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close and Tilda, who married a Smith. Mrs. Magnus
Anderson was buried in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the
Jacob Nelson family was a foster-daughter, Eva
Swanson. She was born in 1836, in Nyckle Parish,
Östergötland. Eric Dalander having become a
widower, married her in 1852. Mrs. Eric Dalander is
the only one that is living today in the settlement of
these people who came in 1846. She is the oldest
resident settler in Boone county. She is the oldest
Swedish lady settler now living in Iowa. She has
lived continually in the state for 65 years.
The people began at once to make temporary
shelter by building leaf huts. Gaston provided them with
corn and potatoes. He took the men around in the
timber and pointed out the trees that were suitable
for building log cabins and eould be split into boards
called clapboards. Magnus Anderson and Jacob
Nelson built the first log cabins. These cabins were
huilt by notching together the logs at the corners,
leaving an opening between each log filled with soft
day so as to make a solid wall. The roof was ribbed
with poles and covered with clapboards. The floor
wras the bare ground in some of the cabins, while
others had clapboard floor. The cabins had one
small 4-light window and one low door, made of
clapboards, hung on wooden hinges and closed by
a wooden latch, ’n the rear was left an opening in
the wall for the fireplace which was built of sod
outside the wall, tapering off into a large chimney that
Was built above the roof of the cabin. The bread was
baked in a kettle set on an open fire, covered with a
large lid on which was heaped a glowing fire so as
t° make the heat even from above as well as from
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