Hans Ludwig Hansen
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Hansen's in Denmark
Hansens in Copenhagen, Denmark
Hans Ludwig Hansen was born February 10, 1842, in Brondbyoster Smourm district, Copenhagen, Denmark. His mother was Johanne Henriette Pederson from Odense, a seaport city on the island of Fyn, also the birthplace of Hans Christian Anderson. Johanne was 31 years of age when Hans Ludwig Hansen was born.
Johanne Henriette Pederson Hansen
Hans Hansen, Hans Ludwig's father, was a woodworker and wheelmaker, by trade. He was born in 1808.
Hans Hansen
Hans Hansen built this house in 1838 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Much of the history of our ancestors was collected by the research of Linda Hansen Speckman (daughter of Herbert Hansen, grandson of Hans Ludwig Hansen), Pat Hansen DeHeis (grand daughter of Carl August Hansen, brother of Hans Ludwig), and Eric Curtis (son of Vivian Erickson Curtis, grand daughter of Hans Ludwig).
During Linda's research, she found records showing that Hans Ludwig Hansen was christened on June 26, 1842. Records also showed that when Hansen Ludwig was 41, he and his wife, Caroline Amundine Mariager were the parents of seven children: Carl Christian, Maria, Emma, Hans Otto, Ingeborg, Robert, and Vilhelm.
Caroline Amundine Mariager
Hans Ludwig Hansen
The family lived in Copenhagen. Linda found records of one child, Hans Otto Hansen (her grandfather) who was born September 26, 1876 and christened November 5, 1876. The records state that as well as the presence at the christening of his father Hans Ludwig Hansen and mother Caroline Amundine Mariager, were also Jorgen Ludwig Jogensen and Karl Hansen. She also found a record of Vilhelm Theodor Hansen who was born September 19, 1883 and christened October 14, 1883.
The family lived in Saint Stephans Parish in an apartment in Copenhagen. The godparents of Vilhelm were Kristine Mariager and Ludwig Jorgensen, and Carl Hansen.
On October 29, 1883, Hans Ludwig Hansen and his family left Demark forever on the ship Geiser, bound for New York.
Ertzinger Family
History of the Ertzinger Family
The following information is from the Huntington County, Indiana History and Family records from 1834 to 1993.
Albert Leroy Ertzinger was born in Elkhart County on a farm on the Cable-Line Road to George and Sarah Ertzinger. He was the youngest of seven children. He attended a nearby one-room school where he purposely repeated the eighth grade, since he knew he had no chance to go to high school and he was desirous of securing all the education he could get.
As a young man he attended a business school and was able to get a position in Chicago as a salesman for Swift and Company.
At the church he attended he met Eva Margaret Hansen (who had been christened Ingeborg Margreta in Copenhagen, Denmark. Eva, as she became known early in her life in America, was born in 1877 and had emigrated from Denmark on the Geiser ship in November 1883 with her parents, Hans Ludwig Hansen and Caroline Amundine Hansen and six other children. Eva remembered her trip because the captain had given the little six year old girl a big red apple. Also during the trip a storm occurred and her 17 year old brother, Charles, had played his violin to quiet the passengers.
Upon arriving at Ellis Isand, the father decided to take his family to Detroit to continue his craft as a master woodworker. However, within weeks, three of the children, Maria 13, Robert 5, and the tiny baby, Vilhelm, died of influenza. What a sad beginning for this immigrant family coming to a new country.
The little immigrant girl, Eva, was refused schooling beyond the third grade since she could only speak a foreign language. She had to depend on her own abilities to educate herself. One of her employers sent her to business college when she was older. In Chicago she worked at the Fair store and later as an executive secretary for Armour Packing Company.
Albert and Eva were married on Thanksgiving Day, 1906, at the home of her sister in Chicago. They had plans to immediately board a train with relatives and friends to come to Huntington to their newly furnished home. Albert's parents, brothers, and sisters were living in Huntington at this time and things were not to proceed smoothly.
According to long articles on the front page of the Huntington newspaper (then called the News-Democrat) in the November 28 and 30, 1906 editions, all the mischievous plans were detailed. Their new home was plastered with signs saying Swift and Armour had merged. The three brothers stayed with the couple all night until they had cooked them breakfast, when they finally left the newly-married couple alone.
Albert bought a well-stocked grocery store beside his brother Levi's meat market and was quite successful. Three children, George, Paul, and Ruth were born during the years 1909-1913. Because of ill health, Albert was advised to move to the country, which he did in Clear Creek Township. He owned a vegetable farm from which he sold vegetables to the grocery stores in Huntington until the children were grown. He then reverted to general farming, raising sheep and hogs.
During their latter years, Albert and Eva returned to their membership in the First Prespyterian Church and became active. Eva passed away in 1945 and Albert succumbed after a farm accident in 1946. They are resting in the Clear Creek Cemetery, remembered lovingly by their children and friends.
George Ludwig Ertzinger
George was first born to Albert and Eva, on January 26, 1909, in the apartment above their grocery store on Market Street in Huntington, Indiana. Levi Ertzinger, Albert's brother, had a meat market adjacent to the grocery. Soon the family moved to Bryon Street directly behind Beckstein's grocery.
George's first year of school was in the Tipton Street School. The family moved to a farm in Clear Creek Township after ill health caused his father to sell the store. George attended Whitestine one-room District Number 9 School in Clear Creek Township. To attend Huntington High School, he had to ride his bicycle seven miles daily for three years. Some of his fourth year, George and his brother, Paul, drove a car to school. George graduated in 1926.
Varied employment and education endeavors followed until 1936. On June 6, 1936, George married Lelia Mae Slusser, daughter of Clarence and Minnie Slusser of Clear Creek Township. Lelia graduated from Clear Creek High School followed by Manchester College in 1934. She taught school in Markle, IN for two years.
George entered the College of Dentistry at the University of Iowa in 1936. Since Lelia's major was home economics, she enjoyed working in the Nutrition Department of the University Children's Hospital. George received his dental degree in 1940 and opened an office in Akron, IN.
In 1942 George enlisted in the U.S. Army Dental Corp for WWII. George was stationed at Camp Polk, LA for three years, but he and Lelia lived off base. Lelia was the first woman to work at the Medical Supply Depot. His fourth year was spent at Camp Wolters near Mineral Wells, TX. During his Army service, he did all types of dental procedures.
After the war, George established his dental practice in Fort Wayne on Calhoun Street. He was an active member of the Issac Knapp District Dental Society. He helped to publish a monthly news letter which developed into a very useful aid to the needs of the organization. His dental practice grew into a very satisfactory business for George and his patients. He closed the office on July 1, 1982.
Varied employment and education endeavors followed until 1936. On June 6, 1936, George married Lelia Mae Slusser, daughter of Clarence and Minnie Slusser of Clear Creek Township. Lelia graduated from Clear Creek High School followed by Manchester College in 1934. She taught school in Markle, IN for two years.
George entered the College of Dentistry at the University of Iowa in 1936. Since Lelia's major was home economics, she enjoyed working in the Nutrition Department of the University Children's Hospital. George received his dental degree in 1940 and opened an office in Akron, IN.
In 1942 George enlisted in the U.S. Army Dental Corp for WWII. George was stationed at Camp Polk, LA for three years, but he and Lelia lived off base. Lelia was the first woman to work at the Medical Supply Depot. His fourth year was spent at Camp Wolters near Mineral Wells, TX. During his Army service, he did all types of dental procedures.
After the war, George established his dental practice in Fort Wayne on Calhoun Street. He was an active member of the Issac Knapp District Dental Society. He helped to publish a monthly news letter which developed into a very useful aid to the needs of the organization. His dental practice grew into a very satisfactory business for George and his patients. He closed the office on July 1, 1982.
On August 28, 1948, their daughter Nancy was born. She attended Fort Wayne schools and received an associate degree in Dental Hygiene and a bachelor of science degree from Indiana University. She works as a dental hygienist (at the time of this writing of 1993). In 1976 she married Tom Ossenford. Tom was an MBA, retired from Xerox and ran his own business. They had one son, Adam, born in 1978.
In 1985, after 42 years of dentistry and extensive travel, George and Lelia moved to Clinton, MO to be close to their daughter, Nancy. The entire family at that time were members of the Clinton United Methodist Church. George Ertzinger believed the success of his life was the result of loving, sacrificing, positieve-thinking parents and his wife.
Paul Ertzinger
Paul was the second son, born September 26, 1911, to Albert and Eva Ertzinger at Huntington, IN. Upon his family moving to Clear Creek Township, he attended District #9 one-room school completing eight grades. He attended Huntington High School for one year, riding his bicycle seven miles. After three years at Clear Creek High School, he graduaed and spent the following year assisting his father on their farm.Joining his sister, Ruth, they both enrolled in Manchester College and graduated together four years later with AB degrees and high school teacher licenses. His search for a teaching position became a problem. The years of 1934 and 35 were economically depressed. Schools would only employ teachers from their own county, and then only one from a family. Fortunately, George obtained a position at the Huntington Post Office and after taking a civil service examination, he accepted an appointment from the FBI in Washington, DC as a fingerprint technician.
Upon arrival in Washington, he enrolld at the Benjamin Franklin University and attended night classes for three years while employed at the FBI. After graduating with an accounting degree, he accepted an FBI appointment as special agent and married Carolyn Brine of Washington. Thereafter, he served as an investigative special agent in San Antonio, Philadelphia, NYC and Washington, DC, until he retired in 1964.
Paul found life in the FBI very interesting, often exciting and full of surprises. Because of the passege of time and the fact some of his services were of public nature, Paul has described some of them.
His FBI service during war time in NYC included monitoring German financial interests. He coordinated all evidence used in a large sedition trial of 33 seditionists held in Washington, which unfortunately was terminated after nine months upon the sudden death of the judge. At the close of the war, he was sent to Nuernberg, Germany where he assisted the assistant U.S. Attorney General interrogating three defendants (Goering, Ribbentrop, Fritsche) at the International Military Tribunal Trial. They also interrogated other German Diplomats. Paul's sixteen years FBI service in Washington included sensitive investigations at the Supreme Court, U.S. Senate, House of Representaives, White House and Embassies.
Following retirement from the FBI, Paul became director of the U.S. Capital Historical Society. He helped form a small group of retired FBI agents engaged in King Hussein (of Jordan) to provide security for his four children then in the U.S.
Paul also became National Treasurer of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, an organization of some 8,000 former agents. Upon the death of Director J. Edgar Hoover, Paul promoted the establishment of the J. Edgatr Hoover Memorial and served as treasurer, directing the raising of a $250,000 construction fund. The Memorial, representing Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity, is located in the FBI, Washington headquarters courtyard. During the thirteen years period prior to 1991, he conducted a special FBI assignent related to Cold War security matters.
Paul and Carolyn's son, Richard, was born in 1943 and married Mayfield Lamb. He is a prominent Washington builder of high end homes. Their two children, Susan and Brian, are active in the Maryland suburban schools and Methodist churches. Both families reside in the Washington area.
The following photo is from the book: We, the People, The Story of the United States Capitol, published by The United States Capitol Historical Society in coopeation with The National Geographic Society, 1966. Paul is in this photograph of the Senate Reception Room, on the left side talking to the two seated women.
An interesting note in this book shows a drawing of the Senate Reception Room. The description of this illustration is as follows: Gilded splendor and bright frescoes decorate the Senate Reception Room; Paintings of Taft, Calhoun, Webster, Clay and La Follette were chosen in 1957 to fill panels Brumidi (architect) left vacant. Senators use the room to greet guests, as Leverett Saltonstall and B. Evertt Jodan do in the above photo. The 1873 engraving shows the room with table lace and hair sofas; carpet hides the floor tiles.
Erickson Family
The Early History of the Erickson Family - by Eric Curtis - 2012
Our great grandfather on our mother's side was George Erickson. He was born in April 1832. Hecame to America from Christiania in Norway in 1854. We have not yet found records of the name of the ship on which he came, nor have we found any record of the port at which he landed. We also don't know where he spent the first 13 years of his new life in America. In 1867 he moved to Chicago, Illinois, based upon the statement in his death certificate, indicating that he had lived in Illinois for 33 years prior to his death in the year of 1900.
The following photo is marked as Mrs. George Erickson. She is thought to hae been Johanna Martina Erickson, the wife of George Erickson Sr.
The 1870 federal census lists George as being a resident of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, along with his wife Martina, age 36 and five children, all of whom were born in Illinois: George E. (Jr.), age 9; Helena, age 7; Mitilda, Age 5; Emma, age 4 and Emily, age 2.
The 1880 federal census once again shows George and his family as being residents of Chicago, Illinois, and shows the members of the household as: George Sr., age 47; his wife, shown as Macine, age 45 (her name appears on her death certificate as Johanna Martina); George E.(Jr.), age 19; Helena, age 17; Mitilda, age 16; Emma, age 12; Millie, age 11; Julia, age 9 and Osker, age 7.
The 1880 federal census indicates that Johanna Martina, as well as her parents, were all born in Norway.
George's youngest son Osker (Oscar) was destined to become the husband of our grandmother Emma Hansen Erickson (not to be confused with George's daughter having the same name, Emma).
George Sr., was a dealer in leather products. Federal census data shows that he employed George E., (Jr.) and Oscar in his business.
George E. (Jr.) married Matilda (Tilly) I. Rundan in 1885. Their first two children died at very young ages. Burial records from Graceland Cemetery in Chicago show that daughter Florence was buried in 1886 at age 1 year 10 months, and daughter Grace was buried in 1872 at age 4. Florence is shown to have died from convulsions, and Grace from Jaundice Catarrh. The 1900 federal census shows George E., his wife Tillie, and daughter Elsie, age 4, as being the only members of the household. Tillie is stated as having been born in Norway. The following photos show Matilda (Tillie) Erickson, at different stages of her life.
Hansen's immigrate from Denmark to Australia
The Viking Spirit - by Pat Deshaies
Yes indeed, the Viking spirit is alive and well, and may it continue to thrive. We can well remember when the going gets tough that (1) we don't have to scrub the kitchen floor every night until it shines while (2) we come from very fine, tough, persevering stock. If they could keep going despite all the hardships and tragedies that befell them, surely we can too. It wasn't all tragedy of course. There were the joyous occasions of births, christenings, marriages and reunions, the hopes of moving on to the new world, the excitement of setting out on long sea voyages and the beauty of watching babies grow into children, then adults in their own right. Combined with that was the comfort and security of knowing that through these children, the family and the name of Hansen would continue into the future as indeed they have one hundred and eighteen years after a young married Danish man named Carl August Hansen set out for the United States to seek a better life for himself and his little family and was joined two years later by his brother Hansen Ludwig and his family.
History Begins....
Carl August Hansen, the fourth child and third son of Hans Hansen and Johanne Henriette Pederson (also known as Andersen after the family who raised her), left Copenhagen and emigrated to the United States on the Ship Tingvilla, arriving in New York on August 13, 1881. The Ship's records show that on March 6, 1882, seven months later, Petronella Hansen (called Petrea in Australian records) and their four year old son Harold arrived in New York on the ship Geiser. Carl August was listed in the ship's records as a Smed (blacksmith). He was 35 years old in 1881 and Petea was 31 in 1882 when they sailed. Supposedly Petrea was an Opera Singer in Denmark before her marriage.
For reasons unknown, Carl August, Petrea and Harold returned to Europe. By that time, their family had grown with the addition of two more sons: Theordore, born in 1883 and Robert, born in 1886 in Detroit. It may have been beause of the climate. Australian records show that Petrea died from tuberculosis and according to the memory of her daughter, Harold was tubercular also. TB was very prevalent in those days; Denmark was a dairying country, milk was a dietary staple and it was not known at that time that tubercular cows passed the disease on to humans (since pasteurization, this no longer occurs).
The little family of Carl August, Petrea and their three young sons (Harold, Theodore and Robert), sailed from London on the ship Dorunda on October 19, 1886 and arrived in Brisbane December 15, 1886. This is shown on the ship's records. Theirs was a "Free Nominated Passage," meaning that an Australian immigrant who had established residence, nominated them for migration and had to pay (probably) a nominal fee for their passage. In return they were obliged to work for this person in repayment, and the records show that their ultimate destination was the town of Mackay, a sugar-growing country town on the coast several hundred miles north of Brisbane.
It was assumed that a distant cousin (Hansine, see later in this story) was related to a very astute businessman, who owned sugar plantations before selling those and investing in what was then one of Brisbane's leading hotels. He probably sponsored Carl August, Petrea, Harold, Theordore and Robert's migration to Australia. It appeared that the family fulfilled their obligation of working for Niels Nielsen, then headed south to Melborne, about 1600 miles away where the climate was much more gentle, and probably more like that of Copenhagen. There, in the inner suburb of Richmond on February 11, 1892, the fourth and youngest of their four sons, was born. They named him Carl Andreas, for his father and Carl August's youngest sibling, Andreas Julius. At the time of his birth, Harold was 14, Theodore 9, and Robert was 6.
There was a bad recession or depression in the 1890's. The family moved from Richmond to another suburb, Phran, wher Petrea opened the New York Laundry. Petrea died in 1896. She is buried in a cemetery outside Melbourne in an unmarked grave. Carl was then aged 3, to be 4 the following month, Robert about 10, Theodore 13, and Harold 18.
Carl August moved to Broken Hill, a large silver mining town in western New South Wales and lived with Carl Andreas in a hotel there. Perhaps Robert and Theodore were also there, but Harold was probably old enough to fend for himself. Carl August's death certificate shows that he was employed as a steam pipe fitter in the mines. He was about 53 years old and the authorities stated that this was a ripe old age for someone who worked in the mines. By then Harold was 21, Theodore 16, and Robert about 13 years old. It must have been a pretty scary situation for those young boys. Carl August's gravesite was also unmarked at a cemetery in Broken Hill. In 1983 family members (Pat Deshaies and sister Hansine Hansen, Carl Andrea's daughters) placed a gravestone and marker on the grave.
Another brother, Theodore, lived in Signey with his wife Hansine Ann Margrethe Nielsen Hansen. Records show that the seventh and second youngest child of Hans and Johanne was Johan Hendrik Theordor and he was four years younger than Carl August, so around age 50 when Carl August died. Legend has it that the people at the hotel in Broken Hill tied an address lable to little Carl Andreas' suit and put him on the train for delivery to his aunt and uncle, Hansine and Theordore in Sydney, as if he were a parcel. They took the boy in and raised him. They were quite affluent and owned seven row houses (which still stand) in Glebe, a suburb of Sydney. They lived in one house and rented the others. They were very active socially and were interested in the arts, particularly in music and in the Esperanto (international language) movement. They gave Carl a good education, which included music lessons and apprenticed him to the diamond-cutting trade. He finished apprenticeship, but the diamond dust bothered his lungs, so he turned to his music and to auto mechanics, his real interests. Hansine came to visit them during the war when she was 85 years old, played cards with Carl and often won. She was particularly pleased that a niece was named for her (daughters of Carl Andreas, Hansine Hansen, and sister Ruth Deshaies). When Hansine (1st) died, she left one of her houses to Carl Andreas and his wife, specifically for Hasine's (2nd) education.
Carl Andreas grew up in relative solitude as Hansine and Theordore were socially very active and he was left alone quite often. He didn't speak much of his childhood or family. Harold died as a young man in a hunting accident of some type. Theodore and Robert ended up in Adelaide. An uncle (probably Hans Ludwig) persuaded them to return to the Unied States, and they did so, after saving the money they earned from working in an Adelaide soap factory. Theordore became a carpenter-stairmaker and Robert became a plumber. Robert and Theodore married two Snyder sisters, Jessie and Nellie while in Detroit and both couples moved to West Palm Beach, Florida about the time of the Florida building boom.
Carl moved up to Queensland and as a young man and in his mid to late twenties, was working as a chauffeur on a sheep or cattle station near Roma, a large country town. His eventual wife was twenty-one and had also come up to Queensland with a girlfriend and was working at the same station. They married in a Catholic rectory in Roma in 1920. Soon they moved to the big city of Brisbane where Carl found work with his music. He was part of an orchestra that played at the government-owned radio station 4QG. Their great claim to fame was that they were chosen in 1926 to play at Government House at a reception for the then Duke and Duchess of York, who later became the king and queen of England after Edward abducated, Sometimes he moonlighted at the silent movie theatres. Their daughter Hansine was born and named after Aunt Hansine Hansen and their maternal grandmother. Times were good and they bought a house before Hansine was born. Then disaster struck in the form of talking pictures (drying up his moonlighting job), then the Great Depression hit, which ended his radio work and lastly, then the second daughter, Patricia, was born. Carl found part time work and they remained in their home, never missing a mortgage payment.
As a child, Pat recalled letters arriving from Florida from Uncle Ted and Uncle Robert, urging Carl to move to the USA, telling him that there was plenty of work for musicians. Times were difficult during the depression and Carl didn't feel brave enough to take such a daring step as migrating to another country.
Ted and Nellie had no children but were like second parents to Bob and Jessie's four children, Wanda, Robert, Ted and Nellie Loretta. Nellie was a very successful realtor, with an office on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach. She and Uncle Ted were sometimes asked to caretake an oceanfront mansion when the wealthy owners went away.
When World War Two came, Robert Jr., age 18 at the time, joined the US Navy. The government wanted to evacuate all the children in Brisbane. MacArthur had made it his headquarters and he and the other generals had decided that if the Japanese invaded they would let them have the top half of Australia, and defind the bottom half. Brisbane would then be on the front line. Pat went away to boarding school in Southport, on the coast, south of Brisbane. She kept cousin Robert's picture by her bedside locker believing that he would never let the Japanese invade. Of course the Australian and American fleets did defeat the Japanese invasion fleet in the battle of Coral Sea, just off the Queensland coast. Pat believed her cousin Bob had orchestrated the entire triumph. She wrote to him whenever she could, childish letters which he kept and she saw them to her in 1981. The censors had cut big chunks out of them, where she had made refererences to towns or places. As a grown woman, she was overwhelmed that he had kept those letters for so many years.
The above information was written by Pat Deshaies. She went on to write:
In conclusion, it seems ironic that I have inadvertently ended up an American, No one was ever a more patriotic Australian, but without knowing it at the time, I was just another Hansen who passed through Australia, somehow. Through fate or destiny's intervention I completed the circle which my grandfather started when he left Copenhagen and migrated to Detroit in 1881. Hansine, my sister still lives in Australia. She says: 'We were the lost tribe.' After nursing school I travelled to the USA as an exchange RN with the goal of meeting my Florida aunts, uncles and cousins. My plan was of a two-year one, taking in Europe on my way back home to Australia. However, meeting a certain young handsome French-Canadian USAF lieutenant, changed all that and forty five years and six children and grandchildren later, I have no regrets. Because our children were born so close together (six in seven years) and because we were building careers and surviving, I never met Uncle Ted, Uncle Bob and Aunt Nellie, but did have the good fortune to meet Aunt Jessie and my four cousins, many years later.
1983
She went on to say:
The California/Michigan connection: Fine people we have linked up with in the past twenty or so years. They are the descedents of Hans Ludwig and Caroline Hansen. Hans Ludwig was Carl August's (my grandfather) older brother.
2000
This was of course Ethel (Hansen) Appenzellar, and Florence (Hansen) Swaynie, daughters of Otto Hansen. They maintained a good relationship, visiting one another, communicating via letters, and telephone until Ethel's death in 2010. Ethel visited Hansine in Australia, and Hansine visited Ethel in Los Angeles around 2005, that's when I (Karen Hansen) met her. She and Ethel wrote letters back and forth for many years. Ethel had a hard time reading Hansine's European style hand writing and often asked me to try to decipher them for her.
Hans Ludwig Hansen History
This blog contains more information about the history of the family of Hans Ludwig Hansen.
Hans Ludwig Hansen was the second son and child of Hans and Johanne Hansen, and four years older than brother Carl August. He was born in Denmark in 1842, married Caroline Amundine Mariager in 1969 and died in 1911 in the United States. The California Hansen cousins were told by Aunt Maja that he was a successful builder in Copenhagen, but government interference controls made him decide to move to America, following his younger brother, Carl August and his family. This branch of the family's history states that four brothers migrated from Denmark to Detroit. One went on to Kansas and one to Australia.
The following history was verbally given to the cousins by their favorite aunt Maja, a.k.a., Myra:
Hans Ludwig Hansen and his wife Caroline came to America with six children in 1882 to New York, then directly to Detroit, Michigan via Central Railroad. They lived on the east side of Detroit a year or two when three of their children died within two weeks of each other from black diphtheria. They were Maja, aged 13, Robert aged 6 and Edward, six month old.
The family moved to Locust Street near 12th Street, where the second Maja (Myra) was born in 1887. In 1888 they moved to Chicago to work at the 1893 World's Fair. Sophia (named for a paternal aunt back in Copenhagen) was born in Chicago on June 14, 1890. They moved later to 67th and Calumet, then to 69th and Prairie, at which place Emma was married to Oscar Erickson in November, 1895. The family moved in 1897 to 67th and Aberdeen. Then in 1898 moved to Detoit, Michigan to South Street near Grand River. Caroline had breast cancer in April, 1899 and was sent back to Chicago along with Myra and Sophia to live with Emma and obtain medical attention, but she died there and was buried at Oakwood cemetery on June 3, 1899. This cemetery is located at 67th and Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
In September 1899 Hans Ludwig, Sophie and Maja (Myra) lived with Charlie and Anna that winter in Detroit. On May 25, 1900, (Myra's 13th birthday) the tree of them moved to 1381 12 Street. About that time Hans Ludwig sponsored two cousins: Robert and Theodore Hansen, who came to Deroit to live. Myra went to Chicago in April, 1904 to live with Emma and her husband Oscar and their three children: Harold, Vivian and Bernice. Oscar died of pneumonia on May 16, 1907 at the age of 32. Eva married Albert Ertzinger in November of 1906 at Emma's house. Myra married Harry Atkins on July 17, 1907 at Emma's house also. Sophie also came to live with Emma. Sophie and Harry Gustafson came to visit Myra and Harry at Huntington, Indiana and were married there in 1910.
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