Here are three images Uncle Ivan sent me. They are the first three pages of a letter (Ivan could only find those three) from grandmother Anna Moen Larson (Isaac’s wife). The letter was to Hazel, the wife of Isaac’s cousin Harry Samuelson. The Samuelsons lived in Ontario, California at the time. My comments below the letter. Just click to post your own comments.
Thanks, Uncle Ivan! The letter clarifies a detail I was a little vague about – I knew that they were planning to move to the west coast, in fact selling their horses and making preparations, before Anna took sick and died about ten months after this letter. But I did not know that Grandpa had come out on a scouting mission.
Interesting produce prices, 2.5c per pound for cabbage, 3c for carrots. Still, that 3c was probably hard to come by when your cash crop had failed, along with your vegetable garden. And dig the price of real estate near Seattle. But Grandma’s ill health and eventual death postponed those plans for as much as fifteen years. Read more about Isaac and Anna …
Uncle I
Dec 24, 2008
Hi George,
Harry Samuelson was Isaac’s cousin. They lived in Ontario, California, not Astoria when the letter was written. Thanks. Merry Christmas.
admin
Dec 24, 2008
Thanks, Uncle. I wrote that a little too fast. I did know that Samuelson’s were Isaac’s relatives, and have corrected the post as well. Merry Christmas to you as well!
Bonnie
Dec 29, 2008
Hey George — This letter is amazingly interesting — Parkland? Wow. To think that several grandchildren (and offspring) have attended — or are attending — that “college” and, of course, Peter grew up in Parkland. It’s really something to see the handwriting and read the words of a grandmother we never knew. Page 2 of the letter is not currently showing….I viewed it a few days ago, so it must have just slipped away, perhaps when you revised the intro. sentences. Hope you and Thiel are well and staying warm. –Bonnie
George
Dec 29, 2008
Oh, yeah – PLU – Parkland. I hadn’t made the connection, nor looked it up yet. I always thought of it as just part of Tacoma. I think I’ll write a new post about this. Eric L was the original source of the images & is looking for the missing pages.
All pages come up for me, and have all along. Try again & email me if a problem.
Ron Larson
Feb 28, 2009
I am finally getting some time to review what you have put together. Just fantastic! Thank you for your efforts!
The caption about Ivan above, under the photo of the boys indicates his birth year as 1924 – it is 1923.
It is so cool to see the reference to Parkland, i.e. PLU. I attended there and have a BBA from 1971 and MBA from 1977. Joel, my son also attended PLU graduating in 1998 (I think). Several other cousins and their kids also attended, especially Ken and Roxy’s kids and Myrna.
George
Feb 28, 2009
Thank you, cousin. I have corrected your dad’s birth date in the “Ike and the Boys” post. Bonnie is working on a post about PLU and all the family members who have attended. She plans to contact you if she hasn’t already.