1. | Hulda Theolina Erickson was born on 6 Oct 1875 in Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska; died on 17 Apr 1936 in Muscatine, Iowa; was buried in Grace Lutheran Cemetery, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska. Other Events and Attributes:
- Baptism: 17 Oct 1875, Grace Lutheran Church, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska
- 1880 Federal Census: 15 Jun 1880, Kearney City, Buffalo County, Nebraska
- Confirmation: 13 Apr 1890, Grace Lutheran Church, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska
- Occupation: 1900, Servant
- 1900 Federal Census: 13 Jun 1900, Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska
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3 MISSIONARY PIONEERS AND SOME WHO HAVE FOLLOWED THEM
OTHERS WHO HAVE GONE TO CHINA
IN MEMORIAM
In the footsteps of Dr. Edwins, the pioneer to China, many other Augustana men and women have gone out to assist int he ingathering of the great harvest. Each one has been faithful and diligent with his God-given talents and each one would desrve a chapter. Space does not permit us here to say much about each one, but we desire to make a brief statement about those who have finished their course. Several of them fell in the midst of the battle for the Lord as soldiers on the front lilines of the Church, some of them while very young, all of them while yet it would seem that years of useful service might lie ahead. But God knows what is best for His servants and for His Church. He gathers home His laborers, but His work moves on.
MRS. ALFRED TRUED
Mrs. Theolina Trued spent nineteen years in the China service as the wife of Dr. Alfred Trued. She also took an active part in the missionary work.
She was born in Swedeburg, Nebraska, October 6, 1875. Her early years were spent in this community, where she studied music and served for a number of years as organist and choir director of the local Lutheran church.
In 1908 she was married to Pastor Alfred Trued, who had accepted a call to China, the first pastor to go out to assist Pastor Edwins in Honan. They arrived in Honan Thanksgiving Day, 1908.
"She had a great ambition for work and loved especially the work amoung the women. The first station assigned to the Trueds was Juchow. She accompanied her husband to that place, where they made their home in a big Chinese room, divided intoller one by means of bamboo partitions covered with paper. Later on property was purchased and a home was built." (Thirty Years in China, p. 186).
She came home to America in 1927 due to the political disturbance in China. Shortly afterwards her husband also returned and later accepted a call to Stromsburg, Nebraska. After a year of gradually failing health she died April 17, 1936. Shes survived by her husband and two children, Eleonora and Constantine.
Bibliography: Thirty Years in China, pp. 186-187. S. HJALMAR SWANSON Author
WAHOO DEMOCRAT - APRIL 23, 1936
SERVICES HELD FOR MRS. ALFRED TRUED
Mrs. Alfred Trued passed away at a hospital in Muscatine, Iowa in Friday at the age of 60 years. The family lived in Ceresco several years ago. She is survived by her husband, Rev. Alfred Trued, one daughter, Elanor, and a son, Constantine,l of Stromsburg.
Funeral services were held at the Lutheran church north of Ceresco, Monday afternoon. In charge the Rev. Gulleen of Fremont. Internment was in the Lutheran cemetery.
Hulda married Rev. Dr. Alfred Edward Trued on 28 Sep 1908 in Grace Lutheran Church, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska by Rev. Arthur H. Peterson.. Alfred (son of Nils Trued and Johanna Mathilda Walin) was born on 9 Mar 1875 in Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska; died on 12 Jul 1946 in the Immanuel Home for the Aged, Omaha, Nebraska; was buried on 15 Jul 1946 in Grace Lutheran Cemetery, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Eleonora Margareta Trued was born on 12 Nov 1911 in Hs; died on 5 Sep 1966; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, McPherson County, Kansas.
- 3. Rev. Rev. Emmaneul Constantine Trued was born on 11 Feb 1914 in Kiahsin, China; died on 1 Apr 1990 in Collier County, Florida; was buried in Grace Lutheran Church, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska.
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