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