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Lekburg, Lakeberg Family of Kanabec Co. Minnesota

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Lekburg, Lakeberg Family of Kanabec Co. Minnesota

Posted: 25 Oct 2002 5:02AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Lakeberg, Lekburg, Price, Preuss
Per LDS FamilySearch, my granduncle Herman Henry Price married Anna Lia Lakeberg of Kanabec Co. in Mora Nov. 27, 1913. They raised a family in Birch Cooley Twp, Renville Co., MN per the 1920 census. The IGI LDS file lists the parents of Anna and several of her siblings as "unavailable" which may indicate that a Mormon Church member for some reason made this portion of the file private.
I checked the 1900 Peace Twp, Kanabec Co. census and found Charles(bApr 1860) & Elizabeth(bDec. 1869) "Lekburg" of Sweden with children Anna?-5, Carl E.-2, Hulda M.-1, all born in MN of Swedish parents.
Per IGI LDS, Charles died Oct. 6, 1905. The 1910 census lists only Elizabeth "Lakeberg" on their dairy farm with children Anna L.-14, Carl E.-12, Hulda M.-11, Manie (Magnus) W.-9 and Amanda E.-5. Again, all of the children were born in MN of Swedish parents. Elizabeth or the census taker Americanized their surname to Lakeberg.
It appears that all thirty of the Minnesota Lakeberg references in IGI LDS relate directly to this Swedish-American family. I could not find any Native American links in this data. In my extended family, there have been four different branches where old family tales suggested some direct Native American ancestry. These have all turned out to be incorrect. Per the census and LDS data at least, this may be a fifth such case.
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