THE SMITHS OF COOS BAY, OREGON
| The search for information regarding our father, PAUL EDWARD MARTIN, born May 28, 1916 in Sioux Falls, SD, and who died January 18, 1961 in Sacramento, CA started our travels into genealogy and the search for family history.My sister and I spent time going through old newspapers and records over a period of years until her death in 2000 but we were unable to find a birth certificate for our father or any information regarding his parents or if he had any siblings.His parents were believed to have died before he was two years old.The search did produce one picture that we believe to be of PAUL E. MARTIN when he worked in the Raymond, Minnesota Creamery in the latter 1940's or early 1950. Our search also provided information regarding a half-sister, SHERRILL ANN MARTIN, born in Oakland, California on November 22, 1944 and I am still looking for any information regarding SHERRILL ANN. Our grandfather, ERICK S. NELSON aka ERIK S. NILSSON, came from Gustof Adolf, Sweden at the age of twenty (20) aboard the "Oscar II" which departed from Copenhagen City, Copenhagen, Denmark and arrived May 31, 1911 according to the Passenger Record. His parents, BENGTA and NILS NILSSON, and a sister remained in Sweden when he left for the United States.ERICK arrived in Bemidji, MN in the summer of 1911 and began his career as a lumberjack. Our grandmother, ANNA TOLLEFSEN, came from Laudal, Mandal, Norway at the age of seventeen (17) aboard the "C.F.Tietgen" which departed from Christiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway and arrived August 26, 1913 according to the Passenger Record.ANNA TOLLEFSEN camed from a large family of nine children and her sisters, MINNIE TOLLEFSEN and TILLIE TOLLEFSEN were the fist to migrate to the United States. ERICK S. NELSON and ANNA TOLLEFSEN were married on August 19, 1919 in Bemijdi, MN and in 1924 moved to Svea, MN. My Uncle, EDWARD T. NELSON who had a long career in the military, and his wife, PHYLLIS NELSON, (formerly PHYLLIS MAXINE ANDERSON) who had a long career as a nurse and was awarded the Nightingale Award, has helped provide family history.Our tree is an ongoing piece of work so we will continue to add and edit as we gather more information. | THE SMITHS OF COOS BAY, OREGON Updated September 29, 2003 |
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