportedly born in 1673. He would have been in his 20s at the start of the Great Northern War. It may be noteworthy that this ancestral line did not acquire a “military” surname, assigned to help to identify soldiers in units where there may be quite a few persons with the same patronymic. Another line of my ancestry, to appear in a later blog, acquired the military surname Hagelstrom, perhaps about the time of this Great Northern War.
On November 15, 1873, Amelia (Emily) Sophia Carlsdotter Beckman married Carl Gustaf Jonsson Lindstrom. This occurred in Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, scene of several of my ancestral lines’ convergence. In the 1880 census of Galesburg, Emily’s sister Anna Theolinda Beckman was living with the family of Emily. Anna was a dressmaker then.
Anna/Annie Theolinda Beckman (sister of Amelia/Emily Beckman Lindstrom) was born at Fröseke/Kulla in Älghult parish, Kronobergs Län. She was married in Galesburg in 1881 to Charles F. Anderson. His first wife was Betsy Lewis, and they had children. Anderson was a railroad engineer in Galesburg. After a railroad strike, he went to Bellingham, Washington, and started a sawmill. He sent for his family from Galesburg, about 1890. They were early settlers at Summit Valley, Stevens County, Washington. Annie died there in 1891, and was the first settler at Summit Valley to be buried in the Summit Valley Cemetery at Dunn Mountain, on land donated by Charles F. Anderson. Her kids were raised by their father and by his kids from his first marriage. Dunn Mountain is west of the town of Addy.
Several of the Beckmans stayed in the Galesburg vicinity. However, Emily’s brother Linus Andrew Beckman headed for Michigan, where he was married in 1917. The family lived in Denver, Colorado, awhile. This is the line of my newly discovered Beckman cousin.
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