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- [email message from her son, Larry Macheroux, in August 2001]:
"My Mother was Esther Eritsland Macheroux. She lived in the area of Rocky Mountain House while she grew up and was raised by her grandmother and some aunts. She then returned to the United States and lived in Chicago with an aunt. This is where she met my father, Harry Macheroux. My mother passed on in 1992, and my father in 1994."
Immigration document for Esther Mildred Eritsland in Canadian National Archives in Ottawa (microfilm) is dated Jun 9, 1923. She came by train from Chicago -- crossing the border at Coutts, Alberta -- with her father [Oscar] when she was 3 1/2. Under "particulars" the form says "This child entered Canada with her father, Oscar B. Eritsland, on a visit to grandparents Mr & Mrs. L. P. Eritsland, now located on a farm near Leslieville Alberta. Owing to the death of this child's mother, the grandparents have adopted her." [note: this was not a formal adoption]
(Email from Shirley Stollings Whitelaw, Sept 5, 2001)
" 'Little' Esther lived with Grandma [Anna Marie] and Grandpa (Lars] Eritsland...until she was 12. She was like a little sister to Agnes, Alma and [my mother] Esther who was o nly 10 years older. She was there when Grandpa died in 1930, when she was 11. Her father [Oscar] had remarried [Mildred, in 1927, when Esther was not quite 8.] Esther lived with them in Innisfail until she was 16, and then went to live with her aunt in Chicago. She told me that her aunt had a pub and that they lived above it, and that she didn't think Grandma Eritsland would have been very pleased, and so she never told her that. The Eritsland girlswe re very good to her and she felt they were her family. That explains why they would come all that way every year to visit us. I didn't understand that until I was grown up. She really missed them when she got to Chicago. "
Esther visited Norway with her aunt Elen Gurine Kristensen -- the one she lived with in Chicago -- in 1972 [emails from her son Larry Macheroux 2002] Gurine became ill on the trip and Esther had to get her home to the US, paying for extra plane seats so she could lie down. Gurine's son (Esther's cousin) did not appear to appreciate the effort Esther had gone to and did not compensate her for the extra plane fare.
[email from Larry Macheroux, Feb 2002]:
"My Mother's [half-]brother Bernard died January 10,1992 [a week before she died]. My mom was sick at the time herself but I think when she learned that he had passed away it broke her hea rt. She asked me to take her to town so she could send a card and some money for the funeral. I told her she should go to the hospital, which she did, on Monday. She seemed fine to me, but she asked my wife Mary to get her a new dress, which she had not had in a very long time. Mary called me at work and said the hospital had called saying we should get there right away. I left and went to pick up my Dad, but it was too late, she was gone....Both mypa rents are buried in Memorial Park Cemetery,Woodstock,IL. which is almost right across the street from the first farm they lived on, which is now gone: a large factory is there now."
More About ESTHER MILDRED ERITSLAND:
Burial: Memorial Park, Woodstock, IL.
Immigration to Canada:
Social Security Number: 353-10-1232
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släkten Alfsvåg-Jonsson-Sehlberg
1919 - 1992 (72 år)
