These Fredlunds (plus two younger sons) are they who left Towner Co. ND for Canada in the early years of the 20th century. The two older Fredlund sons Carl and Sander aren't in this photo. Having already married into the Paulsen/-son family they live and farm with their young families near Cando/ Egeland. Mother Johanna was a dear friend of our MaryOP. The Fredlunds appear a lot in the diary this month... thus the Fredlund family photo feature found at end of this month's post.
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MaryOP is sadly and dangerously sick all the month of June and is housebound. Her reduced cash-flow depicts her confinement -- perhaps only sending her offspring on errands downtown. I see no payments yet for the doctor's nine visits in June, below:



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A letter is written to her brother Christian A. Olsen. By 1910 her parents Ole & Henriette Olsen and her two sisters Marie (Minnesota) and Petrine (Denmark) have died; brothers Chris and Ludvig remain. Tonsillitis is the (then) scary diagnosis. By 1910 G.P. Doc Francis C. Harris (51) has been practicing in the area for 14 years. This is the last solid rain they get 'til the end of June -- 22 days! -- with very high heat and strong winds to assuredly evaporate any remaining land moisture; a big worry for farm owner MaryOP, in addition to her health problems. "Father bless us, as thou used to!"




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Photo feature
In the Fredlund family studio photo, below, taken approx. 1896 in Cando, the parents Johan and Johanna Fredlund are surrounded by their six sons. Daughter firstborn Ida Mathilda was away in I think Kansas at the time of the photo, so Shirley Woodhall (Sander Fredlund descendant) added Tilly's face. Back row, L to R : Mathilda, Anton, Sander, Carl and John; in front, Henning and Noah. These seven were born in Sweden, 1870-1886. The parents-- Johan (1842 Smoland Sweden--1918 Saskatchewan Canada) and Johanna (1847 Smoland -- 1931 Saskatchewan)

Here's a 1909 plat map of Victor Township, Towner Co., ND -- where most of the Paulsen extendeds lived and farmed. [I recommend you cursor-tap on the image below to enlarge it for eye ease.] Brothers Carl and Sander Fredlund and their families live in Sections 18 & 19, 2 & 3 like bookends around the various Paulsens. (MaryOP's farm land which was farmed for her by others is in Hill Twp, just north of Victor Twp, as is George's. Will & Olga had farmed a few miles west of Carl & Mary Fredlund, in Lewis Twp. but by early 1910 lived and worked in Bisbee.) Carl farms the land homesteaded in circa 1889-90 by parents Johan and Johanna Fredlund of Smoland, Sweden and their family.
Two many Johnsons in US town? Fredlund chosen for name -- some significant thing or place or person in Sweden? Names were much more 'fluid' back then.
Here's a classy studio image of Johanna. She was of royalty in Sweden, but didn't care to make much of that.
Next, Mother Fredlund at ease. The back of this photo has an inscription in Swedish written by her to son Henning. Note the Fredlund family studio photo hanging behind her -- the photo we saw four images earlier ^ ^ ^ made when the family was geographically intact.
Now here are Johan & Johanna's seven children, including two [Carl, Sander] who married into Paulsen crew:
Now here are Johan & Johanna's seven children, including two [Carl, Sander] who married into Paulsen crew:
1. Ida Mathilda (Matilda, Tilly) Fredlund Ogren 1870--1949
Mathilda married Charles Ogren (always seen with a big moustache) in Kansas and their children were Hjalmer and Selma, with them below.
Taken the same day as the photo above, next is a four generation photo of Great Grandma Johanna Fredlund, Mathilda F Ogren, Selma O, Clayton and her baby Alice.
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2. Karl Albin Fredlund (Carl) 1872--1932
Karl (Carl) Albin -- notice that all six sons have middle names starting with 'A,' as did their father -- is the Fredlund who most locally found his mate, Mary Henriette Paulsen (1876--1971), eldest adult child of MaryOP and Albert. Carl and MaryHP married in 1897.
Their two children are Jalmer and Nellie. Nellie is mother of Kenn Woll, a vast contributor to the photos and history. The family is seen below in 1907:
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His batchelor photo, above; in 1901 he married Mary Miller (1880--1918), the niece of Albert Paulsen and daughter of MaryOP's friend, Dorothea P. Miller of Blooming Prairie MN. There were SO MANY Marys in this family that this Mary was distinctively dubbed 'Mary Sanders.'
Sander and Mary Sander had five children: Victor, Clara, Myrtle and Vivian; that's four. In 1918 their fifth was born but, tragically, Mary Sanders died in childbirth (age 38) as did the baby. The four children were ages 3 through 16 at the time of their mother's death. Sander never remarried and raised the four children on his own, west in WA. Here is the family in 1915, in their parlor near Egeland ND soon after the birth of Vivian:
Luckily, their granddaughter Shirley Woodhall (Myrtle, seen on Sander's knee above, will become mother of Shirley) has shared many photos including this of Sander and Mary Sanders in their buggy and one of Sander wearing his favorite, comfortable overalls.
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3. Sander Alfred Fredlund 1874--1957

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4. Johan Ander Fredlund (John) 1877--1960
4. Johan Ander Fredlund (John) 1877--1960
I'm short on photos from John's wedded life, but he married Hilma Hofstrand and they had 8 children, 7 who survived: John Wm., George A., Oscar A.(1910-1910), Agnes, Alice, Henry, Edwin and Selma. They lived in Saskatchewan nearer his parents.
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5. Sven Anton Fredlund (Anton) 1879--1965
Anton is one of the Fredlund crew who lived in Canada, emigrating after the turn of the century. Here he is as a dandy batchelor and next as he married Hanna Katarina Stromgren; they had a family but I'm not sure who.
The only photo I can scare up of Henning is when a youth, simply cropped from the family studio photo. In it, Henning seems to have paper money stuffed into his jacket pocket -- but I highly doubt it! If anyone reading this has access to other photo(s) of Henning, do advise me. He did grow up further in Canada and married Sara Stromgren, sister of Anton's wife. Another example of siblings marrying a nearby family's siblings-- quite typical then especially in rural areas -- and the cousinhoods become as complex as a Celtic knot. We see plenty of these crisscross patterns among our Paulsens, Rasmussens and Nelsons, too.
I don't know much about this youngest Fredlund sibling -- we see him in lower righthand corner of their family studio with a very funky big neck-bow -- but he grew up in Canada with parents and bro Henning. Here he is at time of his marriage to Jordi Lilli Marie Christofferson.
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