Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Anton and Anna (Johnson HUSEBY) Erickson Biographies


Biographies. Anton and Anna (Johnson HUSEBY) Erickson. Images courtesy of Bill Waters and  IAGenWeb Project. Used with permission.

Erickson, Anton and Anna (Johnson Huseby)

(Norman Hjelmeland)


Anton Erickson Family [c. 1915?]

Anton Erickson, son of Jens and Ingeborg (Hanson) Erickson Ness, was born 18 May 1859 at Washington Prairie in Winneshiek Co. (see Jens Erickson Ness history). He married Anna Johnson Huseby 29 Apr 1896 at Big Canoe Lutheran Church in rural Winneshiek Co. Anna was born 20 Jun 1870 in Winneshiek Co., the daughter of Arne Johnson Huseby and Johanna Margrete Johannesen. Anton and Anna lived in Decorah and later moved to North Dakota. They moved back to Decorah and later moved to Spokane, WA where they remained for the rest of their lives. Anton died at Spokane 12 Oct 1943 at age 84. Anna died there 20 Jan 1946 at age 75. Anton and Anna were parents of 4 sons: Jesse, George, Arnold and Wilbert.

Jesse Arthur (1897) married Adelaide Dahl, lived at Connell and Seattle, WA and had one daughter, Deloris. (George Irving 1900) married Josephine Eliot lived at Chattanooga, TN, and had one daughter, Lorene. Arnold Milton (1907) married Lois Catherine Boatman, lived at Connell, WA and had one son, Richard. Wilbert Alvin (1910) married Elizabeth Caudill Zack and lived at Spokane. They had one daughter, Janis.

[SOURCE: Decorah Genealogy Association. Winneshiek County, Iowa Biographies - 1996 (Decorah, IA: Anundsen Publishing Co., 1996), pp. E23-24.]

1 comments:

Mark D. Williams said...

I've noticed some discrepancies in the dates given here with the sources I've found on Ancestry.com. I believe the dates used in other posts regarding this family are correct.

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