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Beta Nelson (Bergquist)

Beta Nelson (Bergquist)

Beta Nelson (Bergquist) was born May 27, 1868 in Dalsland, Sweden. She came to America with the family in 1879 and married Louis Johnson Bergquist October 12, 1890 in Stockholm, South Dakota. They had 6 children.

Pioneering in South Dakota

(Told by Beda Nelson Bergquist)

Father who had been working in Pennsylvania before we came over moved us to a farm in South Dakota near Stockholm. The Indians were still common and always friendly to us. Once walking in the fields I met a group of them and was invited to dinner. They gave me cold boiled potatoes which we dipped in salt and pepper and ate with our fingers.