Katherine Backstrom

   Other names for Katherine were Kajsa Backstrom and Kajsa Bengtsdotter.

  Research Notes:

Ancestry Family Trees: As a starting point, I have used the following FTs, and then added information as I find it

Lennart eriksson Släktträd FT on ancestry [lennart eriksson] ; acccess 23 Jun 2021
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/85009464/person/220162465249/facts
- only has name and dates - nothing on spouse or children

Ross/Runquist-Lowes/McKinnon FT [darren ross]; accessed 21 Jun 2021 * appears to be more complete
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/3945231/person/172133080557/facts


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- using findagrave [Rikka Josephine Jacobson Backstrom findagrave id, 189023214], links to Rikka's parents and siblings. It looks like Rikka's father, Anders Jacobson, died in 1875 in WI [Rikka] would have been abt 9 years old]. Her mother, Anna Olofsdotter Olstad Jacobson died in 1885 at Grafton, ND. Her oldest son was Jacob A Jacobson - it is likely that he, his mother, and younger siblings had likely moved to North Dakota shortly after the death of the father. At Grafton, Jacob A Jacobson married John Backstrom's sister Katherine.

BUT, Katerine's findagrave, 82973364 [note: Ross/Runquist .... FT incorrectly records her birth as 10 Aug 1859]


Marriage: 4 Sep 1883, Katherin Backstrom and Jacob A Jacobson marriage
ND - Grafton Lutheran Church, image 426, no 14
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60722/images/41742_314252-00479?pId=1350749172


Modified Chronological:


Katherine (Kajsa) Bengtsdotter Backstrom, b 10 Aug 1859, Östmark, died, 4 Aug 1912, Stettler, AB
married: 4 Sep 1883, Grafton, ND
Jacob Andrew Jacobson, b 19 Aug 1858, Waupaca Co, WI, USA; died 22 Aug 1929, Stettler, AB

Children:
Elmer (Almer) Bertinius Jacobson, b 20 Jul 1885, Ramsey Co, ND; died 30 Aug 1958, Edmonton, AB. 5 Children
m. Amolia Schiffner, b 19 Nov 1896, Russia; died 11 Jun 1967, Edmonton

Joseph Elarius Jacobson, b 10 Jun 1888, Ramsey Co, ND; died 11 May 1918, Stettler, AB. Not married, No children

Oscar Neville, Jacobson, b 10 Jul 1889, Ramsey Co, ND; died 15 Aug 1946, Vancouver, BC
m. 1914, Consort AB; divorced bet 1916-1922. Luille Cora McClelland, b 1894; died ?. 1 daughter
m. 1922. Anna Gregory, b 3 Aug 1898, England; died 30 Jul 1971, Prince George, BC. 1 son

Peter Theodore [Ted] b 1 May 1894, Ramsey Co, ND: died 12 Sep 1978, Vanderhoof, BC. 4 children
married: 1922, Stettler, AB
Juanita Marguerite [Nita] LaRue, b 28 May 1899, Okalhoma; died 10 Mar 1991, Vanderhoof

William Levi Jacobson, b 6 Nov 1896, Ramsey Co, ND; died 12 May 1966, Lethbrigde, AB. 3 Children
married: 25 Oct 1936, Regina, SK
Alice Anne Cecilia Pelletier, b 14 Mar 1907, Pincher Creek, AB; died 1 Apr 2003, Lethbridge

Edwin Clifford Jacobson, b 30 May 1900, Ransey Co, ND; died 16 Oct 1944, England. No Children
married: Elizbeth MacDonald, Inverness-Shire, Scotland

Amunda Cleddys Jacobson, b 26 May 1903, Ramsey Co, ND; died 13 Jun 1905, Stettler, AB


Note: Ross/Rundquist FT on Ancestry records another child, Louisa Jacobson, b 1906.
BUT there is no further information. There is a girl with the family in the 1911 Canada Census, but
the spelling seems to be "Lenora" b Sep 1906 in AB, and is recorded as a daughter. She isn't recorded
withe Jacob in the 1916 census; there also is not a record of a burial at Lake View Cemetery in Stettler
with Jacob and Katherine are buried. Is it possible she was either a "foster" child or someone staying
with the family in 1911 and enumerated mistakely wrote daughter. ????

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Edwin Jacobson
Canadain WW 2 Service Fils of War Dead; ancestry collection; image 157;
- died while in service as a cook - died of Cancer of signmoid alexure - Colorectal Cancer, 16 Oct 1944, England
enlisted 5 Jul 1941
- married 29 Jan 1943 Elizabeth MacDonald... from Reintoul, Abriachan, Iverness, Inverness-Shire, Scotland

findagrave id, 17664433; Brookwood Military Cemetery, Brookwood, Woking Borough, Surrey, England
note: Service No: H/62799; Age: 44; Regiment/Service: Canadian Forestry Corps, 10 Coy;
Son of Jacob and Kathryn Jacobson; husband of Elizabeth Jacobson, of Abriachan, Inverness-shire.

William L Jacobson .....
OBIT The Leader-Post (Regina), 27 May 1966, page 11
- died 12 May in Lethbridge; born in 1896 in ND; attended Olds College in 1916, then to the University of Albertaa
graduating in 1920 - BSc in Agriculture
- then worked at the Lethbridge research station as an irrigation; and in 1935 moved to PFRA
(Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration) in Medicine Hat and Swift Current and then in 1936 to Regina
and then back to Lethbridge area in 1947
- survived by is wife Alice and son Robert, daughter Mrs B C Strong of Burnaby and daughter Katheryn of
Vancouver, one brother, P T Jacobson of Fraser Lake

1900 US Census, Coulee Twp, Ramsey Co, ND; sheet 2B; dw/fam 34/35 [line 62]
J A Jakobsen, b Aug 1858 in WI; age 41; married 17 yrs; parents - Norway; Agent
wife Katie, b Aug 1859 [actual 1860] in Swe; age 40, mother of 9 children, 6 living; em 1864 [?]
Almer B, b Jul 1875 ?? - must be b Jul 1885 in ND, age 16
Joseph E, b Jun 1888, age 11
Oscar N, b Jul 1889, age 10
Peter T, b May 1894, age 6
William L, b Nov 1898, age 3
[not named] son, b May 1900, age 0 [Edwin Clifford - Ross/Runquist ...FT]
then servant


1906 Canada Prairie Provinces, Albert, Strathcona, sub-dis 16A; sec 24, twp 38, range 20, page 8, line 28
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8827/images/e001213614?pId=1904213
A Jacobson, age 48 b in US, em 1902; sect 24, twp 38, range 20
wife, Kate, age 46, b US ????
Joseph, age 17
Oscar, age 15
Theodore, age 12 [Peter Theodore ?]
William, age 9
Edwin, age 5
** son Almer is apparently at sec 16, twp 38, range 19, but I can't find him

* on this page 8 is: line 20
Nels Bant.... age 40; sec 28 twp 38 range

* on this same page 9 is: line 16
A Borglund age 34,
wife Tillie (daughter of Bengt) age 24
son Albert, age 4
son Delmar, age 1, b in AB

** on this page 8 is: line 13
B N Bents.....? age 75 sec 28, twp 38, range 20; Post Offiec Irskine
wife Annie, age 72
Cora, niece, age 10

** on this page8 is: line 35,
John Benxte.... age 48; em 1903l sec 28 twp 38, range, 20
wife Fica age 45
dau Ella age 7,
dau Mathilda, age 8
son Chas.. ag 4

** on this page is: line 40
Mrs C Shinnes, age 43, em 1903, sec 28 twp 38, range 4


1911 Canada Census: Alberta, Red Deer, sub-dis 32, page 3, line 19
not much different than 1906, wife Kate born in Swe; emigrated 1905 ???
add: daughter Lenora, age 4, b Sep 1906 in AB

1916 Canada Prairie Provinces, Alberta Red Deer dis; sub-dis 17, page 2, line 40; twp 38, range 4
J A Jacobson age 58 b in US; married - but he is a Widow, since Katherine died in 1912
son, W L. Jacobson, age 19 b in US
son Edwin, age 16 b in US


* son Oscar Neville Jacobson; BC Death Registration: 1946-09-010334
- died at St Paul's hospital in Van; here for 2 months, in BC 26 yrs
- permanent resdence - Vanderhoof; Hotel Proprietor
- date of death 15 Aug 1946; informant, a friend; [Annie Gregory is mentioned but not recorded as wife or divorced]
From The Prince George Citizen, 2 Aug 1971, pg 12: Re: wife Anna
Mrs. Annie Taylor of Nukko Lake who died Friday following a lengthy illness. Born in England in 1899,
Mrs. Taylor came to Canada in 1907 and has been a resident of this area for the past 28 years.
She is survived by one son William, Nukko Lake ... a sister in Columbia Falls (Mrs Elizabeth Greene).
- 1916 Prairie provinces census: Alberta Battle River, sub 03, Village of Loyalist ????
Oscar, wife Lucille, and daughter Catherine age 0; also Joseph Jacobson, age 27, and ...? Jacobson, age 30
- Oscar is a dry good merchant

Ted Backstrom

son, Theodore Jacobson (Peter Theodore/Ted)
1921 Canada Census: Red Deer, sub-dis 58 (Red Deer City)
- age 27, single; roomer with the household of Erick Olson and wife Caroline [Backstrom] - so actually his aunt
- life insurance agent with New York Life

There is a lengthy obit for a daughter of Theodore Jacobson, Joan married John Zielke
Omineca Express (Vanderhoof, BC), issue 12 Jan 1994, page 14
- died on 18 Dec 1993 at age 62; born in Stettler on 31 Mar 1931 (her and twin sister)
- the family moved to Vanderhoof where Mr Jacobson (Ted) helped his brother run the Vanderhoof Hotel (Oscar Jacobson
who died in 1946
- then in 1943, Ted/Theodore Jacobson and family moved to Endako [abt 70 kms west of Vanderhoof) and were
propietors of Annan Hotel
- Joan married John Zielke 16 Dec 1950. four children - David, Dixie, Donna and Danny

then in the same paper, issue 10 Apr 1991, page 24
Juanita Marguerite Jacobson OBIT
- died 10 Mar 1991 at age 60
- born 28 May 1889 in Augusta, Oklahoma
- she moved with her family in 1914 to Stettler, AB, and in 1922 married Ted Jacobson.
- - in 1942 moved to Vanderhoof, and the next year to Endako
- lease the Annan Hotel, and then later the store and Post Office. Also built the Pioneer
Store, Post Office and Telephone Exchange.
- in 1959 she and Ted moved to Fraser Lake; she continued as Assistant Postmistress for 13 years
- Ted died in 1978; survived by daugther Shirley (Jim) Simonson, Joan (John) Zielke, Joyce (Don Reid)

note: the above newspaper issues from 1990 to 2008 on newspapers.com

- I looked on newspapers.com issue in Mar 2007 but no record. Then I checked with " bclocalnewscom/obituaries "
and searched: Vanderhoof Omineca Express obits, on-line version
Shirley Helen Simonson
- died 16 Mary 2007; born in Edmonton on 15 Jun 1929, and shortly after seh was "adopted by the Jacobson family
of Stettler"
- the family moved to Vanderhoof (1942) and then Endako {1943)
- 1954 at Endako and helped her parents
- married 11 Feb 1955 to Jim Simonson; 2 children, Geraldine b in Apr 1963 and Karen in Jul 1965



Peter Theodore Jacobson; BC Death reg: 1978-09-014193
- no added information, but confirms above
- informant, daughter Joyce Reid, Vanderhoof

From Ross/Runquist ...FT
children:
Shirley Helen Jacobson, 15 Jun 1929, Edmonton [adopted], died 16 Mar 2007 Vanderhoof, BC; m. 'private. 2 children
Joyce Anita Jacobson, b 31 Mar 1931, died 24 Jan 2015, Vanderhoof, BC; m. Donald Reid (1921-2002). 7 children
Joan Elaine Jacobson, b 31 Mar 1931, Stettler, died 18 Dec 1993, Vanderhoof, BC; m. John Zielke (1929-2005). 4 children

Gordon Jacobson, b 1943 ??? [no mention in mother's obit of a son who died or that survived her
[ there is another FT on Ancestry: Frances Garth FT [FrancesGarth]; acccessed 4 July 2021
- this FT does not mention a 4 child

Another FT on Ancestry: Garth Family Tree, [Des Garth] accessed 4 July
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/162045765/person/412114555583/facts
- Shirley Helen's mother was Elsie Garth and Elsie had an unknown relationship and then in 1934 married to
Stuart James Johnson (1898-1991). It seems that Shirley's mother had named her Mildred Garth, and then
the Mildred was adotped and her name changed to Shirley by Ted and Juanita Jacobson
- also: Elsie Garth's parents farmed in the Westlock area

Katherine married Jacob A Jacobson on 8 Sep 1883 in Grafton, Walsh Co, North Dakota, United States.⁹³⁹² (Jacob A Jacobson was born on 19 Aug 1858 in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States, died on 22 Aug 1929 in Stettler, Alberta, Canada and was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Stettler, Alberta Canada.)