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A Christmas story written by Jack M. Holl, started in 1970 and finished in 2008. Jack M. Holl started writing this story for his children in 1970. At the time he was a historian at University of Washington, but he moved to Kansas not long after starting the story. For 38 years the story lay unfinished, before he eventually picked it up in 2008 and finished it that same year. Contains one unbound manuscript, written by Jack M. Holl, and titled Everheartz Bear: A Christmas Story.

Consists of a manuscript, "Privies, Charivaris, and Bedbugs, or Life on the Farm in the Olden Days,"covering James Bramblet’s life on his family farm in the 1920s and 1930s. This manuscript is divided into chapters discussing where he lived, when there was no running water, his one-room country school, work done on the farm, entertainment on the farm, animals on the farm, how inventions changed the farm, medical problems on the farm, and religion on the farm. There are also photocopied pictures of the family and their homes.

Detailed description of contents:

Maps of Sweden

Table of contents and introduction

Ancestor and pedigree charts beginning with Karl August Johansson born in 1863 in Jarfalla, Stockholm, Sweden, and ending with the seventh generation dating back to Pehr Jansson born in the 1600s

Church birth record for Eric Ersson born in 1778 in Jarfalla, Stockholm, Sweden

Church “household examination” and information about Anna Lotta’s parents and her brother

Church record of Jan Eric Ersson and family

Family information for Carl and Anna Stina Jansson in Sweden as well as their photograph

Death notices for Anna Stina Jansson and Carl Johan Jansson as well as a translation of the telegram that was sent to Carl Berlin in 1918 about their deaths

Copies of what is believed to be information from an auction following the death of Carl Johan Jansson

Family group record for Anna Maria ( Johansson) Larson and husband Gustav Erik Adolph Larson

Photos of Gustav and Anna Maria Larson and family

Newspaper article about “Mrs. Larson” (Anna Maria) Carl Johansson

Berlin family group record

Information about Carl Berlin in Minnesota (map of St. Johns township, auction for Carl Berlin’s horses, cattle, hogs, and machinery, death announcement for Carl Berlin and John Berlin)

Herman Berlin family information and pictures John Berlin family information

Death announcements for Clarence N. Larson and Hulda Larson

Larson family photos

David Rasmussen family photos

Johan Johansson (John Johnson) family group record and photographs

Death announcement for Ruth Muriel Anna Christine Johnson Langlow (daughter of John Johnson)

Erik Johansson family group record and photographs

Eleven pages of descendants of Pehr Jansson (oldest known ancestor)

More family photographs

Certificate of marriage for Alexis Theodore Johnson and Helen Loraine Carlson on 21 December 1946

Two family tree copies

A recollection of Jens Fredericksen Svinth about his life growing up in Denmark, becoming a Christian, immigrating to America and building a life here, and includes information about his children and their lives and families. It is a 14 page photocopy of a document typed in 1924 by Jens.

Consists of a document written by Johan Mattson in 1951 and translated between 1953-54 and is his autobiography and biographical sketch of his parents and birthplace.

Consists of a photocopy of the the certificate of chickenpox vaccination no. 27 for Johanne Jacobsdatter. It is in Norwegian with an English translation.

Contains a pamphlet commemorating the life of Johannes B. Wist, including a brief biography and poems by family and friends and is written in Norwegian.