My great great great aunt Christina Palsdotter was born in Ausas, Skane, Sweden on 14 March 1845. She emigrated to America in mid 1870. I have found records about this. She was in the 1870 US census in La Porte Indiana (Christini Paulson female servant). She married Perry Johnson (also from Sweden?) on 11 Dec 1870 in La Porte city (Indiana marriage indexes - C. Pahlsson).
From then on she disappeared. Except that we have a photo that is labelled on the back as Christina. She was sitting with a man whom we have assumed was Perry Johnson even though he looks younger than Christina. Christina looks quite old and gaunt in her headscarf. The studio where the photo was taken was in Oskaloosa Iowa as this is embossed on the corner of the photo.
In my public tree on Ancestry I once put her death record as occuring on 30 Sep 1899 in Chicago and her burial in Graceland Cemetery. However, after my mother's cousin wrote to Graceland, that Christina turned out to be the wife of Reinhold Johnson, so maybe not the same person?
We have spent many hours trying to follow Christina and Perry in USA in vain.
