Matilda Stowe (Storm)

Mathilda was engaged to her brother-in-law, Nils Eriksson Skold, in 1876. Nils was the brother of Johannes Eriksson Skold who married Mathilda's sister, Anna (the mother of Gena Shold Johnson). Mathilda was married in Sweden circa 1875 (which could have been 1876 as bans took three weeks). Nils Skold became known as Nels Stowe in the United States.

Mathilda's first child, John Oscar, was born in Sweden in 1878 and her second child, August, born in Sweden in 1880. A third unnamed child (female) was born circa 1882, location unknown). Her fourth child, Hilma Sofia, was born in Wisconsin on April 6, 1884.

Mathilda's parents and three of her sisters (Wilhemina, Justina, and Augusta) emigrated from Sweden November 4, 1881 (one source records October 28). She and Nels may have emigrated about the same time.