Noteworthy Names

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The following are lists of place-names and family names that are directly attached to the Ekburg legacy.

Place names:

La PLata Colorado – Ekburg hometown between 189? and 1950s
Durango, Colorado – Ekburg home between 1934 – 1975
Hesperus, Colorado – Ekburg home between 1950 and 1975
Denison, Texas – Beda (and sisters) home for some years after the turn of the century
Seattle, Washington – Home of Mary (Ekburg) Gillickson 1920s on.
Escalon, California – John Ekburg home, early 1900s on
Fort Dodge, Kansas – Beda Ekburg’s sister Augusta (Petersson) Soderberg home early 1900s on.
Fort Dodge, Iowa – Beda’s sister Hannah (Petersson)  lived, early 1900s on.
Malma and Eksjö, Sweden – The ancestral home of the Ekburg’s and Pettersson’s

Family Names:

Ekburg
Asher – Willian (Evelyn’s husband), Alan

Alexander – Arvid Alexander, husband of Elvira Ekburg
Roberts – Edwin’s wife Freda’s maiden name
Petersson – Last name of Beda, Augusta, Hannah and Albertina (sisters)
Soderberg – Augusta’s married name,Hilda, Helen (daughters)
Eastberg – Hannah (Beda’s sister) Otto (husband) Otto’s brothers Edwin and Earnest
Gullickson – Mary (Ekburg) sister
Kronland – Mae, Signe
Grahn – Mary (August’s first wife)
Johansson – August’s and Charles’s mother’s maiden name ? in Sweden