Oscar Walfrid Theodore Johnson

• Födelse, birth Ramkvilla kyrkoarkiv, Inflyttningslängder, SE/VALA/00299/B I/2 (1881-1894), bildid: C0022911_00013 https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0022911_00013#?c=&m=&s=&cv=...
• https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0022908_00171 Ramkvilla kyrkoarkiv, Husförhörslängder, SE/VALA/00299/A I/15 (1881-1886), bildid: C0022908_00171, sida 165
• https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0022909_00171 Ramkvilla kyrkoarkiv, Husförhörslängder, SE/VALA/00299/A I/16 (1886-1896), bildid: C0022909_00171, sida 167
• Flyttade till USA 26/2 1902. Immigrated to USA 1902.
• "Illinois, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1998", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGRF-W32D : 29 August 2019), Oscar Walfrid Johnson, 1908.

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• Död, death "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N382-J8T : 25 April 2022), Oscar Walfrid Theodore Johnson, 1917.

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• Ramkvilla är ny en småort i Vetlanda kommun. Ramkvilla kuuluu nykyisin Vetlandan kuntaan.

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'http://www.titanicnorden.com/folk/Johnson_Harold.html

Mrs Oscar W. Johnson (Alice ?Elisabeth Vilhelmina Backberg), 24, was born 24 January 1885.

Elisabeth was Married to editor Oscar Walter Johnson and lived with him and their children Harold Theodor and Eleanor Ileen in St. Charles, Illinois.

She and the children were returning from a visit to Oscar's parents home in Ramkvilla, Småland, Sweden. They travelled via Malmö (where they bought their tickets) and Copenhagen. They boarded the Titanic at Southampton.

Elisabeth and her children got into one of the last lifeboats on starboard side either lifeboat 13 or 15. A man, probably Gunnar Tenglin stepped out of the lifeboat to offer a place. After that he found there was still room left in the lifeboat and stepped back in.

In New York she was quartered on St. Lucas Hospital, where Red Cross gave them an unknown sum of money and a new trunk. 24 April she travelled via Chicago on her way home to St. Charles.

Her husband died in 1917, she then married Carl Peterson who died in 1964. Elisabeth Peterson (late Johnson, née Berg) died 19 December 1968.

Son of Johaness Johansson & Carolina Sofia Samuelsdotter.

Oscar's wife, Titanic survivor Alice née Backberg Johnson Amundsen Peterson is buried next to him. Her marker simply reads: Alice Johnson Peterson 1885 1968

The couple were wed on April 6th, 1907, Kane Co., IL. (Marriage record lists her as "Ella Bockburg"- a close approximation to her Finnish name). Alice's Find a Grave memorial contains a wealth of information on the couple & their children, her later marriages & her later children.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Sep 16 2019, 17:43:06 UTC