Anna Britta Abrahamsdotter Stoneberg was a quiet, serious, thoughtful, hard-working person (and tough, we might add). She was close to her older brother Ernest Stoneberg (aka Johan Aron Abrahamsson). She was also a sister of Solomon Stoneberg. She was married to Bengt Nilsson who died in Sweden in 1871. They had two sons named Henning and Birger. We think her brother Ernest was compelled to emigrate to the USA after Bengt died, in order to earn money for Anna and her young family. He and later, Henning, sent money to Anna in Sweden on a regular basis. Birger died young and unexpectedly, and this may have added some urgency for Anna to emigrate when she did.

It would have been easier to stay in Sweden, but Ernest and Henning must have persuaded her to come. Henning, being the youngest of the two, sailed back over to Sweden to accompany Anna to the US. Anna Britta emigrated 15 Jan 1904 and then traveled to the family homestead in North Dakota. On the North Dakota farm she probably tended the house for seven years before Henning married.