Other Events and Attributes:

• 1900 Federal Census: 9 Jun 1900, Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska
• Occupation: 1910, Farmer
• 1910 Federal Census: 11 May 1910, Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska. Listed as Clarence.
• 1920 Federal Census: 12 Jan 1920, Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa
• 1930 Federal Census: 8 Apr 1930, Denver City, Denver County, Colorado

Notes:

SAUNDERS COUNTY WW1 HONOR ROLL 1917-1918-1919

CLARENCE TRUED

Entered the service April 19, 1917, and served as assistant band master with the 123rd F. A., 33rd Division. He is the son of Mrs. Matilda Trued of Ceresco, Neb.

THE TRUED FAMILY IN THE U.S.A.

SAMUEL CLARENCE: Grew up on farm in Nebr., where he planted, cultivated, shucked and unloaded corn, doing all the other dirty work around the place meanwhile, then milked a million cows. That

Samuel married Ruth Erickson on 28 Jun 1919. Ruth (daughter of Magnus Erickson and Betsy Diedrick) was born on 15 Jan 1896 in Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska; died on 26 May 2005 in Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon; was buried on 4 Jun 2005 in Roseburg National Cemetery, Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert Ducret Trued was born on 1 Apr 1920 in Iowa; died on 31 Jan 1981 in Douglas County, Oregon; was buried on 3 Feb 1981 in Roseburg National Cemetery, Section B Row 29 Site 3, Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1868
• Occupation: 1880, Tailor
• 1880 Federal Census: 19 Jun 1880, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska
• 1900 Federal Census: 9 Jun 1900, Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska

Notes:

THE TRUED FAMILY IN THE U.S.A.

NILS TRUED AND HIS WIFE JOHANNA MATHILDA

NILS TRUED: Second child of Trued and Elsie Nilsson. Born Nov. 27, 1844, he came from Attarp, Kristianstads Lan, Sweden. First of family to arrive in America in the early spring of 1868, he was followed in succession by three sisters, one brother and his parents.
He went directly to Hastings, Minnesota, but also lived at Red Wing. Helped construct RR between Chicago and Minneapolis. Worked also as a farm-hand and did some tailoring, a trade he had apprenticed in Sweden. In Sweden he attended grade and high (trade) school, and spent three years in the Swedish army. He ha gray-blue eyes, was rugged, but of medium build.
In 1869 he set out for the open prairies of Nebraska, about a year after the state had been admitted to the Union. He crossed the Missouri River below Omaha on the Plattsmouth ferry and in the company of Betsy, Nellie and Swan Dedrick,-whom he h had escorted from Red Wing,-proceeded to the little village of Lancaster (Lincoln). He immediately filed on a homestead 18 miles north of town and the next spring, with the help of Martin (Magnus) Erickson, who had just arrived with brother John from Sweden, he built a dugout-soddie on a southern hillside.
Coarse weeds and slough grass used on roof and exposed walls and all cracks plastered with clay and ashes. Dimensions: 16

Nils married Johanna Mathilda Walin on 24 Feb 1872 in Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska. Johanna (daughter of Anders (Persson) Walin and Charlotta (Adamsdotter) Adamson) was born on 14 Mar 1854 in Sweden; died on 16 Oct 1929; was buried in Grace Lutheran Cemetery, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1868
• Confirmation: 1874, Grace Lutheran Church, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska
• 1880 Federal Census: 19 Jun 1880, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska
• 1900 Federal Census: 9 Jun 1900, Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska
• 1910 Federal Census: 11 May 1910, Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska
• 1920 Federal Census: 9 Jan 1920, Ceresco Village, Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska

Notes:

THE TRUED FAMILY IN THE U.S.A.

TRUED NILSSON AND WIFE ELSA

TRUED NILSSON: Born in 1819, died 1890. He was born in Kristianstads lan, Sweden and came to America several years after the arrival of his son, Nil Trued, who arrived in the early spring of 1868. He was a man of medium stature, blue eyes, dark brown hair and of gentle manner.
He inherited considerable estate from his father and grandfather, - the latter being considered one of the wealthiest men in Sweden in his time, - but through faulty judgment, promiscuous underwriting of notes, etc., he and his immediate family lost the fortune, and almost penniless, he came to America to live with his son Nils until his death.
His grandfather possessed a Bible which was brought by the family to America, (now in the writer

Trued married ElsaSweden. was born on 12 Jun 1814 in Sweden; died in Apr 1891 in Ceresco, Saunders County, Nebraska; was buried in Grace Lutheran Cemetery, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1868
• Occupation: Between 1880 and 1910, Farmer
• 1880 Federal Census: 19 Jun 1880, Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska. Recorded as Andrew Walin.
• 1900 Federal Census: 5 Jun 1900, Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska
• 1910 Federal Census: 11 May 1910, Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska. Living with Klaes (Claus) and Anna.
• 1920 Federal Census: 9 Jan 1920, Ceresco Village, Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska. Living with Johanna Mathilda's family.

Notes:

Anders homesteaded on an acreage northwest of Ceresco. Nils Trued homesteaded nearby. He was completely "taken" with the young Mathilda. They were married when she was 17 at the home of her parents, Anders and Charlotta Walin. Life was very hard for her as Nils worked in Lincoln as a tailor. He often walked home to spend weekends with his family. Their first three children were born in a dugout. Mathilda often struggled with Indians, rattlers, prairie fires and the rigors of pioneer life.

Anders married Charlotta (Adamsdotter) Adamson. Charlotta was born on 27 Oct 1828 in Asaka Parish, V; died on 14 May 1905 in Ceresco, Saunders County, Nebraska; was buried in Grace Lutheran Cemetery, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 1880 Federal Census: 19 Jun 1880, Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska
• 1900 Federal Census: 5 Jun 1900, Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska