Marit Erickson

   Another name for Marit was Mary Erickson.

  Research Notes:

Ancestry.com - both Sharons FT and Lennart Eriksson FT only link to findagrave, nothing else; but

Hokanson FT
https://www.ancestrylibrary.ca/family-tree/person/tree/353409/person/6986482634/facts?_phsrc=NEk14&_phstart=successSource
BUT note - has a mistaken connection of Kajsa Johansdotter with a birth of 1832 and married to someone named Johan August Eriksson b 1833 at Berga Parish Kronpberg län and then records a number of children born to this Kajsa, including Mary Erickson
- 'our' Kajsa was b 1829 in Östmark parish


1900 US Census, Hector, Renville Co, MN; ED133, sheet 2A; dw 24 fam 28 [about 75 kms south-east of Cokator]
Johan Hokanson. b Apr 1857 in Sweden, age 43; married 20 yrs [1880]; em 1868; Grain Buyor
wife Mary, b Jan 1859 in Sweden, age 41; em 1866; mother of 3 children, 3 living
son Clarence, b Nov 1883, age 15 b in MN b Clarence Elwod ] see point 2
son George, b Jul 1885 age 14, b in MN [b George Elmore]
son Arthur, b Aug 1887, age 12 b in MN [b Johan Albert]


2. Swedish Lurthan Church records:

from a link to Swedlanda Lutheran church [Hector, Renville Co, MN]
image 238; family members; - no records of births/deaths etc
https://www.ancestrylibrary.ca/imageviewer/collections/61584/images/47830_554914-00426?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&pId=30812448

- his name: N J Hokanson, b 4 Oct 1857
- family came to this area in 1885
- one other child was born, Frank Gustav b 16 May 1889; died 1889



3. family mostly from Hokanson FT

Johan Hokanson, b 4 Oct 1857 Mahada, Smaland, Sweden, died 3 Apr 1916 at Hector, Reville Co, MN
married, 1888 at Martinsburg, Reville Co, MN
Mary Erickson, b 7 Jan 1859, Lekvattnet, Värmland; died, 2 Jul 1922 at Hector, Reville Co, MN

Children:
Clarence Ellwood, b 13 Nov 1884 at Hector, MN; died 22 Mar 1930, West Palm Beach, FL
m. Harriet Fiske Prest b 21 Oct 1889, Lincoln MI; died 17 Oct 1969.
one son, John Stanely, 1924-2010 m. Mabel Roberts, 1921-2017. 2 children noted
George Elmer, b 19 Jul 1885, Hector MN ; died 3 Dec 1956 at Hector
m. Annie T Lindbald, b 1889 in IA; died 21 Jul 1971, Hector
one daughter Lois Jane 1917-19 Jun 2002 Minneapolis m Golden G Selin, 1910-1963. No children recorded
Arthur [Johan Albert], b 28 Aug 1887, Hector, MN; died 9 Jan 1963, Rochester MN
m. Nettie Goodmanson, b Oct 1887, IA; died - not recorded. No children recorded
Frank Gustav b 16 May 1889, Hector MN; died 1889, Hector [from Swedlanda church record] ⁹¹⁹⁰

Marit married Johan Hokanson in 1888 in Renville, Minnesota, United States. (Johan Hokanson was born on 4 Oct 1857 in Mhada, Småland, Sweden, died on 3 Apr 1916 in Hector, Renville Co, Minnesota, United States and was buried in Hector Cemetery, Renville Co, Minnesota, United States.)