1892 Jan. 6:
Adolph Ostgren married Erika Albertina Johnson in Phelps Co., NE.
1892 Dec. 23:
Roy Ostgren was born in Center Twp. (Phelps),
NE.
1893 Oct. 3:
Harry Ostgren was born in Center Twp.
(Phelps), NE.
1897 Jul. 9:
Alice Ostgren was born in Center Twp.
(Phelps), NE.
1900 Jun. 8:
Federal Census: Center Twp.
(Phelps), Nebraska,
ED 145, S 5(11), L 6, Taken by Eric Larson.
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Harry, Roy and Alice Ostgren
(Taken about 1903)
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1910 Apr. 19:
Federal Census: Sheridan
(Phelps), Nebraska,
ED 175, S 2, L 22, Taken by Eric E. Larson.
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The Adolph Ostgren family.
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Residence of Adolph Ostgren 819 Blaine St., Holdrege,
NE
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1917 Jun. 5:
Harry Cletus Ostgren registered with the Selective
Service for possible service in World War I.
He worked on his own and his father’s farm, was
single, medium height, medium build, gray eyes and light brown hair. On this same date, Roy Lorenzo Ostgren registered.
He was a single farmer, slender build, blue eyes and black hair.
1918 Aug. 21:
Harry C. Ostgren married Anna C. Olson in
Loomis (Phelps), NE. (Continued on their
own family group chart)
1922 Mar. 23:
Erika Albertina Johnson Ostgren
died at 5:30 p.m. her home at 819
North Blaine St., Holdrege (Phelps), NE. Her death
certificate is on file with the Nebraska Bureau of Vital Statistics. It indicates that she died of miliary tuberculosis from which she had been suffering from
1 December 1921 until the time of her death.
From the Holdrege Citizen:
Erika Albertina Ostgren (nee Johnson) was born at Oneida,
Ill., Jan. 6, 1871 and came with her parents
to Phelps County at the age of seven years and has
resided here continuously up to the time of her death. She was united in
marriage to Adolph Ostgren Jan. 6th, 1892, and to
this union three children were born all of which survive. The end came very
peacefully the evening of March 23 at 5:30 when she fell asleep in the arms of
her Saviour.
As her weary spirit lifted anchor and embarked upon the sea of Eternity,
her loved ones quietly bade her farewell and she passed from the midst of those whom she had sojourned a few
years. She had at the time of death
attained unto the age of 52 years, 2 months and 27 days. She is mourned and
missed by the beloved husband, two sons, Roy and Harry, and one daughter Alice,
four sisters, three brothers, the aged mother and one grandchild and many
friends.
1922 Nov. 2:
Alice Ostgren married Gustav Hedin in Holdrege
(Phelps), NE.
1928 Jan. 19:
Adolph Ostgren died at 9 a.m. in Holdrege
(Phelps), NE. His death
certificate is on file with the Nebraska Bureau of Vital Statistics. It indicates that at the time of his death,
Adolph Ostgren was living at 819 Blaine Street in Holdrege, NE,
and was working for the Holdrege Equity Ex. (a grain elevator) as a
laborer. From the Holdrege Citizen:
John Adolph Ostgren, well
known Holcomb community farmer for the past eighteen years died at his home
Thursday, January 19, and following an illness of a little over a week. John
Adolph Ostgren was born in Sala,
Westmanland,
Sweden, June
20th, 1868. In the spring of 1882 he
came direct from Sweden to Phelps County
where he has resided up to the time of his death. On January 6th, 1892, he was
united in marriage to Miss Erika Albertina
Johnson. Three children were born, Roy,
Harry, and Alice. Mrs. Ostgren died March 23, 1922. His health had been failing
for some years, but has been able to attend to his work in which he was engaged
up until the 10th of January this year, when he had to give up his work and go
to bed, from which his tired spirit took its flight in the forenoon of January
19th, 1928, to be mourned by the above named children, one grand child, one
brother Fred of Holdrege and two sisters, Mrs. Fred Hanson also of Holdrege and
Mrs. Will Johnson of Bellingham, Washington.
Other relatives and many friends.
1928 Jun. 28:
Roy Ostgren married Mabel Bragg in Holdrege
(Phelps), NE.
From A History of
Phelps County, Nebraska, Phelps County Historical
Society, 1981, p. 436:
John Adolph Ostgren was
born in 1868 in Sweden and
immigrated to the USA. In 1892 he married Erika Johnson from Illinois. They began dry
land farming about ten miles north of Holdrege.
Their first home was a sod house.
Three children were born in that sod house--Roy, Harry and Alice. Adolph, as he was known, was a Sunday school
teacher for many years at the Holcomb Free Church and daughter Alice was church
pianist for nine years. Roy Ostgren married Mabel Bragg, daughter of Charlie
Bragg. He worked at the Loomis Farmers'
Elevator where he retired and moved to California,
passing away in 1968. They had no
children. Harry married Anna Olson,
daughter of the Eric Olsons. They farmed just east of the old Orphans'
Home until 1927 when they moved to Eaton,
Colorado. In Colorado Harry added the "e" to
his last name. To this marriage was born
one daughter, Dorothy. She married Floyd
Miller of Eaton, and they had two children, Mary Anne who is married to John
Ghumm, Jr. They have two sons, Brian and
Kevin and live in Erie, Colorado.
Donald Miller is a graduate student at the University of Mississippi. Floyd Miller, their father, died in
1968. Harry and Anna left Eaton moving
on to Greeley and Denver where Harry did gardening for many
prominent Denverites, later joining the Olinger Mortuaries.
After retiring, Harry and Anna moved to Brighton
to be near their widowed daughter. Anna
died in 1972 and Harry in 1980. Alice Ostgren married a young Swede, Gustav Hedin. Many Holdrege homes and public buildings have
cabinetwork done by Gust in the twenties and thirties. Later they moved to Illinois where Gust was employed in the
Cable Piano factory doing custom cabinetwork.
They retired to Fullerton,
California where Gust died in
1966. Alice returned to Holdrege residing in the
Methodist Home until she died in 1978.
They had no children. After
several crop failures of dry land farming Adolph and Erika moved to
Holdrege. Adolph worked for L. Brown in
the Grocery Store. Quoting an item in
the old Progress newspaper, "Dr. D.S. Palmer had an exciting experience
when he returned from a call at about 11 p.m.
He drove his car into the auto barn and presumably the burning lamps on
the auto ignited a tank containing 40 or 50 gallons of gasoline, which had been
left uncovered. The doctor hurriedly
leaped from the auto through the back and the car that was still in gear,
smashed into the tank breaking it and scattering the gasoline. Adolph Ostgren,
whose barn was near the doctor's, was just going out with a pail of water for
his cow and rushed over and with one swinging motion strangely enough,
extinguished the flames with the single pail of water. The car engine was still burning and the
doctor managed to pull the vehicle out of the barn and put out the blaze." Adolph Ostgren
was working at the Holdrege Equity when he passed away in 1928. Erika had passed away in 1923. (Dorothy Ostegren
Miller)
