THE FAMILY OF KARL VICTOR AND JOHANNA KRISTINA LASSFOLK

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This is information was sent to me by my cousin and is transcribed as it was received.

Karl Victor Lassfolk (Teir) was a farmer and at the age of 26 he married Johanna Kristina Lassfolk and moved to Stobacka, Närpes. Karl Victor broke his leg in an accident with a horse-carriage, 1908. After the accident he developed pneumonia and never recovered from it. He died 49 years old. (We have no data of how Johanna Kristina died.) When Karl Victor died the home was sold to Olof Manngård. (August Mangs also gave an offer on the home, but Olof Manngård’s offer was higher.) Olof Manngård kept just the fields and the forests. Olof Manngård’s son bought the main house and moved it to another village (Tromossen, Närpes) and later it was sold and moved to Böle, Närpes. (It is still intact but of course altered in many ways.) All the other buildings were sold.

Karl Victor and Johanna Kristina Lassfolk’s children:

• Karolina Kristina moved to the United States and married Anders Gustav “Gus” Hultin in Anaconda, Montana. Children: Lillian, Florence, Victor and Evelyn.

• Hulda Maria died when she was only 5 years old.

• Anna Josefina married to Karl Ivar Söderman. Karl Ivar had problems with alcohol and when he was drunk he could become very angry. It was not easy for Anna Josefina to live with him. She worked as “extra help” for the farmers in Pjelax and in the nearby villages. Anna Josefina and Karl Ivar lived their whole life in Pjelax, Närpes. They got two children. Saga Gunhild (died 10 years old) and Inga Mildred. Inga married Lennart Lärka.

• Johanna Vilhelmina married to Johan August Mangs. Johanna Vilhelmina was a hard working farmer’s wife. Johan August was a respected and good man, but he could sometimes be a little too strict. They lived their whole life in Stobacka. They got four children: Else, Rafael, Gunni and Elis.

• Karl Johan died when he was only 2 years old.

• Karl Alfred moved to the United States and changed his name to Fred Carlson. He lived in Portland, Oregon. He drowned in Yakutat, Alaska (Dry Bay) during a fishing trip (1929), 36 years old. (I am not sure if they ever found his body, but there were witnesses to the drowning accident.)

• Hulda also moved to the United States, where she married Nils Magnus Karlstrom. Their story you know better than me….

• Karl Johan was born blind. When he was eleven years old both his parents had died and he moved to Johanna and August Mangs. He went to a blind school in Helsinki and he earned own money by binding scrubbing-brushes. He helped Johanna and August with some easier chores. He looked after that there were enough water and firewood inside and he fed the horses. He died in an accident – he fell from the second floor in the cow-house straight into the cement floor. He was deeply christen and visited regularly the Mission house in Stobacka. He lived his whole life with Johanna and August Mangs in Stobacka, Närpes.

• Karl Adrian was only ten years old when both his parents died. He moved to Emilia and Olof Manngård where he worked with lighter farm jobs for food as payment. He also lived shorter period of times with Johanna and August Mangs. When he had finished the compulsory military service he traveled to the United States and further to Hamilton, Canada. In Hamilton he worked in an ironworks foundry (Steel plant). Later when he married Ida Svens they owned a boardinghouse together. Ida’s father was in very bad health (1928) and she and Meri (1 year old) moved home to take care of him. Karl Adrian stayed a bit longer and saved up more money. When Karl Adrian came home they bought the Nix farm (1931) in Kaldnäs, Närpes. (Meri was born in Canada and three years later Airin was born.) Karl Adrian was missed a game when the home football team played. He died of in heart failure 79 years old. Ida was a good mother and wife. She died pneumonia, 83 years old.

• Ester Elisabet worked her whole life as a maid for a watch-maker (Mickel Edvard Rosenlöf) in Yttermark, Närpes. In 1961 when Mickel Rosenlöf died he left his whole house and all his belongings to Ester. Two years later she was in a car accident and she broke her leg, pelvis bone and several ribs. She never recovered and she died a few days after the accident 1963). (My mom was with her when she died.)