MONA was born about 1933. Parents: Dorothy ZWEMKE.

Charles MONROE was born about 1878. He died UNKNOWN.

He was married to Vera Blanch AGETON about 1900.

Alma MONTELIUS was born ? in Baggböle. She died ? in Baggböle. Parents: Karl Johan Viktor MONTELIUS and Sofi FJELLSTROM.

Arvid MONTELIUS was born ? in Baggböle. He (or she) died ? in Baggböle. Parents: Karl Johan Viktor MONTELIUS and Sofi FJELLSTROM.

Botilda Fredrika MONTELIUS was born ? in Baggböle. She died ? in Baggböle. Parents: Clergyman/Deacon Daniel MONTELIUS and Johanna Charlotta CHANTANIUS.

Lt. Carl Magnus MONTELIUS was born ? in Baggböle. He died ? in Baggböle. He served in the military. He was a Lieutenant in the Military. Parents: Clergyman/Deacon Daniel MONTELIUS and Johanna Charlotta CHANTANIUS.

Clergyman/Deacon Daniel MONTELIUS died in 1810 in Baggböle. He was born ? in Baggböle. He was a Clergyman/Deacon.

Children were: Magistrate Johan MONTELIUS, Capt. George MONTELIUS, Lt. Carl Magnus MONTELIUS, Botilda Fredrika MONTELIUS , Katarina Margreta MONTELIUS.

Ernfrid MONTELIUS was born ? in Baggböle. He (or she) died ? in Baggböle. Parents: Karl Johan Viktor MONTELIUS and Sofi FJELLSTROM.

Capt. George MONTELIUS was born ? in Baggböle. He died ? in Baggböle. He served in the military. He was a Captain in the Military. Parents: Clergyman/Deacon Daniel MONTELIUS and Johanna Charlotta CHANTANIUS.

Hilma MONTELIUS was born ? in Baggböle. She died ? in Baggböle. Parents: Karl Johan Viktor MONTELIUS and Sofi FJELLSTROM.

Magistrate Johan MONTELIUS⁽¹⁾ was born in 1771 in Smaland, Sweden. He died in 1848 in Baggböle. There was, however, one rather troublesome detail to overcome. The prospective bridegroom was unpredictable and not a little bullheaded, and was not yet one hundred percent willing to enter into the bonds of matrimony with Mamselle FJELLSTROM. The halfsisters and other relatives were not too certain the KALLE would not answer "no" to the question put to him at the altar. A family council was held. Here they decided that the sister ALENIUS should stand beside the bridegroom during the ceremony and pinch his arm if he replied in the negative. No negative answer was forthcoming, fortunately, and everything seemed to go smoothly. 

A new and livelier era of activity came to the MONTELIUS home from this time forward. Young Mrs. MONTELIUS was a good, kind, tenderhearted person and a genuine angel in her generosity towards and concern for the poor in those difficult years of the 1860's. The married life turned out to be just "so-so," but it did not break up, thanks to Mrs. MONTELIUS' kindness--or perhaps patience. Now there were many who derived benefits from the MONTELIUS money. The FJELLSTROM relatives, the poor among the younger ALENIUS family members who needed a little boost in capital to conduct their business--all were given assistance by Mrs. MONTELIUS. Four children were born to the couple. We might, at this point, recall still another big wedding that was celebrated there and lasted for three days. This was much discussed, and involved JOHAN OSKAR ALENIUS, a country merchant and chief of a corps of sharpshooters, who married KARIN ANDERSSON, the daughter of the landlord at the county seat. Of course, everything needed for an elaborate wedding was to be found at the MONTELIUS'. Such was life at Kjosta!

MRS. MONTELIUS managed very well, during the winter months the family lived in Ostersund, at first in the still standing old Fritzheim house. Later they bought a house in town, and among the accounts we find a receipt for the rent of pews for five persons in the town's Church. In the summertime, they lived on Kjosta.

We have mentioned the MONTELIUS lived most of the time as the ward of guardians, and there is one paper with a list of furniture required for the town house, that needs the administrator's approval, and another for the couple's trip to Stockholm. This was of course, a sizeable expenditure, but there were plenty of resources to draw from even if it had to be approved by the administrators.

But nothing lasts forever. When the brother NILS died a few months before his father passed away, the ALENIUS and BLOM wives inherited his estate. He did not have very much. His father, the district magistrate had not given him free rein under his guardians, and now KALLE took what was left. But there were objections to him also from those who thought he had gotten too much money. His first opponent was the sheriff Soderberg, the preacher's son from Alsen, and then two or three others who were some of the toughest jurdidical figures in Ostersund.

One day a summons was served on ALENIUS, BLOM, and KALLE MONTELIUS. The summons came from an artillery man, KRANTZ of Hallen. The background for this event was that NILS DANIEL had fathered a son with a maidservant who was a daughter of KRANTZ. The boys name was NILS ERIK. The story was that these judicial dignitaries went to Hallen and looked up this NILS ERIK who was then 12 years old. They found him occupied with the threshing of grain on a farm, and thin they went on to grandfather KRANTZ, who had the reputation in Hallen of being a veterinarian as well as an artillery man. Not only that--he was said to be able to practice witchcraft when he so desired. 

A court session followed the summons. Witnesses were called to testify; servants, neighbors, the clerk of court, Bergstrand, and Nordenmark, the parson in Offerdal. The case became so exciting that one might have thought it concerned the custody of a big estate in southern Sweden. The plea was that NILS ERIK should be heir to half of the district magistrate's estate. He was the child of a betrothal, they claimed, and only NILS DANIEL'S untimely death had prevented him from marrying ELIN ERIKSSON, the mother. Now one witness after the other was asked to testify. Some did not know very much about the situation. Brita Ersdotter and Erik Simonsson and wife testified that NILS DANIEL had said that ELIN was the only woman he wanted as his wife and that death only could keep them apart. The artillery man, Hils Hellgren declared somewhat the same. This Hellgren could not live unless he could bask in the sunshine fo MONTELIUS presence. On that farm he wanted to live and die. He was given a special characterization by some of his associates. He performed primarily such work as was usually done by women, and he was the most skilled weaver in the community. If the looms did not perform as they should, one only had to send for Hallgren, and he would turn out so and so many yards of cloth a day, also find time to prepare the meals for the boys in Froso artillery camp. Besides, he was so religious that he attended church services in Brunflo even when he worked at Froso. The farmer, Matis Jonsson, further alleged that NILS DANIEL had asked him to prepare an application to the district judge for a license to marry, but that he had not taken this request seriously. One witness, Frank, testified that NILS DANIEL had once at the Gregorian market presented ELIN to him and said she was his fiancee'. Frank believed, however, that it was all in jest.

The associate minister Nordenmark of Offerdal said that NILS DANIEL was so stupid and unintelligent that he couldn't even learn the Lord's Prayer. He did not have much confidence in him and he had entered the name of NILS ERIK in the parish record of baptisms as being of illegitimate birth, father unknown. He said that ELIN ERIKSSON would not be admitted into church as the wife of NILS DANIEL unless she submitted to church discipline with the attendant payment of a fine.

The district court did not approve NILS ERIK'S claim through his guardian for half of the MONELIUS estate, but the guardian and his legal experts did not give up. They appealed to the higher courts and succeeded in obtaining a different verdict. NILS ERIK was granted his share of his father's estate.

It appears that the papers were lost for a year. Now it was the turn for KALLE MONTELIUS and his attorneys to appeal the case to the Supreme Court, and again a long period of time elapsed.

In the meantime, an event took place that we have mentioned earlier. On the MONTELIUS farm in Kjosta a big wedding was held to celebrate the marriage of JOHAN OSCAR ALENIUS. He had his business and residence in Outer Kjosta, and MRS. MONTELIUS seemed to have great confidence in him. Christmas was approaching, and she always said that she would confer with OSKAR in all matters of life and death, including the Christmas shopping. She was accompanied by Mademoiselle Beata Pira. The hills were very steep and slippery and they jokingly said that Miss Pira would help MRS. MONTELIUS over the slippery icy spots. Suddenly, as MRS. MONTELIUS was seated in a chair she collapsed and died from a heart attack. She lay in state in the great hall.

MRS. MONTELIUS had shortly before signed a respectful request to the King in which she humbly asked of him that he give his approval to the Hallborn claim to share in the estate. His is a long wordy document and one can recognize traces in it of the clever legal hand of crown solicitor Pira. A short time later they received His Majesty's decree that NILS ERIK of Hallen was to inherit everything left by his father, NILS DANIEL. This obviously included the right to adopt the name MONTELIUS. That year the Christmas was not very merry in the MONTELIUS house. Then the administrators had to be selected. All four of the MONTELIUS children were under age. the administrators appointed were the merchant JOHAN OSKAR ALENIUS ant the Innkeeper Nils Nilsson, both of Kjosta. Once again there was made a very large inventory of the items left in the estate. MONTELIUS himself dictated the items and the court clerk Bergstedt wrote down the list.

The first itemized the real estate units. The number 3 farm in Kjosta was appraised at 3,000 riksdaler; farm number 5 in Kjosta at 4,000 riksdaler; the farm number 96 in Ostersund at 1,500 riksdaler. The inventory of the effects left by the district magistrate had been a long one, but htis one was five or six pages longer. The house seems to have made great increases in its contents so far as it concerned gold, silver, furniture, knick-knacks and expensive articles of all kinds. The debts and claims against the estate had been reduced from 7,312 riksdaler to 6,417. There was a number of minor debts to well known residents of Ostersund. Erst L. Forsell and Henrik Gunnarsson, together with Anders Johansson of Landverk signed the affidavit declaring that the list was true and correct.

When the decision was announced that young NILS ERIK of Hallen was to inherit all of his father's estate, the administrators got busy. It was no small task to liquidate and turn the property into cash money. The farm in Ostersund and one of the farms in Kjosta were sold to the neighbor Anders Persson. An auction was held to sell the cattle, furniture, gold, and silver articles--and everything possible in order to collect the half of the old magistrate's estate. KARL MONTELIUS was allowed to keep the one farm with the buildings on it. All the funds had now been gathered, and the big lawyers treated themselves to a trip to Hallen, for they had assigned to themselves a very generous fee for their trouble in settling the case.

The young NILS ERIK MONTELIUS eventually lived to reach majority and was permitted to receive his fortune. He married and took up his residence in Hallen. There were many who wondered if his money brought him any happiness. People said that the money melted away in his hands. He did not know how to handle finances and it was not very long before he had none. He emigrated to America and presumably died there. His wife and children remained in Hallen, where the family and the name are still to be found.

Invitations to attend the funeral of KARL MONTELIUS were sent also to the Hall-Montelius relatives, but they did not attend. Strangely enough, one branch of the family came back to Alsen and are now living in Bleckasen.

Now to get back to MONTELIUS in Kjosta. After only a few days illness, one of the daughters, HILMA, died. She had followed in her mother's footsteps in being very kind and generous to the poor. 

She was mourned by all those in the community who had known her. The sons ENFRID and ARVID, attended college in Oresund for several terms, but the showed no signs of being good prospects for developing into future magistrates. Besides, there was not enough money to permit them to continue in college. The son, ARVID, tried a career as an Apothecary in the drugstore of Vinquist in Morsil, one of his mother's relatives. But he got nowhere. The sun was setting for the MONTELIUS people, and all those who had been basking in the sunshine of their wealth disappeared from the scene--one by one. The farm was rented out to a succession of tenants, and MONTELIUS had to maintain the farm.

The three brothers and sisters grew up and managed the farm themselves, for a number of years. All three were unmarried. They had little talent for agriculture, but continued to work and struggle on the farm. The sister ALMA was responsible for managing the household, and she was an excellent housekeeper. Selling some of the timber lands relieved somewhat the financial difficulties, but before long the three were tired of farming. One day they sold the farm to a neighbor, the Bailiff N.M.H. Sunding with the stipulation that the father, KARL MONTELIUS, should have a pension to support him during his lifetime.

Some time later, the farm passed into the ownership of Gunnar of Vaplans, and after Gunnar sold out, the farm has had several different owners.

KARL MONTELIUS now had adequate living quarters and a fine pension. The daughter ALMA, kept house for him and the brothers had a home to return to between periods when they work for this or that neighboring farmer. All MONTELIUS had to do from now on was to sit and ruminate about his lost fortune. He had nothing good to say about all those who had been engaged in legal actions against him. He read newspapers. He did some writing at his father's precious desk. At times for lack of paper, he would write on the back of some of his numerous legal papers, so that some of his court documents are filled with his writing of verse, medical recipes, family accounts, etc.

But for him, too, time ran out and in the summer of 1893 he died at the age of 76. To draw up a listing of his effects, Per G. Lithner of Kjosta was called in. The total value of the estate was now appraised at 6,072 crowns which was divided among the three heirs. Among the expenses we find an item that records funeral expenses amounting to 250 crowns.

After the father died the children were separated from the farm permanently. They then lived on two cotters in Alsen until their days too were ended. The sister ALMA was the last survivor and she died about twenty years ago in Alsen's retirement home. Since we have already written at length about lists of what individuals left when they died, we can mention that at her death, ALMA had 200 crowns in cash under her pillow and some effects that were sold to pay debts, while the remainder was left in her estate. This was the end of the great MONTELIUS fortune. All were buried in the magistrate's cemetary plot.

Now we return to the old MONTELIUS farm and take a last look at the tall residence building on its high foundation. An older building in which the district magistrate lived most of the time has been torn down about 20 years ago. Old people maintain that the ghost of the magistrate haunted this house, but that is a matter concerning which each one must have his own individual opinion.

The house is still standing and partially occupied. In some of the rooms are now workshops, but there are still some attractive relics to be seen in the mansion such as a fine ornament above the door. It looks as if the intention had been for it to include some initials or perhaps names, but they were never added. 

It may be the work of the church sculptor, the younger Edler who was in Alsen in 1840 to execute decorations in the new church. The old stately building not only harbor souvenirs but also seems to say to us: "What will be my destiny when the time comes for me to be torn down?" But one thing is sure, when that day comes and this structure is demolished it will leave a big emptiness in the community, for it is very representative of its time and an excellent monument to commemorate the mighty individual who built it, and if is is ever razed, Alsen will be all the poorer for having lost a splendid landmark.


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Note: This article by GUSTAF THALIN, son of ANNA KRISTINA ALENIUS PERSSON. ANNA KRISTINA was grandaughter of P.K. ALENIUS and sister to NILS GUSTAF ALENIUS NELSON. This MONTELIUS article by GUSTAF THALIN was translated for ALYCE NICHOLS by a college professor and followng is a note he had written at the end of this article which was handwritten on 25 pages of legal paper.

Miss Nichols: It is impossible to translate precisely many of the terms pertaining to units of political divisions of the Swedish territories and many other words for official positions and functions. The two countries--Sweden and the U.S.A., have their own vocabulary with no exact equivalents for their respective units. I have attempted to give as close approximation as possible in translating such terms and I am the first to admit that often this translation is jus that--merely approximate. However I do not think the general truth of the orginal has been too seriously violated.

Dr. H.M. Blagen translator

Another short article was translated by Dr. Blagen concerning another of ANNA KRISTINA ALENIUS PERSSON'S sons--KRISTIAN ERIKSSON THALIN.

KRISTIAN ERIKSSON THALIN, a retired farmer will be 70 years old on February 2. He resides at Ede in Offerdal. He was born in Kjosta, Alsen to the farmer ERIK PERSSON and wife, ANNA KRISTINA ALENIUS.

As a young man he was one of the organizers of the Alsen Ski Club, and later he competed against Haldo Hansson and others, and his classification won two first prizes.

In 1909 he took over the management of his father's farm, and that same year he became the husband of GOTILDA HOGDAL of Krokvag, Rogunda. His wife passed away in 1949, and he makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. NANNY HAMMARBERG in Offerdal. During his 25 year career as a farmer, he was awarded one second prize and one third prize as an agriculturist. He also devoted himself to raising horses and brought no less that 14 young horses to market. For several years he was a dealer in agriculture products at Morsil.

He now lives quietly and independent in retirement.






He was a Magistrate. He was. There was, however, one rather troublesome detail to overcome. The prospective bridegroom was unpredictable and not a little bullheaded, and was not yet one hundred percent willing to enter into the bonds of matrimony with Mamselle FJELLSTROM. The halfsisters and other relatives were not too certain the KALLE would not answer "no" to the question put to him at the altar. A family council was held. Here they decided that the sister ALENIUS should stand beside the bridegroom during the ceremony and pinch his arm if he replied in the negative. No negative answer was forthcoming, fortunately, and everything seemed to go smoothly. 

A new and livelier era of activity came to the MONTELIUS home from this time forward. Young Mrs. MONTELIUS was a good, kind, tenderhearted person and a genuine angel in her generosity towards and concern for the poor in those difficult years of the 1860's. The married life turned out to be just "so-so," but it did not break up, thanks to Mrs. MONTELIUS' kindness--or perhaps patience. Now there were many who derived benefits from the MONTELIUS money. The FJELLSTROM relatives, the poor among the younger ALENIUS family members who needed a little boost in capital to conduct their business--all were given assistance by Mrs. MONTELIUS. Four children were born to the couple. We might, at this point, recall still another big wedding that was celebrated there and lasted for three days. This was much discussed, and involved JOHAN OSKAR ALENIUS, a country merchant and chief of a corps of sharpshooters, who married KARIN ANDERSSON, the daughter of the landlord at the county seat. Of course, everything needed for an elaborate wedding was to be found at the MONTELIUS'. Such was life at Kjosta!

MRS. MONTELIUS managed very well, during the winter months the family lived in Ostersund, at first in the still standing old Fritzheim house. Later they bought a house in town, and among the accounts we find a receipt for the rent of pews for five persons in the town's Church. In the summertime, they lived on Kjosta.

We have mentioned the MONTELIUS lived most of the time as the ward of guardians, and there is one paper with a list of furniture required for the town house, that needs the administrator's approval, and another for the couple's trip to Stockholm. This was of course, a sizeable expenditure, but there were plenty of resources to draw from even if it had to be approved by the administrators.

But nothing lasts forever. When the brother NILS died a few months before his father passed away, the ALENIUS and BLOM wives inherited his estate. He did not have very much. His father, the district magistrate had not given him free rein under his guardians, and now KALLE took what was left. But there were objections to him also from those who thought he had gotten too much money. His first opponent was the sheriff Soderberg, the preacher's son from Alsen, and then two or three others who were some of the toughest jurdidical figures in Ostersund.

One day a summons was served on ALENIUS, BLOM, and KALLE MONTELIUS. The summons came from an artillery man, KRANTZ of Hallen. The background for this event was that NILS DANIEL had fathered a son with a maidservant who was a daughter of KRANTZ. The boys name was NILS ERIK. The story was that these judicial dignitaries went to Hallen and looked up this NILS ERIK who was then 12 years old. They found him occupied with the threshing of grain on a farm, and thin they went on to grandfather KRANTZ, who had the reputation in Hallen of being a veterinarian as well as an artillery man. Not only that--he was said to be able to practice witchcraft when he so desired.

A court session followed the summons. Witnesses were called to testify; servants, neighbors, the clerk of court, Bergstrand, and Nordenmark, the parson in Offerdal. The case became so exciting that one might have thought it concerned the custody of a big estate in southern Sweden. The plea was that NILS ERIK should be heir to half of the district magistrate's estate. He was the child of a betrothal, they claimed, and only NILS DANIEL'S untimely death had prevented him from marrying ELIN ERIKSSON, the mother. Now one witness after the other was asked to testify. Some did not know very much about the situation. Brita Ersdotter and Erik Simonsson and wife testified that NILS DANIEL had said that ELIN was the only woman he wanted as his wife and that death only could keep them apart. The artillery man, Hils Hellgren declared somewhat the same. This Hellgren could not live unless he could bask in the sunshine fo MONTELIUS presence. On that farm he wanted to live and die. He was given a special characterization by some of his associates. He performed primarily such work as was usually done by women, and he was the most skilled weaver in the community. If the looms did not perform as they should, one only had to send for Hallgren, and he would turn out so and so many yards of cloth a day, also find time to prepare the meals for the boys in Froso artillery camp. Besides, he was so religious that he attended church services in Brunflo even when he worked at Froso. The farmer, Matis Jonsson, further alleged that NILS DANIEL had asked him to prepare an application to the district judge for a license to marry, but that he had not taken this request seriously. One witness, Frank, testified that NILS DANIEL had once at the Gregorian market presented ELIN to him and said she was his fiancee'. Frank believed, however, that it was all in jest.

The associate minister Nordenmark of Offerdal said that NILS DANIEL was so stupid and unintelligent that he couldn't even learn the Lord's Prayer. He did not have much confidence in him and he had entered the name of NILS ERIK in the parish record of baptisms as being of illegitimate birth, father unknown. He said that ELIN ERIKSSON would not be admitted into church as the wife of NILS DANIEL unless she submitted to church discipline with the attendant payment of a fine.

The district court did not approve NILS ERIK'S claim through his guardian for half of the MONELIUS estate, but the guardian and his legal experts did not give up. They appealed to the higher courts and succeeded in obtaining a different verdict. NILS ERIK was granted his share of his father's estate.

It appears that the papers were lost for a year. Now it was the turn for KALLE MONTELIUS and his attorneys to appeal the case to the Supreme Court, and again a long period of time elapsed.

In the meantime, an event took place that we have mentioned earlier. On the MONTELIUS farm in Kjosta a big wedding was held to celebrate the marriage of JOHAN OSCAR ALENIUS. He had his business and residence in Outer Kjosta, and MRS. MONTELIUS seemed to have great confidence in him. Christmas was approaching, and she always said that she would confer with OSKAR in all matters of life and death, including the Christmas shopping. She was accompanied by Mademoiselle Beata Pira. The hills were very steep and slippery and they jokingly said that Miss Pira would help MRS. MONTELIUS over the slippery icy spots. Suddenly, as MRS. MONTELIUS was seated in a chair she collapsed and died from a heart attack. She lay in state in the great hall.

MRS. MONTELIUS had shortly before signed a respectful request to the King in which she humbly asked of him that he give his approval to the Hallborn claim to share in the estate. His is a long wordy document and one can recognize traces in it of the clever legal hand of crown solicitor Pira. A short time later they received His Majesty's decree that NILS ERIK of Hallen was to inherit everything left by his father, NILS DANIEL. This obviously included the right to adopt the name MONTELIUS. That year the Christmas was not very merry in the MONTELIUS house. Then the administrators had to be selected. All four of the MONTELIUS children were under age. the administrators appointed were the merchant JOHAN OSKAR ALENIUS ant the Innkeeper Nils Nilsson, both of Kjosta. Once again there was made a very large inventory of the items left in the estate. MONTELIUS himself dictated the items and the court clerk Bergstedt wrote down the list.

The first itemized the real estate units. The number 3 farm in Kjosta was appraised at 3,000 riksdaler; farm number 5 in Kjosta at 4,000 riksdaler; the farm number 96 in Ostersund at 1,500 riksdaler. The inventory of the effects left by the district magistrate had been a long one, but htis one was five or six pages longer. The house seems to have made great increases in its contents so far as it concerned gold, silver, furniture, knick-knacks and expensive articles of all kinds. The debts and claims against the estate had been reduced from 7,312 riksdaler to 6,417. There was a number of minor debts to well known residents of Ostersund. Erst L. Forsell and Henrik Gunnarsson, together with Anders Johansson of Landverk signed the affidavit declaring that the list was true and correct.

When the decision was announced that young NILS ERIK of Hallen was to inherit all of his father's estate, the administrators got busy. It was no small task to liquidate and turn the property into cash money. The farm in Ostersund and one of the farms in Kjosta were sold to the neighbor Anders Persson. An auction was held to sell the cattle, furniture, gold, and silver articles--and everything possible in order to collect the half of the old magistrate's estate. KARL MONTELIUS was allowed to keep the one farm with the buildings on it. All the funds had now been gathered, and the big lawyers treated themselves to a trip to Hallen, for they had assigned to themselves a very generous fee for their trouble in settling the case.

The young NILS ERIK MONTELIUS eventually lived to reach majority and was permitted to receive his fortune. He married and took up his residence in Hallen. There were many who wondered if his money brought him any happiness. People said that the money melted away in his hands. He did not know how to handle finances and it was not very long before he had none. He emigrated to America and presumably died there. His wife and children remained in Hallen, where the family and the name are still to be found.

Invitations to attend the funeral of KARL MONTELIUS were sent also to the Hall-Montelius relatives, but they did not attend. Strangely enough, one branch of the family came back to Alsen and are now living in Bleckasen.

Now to get back to MONTELIUS in Kjosta. After only a few days illness, one of the daughters, HILMA, died. She had followed in her mother's footsteps in being very kind and generous to the poor.

She was mourned by all those in the community who had known her. The sons ENFRID and ARVID, attended college in Oresund for several terms, but the showed no signs of being good prospects for developing into future magistrates. Besides, there was not enough money to permit them to continue in college. The son, ARVID, tried a career as an Apothecary in the drugstore of Vinquist in Morsil, one of his mother's relatives. But he got nowhere. The sun was setting for the MONTELIUS people, and all those who had been basking in the sunshine of their wealth disappeared from the scene--one by one. The farm was rented out to a succession of tenants, and MONTELIUS had to maintain the farm.

The three brothers and sisters grew up and managed the farm themselves, for a number of years. All three were unmarried. They had little talent for agriculture, but continued to work and struggle on the farm. The sister ALMA was responsible for managing the household, and she was an excellent housekeeper. Selling some of the timber lands relieved somewhat the financial difficulties, but before long the three were tired of farming. One day they sold the farm to a neighbor, the Bailiff N.M.H. Sunding with the stipulation that the father, KARL MONTELIUS, should have a pension to support him during his lifetime.

Some time later, the farm passed into the ownership of Gunnar of Vaplans, and after Gunnar sold out, the farm has had several different owners.

KARL MONTELIUS now had adequate living quarters and a fine pension. The daughter ALMA, kept house for him and the brothers had a home to return to between periods when they work for this or that neighboring farmer. All MONTELIUS had to do from now on was to sit and ruminate about his lost fortune. He had nothing good to say about all those who had been engaged in legal actions against him. He read newspapers. He did some writing at his father's precious desk. At times for lack of paper, he would write on the back of some of his numerous legal papers, so that some of his court documents are filled with his writing of verse, medical recipes, family accounts, etc.

But for him, too, time ran out and in the summer of 1893 he died at the age of 76. To draw up a listing of his effects, Per G. Lithner of Kjosta was called in. The total value of the estate was now appraised at 6,072 crowns which was divided among the three heirs. Among the expenses we find an item that records funeral expenses amounting to 250 crowns.

After the father died the children were separated from the farm permanently. They then lived on two cotters in Alsen until their days too were ended. The sister ALMA was the last survivor and she died about twenty years ago in Alsen's retirement home. Since we have already written at length about lists of what individuals left when they died, we can mention that at her death, ALMA had 200 crowns in cash under her pillow and some effects that were sold to pay debts, while the remainder was left in her estate. This was the end of the great MONTELIUS fortune. All were buried in the magistrate's cemetary plot.

Now we return to the old MONTELIUS farm and take a last look at the tall residence building on its high foundation. An older building in which the district magistrate lived most of the time has been torn down about 20 years ago. Old people maintain that the ghost of the magistrate haunted this house, but that is a matter concerning which each one must have his own individual opinion.

The house is still standing and partially occupied. In some of the rooms are now workshops, but there are still some attractive relics to be seen in the mansion such as a fine ornament above the door. It looks as if the intention had been for it to include some initials or perhaps names, but they were never added.

It may be the work of the church sculptor, the younger Edler who was in Alsen in 1840 to execute decorations in the new church. The old stately building not only harbor souvenirs but also seems to say to us: "What will be my destiny when the time comes for me to be torn down?" But one thing is sure, when that day comes and this structure is demolished it will leave a big emptiness in the community, for it is very representative of its time and an excellent monument to commemorate the mighty individual who built it, and if is is ever razed, Alsen will be all the poorer for having lost a splendid landmark.


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Note: This article by GUSTAF THALIN, son of ANNA KRISTINA ALENIUS PERSSON. ANNA KRISTINA was grandaughter of P.K. ALENIUS and sister to NILS GUSTAF ALENIUS NELSON. This MONTELIUS article by GUSTAF THALIN was translated for ALYCE NICHOLS by a college professor and followng is a note he had written at the end of this article which was handwritten on 25 pages of legal paper.

Miss Nichols: It is impossible to translate precisely many of the terms pertaining to units of political divisions of the Swedish territories and many other words for official positions and functions. The two countries--Sweden and the U.S.A., have their own vocabulary with no exact equivalents for their respective units. I have attempted to give as close approximation as possible in translating such terms and I am the first to admit that often this translation is jus that--merely approximate. However I do not think the general truth of the orginal has been too seriously violated.

Dr. H.M. Blagen translator



A man of great wealth & intelligence, highly respected.

JOHAN MONTELIUS--son of a clergyman--studied law at Uppsala University--the rich, powerful magistrate of Upper and Outer Kjosta (over one-half of Jamtland)--second husband of Katarina Kristina Blom and step-father-in-law of P.K. Per Kristian Alenius. He became embroiled in a long & bitter struggle over the great redivision of the land in Jamtland--owned several farms--father of two "not so intelligent" sons.


(On the division of the land in Kjosta, and about the MONTELIUS family)
by
GUSTAF THALIN


Kjosta is an old town in the parish of ALSEN--actually, it is two towns, Upper Kjosta and Outer Kjosta separated by the highway that runs between them. The town is mentioned for the first time in a document dated the Sunday before St. Erik's Day, 1457, in which Olaf Eriksson declared that he, with the consent and approval of his eldest son Henrik, has turned over one half of his farm to his younger son, Ingermund Olofsson, on the condition that the latter provide for the support of the father until his death. This contract, in those days, was designated as the customary practice of preparing the person concerned as a Christian.

The name of the town has from its beginning been spelled K J O S T A. Recently some of the farmers and officials have been spelling it KOSTA, which is incorrect. Proper names keep their original form and should not be subject to changes of modern orthography. This ought to be clear to the higher authorities also.

The town is in the church parish at the western end of the Alsen Lake, and is a highly developed agricultural community of some size. Upper Kjosta has six numbered farm (?) units, and Outer Kjosta has two large ones.

The land in Upper Kjosta was mapped in 1772 by the chief surveyor Lars A. Burman. Some of the farms were later divided by chief surveyor SUNDING. Burman's map is a confusion of farms, fields, meadows, woods, roads and pastures. Apparently it was impossible for each farmer to keep track of what he owned and there may have been disputes concerning boundaries. Such chaotic situations could not be tolerated in the long run. Some of the neighboring townships had made what was popularly called a "big division." The county officials had, of course, become aware of this, and consequently one fine summer day in 1845 the assistant surveyor, Lieutenant O.G. Kohl arrived in the community and called the farmers to attend a meeting in the house of Mattis Jonsson. Here he read to them his afficavit from the government that gave him full authority to undertake the division of the real estate. The farmers at the meeting were Anders Persson, Mattis Jonsson, Per Ersson and Erik Gabrielsson, together with the district chairman, JOHAN MONTELIUS who owned two units, and also the tenant Anders Ersson and Mans Asp. The farmers seemed to be pleased that finally something was going to be done to bring order into the confusion that prevailed. There was one who made a protest, however, and that was MONTELIUS who proposed that the division should be postponed because his official duties as the district chairman would prevent him from being present. But the division was started anyway. There was a rather large area to be divided. consisting of fields, clearings, swamps, one of which was a large marsh where the main street of the town now extends, and woods, plots of grass in the forest, rocks and cliffs. 

Meeting after meeting was held. In addition to MONTELIUS there were only two of the farmers who could even write their names. They, therefore, used as their signatures merely a mark of X or the brandmark of their farm. Among the plots of ground specifically mentioned were Gammalave, Kjostbergstakten--Kjostberg was a hunter in the town--Hogdinstakten, Granbom Akern (named after a crown solicitor), Jonas Granbom, Per Krissarakern, and Brannhogen, which was an attractive wooded elevation. The writer is of the opinion that this beautiful area of Brannhogen ought to be reserved a natural park for the public, not only because of its beauty but also for the historical reason that the ancient central highway traversed this region. The road is plainly visible, and there must have been considerable traffic between the two kingdoms on this thoroughfare. It may well be that this is where Queen Blanka passed when she fled from the Great Plague, and where Saint Birgitta travelled on her way to the Cathedral in Trondheim to pray. But to get back to the matter of the division....

The district chairman continued his protest. He said that the division was satisfactory as it was. The surveyor was taken off guard, and had to go to Ostersund to obtain further authorizations. He came back with declarations from the county official that it was they and not MONTELIUS who had the power to effect the division of land, and the proceedings continued. According to their decisions, one of the MONTELIUS farms was to be assigned to Gammalave but this brought MONTELIUS into the picture again. Several years previously, he had built a rather large house on a rocky hill; rumor had it that this house had been moved there to Kjosta from some farm in Undersaker. He now said: "I have erected this building on ground that belonged to me and that I thought would continue to be mine." The commission could not make any headway against MONTELIUS for the farm and its buildings are to this day exactly where they had always been before. Because of this, three of the farms changed ownership twice. MONTELIUS always offered protests, and claimed that he was assigned the least valuable and stoniest fields and he time and again refused to vote in favor of moving this or that house to a new location. One farmhouse was moved to an old field (Aker) and the name of the farm to this day is Akern (The Field).

Mattis Fonsson's (Jonsson?) buildings were allowed to remain as before, but the buildings of Erik Gabrielsson on the same site were to be moved a couple of kilometers to a place where there was considerable scrubby woods and many patches of meadowland but only one cultivated field. However, the farm was rather large in area. Erik Gabrielsson thought he was rather old to see the land put into condition to cultivate, but his sons were young, enterprising and industrious. But it was not merely a matter of "take up thy bed and walk." There were about ten buildings that had to be moved from the old farm to their new location. The were, to be sure, given contributions by other farmers of the neighborhood to aid in the moving, but these perhaps were far from adequate to be of much help. Houses and foundations had to be moved. It is difficult to estimate the number of trips needed to transfer only the stones needed to build new foundations, the slabs of rock for new stairs, paving, and cellars. Imagine his many trips were required to move all these buildings uphill, and when all the materials were unloaded, there was yet to be accomplished the work of utilizing all this material in the construction of new buildings. And that was not all they had to find time to do. They had to prepare the ground for planting the crops, and they had to harvest these crops in due season. And this was not all--they had to reckon with crop failures. These were much more frequent than today.

The 1860's were years that brought a whole series of poor crops and times were indeed difficult for many, and some were making their bread out of bark from trees. These fields out in the country were more apt to suffer from frost than the towns, but even the town families were compelled to have recourse to bark for nourishment. And yet their neighbors said that the people looked healthy and red-cheeked. However, they became more and more discouraged. It was not much of a prospect for the future for a man to work and struggle year after year without results. The interest on the debts grew to frightening proportions, and hopelessness reached a culmination when one of the little girls drowned in a pool on the farm.

Now the limit of their endurance had been reached. Something had to be done. After long and deep consideration they finally came to the conclusion that the only way out was to emigrate to America. Several from Jamtland had already made their decision in the 1860's and they decided to follow their example and set out on the long journey to the new world. Neighbors have related that they left everything as it was, for the times were so bad that there was no sense in having an auction--nobody had any money. Some neighbors claim that there actually was an auction. A member of the Riksday (parliament) Gustaf Eriksson of Myckelgard was given a horse as a payment on the interest. He had a mortgage on the farm. It has been said that in order to obtain the money to pay for their passage across, the emigrants sold copper articles and implements on their way to Trondheim. It is not easy to establish the truth of all that has been said, but one thing we can understand, and that is how difficult and painful it must have been to leave one's native home, tools, implements, cattle, everything that had meant home, to set out for an unknown and strange land and undertake a long difficult ocean voyage. We do not know very much about their experiences in America, but with their willingness to work and their previous success in surviving all manner of privation, we must assume that they did manage very well.

The division of land with the result that many buildings had to be moved and set up in new location, and then a wave of emigration is now a matter of history. The last commission to plan a general division was called to meet late in the fall on 1848, but this time with a difference. The district leader was not in attendance. MONTELIUS had passed away after a few days of illness. His eldest son KARL JOHAN MONTELIUS signed the agreement together with the rest of the landowners. At this last meeting they adopted plans regarding the main thoroughfare of the town, and eventually agreed that it should be built 8 ells wide (not quite 15 feet).

We can well imagine that the surveyor, the officer in charge of the redivision and the farmers were all glad that they could now adjourn after having worked for more than two years on this problem.

But now came a flurry of feverish activity for the farmers. Many buildings that stood on land assigned to someone else had to be moved to a site on what was now their ground. Neighbors cooperated in resettling buildings and building fences while all the tasks of cultivating and harvesting the crops were performed besides. No hedge or fence was in the right place after the division. How, a century later, the community is one of the most developed and productive in the entire parish. The farmers have filled in the old ditches and cleared away the obstructions so that before long some farmers will be able to plow a straight furrow up to a kilometer in length. 

Some of those who have read about the great re-division that took place in Kjosta have made inquiries about the origin and ancestry of the district leader MONTELIUS. Where did this mighty chieftan, who ruled over both the northern and the western circuit of Jamtland, come from? He was born in the parsonage of Vissefjarda in 1771 and his father was the archdeacon (Dean) of the district, DANIEL MONTELIUS in Vissefjarda, Smaland. His mother was JOHANNA CHARLOTTA MONTELIUS, nee CHATANIUS. This is recorded in an inventory of property for probate that we found. The Dean MONTELIUS died in 1810. The children were: Captain GEORGE MONTELIUS; Lieutenant CARL MAGNUS MONTELIUS; KATARINA MARGARITA SABELSTROM, nee MONTLEIUS, of Kristvalla, who married the Pastor SABELSTROM of Kristval; BOTILDA FREDRIKA MONTELIUS, single. BOTILDA later married a MR. AULIN. Their son DANIEL(?) came to Alsen and was to begin with a clerk in his uncle's court, and later the Bailiff in Alsen. All the brothers and sisters were present at the probate with the exception of JOHAN MONTELIUS, the district Magistrate.

MONTELIUS evidently attended the Vaxsjo High School. He studied law at Uppsala University. In the early 1800's he was in Jamtland, in 1808 for certain, for his name appears in records of proceedings. He does not seem to have resided in the district magistrate mansion Sodergard in Brunflo as a bachelor, but moved in for several years after his marriage.

In the parsonage at Hammerdal lived an assistant counselor named BLOM with his wife nee MORT and three daughters and one son who became surveyor. The BLOMS waited for suitors to come and court the girls. The first one to appear and win one of the daughters was a Lieutenant in the artillery, whose name was NIKLAS GODEN, who was born at Leksand in Dalarne and resided at Gardsta in Marby. There was a magnificent wedding at Gardsta that lasted for three days. Guests came to the wedding from Hammerdal, Leksand, an Dodbyn in Arboga. Boat after boat arrived with fellow officers from the Froso Camp. Among the guests was Magistrate MONTELIUS who seems to have been a friend of the family. Apparently BLOM in Hammerdal passed away for the widow had to move out of the parsonage and buy a home from Granbom in Upper Kjosta to which she and her daughters moved in 1808(?).

The happy life at Garsta soon came to an end. War with Norway was brewing and the young Lieutenant was called into active service and died suddenly on the road to Hof in 1808 during war preparations. He was buried near the wall of Alsen's old Church. It was reported that the artillery soldiers fired so many salutes that the plaster fell from the wall. In their short period of married life the couple had two daughters, ANNA KRISTINA and LOVISA KATARINA. Now that GODEN was dead, his place was filled by successors both in the service and in the home. The widow GODEN moved with her daughters to Kjosta and here the girls grew up. It seems that magistrate MONTELIUS continued his associations with the BLOM-GODEN family, and one fine day came a surprise. The magistrate married the widow, KATARINA KRISTIN GODEN nee BLOM. It now appears that MONTELIUS moved to Sodergard in Brunflo. The couple became the parents of two sons, KARL JOHAN VIKTOR, born in Kjosta, and NILS DANIEL born in Sodergard.

During the time when the MONTELIUS family resided at Sodergard, the magistrate was confronted with his most difficult case to adjudicate. This was the case of the Lapps who had murdered the new settler Jonas Ahrberg and his wife, who had recently moved from Are to build a new home in Sjougden in Frostvik. These Lapps had not only kidnapped and killed the new settler and his wife, they had also allowed the two children and all the cattle to starve to death. The court met in Loras, Hammerdal. One may assume that at this time MONTELIUS was in the prime of his life's judicial powers. When the spokesman for the Lapps stepped forth, wearing his best clothes, MONTELIUS said to him: "You have been charged with the murder of the new settler, Ahrberg." The Lapp denied that he had committed the murder, and the rest of the Lapps supported him and also plead innocence. The case was postponed, and the accused were held in custody in an Inn. There was a long time between sessions of the assiges in those days. Some say that they once again appealed before the court and plead innocence of the crime. Others say that he kept them locked up in a tavern on his property in Kjosta, but this has not been proven. Not until the third session of the court had the Lapps been sufficiently softened up to admit their guilt. They were then executed at Harbacken in Strom.

We have mentioned that MONTELIUS was thrifty and the contemporaries say that it was true about his wife as well. At any rate, MONELIUS came to the conclusion that it was more economical for him to live on the farm he had acquired through the marriage and purchase. In 1813 he bought of an aged widow the farm contiguous to Kjosta which he had acquired by marriage. He joined the undeveloped farm to kjosta which had good buildings. Then he moved from Sodergard and placed on it the renter from Hof in Alsen and at the same time bought a gard in Hof for his son-in-law, the son of a clergyman from Lycksele, P.K. ALENIUS. The man whom he placed on Sodergard was to deliver a certain amount of food provisions to Kjosta. We can assume that everything progressed in an orderly fashion with the magistrate and that he was very busy with all his official duties and meetings of the assizes.

We know that he was a very active man through the evidence of a large number of official documents that remain, but he was such a poor penman that they are not easy to read. The only part that is clear and plainly legible is his signature. His court secretary, Bergstedt, was a better penman.

In addition to his duties as magistrate, he of course had to manage his farms and laborers. He was a very good agriculturist and raised much grain; fine grain was as good as cash money. The old-timers tell how on cold nights when the crops were in danger of frost, one could generally find the magistrate and his sons busily engaged in working to save the crops. He was also said to be quite enterprising in trying out new and progressive methods in farming. some of the old people have related that MONTELIUS and his wife did not get along too well with each other, and they occasionally lived in separate quarters. Meanwhile the sons grew to manhood. KARL attended the Froso School, but did not seem to make any progress; and it was impossible to get any booklearning in NILS DANIEL's head.

During these days, the people began to realize that this magistrate had money, and when they were in need of a loan there was naturally a busy traffic to the officials home to see if they could borrow some cash from him. In a word, his fortune grew mainly from the high rates of interest that he collected. 

Then in the year 1837 his wife KATARINA KRISTINA died. The will was probated and it was found that she had left a rather large estate. Perhaps the husband had wielded an inordinately heavy hand in the listing of his wife's effects. At any rate, one fine days his step-son-in-law, P.K. ALENIUS in Hof and surveyor BLOM of Hammerdal brought suit against him for having falsified the inventory document for the estate. This was indeed a severe blow for the judge who, himself, was supposed to act as judge in the case. He did attempt to pass the judgment on the case, but it appears that he was given a temporary suspension as magistrate, and so was also his nephew, the Bailiff Aulin. In his place the vice-Bailiff Degerman was appointed to officiate in the probate. In a fretful letter of defense, the magistrate seems to have been extremely indignant as he wrote his defense, for the handwriting shows that his hand trembled strongly. The vice-Baliff called him the "brandy- baliff" from Vesterbotten. The case was a notorious event. The step-daughters and their husbands appeared in court. Mention was made of some minor items, for example a certain fish net. The magistrate insisted that he had brought with him this net from Sodergard. Neighbors and workmen testified that the article had been moved from Gardsta to Kjosta. It seems that there were instances of family disputes at Kjosta before the case was brought to court, but apparently the magistrate somehow managed to clear himself of the charges brought against him, and eventually an agreement was reached.

Then several years elapsed. The magistrate was reinstated in office, and his fortune increased. He now bought two farms in Valne township in Alsen, and here, too, he started improvements to obtain larger harvests, but he never resided in Valne. He continued to live as before in Kjosta. According to a will drawn up, his son NILS DANIEL was to inherit the two farms in Valne, while the other son KARL JOHAN VIKTOR was to get the farms in Kjosta where the father was to receive a pension and live in the main house.

Everything seemed to run smoothly for some time, and the only thing that worried the magistrate was the great general redivision of the lands. But then one day, evidently in 1847, his son NILS DANIEL, the future master farmer of Valne, passed away at the early age of 34. This blow combined with the general division, as well as the frequent travels to court sessions, seriously affected the magistrate's health, and on a day in the Autumn of 1848 the rumor spread that he had become very ill during the night. He had several matters that he wanted to arrange, so he called in surveyor Kohl, the home owner Henrik Gunnarson in Outer Kjosta and his brother, Olof Wiklund, also of Outer Kjosta, Mats Olofsson of Trang, and, of course, his secretary Bergstedt. There were some decisions he wanted to execute regarding his sole heir, his son KARL, whom he did not seem to think too highly of. The father regarded him as a careful but not very capable manager. The magistrate had acted as manager for both his sons even after they had come of age. It seems that neither was very well endowed when it came to intelligence.

Now the magistrate on his deathbed made arrangement to have Captain L. Aspgren of Offne in Mattmar to act as administrator.

The magistrate did not live very long, and we must assume that he was given a fine burial attended by the important people of the community such as the officers from Aberg and Vangen, the wealthy Bang folks and the rich farmers of the neighborhood--as well as farmers from Kjosta and the Innkeeper in Borge (Berge?) with whom he had so many dealings. He was buried in Alsen churchyard where the old bell tower stood. A large slab of stone marks the resting place of this "faithful servant of the King," as the inscription on it reads.

There are no personal comments about the magistrate or his wife recorded in the ministerial books of the Church. It seems that the vicar Soderberg discontinued the practice of writing these personal notations, which were usually recorded in relation to the deceased. From the Church records we find only one mention of his name, and that was in connection with the famous probate proceedings. The magistrate had received a good religious education, but he rarely attended church services and even more rarely communion.

In a bit of writing to the county government, or it may have been to the register of households he states: "The undersigned, age 36, magistrate for Jamtland's northern circuit, uses tobacco, drinks whiskey, has one dog and one gold watch--also plays cards."

His housekeeper in his old age was SOFIA ALENIUS, a daughter of the pastor of Lycksele and a sister (aunt?) of his son-in-law, P.K. ALENIUS. She continued to serve as the housekeeper for his son KARL until her marriage to the foreman of the farm's workmen, PER JONSSON. They rented lodgings in Berge, and were childless.

Now the administrator and the men he had called in had to sell the two houses that the deceased, NILS DANIEL MONTELIUS, owned in Valne, and also divide the property of his estate. There did not seem to be much personal property to divide. The farms were sold to Lars Larsson in Tullus who was a son of the rich farmer, Lars Olsson in Tullus. Lars Larsson died, and the farm was sold to Olof Olofsson from Tomte in Rodon and later passed to the son Nils Olsson in Valne. It is now owned by the agronomist Olle Lindstrom.

To get back to the probate of the magistrates estate, this was to be executed by the man summoned by the deceased, together with the administrator of the only heir. The clerk who acted as secretary was Bergstrand, who was unmarried. He was born in Lovanger parish in Angermanland and died in Alsen.

The inventory of the estate was an event without precedent in the community! There were cattle, gold, silver, clothing (including a topcoat of wolfskin), household articles, furniture, glassware, porcelain of all kinds, and books. The list of articles is so long that it makes one wonder when all this furniture and implements were even utilized, and how the house managed to acquire all these things. They must have conducted a household on magnificent scale. When this work of listing the articles is finished, the job of collecting begins. It appears that they called in the parish secretary to help them. He was Johan Olofsson in Viken. There are numerous large and small loans and counterbills from Kjosta, and notes from at least ten parishes--and even from Ostersund where several dealers and services appear to be in debt to the deceased estate. Among the names mentioned are the tanner Dedering, Lieutenant Freidenfeldt, Magistrate Granbom, lumberman Forsell, Vaplan and Storsjo Steamboat Company. For all of these, the interest had to be computed. And after this came another task. There were claims against people in at least ten different parishes all the way up to Strom. All the claims had to be summed up and the interest on each one calculated. 

The cash deposited in the strongbox in September of 1848 amounted to 301 riksdaller. The debts of the estate were few and not very large. There were only ten claims or bills for small amounts, among which were 197 riksdaler for funeral expenses of the son, NILS DANIEL and 266 riksdaler for the magistrate's funeral expenses.

There was a bill for 68 riksdaler from doctor Afgelius and a few riksdaler to servants. The sum total of the estate's valuation according to the inventory was 73,012 riksdaler.

Certifying that everything had been correctly appraised, Erik Nilsson in slatte, Berg (Berge?) as a businessman and Jon Jonsson of Nordbyn signed the affidavit.

There is another entry of interest,--76 riksdaler to the poor, and receipt of which is signed by the officer in charge of the account for the indigent, Olof Johansson in Viken.

Now we shall leave all this for a moment and offer our congratulations to the surviving heir, the son KARL, whose good fortune it was to receive this sizable fortune. He was a big broadshouldered powerful man, somewhat stooped. When he walked he waved his arms, and he frequently wrung his hands, and was somewhat awkward in his movements. At other times he could appear as a sophisticated cosmopolitan. He had, after all, gained an excellent education in Froso School. He wrote a beautiful hand and he read newspapers. But in spite of all this he spent most of his life under the authority of a guardian. According to the testimony of the older people, he was a somewhat stubborn nonconformist.

He was a bachelor and now he was to be married off properly to one of his class in society. It was his sisters who were more concerned about this that he himself was. A maiden in Rodon, Miss Tideman, had been selected as a possible mate for him, but she maintained that there be no love in this union. Then one day a Miss FJELLSTROM came to Alsen. She was a member of a family of clergy and was going to teach classes in spinning according to the Mager Method and had been sent out by the Society for Household Economy. She was to live with the ALENIUS family in Hoo, for after all she belonged to the upper class society. The first conversations broached the idea that perhaps she was the one who might become Lady MONTELIUS, but she merrily laughed off such a thought. However, she was not too well off financially and began to think about her future prospects. The ALENIUS family helped her in such a discussion and suggested that it might not be a bad idea if she were to become Mrs. MONTELIUS. KALLE MONTELIUS was, indeed, as money was reckoned at the time a real plutocrat. Well, matters developed quite favorably with the result that one fine day it became known that there would be an elaborate wedding festival in the MONTELIUS home. The great hall in that house became the scene of the marriage ceremony.



Parents: Clergyman/Deacon Daniel MONTELIUS and Johanna Charlotta CHANTANIUS.

Children were: Nils Daniel MONTELIUS, Karl Johan Viktor MONTELIUS .

Karl Johan Viktor MONTELIUS⁽¹⁾ was born in 1816 in Baggböle. He died in 1893 in Baggböle. KARL JOHAN VICTOR MONTELIUS--(nickname "Kalle")--eldest son of Johan--a real plutocrat, highly educated--big, broadshouldered, powerful and somewhat awkward in his movements--but at times a sophisticated cosmopolitan.

Being the eldest son, there is a discrepancy in the year of his birth. Parents: Magistrate Johan MONTELIUS and Katrina Kristina BLOM.

Children were: Hilma MONTELIUS , Alma MONTELIUS, Ernfrid MONTELIUS , Arvid MONTELIUS.

Katarina Margreta MONTELIUS was born ? in Baggböle. She died ? in Baggböle. Parents: Clergyman/Deacon Daniel MONTELIUS and Johanna Charlotta CHANTANIUS.

Nils Daniel MONTELIUS⁽¹⁾ was born in 1813 in Baggböle. He died in 1847 in Baggböle. Nils Daniel Montelius had an illegitimate son named Nils Erik, by maiden Elin Eriksdotter Krauts. After many years fighting for his inheritance to the Montelius wealth, a royal decree from the King awarded him his rightful inheritance..

NILS DANIEL MONTELIUS--second son of Johan--"so stupid he couldn't learn the Lord's prayer" said associate pastor Nordenmark--fathered an illegitimate son (Nils Erik) by a maidservant--died at age 34. Parents: Magistrate Johan MONTELIUS and Katrina Kristina BLOM .

Children were: Nils Erik (Krauts) MONTELIUS.

Nils Erik (Krauts) MONTELIUS was born ? in Baggböle. He died ? in Baggböle. Nils Erik is the illegitimate son of Nils Daniel Montelius and maiden Elin Eriksdotter Krauts. After many years fighting for his inheritance to the Montelius wealth, a royal decree from the King awarded him his rightful inheritance.

a. NILS ERIK -- illegitimate son of Nils Daniel Montelius--his mother's father
brought suit against the wealthy Montelius family--after a lengthy struggle that spanned several years a royal decree from the King granted one-half of the Montelius wealth (plus the right to assume the name) was granted--but he squandered it all away. John Oscar Alenius was appointed an administrator of Nils Erik until he became of age.



Parents: Nils Daniel MONTELIUS and Elin Eriksdotter KRAUTS.

MONTGOMERY was born about 1817. She died in 1847.

She was married to Park Walton I DEFRANCE about 1845 in Vicksburg, MS. Children were: William James Montgomery I DEFRANCE.

Florence Elizabeth MONTGOMERY was born on DEC 1 1883 in Iowa Falls, Franklin Co., IA. She died on MAY 2 1966 in Minneapolis, MN.

She was married to Cyrus Hanley DEFRANCE on FEB 26 1902 in Webster City, IA. Children were: Eva Estaleen DEFRANCE, Vella Marie DEFRANCE, Loren Ernest DEFRANCE.

Martha MONTGOMERY was born in 1806. She died in 1885. MARTHA APPLIED FOR AND RECEIVED A GOVT. PENSION IN 1880.

She was married to Allison I DEFRANCE on SEP 30 1824. Children were: Sarah Fulton DEFRANCE, James Montgomery DEFRANCE , John Boone DEFRANCE, Eliza E. DEFRANCE, William DEFRANCE, Isabelle DEFRANCE, Allison Howell II DEFRANCE , Mary Jane DEFRANCE, Martha Ann DEFRANCE, Archie M. DEFRANCE, Albino DEFRANCE, Child DEFRANCE.

Brian Keith MONZER was born about 1964. Parents: Eugene MONZER and CHARLENE.

He was married to Kellie Jo HAYNES on APR 9 1988 in Des Moines, Polk Co., IA.

Eugene MONZER was born about 1940.

He was married to CHARLENE about 1961. Children were: Brian Keith MONZER.

Minerva J. MOONEY was born about 1839. She died on OCT 6 1908 in Neligh, NE.

She was married to James Madison COLEMAN on OCT 22 1861 in Meth. Ch. in Marion, IA. Children were: Alvin O. COLEMAN, George Lewis COLEMAN, Clara Belle COLEMAN, Lillian Dell COLEMAN, Gracie E. COLEMAN.

Abigail MOORE was born on JUN 16 1639. She died UNKNOWN. Parents: John MOORE and Abigail.

She was married to Thomas I BISSELL on OCT 11 1655. Children were: Thomas II BISSELL, Joseph BISSELL, Elizabeth BISSELL, Isaac BISSEL.

Abigail MOORE was born on MAY 4 1699. She died UNKNOWN. Parents: John MOORE and Abigail STRONG.

Alexia Georgina Marie MOORE was born on APR 29 1993 in Tucson, Pima Co., AZ. Parents: Paul Arnold MOORE and Veronica LOPEZ.

Alvin Richard MOORE was born on AUG 16 1915. He died on NOV 9 1992. Parents: William Sherman MOORE and Anna Marie SCHAFER.

He was married to Roberta J. BLOCK on JUN 14 1947. Children were: Charles William MOORE.

He was married to Roberta BLOCK on JUN 14 1947. Children were: Charles William MOORE .

Andrea Lynn MOORE was born on AUG 27 1960 in Salina, Saline Co., KS. Parents: Robert Lee MOORE and Karen Kay KERR.

Andrew Dean MOORE was born on APR 26 1993. Parents: Matthew Melvin MOORE and Justine HOFFMAN. Parents: Matthew Melvin MOORE and Justine HOFMAN.

Ann MOORE was born on OCT 25 1745. She died UNKNOWN. Parents: Samuel Goffe MOORE and Elizabeth ELMER.

She was married to Benjamin ALLEN about 1765.

Anne MOORE was born on DEC 22 1707. She died UNKNOWN. Parents: Samuel MOORE and Damaris STRONG.

Barbara Sue MOORE was born on OCT 17 1965. Parents: Ray Boyenga MOORE and Joan Arlene REIVERTS.

She was married to Dwayne JUNKER on JUL 6 1985. Children were: Jeremiah Dwayne JUNKER, Jordan Andrew JUNKER, Joshua Ray JUNKER.

Bathsheba MOORE was born on JUL 30 1707. She died on JAN 11 1722/23. Parents: John MOORE and Abigail STRONG.

Bonnie Lou MOORE was born on MAR 14 1944. Parents: Curtis Allen MOORE and Valma Josephine DESHLE. Parents: Curtis Allen MOORE and Velma DESCHLER.

She was married to Larry LAUDNER on OCT 18 1964.

She was married to Kenneth D. DEVRIES on AUG 11 1969. Children were: Randy Dean DEVRIES , Rhonda Marie DEVRIES, Keith Allen DEVRIES.

Carolyn Ann MOORE was born on OCT 20 1941. Parents: Sherman Perry MOORE and Leola Mae JOHNSON.

She was married to James Robert CRANDALL on AUG 10 1963. Children were: JoeAnn Mae CRANDALL, Zoe Anne Mae CRANDALL, Stacy William CRANDALL .

Charles William MOORE was born on JUL 25 1954. Parents: Alvin Richard MOORE and Roberta J. BLOCK. Parents: Alvin Richard MOORE and Roberta BLOCK.

Christine MOORE was born on OCT 6 1964. Parents: Kenneth Ralph MOORE and Carolyn TRELOAR.

Curtis Allen MOORE was born on JAN 31 1902. Parents: Perry Allen MOORE and Linnie Francis RICHARDS .

He was married to Valma Josephine DESHLE on DEC 24 1928 in Charles City, IA. Children were: Lois Arnelda MOORE, Robert Allen MOORE, Bonnie Lou MOORE.

He was married to Velma DESCHLER on DEC 24 1928. Children were: Bonnie Lou MOORE , Robert Allen MOORE, Lois Arnelda MOORE.

Damaris MOORE was born on DEC 28 1703. She died UNKNOWN. Parents: Samuel MOORE and Damaris STRONG.

David Allen MOORE was born on JUL 24 1957 in Hampton, Franklin Co, IA. Parents: Robert Allen MOORE and Nancy Marie PRILIPP.

Children were: James Allen MOORE.

He was married to Periann Julia HOWARD on JAN 21 1984. Children were: James Allen MOORE .

David Gene MOORE was born on SEP 6 1959. He died on OCT 1 1977. Parents: Edwin William MOORE and Marilyn J..

David H. MOORE was born on SEP 4 1960. Parents: Lowell Harvey MOORE and Helen Jean SABLE.

Deborah Lynn Swain MOORE was born on APR 11 1953. Parents: Edwin William MOORE and Marilyn J. SWAIN. Parents: Edwin William MOORE and Marilyn J.. Parents: SWAIN and Marilyn J..

She was married to Dean SLATE in JUL 1972. Children were: Jessica Lynn SLATE .

She was married to Gary KEE on JUL 20 1980. Children were: Vanessa Lynn KEE, Brett David KEE.

Debra Darlene MOORE was born on FEB 14 1950. Parents: Lyle Dean MOORE and Jeanette DAVIS.

She was married to James D. NELSON on AUG 7 1971. Children were: Sara Dalene NELSON.

Donald Raymond MOORE was born on SEP 26 1914. He died on OCT 30 1931. Parents: Ray Perry MOORE and Della Bay RIES.

Donna Jean MOORE was born on JUL 24 1940. She died on SEP 19 1992. Parents: Lowell Herbert MOORE and Eva Bell DESHLER.

She was married to Jerry D. IVERSON on JAN 8 1967.

Dorothy Alice MOORE was born on NOV 12 1915. Parents: Ray Perry MOORE and Della Bay RIES.

She was married to Emil UBBEN on NOV 30 1936. Children were: Darlene Matilda UBBEN, Kenneth Linn UBBEN, Donald Lavern UBBEN.

Douglas William MOORE was born on JUL 29 1955. Parents: Loren Eugene MOORE and Jean ECKARD.

Duane Harold MOORE was born on DEC 21 1933. Parents: Ralph Harvey MOORE and Marvel Ardis BATES.

He was married to Margery WYBORNEY on SEP 7 1952. Children were: Monte Duaine MOORE, Timothy MOORE.

Ebenezer MOORE was born on MAY 14 1697. He died UNKNOWN. Parents: John MOORE and Abigail STRONG.

Edwin William MOORE was born on FEB 19 1936. Parents: William Sherman MOORE and Anna Marie SCHAFER .

He was married to Marilyn J. SWAIN on SEP 27 1958. Children were: Deborah Lynn Swain MOORE, Suzanne Swain MOORE.

He was married to Marilyn J. on SEP 28 1958. Children were: Deborah Lynn Swain MOORE, Suzanne Swain MOORE, David Gene MOORE.

Eli MOORE was born on OCT 14 1753. He died UNKNOWN. Parents: Samuel Goffe MOORE and Elizabeth ELMER.

He was married to Anne WELLS about 1773.

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