Brief Life History of Johannah Elisabeth Widergren
When Johannah Elisabeth Widergren Anderson was born on 15 December 1840, in Malmö Sankt Petri, Malmöhus, Sweden, her father, Nels Christian Anderson Vidergren, was 31 and her mother, Louisa Linberg, was 30. She married Andrew Madsen on 26 December 1858, in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She immigrated to Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1855 and lived in Ellicott, Chautauqua, New York, United States in 1855. She died on 13 June 1905, in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Hannah Madson in household of Andrew Madson, "United States Census, 1860"
- Johanna E A Madsen, "Find A Grave Index"
- Johannah E. Anderson in entry for Annie Madsen Pearson, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1847
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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