The
theme for week 11 on 52 Ancestors is Lucky. I consider my self
lucky (or I prefer the term blessed) that with all the moving my
family did, my earlier ancestors were at the right place at the right
time to meet and marry and become the parents of my later ancestors.
For
example, my 4 grandparents were born in 4 different states: Iowa,
Kansas, Wisconsin and Oregon.
My
paternal grandfather, Oran Jesse “OJ” Albertson, was born in
Marshall County Iowa in 1882, but in 1887 the family moved to a
homestead in Sherman County Kansas. My grandmother, Lucie Rachel
Smalley, had been born in 1886 in Sherman County just after her
family had moved there from Saline County Nebraska. It was in Sherman
County that OJ and Lucie were married in 1906 and my father, Lester
Oran Albertson, was born in 1907. The family moved to Linn County
Oregon in 1911.
My
maternal grandmother, Florence Edna Bond, was born in 1891 in the
Willamette Valley, Lane County, Oregon. About 1894 the family went
north to Gilliam County Oregon, but by 1905 they had moved back to
the Valley to Linn County Oregon. My grandfather, Julius Adolph
Falk, was born in 1880 about 2000 miles away in Iowa County
Wisconsin. A number of his family moved to Iowa and then 6 brothers
moved to Linn County Oregon between 1900 and 1910. Julius came by
1905 and it was in 1910 when he and Florence were married. My mother,
Wilma Anna Falk, was born in Oregon in 1912 and because Lester and
family had moved to the area in 1911, they eventually met and were
married in 1933.
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