When Beda Theresia Haag was born on 22 May 1881, in Tjugby, Heda, Östergötland, Sweden, her father, Carl Gustaf Haag, was 23 and her mother, Johanna Fredrika Svensdotter, was 25. She married Albert Wilhelm Olsson Wahlstrom on 16 August 1900, in Oakley, Cassia, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 11 daughters. She immigrated to Twin Falls, Idaho, United States in 1938 and lived in Marion, Cassia, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Burley Election Precinct 3, Cassia, Idaho, United States in 1940. She died on 20 February 1949, in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States.
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Fredrika Bremer Association was founded in 1884 and is Sweden's oldest women's rights organization.
Historical Boundaries 1887: Ada, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Ada, Idaho, United States 1892: Canyon, Idaho, United States
First Nobel Prize awarded.
German and Dutch: topographic name from Middle High German hac ‘enclosure, hedge’, Middle Dutch haghe, or a habitational name from any of the many places called with this word.
South German, Swiss German, and possibly also Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Hago, a short form of any of various compound names beginning with hagan ‘enclosure, protected place, scrub’. See Hagen 2.
Swedish: probably an ornamental adoption of the German name (see above).
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