Taken in Norseland, Minnesota. (Click photo to go to Flickr, where exact location is mapped.)

New Sweden Indian Attack

Mrs. Maria Jonsson, wife of Erik Jonsson, and their son, Pehr, were killed by Sioux Indians on August 23, 1862, near their home in New Sweden Township, about five miles northwest of this marker.  Both natives of Sweden, Mrs. Jonsson was thirty-five and Pehr was twelve years old at the time of the massacre.  Another son, August, born in New Sweden Township in 1861, died of exposure two days after his mother’s death.  All three bodies are buried in this cemetery, which was consecrated in 1859 by the Scandian Grove Lutheran Church.

The Jonsson homestead was one of the eastern-most sites involved in depredations committed by the Indians during the Sioux Uprising of 1862.

“Days of affliction come to meet me” Job 30:27

This marker was erected in 1962 by the Scandian Grove Lutheran Church in grateful memory of these pioneer members of the congregation.

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