Per Johan Peterson

   Another name for Per was John Peterson.

  Research Notes:

1. Name: used the name John Peterson in the US

2. From Zion Lutheran Church records, image 252
- arrived in US in 1888; arrived at Milaca, Mille Lacs Co in 1905 from Cokato; died 8 Jul 1938; married 19 May 1904
- wife, Carolina Andersson, b 10 Feb 1869 in Vitsand, Värmland, arrived in US in 1899
- son, Mauritz Clifford, b 23 Sep 1910 at ....? Brook [not Bogus Brook], bap 1914; confirmed 1925

John Peterson death/funeral: Image 407, no 7: died 8 Jul 1938, funeral on 11 Jul; age 73 yrs, 10 months, 20 days


1910 US Census Bogus Brook Twp, Mille Lacs Co, MN; ED 103; sheet 2B; dw/fam 33 [enumeration, 20 and 21 Apr 1910]
John Peterson, age 45 b in Swe [1865] ; married 5 years [1905] em 1888
Caroline Peterson, age 40 b in Swe [1870] em 1899; mother of 0 children

1920 US Census Bogus Brook Twp, Mille Lacs Co, MN; ED 53; sheet 2A, dw/fam 28
John Peterson, age 55; em 1888
Caroline, age 50 em 1899
son Clifford, age 9 b in MN [ MNHS, birth 23 Sep 1910, Milles Lac cert MN-15388; middle indexed as Marris, but likely Morris; other name Anderson, so mother is Caroline Anderson, ] [not recorded in the Zion Lutheran Church records for birth/baptism in 1910-11

1930 US Census Bogus Brook Twp, Mille Lacs Co, MN; ED 48-2; sheet 7B, dw 154, fam 155
John Peterson, age 65; em 1888
Caroline, age 60 em 1899
son Clifford, age 19 b in MN

WW 2 draft
Clifford Morris Peterson, b 23 Sep 1910 at Bogus Brook Twp
contact: Mrs Caroline Peterson, mother
- he is farming, own farm; 5 ft 9; 170 pounds; blue eyes, brown hair, light complexion; scar - left Thumb
- signed 16 Oct 1940

** neither Clifford M or his mother is recorded in the 1940 US Census at Bogus Brook Twp ??????

findagrave, John Peterson, id 77401415; died 1938
Wendell Hill Cemetery, Mille Lacs County MN; links to his wife Caroline, died 1945

then, search for "Peterson" as Wendell Hill Cemetery; id 77401417 - Clifford died 12 Sep 1992;
and a link to his wife, Alberta (Vugeveen), b 1 Jan 1917 died 14 Jun 2010 - and a posted obit
married Clifford Peterson July 16, 1943 at the Zion Lutheran Church parsonage in Milaca. Farmed the Peterson farm, then raised chickens [note, no mention of children in obit]

------------------------ 20 Nov 2021
???? the following FT on Ancestry: our family - re a son of John Peterson b 1834 [Per Pålsson, b 1834] recorded as Nils A Peterson b 1867 in Sweden

RE: Roy Clifford Peterson; Sandberg FT [kesand66] ; last accessed 20 Nov 2021 ancestry FT
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/16666480/person/20480652963/facts?_phsrc=eFv243&_phstart=successSource
- records that he died on 17 Jan 1998 in Ramsay county; born 21 Jun 1909
- using Newspapers.com; obit; (Minneapolis) Star Tribune issue 18 Jan 1998 page 33
from Fridley, died at age 88; predeceased by parents; 8 brothers; survived by his wife of 57 years, Alice; children Peggy (Jerry Nevland; Robert Peterson (Barbara); survived by sister Esther Swanson

findagrave, id, 124180159; buried at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis; links to his wife who died 3 Sep 2003 at Aurora, Kane Co, IL ⁹¹⁰⁴

Per married Caroline Andersson on 19 May 1904 in Cokato, Wright Co, Minnesota, United States.⁹¹⁰² (Caroline Andersson was born on 10 Feb 1869 in Vitsand, Värmland län, Sweden, died on 17 Apr 1945 in Milaca, Mille Lacs Co, Minnesota, United States ^9102,9105 and was buried in Wendell Hill Cemetery, Milaca, Mille Lacs Co, Minnesota, United States.)