Husband: Otto Lorens GUSTAFSSON LEEDBERG (1)
Birthdate: October 9, 1861 (1)
Birthplace: Karestad Village, Furuby Parish, Sweden (1)
Death date: November 27, 1925 (3)
Place of death: Brockton, Plymouth Co. Massachusetts (3)
Burial:
Father: Gustaf ERIKSSON (1)
Mother: Christina JONASDOTTER (1)
Other Spouses:

Marriage date: November 20, 1895 (2)
Marriage place: Boston, Suffolk Co. Massachusetts (2)

Wife: Anna Bertha JOHNSON (2)
Birthdate: September 1874 (7)
Birthplace: Unnaryd, Sweden (7)
Death date: June 30, 1936 (4)
Place of death: Brockton, Plymouth Co. Massachusetts (4)
Burial:
Father: Johannes LARSON (2)
Mother: Martha DANIELSDOTTER (5)
Other Spouses:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Amy "Aimee" Martha Adeline LEEDBERG (6)
Sex: F
Birthdate: April 10, 1897 (6)
Birthplace: Hurricane Island, Knox Co. Maine (6)
Death date: April 17, 1949
Place of death: unknown
Burial:
Marriage date: abt 1923
Marriage place: Brockton, Plymouth Co. Massachusetts
Spouse's name: George JULIAN

Child No. 2: Edith F. LEEDBERG
Sex: F
Birthdate: July 14, 1898
Birthplace: Rockport, Essex Co. Massachusetts
Death date: September 8, 1979
Place of death: New York
Burial:
Marriage date: June 11, 1921
Marriage place: Brockton, Plymouth Co. Massachusetts
Spouse's name: Harry LARSON

Child No. 3: Ester LEEDBERG
Sex: F
Birthdate: July 1899
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Death date: abt. 1966
Place of death: Florida
Burial:
Marriage date: unknown
Marriage place: unknown
Spouse's name: unknown

Child No. 4: Oscar "Ray" Richold LEEDBERG
Sex: M
Birthdate: February 6, 1901
Birthplace: Brockton, Plymouth Co. Massachusetts
Death date: January 3, 1985
Place of death: Brockton, Plymouth Co. Massachusetts
Burial:
Marriage date: abt 1935
Marriage place: Brockton, Plymouth Co. Massachusetts
Spouse's name: Theresa MAIELLANO

Child No. 5: Arthur LEEDBERG
Sex: M
Birthdate: May 19, 1903
Birthplace: Brockton, Plymouth Co. Massachusetts
Death date: February 1973
Place of death: unknown
Burial:
Marriage date: abt 1925
Marriage place: unknown
Spouse's name: Catherine STACKPOLE
 
 
Documentation:
(1) Old Church Records from Furuby parish, The House of Emigrants May 31, 1990
(2) Boston, Suffolk Co. Massachusetts Marriage Certificate Year 1895, Vol 453, Page 289, No. 5186
(3) Brockton, Plymouth Co. Massachusetts Death Certificate Reg # 69
(4) Brockton, Plymouth Co. Massachusetts Death Certificate Reg # 537
(5) Brockton, Plymouth Co. Massachusetts Death Certificate Reg # 305
(6) Hurricane Island, Knox Co. Maine Birth Certificate
(7) Rockport, Essex Co. Massachusetts 1900 Federal Census, ED 435, Page 21A

Notes:
* GUSTAFSSON was Otto’s last name in Sweden.
* He arrived December 24, 1889 on the S.S. Servia in New York City as Otto TIELL (this should be KJELL, it was the second name he adopted when he lived at the soldier’s cottage in Karestad, Sweden).
* Some time between when he arrived December 24, 1889 and when he married November 20, 1895 he changed his last name to LEEDBERG.
* When Otto and Anna married in Boston, Massachusetts, he was a resident of Hurricane Island, Knox Co. Maine and she was a resident of Rockland, Knox Co. Maine.