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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
[Historical Marker Dedication Program for the East Sweden Presbyterian Church, Texas] (open access)

[Historical Marker Dedication Program for the East Sweden Presbyterian Church, Texas]

Historical Marker Dedication Program for ceremonies held 1990-03-24 that recites the history of the church, including the fact that most of the East Sweden settlers in the 1880s were Lutherans but, because they could not find a Lutheran minister, they responded to a traveling Presbyterian minister, became Presbyterians, and then built the original East Sweden Presbyterian Church in 1891.
Date: March 24, 1990
Creator: Hurd, Bobbye
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
[August Young's Oath of Allegiance and Order Admitting to Citizenship, 1923] (open access)

[August Young's Oath of Allegiance and Order Admitting to Citizenship, 1923]

Photocopy of August Young's Oath of Allegiance presented to the McCulloch County District Court, in which he renounces allegiance to any foreign power, particularly to the King of Sweden, before swearing allegiance to the United States, together with the Order that admits him to citizenship.
Date: March 27, 1923
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of O. G. and Judith Dahlberg]

Photograph of O. G. and Judith Dahlberg, standing on the front porch of their Brady home, with Judith holding a large potted hydrangea.
Date: March 1951
Creator: Dahlberg, David W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Copy of O. G. Dahlberg's Will] (open access)

[Copy of O. G. Dahlberg's Will]

Official copy of O. G. Dahlberg's will with a note from Sam McCollum addressed to his wife and children. Also included is a strip of paper with a series of numbers and the envelope that this document was delivered in.
Date: March 9, 1956
Creator: McCollum, Sam
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History