Swedish American Genealogist Volume 32 | Number 3 Article 1 9-1-2012 Full Issue Vol. 32 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 (2012) "Full Issue Vol. 32 No. 3," Swedish American Genealogist: Vol. 32 : No. 3 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag/vol32/iss3/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by 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 XXXIISeptember 2012 No. 3 CONTENTS Family Ties to the Dakota Uprising. 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Thorsell, Oct. 2007). skovägen 45, S-177 39 Järfälla, Sweden. Family Ties to the Dakota Uprising – Minnesota 1862, Part 4 BY HELENE LEAF On August 18, 2012, my husband sota. In 1861 their parents, Andreas The attack John and I attended a most unusual Larsson Lundborg and Lena Johans- On the morning of August 20, 1862, family reunion in Swift and Kan- dotter, brothers Gustaf and Samuel, Pastor Andrew Jackson was holding diyohi counties in Minnesota. Nei- and sister Johanna joined them. One a service at the Lundborg home when ther my husband nor I had met any sister, Sara, had remained in Swe- little Peter Broberg interrupted the of these people before, although a few den. Also two brothers, Anders Pet- service by saying that the Indians people knew some of the others. Over ter and Daniel Petter Broberg and were bothering those children who 120 people attended, and they were their families, immigrated and had been left at the Anders Broberg from all parts of the country and even claimed land two miles west of the home. Anders Petter Broberg, Gus- at least twelve of them came from Lundborgs in what is now Swift taf, Lars, Samuel, and Anders Petter Sweden. County. All joined the Norway Lake Lundborg ran to the Broberg house. What was it that brought us all Lutheran Church which had been Andreas Lundborg followed more together that day? It was an incident founded in 1859 by Pastor Peter Carl- slowly. Daniel Petter took the women that happened on August 20, 1862, son from East Union Lutheran and children in the oxcart. Those in which 13 Swedes were killed by Church. There was no church build- running arrived first; they were shot Indians. Everyone who was gathered ing so the pastor, Andrew Jackson, and all were killed except Samuel there was in some way related to the traveled from home to home conduct- who survived a wound to the side and Lundborgs or the Brobergs who were ing worship services. being beaten. Andreas arrived to see killed that day. My husband is his sons shot. The Indians shot at distantly related to the Lundborgs. The youngest attendee was the 5 month-old great-great-great-grand- daughter of Johanna Lundborg Paul- son, and the oldest was 100-year-old E.W. Solyst who for many years had organized a picnic around this date for the descendants of the survivors. Previous articles In the June, September, and Decem- ber 2007 issues of SAG I had written about these family ties to my hus- band’s Carver County ancestors (Pehr and Catarina Carlson in the East Union area) who had known these two families. In 1858 three brothers, Johannes, Anders Petter, and Lars Andreasson Lundborg, immigrated to Carver County, Min- nesota. In 1860 they claimed land in western Monongalia County (now Kandiyohi). This was the far western The Minnesota counties mentioned in the article. From Handy Book for Genealogists settlement of white people in Minne- 6th edition (1971). Swedish American Genealogist 2012:3 1 him, but he managed to escape. The account of the incident. A wreath was oxcart came into view, and the placed on the monument. There were Indians fired at it. All were killed three flowers on the wreath, one for except one child from each family, all the whites who were killed during Anna Stina from the A. P. Broberg the Dakota War, one for the Indians, family, and Peter from the D. P. Bro- and one for the soldiers. A Swedish berg family. The survivors hid in the flag was also on the wreath. A prayer tall grasses and on the Isle of Refuge for peace, healing, and reconciliation in Norway Lake and eventually was said. found safety in St Cloud. A more Then we traveled by car the two complete telling of this incident is in miles to the marker for the Lundborg the September 2007 issue of SAG. cabin. A long train of 48 cars trav- eled this country road which may not The memorial gathering on most days have that many cars Our gathering was to start officially pass by all day long. As we drove at 10 a.m. on the 18th at the Shelter along, I thought about little Peter House at Monson Lake State Park (in Broberg, age 7, running this distance Swift County, Minnesota), but by 9 through the woods. This property on Route 7 a few miles south of Sunberg Anna Stina (Broberg) Peterson (1846– a.m. the people started to gather, to 1933). From Findagrave.com. meet each other, to visit, and of course is still owned by the great-grandson of Johannes Lundborg. to have a cup of coffee and peppar- were descended from Torsten Algots- kakor. The weather was perfect. The son, born 7 October 1712 in Södra organizers had a color-coded system To New London Härene (Vägö.) and his wife Karin for the name tags to help us know Then it was off to Peace Lutheran Persdotter. It had been said that the the ancestor of the attendees. The six Church (formerly Lebanon Luth- Lundborgs and Brobergs were re- ancestors were Johannes, Johanna, eran) in New London. We were had a lated. Samuel, and Sara Lundborg, and wonderful smörgåsbord and had a Anna Stina and Peter Broberg. While chance to look through various pic- Pictures and music Sara Lundborg had remained in tures, family trees, and artifacts. There was time for pictures. There Sweden, some of her children im- From 1 to 2 p.m. the Monongalia His- was a large group picture on the steps migrated. torical Museum was open. This build- of the old Lebanon Lutheran Church At 10 a.m. we walked to the nearby ing was the original Lebanon Lu- – a tradition from previous gather- marker where the Anders Broberg theran Church and had much infor- ings. There were pictures of family house had stood and where those 13 mation about the early years in New groups and of the family tree. Modern victims were killed and originally London and area. This building was technology allowed us to share pic- buried. Charles Berget, a great- just up the hill and on the other side tures and information. grandson of Anna Stina, read her of the church cemetery. At four o’clock we gathered in the sanctuary to listen to Anders Berg- About the survivors ström from Sweden play some typical Back at Peace Lutheran at 2 p.m. we Swedish music on his violin. Then had a sharing time. One descendant Pastor Paul Lundborg, a great-grand from each of the six survivors told of son of Johannes Lundborg, reflected what had happened to their ancestor on Pastor Andrew Jackson’s memo- after the massacre.