JOHNSON/ANDERSON/LARSON in Big Rapids
If I have it clear thus far:
August JOHNSON and Anna ANDERSON married 23 October 1873 in Big Rapids.From Sweden, they do not yet appear in the 1870 Census of Big Rapids.Their date of arrival or origins is yet unknown.
Their son George, was born 14 July 1874, and Gramma Bernice Andretta JOHNSON was not born till 26 February 1887, some thirteen years later.Bernice grew up in Big Rapids and then later in Manistee where she graduated from the Manistee public schools in 1902.She tookbusiness courses till she travelled west to Sonora, Tuolomne County, California, with her piano and mandolin, following the white pine lumber. She married there in 1906.
Her father died when she was quite young and possibly in a lumber accident, but this cause is still a supposition.Anna remarried Jake Lindblum but I do not know if this occurred in MI or CA.
Anna's sister Emma S ANDERSON married Charles 'Ole' LARSON 17 November 1886.Though they visited in Calif, I do not know if they remained in MI.
Anyone who might have records of this family's origins in Sweden, year of emigration, death records of August JOHNSON,remarriage of Anna JOHNSON/LINDBLUM or whereabouts of son George Johnson?I would be most grateful in this long search among the ancestors.