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Oscar married Cecelia Swanson. Cecelia (daughter of Olaf Swanson and Johanna Trued) was born on 22 Feb 1885 in Original homestead, Swede Home, Polk County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CECELIA: Born Feb. 22, 1885 on Swede Home farm. She attended country schools until old enough to seek employment in the wealthy homes of Omaha. She married Oscar Olson, of Omaha, Nebr. At present she lives apart from her husband to serve as a companion to a wealthy elderly lady at 800 S. Maryland St., Glendale, Calif. They are members of the Lutheran church.

S. Clarence Trued, Author - Published 1953

Olaf married Johanna Trued on 17 Oct 1874. Johanna (daughter of Trued Nilsson and Elsa) was born on 30 Jul 1847 in Attarp, Kristianstads Lan, Sweden; died on 18 Dec 1926; was buried in Swede Home Cemetery, Polk County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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JOHANNA: (Jenny) Third child of Trued and Elsie Nilsson. Born July 30, 1847 in Attarp, Kristianstads Lan, Sweden.
She came to U. S. and to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1871, where she worked in the home of the late Dr. Allen R. Benton, first chancellor of the University of Nebraska. After three years in this home she became the bride of Olaf Swanson, who had arrived on the same sailing vessel from Sweden. They were married October 17, 1874, and moved immediately to a homestead in Polk County,-an inland village, because it had no Railroad. They were of the Lutheran faith and continued their membership in the Swede Home church for some time, but eventually left it and affiliated with the Swedish Methodist church in Stromsburg, where they remained until their death.
They were the parents of seven children, the oldest two being twins. The writer, as a youngster, remember Aunt

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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]