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Descendants of Johan Emil Palm

Generation No. 1

1. JOHAN EMIL⁹ PALM (SVEN GABRIEL INGEMAR⁸ HOLST, CARL LUDWIG⁷, OTTO GABRIEL⁶, JOHAN GABRIEL⁵, SVENT⁴, CARL FREDRICK³, MAURITZ², ANDERS¹ HOLTTE) was born March 11, 1859 in Jonkoping Kristina, Jonkopings, Sweden, and died July 21, 1932 in Tarentum, PA. He met IDA MAE (MARIE) JONASDOTTER October 07, 1883 in Skede, Jonkoping, Sweden, daughter of JONAS SVENSON and ULFICKA SVENSDOTTER. She was born October 04, 1855 in Stenqvill, Skede, Jonkopings, Sweden, and died November 24, 1937 in Tarentum, PA.

Notes for JOHAN EMIL PALM:
Johan Emil was born in 1859 to his unmarried 23 year old mother, Charlotta Johannesdotter Landt, who was living in Jonkoping City, with the Parish records stated that the father was Lieutenant Von Holst of the Province of Westergotland. Westergotland is composed of the two counties of Alvsborg and Skaraborg. Lt. Sven Gabriel Ingemar Holst was stationed with the Hussar Regiment of those counties, which were adjacent to Jonkoping County.

Charlotta had been living at the home of her parents in Stromberg, Jonkoping when she became pregnant in the summer of 1859. In November of that year she and her sister, Johnanna, moved to Jonkoping City to the Kristina District where Johan Emil was born. Johanna returned home where she lived with her parents until their deaths and continued living alone until the end of the recorded information of the Lutheran Parish Minister.

Johan Emil and his mother, Charlotta, lived in Jonkoping City in the Kristina Parish district, which is the theater district, where Charlotta worked as a maid to support them. Johan worked as a gardener as a young teen and then joined the army when he was 15. At this time, he took the surname of Palm. He was a volunteer with the N Vedro Company and lived in the soldiers' section of the village of Stromberg, Ljungarum Parish. His maternal grandparents and Aunt Johanna were also living in Stromberg of Ljungarum Parish, and shortly after his arrival he moved from the army barracks into the home of his maternal grandparents, Johannes Landt and Greta Andersdotter, and Aunt Johanna.

He was a volunteer with the Jonkoping Regulars when he married Ida Jonasdotter in 1883. They had one child, Ella, born in 1883 before their marriage. Ida and Ella lived with Ida's parents until the official wedding. They were married at the Army Post with C. S. Beckstrom presiding. Family stories tell that they had a military style wedding and that there was a family coat of arms in Sweden. These two stories have been substantiated in research. The Holst family had such a crest which passed from father to son from 1638 until 1887.

A baby girl, Eleanor, was stillborn in 1884. When Oscar was born in 1885, Johan was a volunteer in the Norra (20uqv) 161 Military of Jonkoping and living in the Kristina Parish of Jonkoping City. By this time, Johan had served 12 years i the military.

Johan Emil then left the army and worked in a factory for one year during which time Herman was born in 1886, and the family left for America in May of 1887.

Ida's sister, Christina, and brother, Johannes, had preceded them to America in 1881 and 1882 respectively. John, Ida, and three children settled in Butler, PA., reportedly near Ida's brother.

John worked at the Penn Salt Co in Natrona, and Thelma and Edna were born in Natrona, with Thelma being still born. John then went to work at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in Creighton in East Deer Township, PA. Creighton was then known as Norman town. George, Mary, and Martha were born there.

In 1898 the family moved to a farm near Tarentum, Pa. where the home was f four room log cabin. Bertha, the tenth and last child, was born in this home. Ella, in her teens, did house work for families in Brackenridge before she married at age 19.

By 1900 John had secured his naturalization, and was employed by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, and sons, Oscar, 14, and Herman, 13, were employed as laborers at the Tin Plate Company. By 1908 he had purchased a home on West 8th Ave. He continued his employment at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co, where according to the 1910 census, he worked as a grinder. His sons were apprenticed and Oscar worked in a steel tool shop, Herman in a brick yard, and George in a tool shop. Mary, Martha, and Bertha attended school. Ella married in 1900 before the Census was taken and was not listed on John Emil's census report. Ella gave birth to their first grandchild, Emory Henry Hess in 1901, and Ella died in 1905.

By 1910, John and Ida had seven living children out of ten born to them. Mary, at age 17, died in 1911, and then they had six children living. In 1917, they built a house at 915 Ross Street. John retired from the Plate Glass Co. in 1930, where he had worked as a grinder and they continued to live in their home on Ross Street in Tarentum, PA until their deaths.

John died in 1932 and is buried in Prospect Cemetery, Brackenridge, PA.

BIRTH: LDS Int film #0135664, p 89
Family: LDS Int film #0498874, p 92
      #1043382, 1874, line 272; # 1043380, 1874, line 91
Military: LDS Int film #052489, p 84; # 502489, p 81
Marriage: LDS Int film #196885, Vigselbok for Skede Annex for 1883, Jonkoping
Children: LDS Int film #0196890, entry 78; #0196892, entry 256
Emigration: LDS Int film #1043383, entry 150
Family: 1900 and 1910 census records for Tarentum Allegheny Co., PA
Death: Burial in Prospect Cemetery in Brackenridge, Allegheny Co., PA

Notes for IDA MAE (MARIE) JONASDOTTER:
Ida Jonasdotter was born in the village or farm of Stenqvuill, Skede Parish, Jonkoping County, Sweden in 1855, the oldest of four children. She was given a New Testament for her first communion written in Swedish on April 18, 1870, which is in the possession of Shirley Palm Schuster. She had been given this by Dorothy Palm Rathbone who had received it from Ida. This indicated that she lived in Skede Parish. This information along with recollections of George Palm of the family having emigrated from Jonkoping, Sweden, contributed to research the family history.

In 1881, at the age of 26, Ida gave birth to a daughter, Elin Sophia "Ella". Two months later, she and Johan Emil Palm pledged their engagement at the Skede Church. They married on October 7, 1883, at the army base in Ljungarum, and according to family stories, in a military style wedding. They lived in Ljungarum Parish where Johan was stationed, and then were transferred to Jonkoping City.

They had four children born to them in Sweden, but the second child, Elanor, died as an infant in 1884. Two sons were then born in Sweden before Ida and Jon immigrated to the USA on May 18, 1887. Ida and John Emil settled in Allegheny County near Butler, PA because her brother had preceded them to that area.

According to the 1900 census, John was naturalized by 1900, but wives did not required this as women could not yet vote. They had six more children born in the USA, for a total of ten. However, two died as infants, Mary as a teenager, and Ella in her early twenties.

I remember Ida Mary in the mid 1930's as a small lady who loved to quilt and sew. After conversations she would reach into her sewing box for the longed for red and whit soft mints. I later found in 1987 a factory just outside of Jonkoping that was still making these same type of mints.

In 1925, Ida with her daughter, Bertha, returned to Sweden to visit relatives. Later during WW II Bertha would send hard-to-obtain items to these relatives. After the war, they sent to Bertha a lovely crystal chandelier which is in the possession of her son, Robert Toepfer, a grandson of Ida Palm.

Ida lived five years after her husband, John, died. Her daughter, Martha Palm Black, with her family lived with her and cared for her until her death which was caused by complications from a fall in which she hit her head. Sha ad taken a walk and fell on the sidewalk beside the First Presbyterian Church. She died a few months after the accident on November 24, 1937, and is buried in Prospect Cemetery, Brackenridge, PA.

Name: is given on New Testament from 1870
Birth: LDS Int film #0315317, 1822-1860, p 180 of 1885, Skede Parish, Jonkoping County, Sweden.
Marriage: LDS Int film #196885, Skede Parish, extracts of church records for Jonkoping County 1883
Family Info: LDS Int film #052853, Clerical Survey 1822-1860, p 146, for Stenqvuill, Skede Parish,       Jonkoping, Sweden.
Children: LDS Int film #0196890 for Oscar Palm and #0196892 for Herman Palm
Emigration: LDS film 31043383 for 1887, p 150 for May 18, 1887
Death: Grave located in Prospect Cemetery, Brackenridge, PA.

Children of JOHAN PALM and IDA JONASDOTTER are:

2.	i.		ELINE SOPHIA¹⁰ PALM, b. September 21, 1881, Stenqvill, Skede, Jonkoping, Sweden; d. April 05, 1905, Natrona Hgts., Allegheny Co., Pa..
	ii.		ELEANOR PALM, b. 1884; d. 1884.

Notes for ELEANOR PALM:
Died as an Infant.

3.	iii.	OSCAR EMIL PALM, b. June 21, 1885, Jonkoping , Kristina, Jonkopings, Sweden; d. August 1954, Detroit, Michigan.
4.	iv.	AXEL HERMAN PALM, b. October 01, 1886, Jonkoping, Kristina, Jonkipings, Sweden; d. July 19, 1958, Tarentum, PA.
	v.	THELMA ELIZABETH PALM, b. 1888, Natrona Hgts., Allegheny Co., Pa.; d. 1888, Natrona Hgts., Allegheny Co., Pa..
5.	vi.	EDNA PALM, b. May 09, 1890, East Deer Township, Allegheny, PA; d. May 13, 1980, Natrona Hgts., Allegheny Co., Pa..
6.	vii.	GEORGE HENRY PALM, b. May 28, 1892, East Deer Township, Allegheny, PA; d. November 04, 1980, Duncan, Stevens County, OK.
	viii.	MARY PALM, b. May 09, 1894, East Deer Township, Allegheny, PA; d. November 1911, Tarentum, PA.
7.	ix.	MARTHA CATHERINE PALM, b. April 09, 1896, Norman Town, East Deerfield Township, Allegheney Co., PA; d. September 02, 1987, Tarentum, PA.
8.	x.	BERTHA PALM, b. December 1899, Natrona Hgts., PA; d. August 07, 1993, Natrona Hgts., PA.

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