Hulda Theolina Erickson
1875 - 1936 (60 years)Person ID: I0390 | Tree: Marlys Jones - Brodd Family | Last Modified: 3 Jul 2018
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Name Hulda Theolina Erickson Notes
3 MISSIONARY PIONEERS AND SOME WHO HAVE FOLLOWED THEM
OTHERS WHO HAVE GONE TO CHINA
IN MEMORIAM
In the footsteps of Dr. Edwins, the pioneer to China, many other Augustana men and women have gone out to assist int he ingathering of the great harvest. Each one has been faithful and diligent with his God-given talents and each one would desrve a chapter. Space does not permit us here to say much about each one, but we desire to make a brief statement about those who have finished their course. Several of them fell in the midst of the battle for the Lord as soldiers on the front lilines of the Church, some of them while very young, all of them while yet it would seem that years of useful service might lie ahead. But God knows what is best for His servants and for His Church. He gathers home His laborers, but His work moves on.
MRS. ALFRED TRUED
Mrs. Theolina Trued spent nineteen years in the China service as the wife of Dr. Alfred Trued. She also took an active part in the missionary work.
She was born in Swedeburg, Nebraska, October 6, 1875. Her early years were spent in this community, where she studied music and served for a number of years as organist and choir director of the local Lutheran church.
In 1908 she was married to Pastor Alfred Trued, who had accepted a call to China, the first pastor to go out to assist Pastor Edwins in Honan. They arrived in Honan Thanksgiving Day, 1908.
"She had a great ambition for work and loved especially the work amoung the women. The first station assigned to the Trueds was Juchow. She accompanied her husband to that place, where they made their home in a big Chinese room, divided intoller one by means of bamboo partitions covered with paper. Later on property was purchased and a home was built." (Thirty Years in China, p. 186).
She came home to America in 1927 due to the political disturbance in China. Shortly afterwards her husband also returned and later accepted a call to Stromsburg, Nebraska. After a year of gradually failing health she died April 17, 1936. Shes survived by her husband and two children, Eleonora and Constantine.
Bibliography: Thirty Years in China, pp. 186-187. S. HJALMAR SWANSON Author
WAHOO DEMOCRAT - APRIL 23, 1936
SERVICES HELD FOR MRS. ALFRED TRUED
Mrs. Alfred Trued passed away at a hospital in Muscatine, Iowa in Friday at the age of 60 years. The family lived in Ceresco several years ago. She is survived by her husband, Rev. Alfred Trued, one daughter, Elanor, and a son, Constantine,l of Stromsburg.
Funeral services were held at the Lutheran church north of Ceresco, Monday afternoon. In charge the Rev. Gulleen of Fremont. Internment was in the Lutheran cemetery.
Birth 6 Oct 1875 Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska 
[1] Gender Female Died 17 Apr 1936 Muscatine, Iowa [2] Buried Grace Lutheran Cemetery, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska [3] -
Parents
Father Johannes Erickson (ID:I0507), b. 7 Jul 1838, Kristianstads l d. 7 Sep 1912, Saunders County, Nebraska (Age 74 years) Mother Ellen Diedrick (ID:I0510), b. 17 Apr 1840 d. 8 Jan 1918, Saunders County, Nebraska (Age 77 years) Children (Siblings) 1. Hulda Theolina Erickson (ID:I0390), b. 6 Oct 1875, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska d. 17 Apr 1936, Muscatine, Iowa (Age 60 years) -
Family
Husband Rev. Dr. Alfred Edward Trued (ID:I0372), b. 9 Mar 1875, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska d. 12 Jul 1946, the Immanuel Home for the Aged, Omaha, Nebraska (Age 71 years) Marriage 28 Sep 1908 Grace Lutheran Church, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska by Rev. Arthur H. Peterson. [3] Children 1. Eleonora Margareta Trued (ID:I0391), b. 12 Nov 1911, Hs d. 5 Sep 1966 (Age 54 years)2. Rev. Rev. Emmaneul Constantine Trued (ID:I0392), b. 11 Feb 1914, Kiahsin, China d. 1 Apr 1990, Collier County, Florida (Age 76 years) -
Other Personal Events
Baptism 17 Oct 1875 Grace Lutheran Church, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska [3] 1880 Federal Census 15 Jun 1880 Kearney City, Buffalo County, Nebraska [4] Confirmation 13 Apr 1890 Grace Lutheran Church, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska [3] Occupation 1900 Servant [5] 1900 Federal Census 13 Jun 1900 Richland Precinct, Saunders County, Nebraska [5] -
Event Map
Birth - 6 Oct 1875 - Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska 
Buried - - Grace Lutheran Cemetery, Swedeburg, Saunders County, Nebraska = Link to Google Earth -
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