Anna HUSEBY (1870-1946)

According to the records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Anna was born at home ("by her father" apparently) on 20 Jul 1870 and was baptized as Anna Johanneson HUSEBY on 6 Nov 1870. Anna's sponsors were her uncle and his wife, Johannes and Kirsti HUSEBY, and her grandparents, Marthe and Nils Katterud. Marthe married Nils after the death of her first husband, Johan Evensen HUSEBY.


Baptismal record. Anna Johannesen HUSEBY (6 Nov 1870). Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Records, 1875-1940. Image courtesy of Ancestry.com. [NOTE: This record has obviously been typed from a handwritten original.]

From 1880 to 1895 she was living in Glenwood township, Winneshiek County with her family. Presumably around 1890 she had the portrait below taken in Decorah.


Cabinet Card. Anna HUSEBY (Decorah, IA: E. Willard Spurr, c. 1890). Images courtesy of Forgotten Old Photos.

On 15 Dec 1896 Anna married Anton Erickson (b. 8 May 1859), son of Jens Erickson Ness and Ingeborg Hansdtr, at Big Canoe Church.


Detail of marriage record. Anton and Anna (Johnson [sic]) Erickson (15 Dec 1896). Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880-1937. Image courtesy of Ancestry.com.