Alma Charlotta Abrahamson Lindberg 1892-1965

My grandmother and two of her sisters emigrated from Sweden to the US but her remaining six siblings remained in Sweden. For her brothers in particular that choice was not hard to understand. Their father, my great grandfather Robert Albin, owned a fairly large estate/farm that they would one day inherit. Most young Swedes at the turn of the 20th century worked as farmhands or milkmaids as the family plot (if the family even owned one) was small and their family was too large to be supported by that farm. Add to that a country that was economically poor, not yet very industrialized and had in the past century suffered droughts and crop failures.  Those young people with seemingly bleek futures were also reading newspaper articles and letters from siblings, cousins and friends now in the US promising opportunity, jobs, adventure all to be had if you could scrape together the boat fare to the US. Many of my grandmothers cousins also heard the siren call of "Amerika" and one by one I am finding them now settled in the US.

my cousin twice removed

Alma Charlotta Abrahamson Lindberg

b. 30 Dec 1892 Dräggved Öfre, Håcksvik, Ålvsborg, Sweden

d: 21 Nov 1965 New Britain, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Alma was the second of seven children born to Anders Abrahamsson and Anna Susanna Karlsdotter. Anna Susanna was the younger sister of my great grandmother Anna Karolina Karlsdotter Abrahamson. Alma's older brother Luther Abrahamson emigrated to New Britain, Connecticut in 1912 and perhaps with his encouragement the unmarried Alma at the age of twenty four also left for the US.

She left Gothenburg Sweden Sep 7 1916, headed for Kristiania (Oslo) Norway. In Kristiania she boarded the Oscar II. It appears she did not travel alone but with two friends, Signe and Agnes, who also had connections in New Britain, Connecticut. Traveling steerage class the three friends entered Ellis Island on September 19, 1916.

Alma never ventured beyond New Britain. In 1921 she married Carl Lindberg, also a Swedish immigrant and they had two children, Herbert Carl 1921-2003 and Dorothy Alma 1923-2013. With her daughter Dorothy, Alma visited Sweden just a few months after the death of her mother Anna Susanna in 1947.

Alma died in 1965, her husband Carl the next year and they are buried in the Fairview Cemetery in New Britain, Connecticut.

photo by E Greer, findagrave.com ←click to view

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