When Augusta Mathilda Peterson was born on 27 October 1858, in Säby, Jönköping, Sweden, her father, Carl Petersson, was 33 and her mother, Gustava Charlotta Andersdotter, was 37. She married Peter Chellson on 6 December 1884, in Cannon Falls, Goodhue, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in County of Wetaskiwin No. 10, Alberta, Canada in 1926 and Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada in 1931. She died on 27 August 1936, in Millet, County of Wetaskiwin No. 10, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 77, and was buried in Millet, County of Wetaskiwin No. 10, Alberta, Canada.
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The Dakota War was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of Dakota Native Americans. It began along the Minnesota River four years after Minnesota was admitted as a state. The Dakota made attacks on hundreds of settlers, which resulted in their deaths. A military tribunal sentenced 303 Dakota men to death for their crimes but 264 of them were exonerated. The remaining 38 were apart of a mass hanging on December 26 that same year. It was the largest mass execution in United States history.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
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Possible Related NamesChildren of Peter and Augusta Mathilda Peterson Chellson Chester Carl Leroy Chellson was the1st son of Peter and Augusta Mathilda Peterson Chellson. He was born 20 March 1886 in Red Wing, Goodhue, M …
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