Maria Jonsdotter

  Research Notes:

See her husband, Anders Nilson Bonstrom's research pages


BUT: Moody FT [Kathleen Granston] ; access, 14 Apr 2021
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/173946793/person/152258428655/facts

Moody FT posts Maria's OBIT: Skaffaren [Swedish newspaper, posted on Genealogybank], 28 Aug 1895;
orginally shared by Carrie Duba on 28 Oct 2020, from Kevern FT on Ancestry - see notes on husbands page
[google translate:]

From Buffalo. A large funeral was celebrated on 20 Aug in Carlslund parish. Mrs Maria Bönström, who had been confined to the bed for almost a whole year, was taken then to her last resting place. A large crowd of the deceased's friends took part in the mourning procession. In addition to the local Pastor, Pastor Wenner from Litchfield and Pastor Nelson from Marysville were also present and gave speeches. Mrs Bönström who was not a completely young woman, just over 80 years old. She leaves a grieving spouse and four children. An overwhelming great consolation in grief is the Christian life [kristina ???]. We know that .... ? got on her sick bed to "fall to sleep" [hänsofna], and completed [fullbordad] her struggle, not away, but at home.



Moody FT also links Maria Jonsdotter, b 1865 to Maria's parents:
Jöns Jönsson, b 1825 and Maria Persdotter, b 7 Jan 1829 at Gammeltäppan, Östmark parish
- AND this Maria's parents are
Per Jonsson b 1796 and Gertrud Jonsdotter b 1800 ⁹²⁵⁴

Maria married Anders Nilsson Bonstrom, son of Nils Ersson Bonstrom and Maria Andersdotter, on 1 Jan 1881 in Rockford Twp, Wright Co, Minnesota, United States ⁹²⁵¹.^,9252 (Anders Nilsson Bonstrom was born on 25 Mar 1849 in Östmark, Värmland län, Sweden,⁹¹⁶⁶ died on 7 Jan 1905 in Wright Co, Minnesota, United States ⁹²⁵³ and was buried in Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Buffalo, Wright Co, Minnesota, United States.)