5. Gustav Emil Peterson and Oscar Alvin Peterson stand by artesian well

Gustav Emil Peterson and Oscar Alvin Peterson, Calhoun County, Texas, 1908

In this, the fifth picture in the series, again we see the two boys Gustav and Oscar Peterson standing in the barn yard in the Olivia area (Calhoun County) Texas.  Gustav, the elder, holds a cup. While Oscar stands with his hand on his hat.  The woman who can just barely be seen in the background may be their mother, Ellen Cavallin Peterson.  (You will find a better picture of Ellen in the post “EllenPeterson milks her cow". 

Note the steady flow of water through the uncapped pipe. In an earlier post, "Water from the well", I talked about artesian wells in the Olivia area.  That may be what we are seeing in this picture (and the last post also).

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“The world’s a big place” series: 5

Place: Olivia area (Calhoun County) Texas

Date: 1908

Gustav Emil Peterson 19 Dec 1902-1 23 Sept 1956, (married Mary Alice Slaughter (1906-1936)  Farmed in Jackson County, Buried in Olivia)

Oscar Alvin Peterson 14 Nov 1904 – 10 Apr 1994 ; Married July 28 1928  to Ola Mae Huddleston, born July 20, 1911. Continued to live and farm in Olivia.  He is buried in the Olivia Cemetery.

Ellen Cavallin Peterson 2 Feb 1877 – 19 Feb 1948

Sources:

Family Trees found at Ancestry.com

”Swedes in Texas in Words and Pictures, 1838 to 1918” (Published in Swedish in 1918; translated by Christine Andreason, 1994: and accessed on the web here.)
findagrave.com