When Anna Lena Jacobsdotter was born on 17 August 1821, in Kärrbogärde, Hemsjö, Älvsborg, Sweden, her father, Jacob Andersson, was 27 and her mother, Anna Catharina Svensdotter Lindholm, was 22. She married Anders Nilsson on 13 November 1853, in Hemsjö, Älvsborg, Sweden. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Hemsjö, Älvsborg, Sweden in 1821. She died on 24 December 1889, in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States.
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Göta Canal opened.
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variant of Anne , in common use as a given name in most European languages. Among people with a classical education, it has from time to time been associated with Virgil's Aeneid, where it is borne by the sister of Dido , Queen of Carthage. This Phoenician name may ultimately be of Semitic origin, and thus related to the biblical Anne. However, the connection, if it exists, is indirect rather than direct.
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