Seymour, Mamie

John and Kristine Erickson were born in Mora, Sweden. They lived in the village Bergkarlas and had four children. They left for America with the children: Carrie (Karin), Anna, Andrew (Anders), and Christine (Kerstin), John’s mother, and John’s brother, Andrew, in May 1882. Christine, their youngest daughter, was only three months old. The trip took three weeks.

They landed in Castle Garden, New York Harbor, and were detained there for a short time before taking a train to Minnesota to stay with John’s sister and brother-in-law, the Olson’s. The family then settled in McLean County, North Dakota near the Missouri Rive near Washburn. John did carpentry work and farmed. Discouraged by the extreme weather, they moved to Washington State to Chehalis and later to Centralia.

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