Swedish American Genealogist Volume 27 | Number 3 Article 1 9-1-2007 Full Issue Vol. 27 No. 3 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag Part of the Genealogy Commons, and the Scandinavian Studies Commons Recommended Citation (2007) "Full Issue Vol. 27 No. 3," Swedish American Genealogist: Vol. 27 : No. 3 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag/vol27/iss3/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Swedish American Genealogist by an authorized editor of Augustana Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. (ISSN 0275-9314) A journal devoted to Swedish American biography, genealogy, and personal history Volume XXVIISeptember 2007 No.3 CONTENTS Family Ties to the Dakota Uprising. 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This subscription fee may be deposited in a plusgiro account: 260 10-9, Swedish American Genealogist, c/o Thorsell, Hästskovägen 45, S-177 39 Järfälla, Sweden. Family Ties to the Dakota Uprising – Minnesota 1862, Part 2 Connections to the Lundborg and Broberg victims BY HELENE LEAF When I was searching for informa- ioner who said that she was related County, Minnesota. Using the census tion about Mary Anderson, I asked to John through the Wahlstroms. At records through Ancestry.com at a Pastor Robert Kruger if he had any that time I had no idea who the local library and church records at memories of people talking about an Wahlstroms were so that information the Swenson Center, I was able to East Union person who was killed in was filed away somewhere in the determine that Anna Wahlstrom, the Sioux uprising. Pastor Kruger back of my mind for about thirty daughter of Ingri and Olof, had had served for many years at the years. In the past few years I had married August Lundborg at West East Union Lutheran Church, Car- found out who the Wahlstroms were, Union where both had been born, ver Co., Minnesota, but now he is but not how this parishioner was confirmed, and started to raise a retired. He said that he did not connected to the Wahlstroms. Last family. They had lived for some time remember any connection with the year I decided to figure this out. in Isanti County and then had moved East Union Church, but he thought John’s great-grandmother, Katarina to Wright County and belonged to the that there was something about the Carlsdotter, had a sister, Ingri, who Stockholm Lutheran Church. The Lundborgs from West Union being married Olof Wahlstrom. Ingri and parishioner from Dunnell was a connected with the Massacre. Im- Olof had married in Geneva, Illinois, daughter of Anna and August Lund- mediately I thought this is something but eventually moved to San Fran- borg, as was confirmed by census to investigate as my husband had cisco Township, Carver County, Min- records and church records from family ties to the Lundborgs at West nesota, and joined West Union Salem Lutheran Church, Dalbo, Union Lutheran Church which is just Church. The West Union Church Isanti County, and Stockholm Lu- about 8 miles from the East Union records were lost in a fire in 1943 so theran Church, Wright County, Min- Lutheran Church. the best source for following these nesota. In 1970 at my husband’s first people was gone. parish in Dunnell, Martin County, I turned to following the family in Who were the Minnesota, there was one parish- U.S. censuses. I was able to get the names and approximate ages of their Lundborgs? children. The boys I could follow in At this point the research stopped federal censuses, but with the girls, until Pastor Kruger’s remark. I had I lost their trail. read about the Lundborgs who had been killed at the Broberg house in Mystery solved August 1862 during the Indian uprising. Now to find out if there was The breakthrough came in January a family tie. Because the West Union 2006 when my husband handed me Church records were not available, I a photo of his grandmother. This looked on the Rootsweb.com website Hennepin Co., photo had been given to John by the (Minneapolis) for Carver County; there is a listing parishioner from Dunnell; it had of the readings from the West Union been her mother’s. On the back were Lutheran Church Cemetery. There Carver Co., these words, “to my cousin Anna Minnesota were the names of many Lundborgs. Lundborg.” Now I had a last name For several of them exact birth dates and a place. I knew this parishioner and places, and death dates and had been raised mostly in Wright Swedish American Genealogist 2007:3 1 places were given. Three of the names matched perfectly with the three Lundborgs who were at the West Lake cabins in August 1862 but escaped being killed: Anders the fa- ther, Johannes the oldest brother, and Samuel the youngest brother. Tombstones help The tombstones said that the Lund- borgs were born in Tumberg, Väster- götland. A check of the birth records and HFL in Tumberg confirmed that these Lundborgs in the West Union Cemetery were the ones who had survived the massacre and that the three Lundborg brothers who died at the Broberg cabin were part of this Membership records for the Anders Peter Broberg family, from the records of the Lebanon Luth family. Census records from 1870 and later confirmed that Samuel and Jo- Lars, b. 1840; Sara, b. 1842; Johan- home when young Peter Broberg (age hannes lived in Carver County near na, b. 1848; and Samuel, b. 1853. 7) ran up and said that Indians were the West Union Church. A look In 1858 three of the Lundborg at the Broberg cabins and were through the West Union Lutheran brothers, Johannes, Anders Petter, bothering the children who had been Church 50th Anniversary Book and Lars, immigrated to Minnesota. left at home. This was not cause for showed that they both had been In 1860 they claimed land by West great alarm but Anders Petter Bro- active in that congregation. There Lake at the western edge of Monon- berg and four of the Lundborg bro- were even pictures of them in the galia County (now northern Kandi- thers started for the Brobergs by book. yohi County). The following year taking a shortcut through the woods. A further study of the 1870 cen- their parents, Andreas Larsson and Daniel Broberg took the women and sus showed that Johannes and his Lena Johansdotter, brothers Gustaf children in the oxcart via the road. wife Christina were the parents of and Samuel, and sister Johanna left The Lundborgs did not take their August Lundborg who later married Tumberg and came to the brothers’ guns with them as Pastor Jackson Anna Wahlstrom. I had found the homestead near West Lake in Mon- advised them so as to not incite the family tie. Now I set out to find out a ongalia County, Minnesota. Also in Indians. Father Andreas Lundborg little more about these Lundborgs. 1861 two brothers, Anders Petter and forever after regretted that they had Daniel Petter Broberg, and their not taken their guns. He took his gun Origins in Sweden families emigrated from Södra Här- and also headed to the Broberg ene, Älvsborg län. Södra Härene is cabins. In the Tumberg records we find the close to Tumberg, and the families When Anders Petter and the family living at Lund Västergården.