Brief Life History of Anna Matilda
When Anna Matilda Anderson was born on 22 February 1860, in Gallared, Halland, Sweden, her father, Lars Jacob Andersson, was 31 and her mother, Anna Britta Bengtsdotter, was 26. She married Aaron Hardy on 9 September 1880. She lived in Moroni Election Precinct, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1900. She died on 24 December 1938, in Moroni, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Moroni City Cemetery, Moroni, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Anna Matilda Anderson Hardy, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Anna Matilda Hardy, "Find A Grave Index"
- Anna Matilda Andersson, "Scandinavia, Mission Emigration Records, 1852-1920"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1873 · The Swedish Krona Becomes National Currency
The Swedish krona replaced the Swedish riksdaler as the national currency in 1873.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
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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