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East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 4, March, 1945] (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 4, March, 1945]

An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter with updates on circumstances in the lives of congregation members and the community; a description of a recent visit by missionaries who had been interned in China, including how they ate their East Sweden meal with chop sticks; details of area churches' stand-by plans for a V-E day prayer service to celebrate "news of the collapse of Germany"; and a sermon urging that, at the end of World War II, "we... be more than conquerors" and ensure that not only has the war been won but so also has the peace.
Date: March 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 5, April, 1945 (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 5, April, 1945

An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, updating both the congregation and the servicemen, including a warning to the congregation that the season for "peddlers" is approaching and a tip for getting rid of them; compares the "equipment" needed by a Christian soldier to that of a military soldier; and expresses hope that the meeting of the United Nations will lead to a creation of a permanent world organization that will "assure the peach (sic.) for all time future."
Date: April 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 6, May, 1945 (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 6, May, 1945

An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, reporting the names and locations of 19 East Sweden area servicemen; describing area V-E Day services; commentating on food shortages while also reporting that more than 1200 disobedient prisoners of war have been placed on bread and water for more than a week and "are put to work gardening to raise their own food in part"; providing a local calendar of events; and characterizing the Germans as self-styled "godless supermen" who forgot that the nations they attacked would "rise with vehemence in defense of their righteous principles" as should all Christians striving to have a "VS Day" (Victory in the Soul.)
Date: May 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 7, June, 1945 (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 7, June, 1945

An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, reporting changes in locations and duties of servicemen affected by V-E Day; giving details of social, community, and business happenings; providing the yield per acre of the Prisoner of War Camp's oat field and stating that many of the prisoners of war have been "evacuated" in labor groups of 15 to other places; reporting that the McCulloch County drive to collect used clothing for Europe has exceeded its quota; and expressing the idea that the best basis for a democratic government is "Protestant Christianity."
Date: June 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 8, July, 1945 (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 8, July, 1945

An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing military updates, including the news that Pvt. Billy Gallaway, a former prisoner of war in Germany, has returned home; commentating, after two women joined the thresher crew, that women "do take the places of men"; reporting on the extensive damage and one death resulting from "The Cyclone" of June 18; expressing gratitude that the constitution for world peace has been written, including a "provision for codification of International Law"; and warning of the dangers when a person deviates even slightly off the right moral path.
Date: July 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anston T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 9, August, 1945 (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 9, August, 1945

An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing more local news than military updates and revealing that area ministers are making plans for a V-J Day but that plans are "(C)ensored for the present"; announcing the impending closing of Curtis Field and the Prisoners of War Camp; and making a metaphorical comparison of different types of souls to different types of soils.
Date: August 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anston T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 1, December, 1944 (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 1, December, 1944

The first issue of "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, explaining the purpose of the Tidings to be communication with the troops of World War II; sending individual holiday greetings from the men of the congregation; and containing a sermon that encourages an "All Out" commitment of both the troops and the congregation to "restore God's peace on earth" and to "win the spiritual conflicts between right and wrong on the battlefields of the soul."
Date: December 1944
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 2, January, 1945] (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 2, January, 1945]

An issue of "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, containing a sermon about "resolutions and revolutions" and sending New Year's greetings to the servicemen from the church's "Mothers, Wives, Sisters etc." that were written while the church members were gathered at the "old meeting place - School House" to celebrate New Year's Eve.
Date: January 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 3, February, 1945] (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 3, February, 1945]

An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, encouraging the servicemen to participate with the congregation in reading a "Book of the Bible per month"; providing information about the "boys," including a humorous account of Sgt. Jack Gallaway's having been "placed over" the WACs in England's signal corps; reporting a special service held at the Prisoner of War camp; urging the servicemen to not give up their personal freedoms, especially to tobacco or alcohol; and providing locations of Presbyterian Church Hospitality Houses throughout the country.
Date: February 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 10, September 1945 (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 10, September 1945

An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, discussing World War II's V-J Day, the return of McCulloch County area troops, and a brief retrospective of the start of the war. The writer states that "it was also in the Providence of God" that the allies won the war, and goes further to say that it is faith, not military power, that brings world peace. The end of the newsletter provides thanks on behalf of the church for the end of the war.
Date: September 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 11, October, 1945 (open access)

East Sweden Tidings, Volume 1, Number 11, October, 1945

An issue of the "East Sweden Tidings", a monthly church newsletter, first discussing the return of local troops from the Asian front of World War II. The text calls attention to a letter from Chester G. Turn, a soldier stationed in China who expresses his disdain for the state of the nearby countries in Asia. Afterward, the newsletter lists local church events, such as a harvest, an ice cream party, and a birthday. The end of the newsletter recognizes October 7th, 1945 as "World Wide Communion Sunday", a global service for protestant churches.
Date: November 1945
Creator: Dewey, Anson T.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of the East Sweden Presbyterian Church]

Photograph of an exterior view of a church, a single-story building surrounded by small hedges. The windows are all shaped with an arc at the top. The church's entrance has a THC historical marker next to it.
Date: 2006
Creator: Hurd, Bobby
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
History of the Charles Conrad Johanson Family (open access)

History of the Charles Conrad Johanson Family

Photocopy of a handwritten document. "The History of the Charles Conrad Johanson Family," by Drusilla Johanson Miller traces the Johanson family's history back to Sweden in 1842 and the Andrew Johann Johnson family's Swedish history back to 1861 and then follows the journeys of both men as they emigrate from Sweden into Texas, eventually settling in the East Sweden, Fairview, and Brady Communities of McCulloch County, where their families merged with the 1906 marriage in Brady of their children Henry Charles Johanson and Annie Johnson, who were the parents of several children about whom biographical information is also given through 1976.
Date: 1976~
Creator: Miller, Drusilla Johanson
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Programme - 30th Anniversary - West Sweden Methodist Church - June 9-13, 1937 (open access)

Programme - 30th Anniversary - West Sweden Methodist Church - June 9-13, 1937

30th Anniversary "Programme" with schedule of celebratory events to be held 1937-06-09 through 1937-06-13 and also containing advertisements from 14 area businesses, some of which contain congratulatory messages.
Date: June 9, 1937
Creator: West Sweden Methodist Church
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of the Henry Charles Johanson Home, East Sweden, Texas]

Photograph of the Henry Charles Johanson Home in East Sweden in the early 1900s, a place that his mother and father had left to move into Brady because his mother did not like it.
Date: unknown
Creator: Jones, Diane
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Camilla Asplund to Cecil Nelin, September 6, 1988] (open access)

[Letter from Camilla Asplund to Cecil Nelin, September 6, 1988]

Letter from Camilla Asplund to Cecil Nelin discussing Carl J. Nelin's background and ancestry. Camilla is affiliated with the Swedish agency, SVAR.
Date: September 6, 1988
Creator: Asplund, Camilla
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of the Dahlberg Family, West Sweden, 1939]

Photograph of O. G. Dahlberg in 1939 with his four sons - David, Earl, Virgil, and Leonard - and grandson Lester in front of O. G.'s West Sweden Home (a stucco house with exterior arches).
Date: 1939
Creator: Dahlberg, David W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[C. J. Nelin's Declaration of Intention] (open access)

[C. J. Nelin's Declaration of Intention]

Photocopy of Carl John Nelin's declaration to become a citizen of the United States, his statement of birthplace to be Nenike, Sweden, and his renunciation of allegiance to a foreign power, in particular the King of Sweden, along with the district clerk's certification and official filing information.
Date: August 31, 1888
Creator: Marcott, Ruth Nelin
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Church Exterior]

Photograph of the exterior view of the finished church in 1911 (building no longer standing).
Date: 1911
Creator: Easterwood, Connie
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Church Session Minutes, February 1, 1903] (open access)

[Church Session Minutes, February 1, 1903]

Handwritten pages torn from a ledger book recording the Session Minutes of the East Sweden Presbyterian Church from 1892-04-01 through 1903-02-01.
Date: February 1, 1903
Creator: Hurd, Bobbye
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Ray Thornton to Mr. Hurd, September 20, 2006] (open access)

[Letter from Ray Thornton to Mr. Hurd, September 20, 2006]

Typed letter from Ray Thornton to Mr. Hurd, discussing their time spent together at the East Sweden Cemetery on Labor Day. At this event, Hurd shared what he knew with Thornton about the Hurd and Engdahl families of East Sweden.
Date: September 20, 2006
Creator: Thornton, Ray
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Ray Thornton's Business Card]

A business card for Ray Thornton, attached to a white cardboard divider. The card uses the Texas Flag as a design, replacing the star with a longhorn's head.
Date: unknown
Creator: Thornton, Ray
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Rosa C. Branning to Lenore, September 7, 1992] (open access)

[Letter from Rosa C. Branning to Lenore, September 7, 1992]

Letter from Rosa Commander Branning to Lenore (last name missing), reminiscing about Rosa's childhood in the West Sweden area during the 1920s and 1930s, especially the occasions she was at her Grandma Helge's home on Bear Creek, which Rosa describes with great detail, and both the good and the bad times she shared with her extensive family.
Date: September 7, 1992
Creator: Branning, Rosa C.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Request for Information about C. J. Nelin's Arrival in America] (open access)

[Request for Information about C. J. Nelin's Arrival in America]

Cecil R. Nelin's notes regarding information he needs concerning Carl J. Nelin's arrival from Sweden into the United States, stapled to an Order for Copies of Ship Passenger Arrival Records, mailed 1989-06-12 by Cecil Ray Nelin to the National Archives Trust Fund to confirm Carl J. Nelin's arrival in New York, N. Y., on 1881-05-28.
Date: June 1989
Creator: Marcott, Ruth Nelin
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History