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- Signe Kristina Eliason was born on the 23rd of August in 1903 in Lerdal, Älvsborg, Sweden. She spent the early years of her life in Högsäter, Sweden, living in a home her father Anders built near his wife Anna's childhood home. Her parents Anders and Anna, were the last in her family line to use the traditional Scandinavian Patronymic Naming System. As a result she inherited her father Anders family name.
Signe immigrated to the United States in 1908 alongside her father, mother, and younger sister Emma. They landed in Lostwood, Montrail County, North Dakota, where Anders had received a Land Grant. In 1917, when Signe was 13 years old, her mother Anna died in childbirth. The twins were raised by neighbors.
Signe's siblings (through Anders and Anna Eliason) include Emma Eliason b. 1905 d. 1987, Per "Peter" Ales Eliason b. 1909 d. 1957, Goldrid Eliason b. 1911 d. 2010, Anna Eliason b. 1914 d. 1991, Edna Eliason b. 1917 d. 1997, and Edith b. 1917 d. 2002.
Signe would move to Nova Scotia, Canada with her first husband Robert Edwin Dove (b. 1906 d. 1989), in 1930. Signe and Robert would have seven children together. Thelma Laverne Dove b. 1929 d. 2015, Helen Madeline Dove b. 1930, William Gustav Dove b. 1934 d. 2018, Anna Lorraine Dove b. 1938, John Robert Dove b. 1938, Marion Elizabeth Dove b. 1940, and Joan Signe Roberta Dove b. 1943.
Signe and her children would move to Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon in 1946. Likely after separating from her first husband Robert. Joining her siblings and father, whom moved there in the early 1930's, after farming in North Dakota proved difficult (this was during the time of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression).
She would go on to marry Ralph Fluke in 1952 and Edgar Bengtson in 1967.--Shawn Ingersoll, #49709975 [1]
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1903 - 1996 (92 år)
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