Posted by Paul in MN on March 02, 2014 at 18:38:48 from (174.20.154.234):
In Reply to: Any Swedes here? posted by Ultradog MN on March 02, 2014 at 16:20:27:
My mother was born in Sweden in an area about 40 miles south of Gotenburg near the western coast of Sweden in 1924. Her father had already emmigrated to US and worked hard as a brick tender in Chicago to make enough money to pay for the passage of his 2 children and wife. They came through Ellis Island in 1926 (a horrible experience for them). My Grandmother could not speak any English and they pulled all of her teeth at Ellis Island (so called medical necessity). She travelled alone with a 2 year old and a 4 year old on the trains to Chicago in a very hurting state to move into a cramped apartment in Chicago with other relatives. During the depression, Grandpa became the custodian for a number of apartment buildings, a job that required shoveling snow from all decks and staircases and sidewalks, and tending all the coal fired boilers (no stokers), removing garbage and vacuuming all hallways and fixing everything that needed fixing. For that he got a small 1 bedroom apt next to the boiler room of one unit and a small amount of pay. But they considered this a good life compared to the extreme poverty of relatives who stayed in Sweden. Too many crops had failed in Sweden and people were dying of starvation.
In 2002, my wife and I visited the home area of Sweden and with help of a great aunt, I was able to walk on the farm lands of both great grandfathers. Our cousin Lars was reconstructing the house my mother was born in, and I was treated to a complete tour including the attic. I was given some of the tools GG built the house with.
My mother was a member of the S.I. and had made the full holiday dress costume, and participated in the holiday events. She passed away in 2001.
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