Grand Aunt Sarona Kallman

My grand aunt, Sarona Rebecka Källman, was my grandfather Richard's oldest sister , the oldest of all six Källman siblings. Her birth record, December 17, 1878, declares her to be "oäkta" or illegitimate. Her mother Clara Sofia is only listed but a note was added that she was baptised in her father Anderssons parish, January 2, 1879. Her parents married in May of 1879.

She arrived in Boston, Massachusetts in 1904 following her brothers, Patrik and Botvid who had emigrated in 1901. In 1907 she married Hugo Henry Alvine, a man she must have known back home in Sweden because it was he who was named on the ship manifest as her contact in America. 

When my grandfather Richard immigrated in 1906, it was Sarona who was named on the ship manifest as HIS contact in America.

Her first of two sons, Stanley Kallman Alvine, was born in Chicago in 1911.

My Grand Aunt
Sarona Rebekah Källman Alvine
b. 11 December 1878 Tjällmo, Östergötland, Sweden
d. 28 July 1956 Turlock, Stanilaus, California, USA

My father's cousin

Stanley Kallman Alvine

b. 19 September 1911 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

d. 28 Feb 1979 Kodiak, Kodiak Island, Alaska, USA