#WaybackWednesday #SvenkaFamilj #Grek #Birthdays~ This is the 180th birthday of my great great grandmother Christina Henrikson Grek ..Born in 1836 in Elfsbacka Sweden, in 1868 she emigrated to Cocato Minnesota with her husband Lars Grek and three small children, the youngest only four months old. She would have five more children after settling in Cocato. She is buried in the Cocato Lutheran Cemetery. The postcard pictures the Elfsbacka countryside.

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