The first Elgs to emigrate were the family of Christina Elg and Jan Bork. In the autumn of 1868, son Gustaf Edvin set off for Omaha, Nebraska. He was 19 at the time. Half a year later, his parents follow, along with daughters Emma Fredrika and Augusta Sofia Bork.
Jan Bork dies only half a year after his arrival, and is
buried on the family farm in Sanders County, Nebraska. Christina and her
daughters later move to Laramie, Wyoming, where Emma Fredrika’s husband John
Lindstrom has found work as a tie hacker for the Union Pacific Railroad.
Augusta Sofia marries a Charles Connors. Apparently the
marriage is not happy, and Augusta Sofia leaves Connors for another man, with
dramatic consequenses, as told in this article from the Sept. 1 1892 issue of
the Laramie Boomerang.
