Selma Erickson
20 May 1861 - 27 May 1908
Vitals
Birth
20 May 1861
Alingsås, Sweden
Death
27 May 1908
Grantsville
Burial
1908
Grantsville
Alternate Names
Given Name
Selma
Given Name Alternate Spellings
Selina, Sylvia
Last Name
Erickson
Maiden Name Alternate Spellings
Ericsson
Married Names
Johnson
Family
Marriage
Children
Parents
Mother: Anna Christina Josephine Jonasson (8 April 1825 - 30 March 1905)
Father: Eric Ericsson Rydqvist (23 June 1833 - 25 December 1887)
Biography
Selma Erickson was born on May 20, 1861 in Alingsås, Sweden. She was the third of seven children and the first daughter. At some point, her parents had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and, in 1862, they left with her and her one living older brother to gather with the other Saints in Utah. The sailed on the ship "Electric" from Hamburg to New York. They left on April 18, 1862 and arrived on June 5th. Selma turned one on the voyage.
After arriving in the States, she and her family traveled with the Joseph Horne wagon company to the Salt Lake Valley. They arrived in the Salt Lake Valley on October 1, 1862. They settled in Grantsville, Tooele.
In 1876, at the age of fifteen, Selma married Andrew Gustave Nygreen Johnson, another Swedish immigrant. They settled in Grantsville and had ten children together, six daughters and four sons. Three of her sons died as children. In 1908, four years after her last son was born, Selma passed away on May 27. She was barely forty-seven years old. She was buried in Grantsville.
Events
Emigration
Departure: 18 April 1862
Alingsås, Sweden
Utah Arrival
Arrival: 1 October 1862
Salt Lake City
Wagon Company: Joseph Horne Company (1862)