By Swain Charles Kindblade - Dated 22 June 1894, at Yates Center, Kansas, USA.
About the year 1780 in the little hamlet of Kaphult(Kåphult), Halland County,
Sweden, was born to Sven Svensson and wife, a son. Under the customs then prevailing,
this child grew up under the name Svensson, but, on reaching military age he was, for
reasons unknown, given by his King, the name of KINDBLADE. He being the first person to
bear that name, and leaving a number of children who in their turn left a numerous posterity
which is still increasing, and believing that it would be a pleasure to them to know the names
and whereabouts of as many of his descendants as could be found, this task has been undertaken
by one of them.
Of our common progenitor but little is known, more than that he married Elsa Killberg in 1809,
of which union was born five sons and three daughters, that he lived and died in the village
where he was born, his death occuring in 1836. His widow remarried and lived to extreme old age,
dying in 1866 on the estates which had been her home for the full portion of her life.(1)
I.1) SVEN SVENSSON KINDBLAD in Kåphult, Knäreds Parish, Hallands County, Sweden. - Married 1810 to ELSA
KILLBERG, born 17th of december 1792 in Hishult, Hishults parish, Hallands County, Sweden. After
her husbands death in 1836 she remarried in 1844 with JÖNS LARSSON in Lagared.(1)
Children:
II.a) CARL CHRISTIAN KINDBLADE, born 1813 in Sweden. Died 1851 in Glastonbury, Connecticut. The first born of these eight children was a son who was born in 1813 and who was named Carl Christian, married to CHRISTINA MUNSON(born 1811 in Sweden) in 1835 by whom he became the father of seven children and named: Christina, Swen Carl, John Frederic, Gustavus Adolphus, Isaac, Samuel Harry and Charles Christian, Jr.(1)(5)(6)
Children:
III.1) CHRISTINA KINDBLADE, born 1836 in Sweden. Died as an infant.(1)
III.2) S W A I N CHARLES(SWEN CARL)KINDBLADE, born 5 October 1838 in Sweden. The second, a son, and named Sven Carl, americanized his name to Swain Charles. He was born in Farhultsbyget, Sweden, October 5, 1838 and came with his parents to America in 1847. He went to school one year in New York City, moving with the family to Glastonbury, Connecticut. Here, owing to the illness of his father, he was bound out for five years to Reuben Stevens where he remained until the death of his father. Then in what was then a wilderness, with his widowed mother and four younger children, began his struggle for subsistance for self and mother and family. By dint of hard toil by every member of his family according to capacity, he grew up to early manhood with the satisfaction of seeing them all provided with at least the necessities of life. In 1856 he visited his uncles, Benedic and F. G. Kindblade and aunt Lena in Geneva, Illinois and worked in that neighborhood as a farm hand for about a year, returning to Iowa. Hhe then went to Knox County, Missouri where he worked at various employments until 1861 when he returned to Iowa and in December of that year enlisted in Company G., Fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry and was mustered into the army at Davenport, Iowa March 1, 1862. Before he joined his regiment he was detailed to clerk in General Halleck´s office in St. Louis, Mo. where he remained about two months, finally reaching his regiment at Batesville, Arkansas in the summer of 1862. Following the vicisitudes of the regiment, he was in the engagements of Chickasaw Bbayou and Arkansas Post and was while laying at Young´s Point, sent to St. Louis on the hospital boat "City Of Memphis" in February 1863. Returning to his regiment in June he was present at the siege and fall of Vicksburg, second battle of the Jackson, Mississippi and Brandon, Mississippi. Tthe regiment going with General Sherman east. He was in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, after which he reenlisted, and with the regiment, went home on Veteran furlough. While at home he was detained by a severe attack of pleuro pneumonia and did not rejoin the regiment until it was on the Atlanta Campaign. He was on hand at all the battles of that memorable campaign, except the battle of Resecca Georgia. After the fall of Atlanta he was appointed Seargent Major of the regiment in which capacity he acted on that grand march of Sherman´s to the Sea, and was present at the capture of Savannah, Georgia. From there the march led to Goldsboro, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina, hence to Bentonville, North Carolina where was fought the last battle of the war by his regiment in which he took a part. From there he marched to Washington, D. C. and took his position with the regiment in the Grand Review. Next we find him at Louisville, Kentucky where he and his comrads were discharged August 25, 1865, having served his adopted country nearly four years and having been engaged in 20 important battles, besides numerous skirmishes, having been wounded twice and marched a distance of 12,000 miles, traversing every state in the southern Confederacy except Texas and Florida. After the war he bought land in Ringgold County, Iowa, but before doing anything at farming he took a trip to the Rocky Mountains, returning in 1866 when on August 8, 1867 he married R A C H E L ANN HOPKINS(born 8 August 1843 in Iowa), in Ringgold County, Iowa. To this union have been born five children: Charles Hopkins, Oscar Rawlings, Mary Alice, Harriet Christina and Walter Swain. After his marriage, he settled on his land and began farming on his own account. In 1872 he sold out and moved to McPherson County, Kansas where he took a Government Homestead. Here he made himself a fine home near the city of McPherson. In 1881 he sold out and moved to Toronto, Woodson County, Kansas where he engaged in the Carpenter trade which he had learned while still a boy. After a few years his health failed and he was forced to quit hard work and in 1889 he traded for a home in Iola, Allen County, Kansas where he remained until 1891 when he traded for a home in Yates Center, Woodson County, Kansas where he now lives on what little earnings and the pension he draws from the Government.(1)(13)(14)
Children:
IV.a) CHARLES HOPKINS KINDBLADE, born 1868 in Iowa.(1)
IV.b) OSCAR RAWLINGS KINDBLADE, born 1870 in Iowa.(1)
IV.c) MARY ALICE KINDBLADE, born 1872 in Iowa.(1)
IV.d) HARRIET CHRISTINA KINDBLADE, born 1874 in Kansas.(1)
IV.e) WALTER SWAIN KINDBLADE.(1)
III.3) J O H N FREDERIC KINDBLADE, born 13 February 1840 in Sweden. The third child, a son, named John Frederick was born February 13, 1840 in Farhultsbyget, Halland County, Sweden, came with his parents to America in 1847. He went to school in New York City about a year, when they moved to Glastonbury, Connecticut. Here, he like his elder brother, bound out to a man named Elezer Slew, with whom he lived until the death of his father, and the removal of his Mother to Wappelo County, Iowa in 1852. Here, at the age of 12 years he, with his Mother and Bbrother, endured the hardships incidental to a life of poverty in the far west. But, with the blessing of good health and an indomitable perseverance, he had the gratification of seeing his mother and younger brother placed beyond absolute want. In 1856 he went with his elder brother to visit his uncles and aunt at Geneva, Illinois where he remained until the next summer, when he had the misfortune to be struck by lightening which disabled him from work. He then went back to Iowa. In 1858 he, with his brother, went to Missouri where he worked on a farm until the next spring when he went to Pikes Peak in search of gold. Meeting with indifferent success, he came back to Iowa and in December of the year 1861, enlisted in the Army for the preservation of the Union. He joined the same time his brothers did and in the same company and regiment, Co. G, Fourth Iowa Infantry. He was in all the engagements of the regiment in the Vicksburg Campaign, including Fort Gibson, Jackson, Champion Hills, Black River Bridge, and the seige of Vicksburg, when, owing to failure of health, he was, in 1863, discharged on account of disability for which he now draws a pension. Going back to Iowa, he was on the 25th day of December 1863, married to CINDERELLA MILNETTA SOLES(born 4 November 1843 in Fort Wayne, Indiana), in Ringgold County, Iowa. Of this union were born two sons and four daughters: Ethel Christina, Harry, Eva Luella, Frederick Elmer, Clara Elizabeth and Stella Belle. About the time of his marriage, he bought land in Ringgold County, Iowa and engaged in farming. In 1873 he moved to McPherson, McPherson County, Kansas where he soon got possesions of 320 acres of land on which he made himself a comfortable home, and where he still lives in the enjoyment of the results of a life of hard labor and judicious saving. His P. O. address is McPherson, Kansas.(1)(12)
Children:
IV.a) ETHEL CHRISTINA KINDBLADE, born 2 March 1865 in Caledonio TWP, Ringgold County, Iowa.(1)
IV.b) HARRY KINDBLADE, born 23 February 1868 in Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa.(1)
IV.c) EVA LUELLA KINDBLADE, born 3 September 1870 in Ringgold County, Iowa.(1)
IV.d) FREDERICK ELMER KINDBLADE, born 20 July 1871 in Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa.(1)
IV.e) CLARA ELISABETH KINDBLADE, born 28 January 1873 in Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa.(1)
IV.f) STELLA BELLE KINDBLADE, born 27 April 1875 in McPherson, McPherson County, Kansas, died 13 August 1889 in McPherson, Kansas of Typhoid.(1)(19)
III.4) G U S T A V U S ADOLPHUS KINDBLADE, born 19 November 1841 in Halland, Sweden, died 21 February 1921 in McPherson, Kansas. Gustavus family took the long boat ride over to the Promised Land and arrived in New York where they settled in 1846. How large was their family? We know of at least three boys, mother and father. Surely they were not the only ones to leave Sweden at that time. They probably travelled with friends or other relatives. A year after their arrival, little brother Samuel Kindblade is born in New York. The father, who is working as a tailor, moves the family to Gastonburg in Connecticut in 1847. Here the youngest son Charles is born. The father lives and works there until his death in 1852 at which point the mother decides to move west to Wapello County in Iowa. She has her five boys ages 13, 12, 8, 3 and 1 years old with her. Seven years later the boys move again, this time to their final destination - Ringgold County. Was their mother with them, or had she passed away? No grave records are found for her in Ringgold County. Did Gustavus attend American school, did he speak English well when he met Elisabeth? 21 March 1867 he married ELISABETH HAGANS(born 1848 in Illinois; died 10 October 1927 in McPherson, Kansas; She was the daughter of James Conrad Hagans, born 8 October 1809 in Kentucky, & Tabitha Bandfield, born 1826 in Tennessee.), in Ringgold County, Iowa. Elisabeth and Gustavus had four children, three boys and one girl. Poor Elisabeth and Gustavus had to bury three of their four children. Everyone knows that that is the hardest test to be put through! They must have sat together with her brother Bird and his wife Jane many evenings to console each other as the same fate had struck their young families. This explains why a lot of couples decided to have large families back in those times. Through hardship and then incurable illnesses many families never saw their children turn into healthy adults.
Gustavus fought alongside his friends and brothers-in-law in the civil war with G Company, 4th Iowa Infantry Volunteers. In 1870 they are living next door to Elisabeth´s stepmother, Tabitha Hagans. Gustave´s age is listed as 26 - his profession that of a farmer. Living in the household are Elisabeth, age 22, and their baby boy George B., age 1.(1)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)
Children:
IV.a) GEORGE BANDFIELD KINDBLADE, born 7 April 1869 in Near Mt. Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa, died 1 November, 1934 in Leon, Iowa. George Bandfield´s middle name stood for Elisabeth´s mother´s maiden name. He was the only one of their four children who lived past the age of 21. An obituary found in the Mount Ayr Record News reveals that he grew up in Ringgold County where he obtained his early education, going later to Creston where he attended business college and prepared for the teaching profession. He served as teacher for the public schools in his home county for twelve years. On November 23, 1894, he was married to Miss ELLA F. SACKETT(born February 1875 in Iowa; According to the census of Iowa, Ringgold county 1900 her father was born in Illinois, her mother in Ohio.), in Ringgold County, Iowa. One daughter, Alma, was born to this union who later married a man named Robert Hunt. In 1903 George entered the US Postal Service and continued this work for almost thirty years. Hhe recieved different runs to include St. Joseph, Chariton, Des Moines and Cainsville. He died November 1, 1934 and is buried i8n the Rose Hill Cemetery in Mt. Ayr.(1)(16)(17)(18)
Children:
V.1) ALMA KINDBLADE, born March 1899 in Ringgold County, Iowa. Married to ROBERT HUNT.(1)(17)(18)
IV.b) LEROY JASPER KINDBLADE, born 18 December 1870 in Ringgold County, Iowa, died 22 April 1871 in Ringgold County, Iowa. Burial: Oakdale Cemetery - Ringgold County, Iowa. Leroy Jasper had his mother Elisabeth´s oldest brothers name for a middle name. He was an early Christmas gift for Christmas of 1870. Unfortunately the good Lord tool him back by the following Easter. He died April 22, 1871 in Ringgold County, Iowa.(1)(15)
IV.c) ABBIE TABITHA KINDBLADE, born 3 March 1872, 27 December 1893. She got married 3 March, 1892 to CHARLES E. FARMER. Abbie was named for her Grandmother Tabitha and lived to be only 21 years old. She was married on her 20th birthday to Charles E. Farmer. What did she die of? Was it possibly during the birth of her first child? She died on December 27, 1893. In the obituary for her brother George, a nephew Elmer Farrier(Farmer?) of Chambers, Nebraska is mentioned. Was that her child?.(1)
IV.d) WILLIAM HENRY KINDBLADE, born 7 September 1874 in Ringgold County, Iowa, died 2 February 1875 in Ringgold County, Iowa. Burial: Oakdale Cemetery - Ringgold County, Iowa. William Henry Kindblade, the last born of the Kindblade children was born on September 7, 1874 in Ringgold County, Iowa. He never even saw his first birthday for he died on February 2, 1875.(1)(15)
III.5) ISAAC KINDBLADE, born ABT. 1844 in Sweden.(1)
III.6) S A M U E L HENRY KINDBLADE, born 19 October 1847 in New York City, New York. The sixth child, a son and named Samuel Henry, was born in the city of New York, October 19, 1847, and was taken to Glastonbury, Connecticut with the family in 1848 and thence to Iowa in 1852. Here he grew to manhood and in 18 June 1874 married SUSAN A. WALTERS(born 1852 in Ohio) in Ringgold County, Iowa, by whom he had four sons and two daughters: Emma, Oscar, Frank, Pearl, Frederick, and a son who died in infancy. After his marriage and after the death of his Mother, he moved in 1885 to Toronto, Kansas where he still lives and carries on his trade of carpentering. In the 1870 Census of Ringgold County his profession is School Teacher.(1)(2)(3)(4)
Children:
IV.a) EMMA KINDBLADE, born 1876 in Iowa.(1)(2)
IV.b) OSCAR KINDBLADE, born 1878 in Iowa.(1)(2)
IV.c) FRANK KINDBLADE, born 1879 in Iowa.(1)(2)
IV.d) PEARL KINDBLADE, born after 1880.(1)(2)
IV.e) FREDERICK KINDBLADE, born after 1880.(1)(2)
IV.f) Son KINDBLADE.(1)(2)
III.7) C H A R L E S CHRISTIAN KINDBLADE, Jr., born August 1851 in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Him and his brother Samuel live in the household of Christina Barber(their mother) during the cencus taking of 1870 in Ringgold County, Iowa. The seventh child, a son, and named Charles Christian, was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, August 1851. He lived at home with his Mother until he attained his majority when he went to Kansas and took, and improved, a government claim of 160 acres of land. In 1880 he sold it and went back to Iowa where he now lives with his brother(Gustavus A.) and he is still unmarried and his post office address is Poyneer, Iowa.(1)(2)
II.b) JOHN KINDBLADE, born 1814 in Sweden. The second, a son, and named John, was born in 1814. He emigrated to America in 1846 and was last heard of in that year, in St. Louis, Mo.(1)
II.c) SWEN KINDBLADE, born 1815 in Sweden. The third, a son, and named Swen, was born in 1815, was married and lived on the home estates, raising a family of several children, was employed in the civil service of his King, and while thus employed met his death by drowning in the year 1868.(1)
II.d) ANNA CHRISTINA KINDBLADE, born 1816 in Sweden. The fourth, a daughter, and named Anna Christina, was born in 1816. Married a MR. WILSON, and still lives in Sweden.(1)
II.e) LOUISA KINDBLADE, born 1818 in Sweden. The fifth, a daughter, was named Louisa, was born in 1818 and died in 1835.(1)
II.f) BENEDIC KINDBLADE, born 2/5 1820 in Sweden. The sixth, a son, and named Benedic, was born May 2, 1820, and married CHARLOTTA HOLMBERG in the city of Sonn, Sweden, in the year 1846. To this union was born one child, a son who was named John. Benedic emigrated to America in 1853, settling in St. Charles, Kane County, Illinois. He moved to Geneva, same county, awhere he still lives. His wife died in the latter city January 17, 1894.(1)
Son:
III.1) JOHN KINDBLADE, born ABT. 1848 in Sweden.(1)
II.g) CAROLINA KINDBLADE. The seventh, a daughter named Carolina, was born May 22, 1828 and was married September 1849 to PETER PAULSON and emigrated to America in 1852, settling in St. Charles, Kane County, Illinois, but soon moved to Batavia where she lived until the spring of 1857 when she moved to Minnesota. Her husband died in the fall, leaving her with three children, Peter, Helen Louisa, and Emily. In 1858 she married a second husband, JORAM JOHNSON by whom she had two children, Johanna Maria and Nathaniel. On August 3, 1862, her house and property were destroyed by Sioux Indians while her husband was engaged in fighting the Indians, and she had to flee for her life to St. Peter, Minnesota. In the campaign of New Ulm, her husband contracted an illness which after the duration of eight months, resulted in his death, April 1863. In August, 1864 she married a third husband, ERIC JOHNSON, by whom she had six children and named: August, Mary, Ellen Cornelia, Anna Christina, Selma, Sophia and Carl Gustaf. She was still living at the age of 66 in Sibley County, Minnesota, Norseland Post Office.(1)
II.h) FRANZ GUSTAV KINDBLADE. The eighth child, a son, and named Franz Gustavus, was born May 13, 1833, moved to America in 1855, landing in Boston where he was engaged for awhile at his trade of Machinist, but soon went to Geneva, Illinois where, on April 2, 1859, he married HARRIET MUZZY by whom he had six children: Isabella Elizabeth, Albert Gilman, William Henry, Cora Edna, Francis Arthur and Milnetta Mattie.(1)
Children:
III.1) ISABELLA ELIZABETH KINDBLADE.(1)
III.2) ALBERT GILMAN KINDBLADE.(1)
III.3) WILLIAM HENRY KINDBLADE.(1)
III.4) CORA EDNA KINDBLADE.(1)
III.5) FRANCIS ARTHUR KINDBLADE.(1)
III.6) MILNETTA MATTIE KINDBLADE.(1)
Sources:
Source (1) = Ancestry.com, 12-08-2002. Copyright MyFamily.com, Inc. Ffrom Terry & Isabel Röthke Defenbaugh and their families all over the world.
Source (2) = 1880 State Census, Iowa, Ringgold County, Lotts Creek TWP.
KINDBLADE, Samuel head 32 NY Sweden, Sweden
Susan wife 27 OH Penn Michigan
Emma daughter 4 IA
Oscar son 2 IA
Frank son 1 IA
Charles brother 29 IA
BARBER, Christina mother 69 Sweden.
1880 State Census, Iowa, Ringgold County, Lotts Creek TWP.
KINDBLADE, Charles Aug 1851 CO
He is living next door to Albert Hagans.
Source (3) = Sorry, I do not have direct info on your line. But sometimes process of elimination helps. So thought I´d send what little I have on my husband´s line. You are probably aware of the migration of the Walters clan from Ohio to Iowa.
His great-grandfather Abraham F. WALTERS b/1837 Ohio and wife Nancy JOHNSON lived in Ringgold County, IO and had children from 1860 to 1880. Abraham might possibly have been a brother of your Mary Ellen´s father since they were both in the same area and having children during the same period. Abraham and Nancy´s children were: Mary Ann b/Oct 1860, Vinola Prentis b/Aug 1862, Nancy Lilly b/1866, Laura Belle b/Aug 1867, Ammon J. b/1870, Dolly Varden b/Aug 1872, Lizzie May b/1874, Martin Luther b/1876, Minerva J. b/1879, Leroy b/1880.
Abraham´s father Abraham Walters, b/27 Oct 1807 Pennsylvania, married Martha Freed(b 10 Apr 1818 in Pennsylvania). Their Children were: Andrew F. b/1831 OH, m/Lucinda Martin; Henry F. b/1833 OH, m/Sarah Jane Martin; Ggeorge F. b/1835 OH, m/Lucinda Johnson; Abraham F. b/1837 OH, m/Nancy Johnson; Elizabeth F. b/1838 OH, m/William Johnson; Sarah F. b/1840 OH, m/John Stevens; Peter F. b/1842 OH, m/Kitty Ann Johnson; Lucy Ann b/1843 OH; John F. b/1845 OH, m/Mary A. Campbell; Catherine F. b/1848 OH, m/L. S. Kneedler; Susan F. b/1852 OH, m/Mr. Kindblade.
Hopefully, this might make a connection for you. Keep in touch... Diana.
Source (4) = 1870 State Census - Ringgold County - Lotts Creek TWP - Iowa. + Ringgold County, Iowa Marriage Records 1855-1900, Marriage Book No. A, Page 204.
Source (5) = Christina Munson, born 1811 in Sweden, died 24 Jan 1882 in Ringgold County, Iowa. Burial: Oakdale Cemetery, Lotts Creek TWP, Ringgold County, IA. What an admirable woman Christina must have been to be able to stay strong for her children despite all the hardship she had to endure.
She was married at the age of 23 years old in 1835 in Sweden to her husband Carl Christian. Not long after - in 1836 - she gave birth to their little baby girl who was lovingly named for her mother - Christina. Bbut the good lord did not let her keep her bundle of joy for long. Little Christina passed away in infancy. WWhile the mother must have been beside herself with grief it made her nonetheless happy to discover that once again she was carrying a child under her heart. In October 1838 she gave birth to their first son Sven who would later change his name to Swain. Over the next eight years she was blessed with three more boys whom they named John, Gustavus and Isaac. But times were not easy in Sweden in the 1840´s and her husband Carl was looking across the big ocean and dreaming of joining the many who had taken the long and treachurous journey to the promised land - AMERICA. He must have planned everything very carefully and weighted his options when he decided to take on the challenge and leave.
According to later notes by his oldest son Swain, in 1847 he emigrated to America, landing in New York City on the 22 of June. They had made it - Carl, 34 years of age, his pregnant wife Christina, 35, and their boys Swain - 8 years, John - 7 years, Gustavus - 5 years, and little Isaac who was about 3 years old. Poor little Isaac had not fared very well and the long journey had taken it´s toll on his health. His parents put his little body to rest just a few short weeks later.
But Christina didn´t have the time or the strength to grieve a lot for she delivered her 6th child, another son whom they named Samuel, on 12 October, 1847. Tthe first child of theirs born on American soil. But Isaac wasn´t the only one to had suffered coming across the ocean. Father Carl´s health started deteriorating at a rapid pace. Christina must have been worried.
The Kindblades decided to stay in New York City, where the three oldest sons, Swain, John and Gustavus, were enrolled in school, until the following spring, when upon the advice of physicians Carl was induced on account of his health, to move to Glastonbury, Connecticut. When a lingering disease finally brought him to a bed of sickness, which resulted in his death by consumption in the spring of 1851, he left a very pregnant widow and four young children. In August of 1852 she gave birth to her last child whom she named in honor of the father this boy would never know: Charles Christian, Jr.
Things had been rough for the Kindblades in Connecticut and it had been impossible for father Carl to keep the family together. The oldest son Swain was bound out for five years to Reuben Stevens where he remained until the death of his father. Like their elder brother, son John was bound out to a man named Elezer Slew, and son Gustavus was placed to live away from home with a man named Andrew Hale. Here they lived until the death of their father.
The promised land hadn´t brought yet what they had expected but there was no rest for the weary. In the same year, Christina decided to move on with her five young children and the destination was Wappelo County, Iowa which was then a wilderness. Here, poor Gustavus was again compelled to live away from his mother and among strangers that those at home might be the more able to provide for the rest. On the remarriage of his Mother in 1855 to a man by the name of Barber, he came home to live. In 1859 he moved with the family to Ringgold County, Iowa and in June 1861, enlisted in Co., G, Fourth Iowa Infantry and went to the front.
But the family was not meant to live together it seems. In 1856, the oldest son Swain who was now 18 years old, along with his 16 year old brother John, visited uncles. Benedic and F. G. Kindblade and Aunt Lena in Geneva, Illinois and worked in that neighborhood as a farm hand for about a year, before returning to Iowa. They then went to Knox County, Missouri where they worked at various employments until 1861 when they returned to Iowa and in December of that year enlisted in Company G, Ffourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry and were mustered into the army at Davenport, Iowa March 1, 1862.
Mr. and Mrs. Barber were left with only the two youngest children, Samuel and Charles, after the older boys had gone off to fight in the war. And in the year 1870 we find Christina alone with the two boys which leads us to believe that Mr. Barber had passed away.
But Christina was a strong woman and carried on. She finally died in her 71st year in 1882. When the census taker came around in 1880, Christina Barber was livingt with her son Samuel and his wife Susan in Lotts Creek TWP, Ringgold County, IA.
Source (6) = Christina Munson remarried in 1855 with Andrew Barber, born 1802 in Massachusettes. Gravestone Records of Ringgold County, Iowa - Grave Registration W.P.A. Project + Family History of Swain C. Kindblade dated 22 June, 1894.
Source (7) = 1880 State Census, Iowa, Ringhold County, Lotts Creek TWP:
KINDBLDE, G. A. 38 Farmer Sweden Sweden Sweden
Elisabeth 32 Keeping House Illinois KY TN
George 11 IA
Abbie 8 IA
Source (8) = The family´s residences after the Civil War were:
1. Mount Ayr, Iowa until 1893.
2. Chambers, Nebraska, left 1893 until 1897.
3. Strong City, Kansas 1897 until 1904:
KINDBLADE, Gustav A - born Nov 1841 - 58 years - married 33 years - born in Sweden, both parents born in Sweden as well. Gustav immigrated with his parents and brothers in 1847 and had been naturalized 53 years ago. No profession is listed. Living with are KINDBLADE, Elisabeth - born Dec 1847 - 52 years. She had given birth to 4 children, only one child(George) was still alive. She had been born in Illinois, her father in KY and her mother in Y+TN. They also had a border, a married man by the name of James Jennings(55) living with them.
4. McPherson, Kansas 1904 until Feb 21, 1921. Gustavus died in Feb 1921, Elisabeth lived until October 4, 1927 when she died in McPherson, Kansas as well.
Source (9) = Notes from his brother Swain C. Kindblade: The fourth child, a son, was named Gustavus Adolphus and was born November 19, 1841 in Farhultsbyget, Sweden and came with his parents to America in 1847. He, like his two elder brothers, went to school about a year in New York City. Upon removal of the family to Glastonbury, Connecticut, he was placed to live away from home with a man named Andrew Hale. Here he lived until the death of his father and the removal of the bereaved family to Wappelo County, Iowa in 1852. Here he was again compelled to live away from his mother and among strangers that those at home might ne the more able to provide for the rest. On the remarriage of his Mother in 1855, he came home to live. In 1859 he moved with the family to Ringgold County, Iowa and in June 1861, enlisted in Cco. G, Fourth Iowa Infantry and went to the front. He was in all engagements of the war in which his regiment took a part - from Pea Ridge, Arkansas to Bentonville, North Carolina, embracing among others, the battles of Chickasaw Bayou, where he was severely wounded, and for which he now draws a pension, Arkansaw Post, Fort Gibson, Grand Gulf, Jackson, Champion Hills, Black River Bridge, Seige of Vvicksburg, Jackson the second time, Brandon, Tuscumbia, Cherokee Station, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Reseca, Dalton, Dallas, New Hope Church, Ezra Chapel, Peach Tree Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Columbia and Maury Skirmishes. He marched to the sea with Sherman, took part in the Grand Review at Washington, and was finally discharged at Louisville, Kentucky, August 25, 1865, having served upwards of four years, and marched more than 12,000 miles, traversing every Southern State, except Texas and Florida. Coming back to Iowa, he took a trip with his elder brother to the Rocky Mountains and returned in the fall of 1866 and then married ELIZABETH HAGENS, March 21, 1867. Three sons and one daughter have been born to him: George Banfield, Leroy Jasper, Abbie Tabitha and William Henry. After opening a farm and making a good home, he rented it out and 1872 moved to Kansas and took a Government Claim. This he soon sold and moved back to his farm in Ringgold County, Iowa, where he now lives. The post office address is Poyneer, Iowa.
Source (10) = Correspondence between Benjamin Thompson and his mother dated July 1866: ".....Gus Kindblade and Matingly has got in a row with Green and Bonam and Wes Patch and Phip Brown. They had Wes and Bonam arrested Saturday and would have Green but he wasn´t home. They will get him today. Green, Bonam, Wes and Phip Brown waylaid Gus and Matingly along the road from town and had a fuss about some takl - I don´t know what. The trial will come off today. They have supenas for Jess, Hat Wiley and Mrs. Matingly and I guess they will have two of Mats cousins that are staying at Jesse´s and heard them fussing. And Green told them they waited a good while along the road for Gus and Matingly. I guess they will have to pay a fine anyway....."
Source (11) = Ringgold County, Iowa Marriage Records 1855-1900. Marriage Book No. 1 A, Page 15.
Source (12) = Ringgold County, Iowa Marriage Records 1855-1900. Marriage Book No. 1 B, Page 10.
Source (13) = Ringgold County, Iowa Marriage Records 1855-1900. Marriage Book No. 1 A, Page 17.
Source (14) = 1880 State Census - Kansas, McPherson county, McPherson TWP:
