6. Looking out on the Bay. Olivia area, Texas. 1908

Gustav and Oscar Peterson, Carancahua Bay, Calhoun County, Texas, 1908.

In the 6th and last picture in this small series, we find Gustav and Oscar Peterson - the boys from the barnyard, standing by the water, probably Carancahua Bay. 

Like the other pictures in this collection, this small series was taken by a member of the Paulson / Swenson family, early settlers of Olivia Colony. Anders and Bengta Swenson moved to Iowa in 1907, but members of the families remained friends all their lives. From other pictures in this collection we know that at least one Swenson granddaughter, Amy Paulson, continued to visit her friends in Olivia. It is likely that it was Amy who took this picture and the others in this series.

Thanks to the assistance of Jody Weaver of Port Lavaca, Texas, we now know that Anders and Bengta Swenson’s land lay directly on Carancahua Bay just south of the present Port Alto. This land was sold to Malcolm Cavallin (Gustaf and Oscar’s maternal grandfather) in 1907.

More about both the Swenson and Paulson families can be found in the earliest posts in this blog.

 Cast of Characters: Swensons, Paulsons, and a hundred more. 

 Cast of Characters,2: The Swenson Children.

Cast of Characters, 3: The Paulsons

 Identifiers:

Negative #: paulson136.jpg

“The world’s a big place” series: 4

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.

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.)

Calhoun County Court House records accessed by Jody Weaver, Port Lavaca Texas.