The response to yesterday’s post about my familial connection to the Swedish expatriate community of Galesburg was so overwhelmingly positive that I thought I’d spend a little more time in the archives this evening and share a few more facts about my immigrant family’s past in Illinois. First, I should correct something that I said […]
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Back to Galesburg
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1870, 1891, 1897, Anna Gustafa Nilsson, CB&Q, Chicago, Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad, coffee, Dahlsland, Dorothy Maxine Lambie Avery, eels, Galesburg, Galesburg railroad museum, genealogy, geneology, Hump, hump yard, immigration, Johann August Jakobsson, Leif Jakobsson, Marilyn Ruth Lambie Tercek, Mark's ancestors, Mimi Dorothy, Öland, Ovra Wannborga, railroad, strikes, Sweden, trains, Violet Jacobson Lambie, Zephyr 6 Comments
The Swedes of Galesburg
Earlier this evening, I was thinking about my grandmother who passed away this last May, and I decided to scroll back through the photos I’d taken the last time I was with her. Well, there among all of the photos I’d taken of her and Clementine, was this one of the telegram that she’d sent […]
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1944, 1949 census, Anna Jacobson, Army, Arthur Robert Avery, Atlanta, August Jacobson, Beardstown, census, census data, Dorothy Avery, Dorothy Maxine Lambie Avery, Galesburg, genealogy, Great Depression, Illinois, immigration, Marilyn Ruth Lambie Tercek, Mark's ancestors, marriage, Mimi Dorothy, Pearl Harbor, Robert Avery, Sweden, swell, telegrams, Violet Jacobson Lambie, WWII 6 Comments
The passing of my Mimi Dorothy
Dorothy Maxine Lambie Avery, the last of my grandparents, passed away yesterday evening at the age of 93 in Lexington, Kentucky, not terribly far from where I was was born 50 years ago, and where she lived for most of her adult life. She was one of my favorite people in the entire world, and […]
Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged Beardstown, Bob Avery, cancer, Clementine, Death, Dorothy Avery, family history, family photo, friends who have passed, Galesburg, grandparents, Great Depression, hospice, Illinois, matriarch, Mimi Dorothy, Mothers' Day, Prehensile Monkey-tailed Skink, Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink, Robert Avery, Shane Land, Sweden, telegrams, World War II 18 Comments