Smithburg, Guss A.

SMITHBURG, JOHNSON, ANDERSON

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 9/23/2006 at 21:41:33

“Fulton’s History of Jefferson County, Iowa,” Pub. 1912, Vol. 2, p. 54.

GUSS A. SMITHBURG born in Sweden Aug. 5 1842..... His father, Peter SMITHBURG was drowned in Brush Creek, the mill-race on which Ross’s sawmill was situated. Left his widowed wife alone with six children, strangers in a strange land..... Her death occurred in 1869 at age 68. Guss A. married Christina ANDERSON Dec. 27, 1868, daughter of Andrew M. and C. Louisa (JOHNSON) ANDERSON, natives of Sweden.....

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