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children: Hilma, Cora, John, Olin, Oliver,
Julian, Willie Mae, and Ora Clyde. They
raised their family on the homestead. Gran-
dad farmed and had other interests in town
property and in some banks. About 1907,
they moved to Clifton.
Oliver, my dad, worked on and off the farm.
For a while, he and an uncle lived on the
place. Some time about 1910, he and Uncle
Johanas Bekken went to Montana to work,
as there were some relatives there.
In 1912, Oliver and Hilma Ellingson were
united in marriage. She was a daughter of the
late Henry and Gina Ellingson, a family of
eight children: Edwin, Susanna, George,
Emma, Oscar, Ida, John, and Hilma.
To the union of Oliver and Hilma, three
children were born: Gladys Marie (1913-
1950), John Henry (1915), and Oliver Almer
(1917). We ranched on Sweet Grass Creek,
where I was born in a log house.
In 1922 the family moved to Clifton to the
old homestead. In 1925, we bought the place.
Dad was interested in conservation and
restoration. Nature is a cruel taskmaster if we
don't know how to take care of the land. Dad
was also interested in the Federal Land Bank,
the Production Credit Association, which
helped a lot of people in the 1930's. My
parents continued to live on the place until
Dad passed on in 1957 and Mother in 1964.
Almer and I quit school in the early 1930's
to help on the place. Gladys went into
training as a nurse. In 1934, she and B.W.
Whitney were united in marriage. Two
children were born to this union. Hilma died
in infancy; Mark, born 1945, is married and
he and his family are now living in Clifton.
Almer continued to work on the place and
out some. In 1954, he and Pauline Burch
Watley married, she having a daughter,
Martha Rebecca (1943) from a previous
marriage. One son was born to this union:
Ray, 1958. In June, 1979, Ray and Nora Dicky
married; they and their daughter, Gina Ann,
live on the old home place.
Almer and Pauline now live in the house
they built on their part of the place in 1955.
In 1942, I was inducted into the United
States Army and trained at Fort Knox. I
landed at CasaBlanca, French Morocco,
Christmas Eve, 1942, with the Second Armor-
ed Division. I was in Africa two years and in
France one year. I received my discharge in
San Antonio, and returned home Nov. 5,
1945. It was one of the happiest days of my
life. While I was in the service, I had to know
before God that we were in the right, and that
God was with us. I settled that in my heart.
In 1946, I entered the U.S. Postal Service
as one of Clifton's first city letter carriers. I
also considered myself an ambassador for my
Lord, Jesus Christ. In February, 1973, Acts
1:8 became actual in my life.
In 1966, I transferred to RR #1, Clifton. I
retired from the postal service in January,
1975. I am ranching and living in a home I
built in 1971 on my earthly inheritance, a part
of the land acquired by John Hansen Bekken.
by John Bekken150
BERGMAN, JOHN AND EMMA
PETTERSON
F87
John Bergman was born May 9, 1846, in
Sweden. He came to the United States
around 1870. He married Karilina Furusett
in 1871. She died in 1872. Then John married
Emma Petterson on Feb 5, 1876, in Waco,
Texas. The Bergmans moved to a farm
between Norse and Norway Mills in 1886.
They experienced hard times because John
and Emma knew nothing about farm life, but
with the help of neighbors and family they
were able to adjust. John died in 1899.
Emma Petterson was born July 21, 1858,
in Hoganas, Skane, Sweden, the daughter of
Olaf and Christina Petterson. Her parents
had five children and moved from Sweden to
a farm in the Turkey Creek community. Her
brothers and sisters were Hannah Petterson
Stelle, Hilma Petterson Faucher, Ed Petter-
son and Amanda Petterson Wilson.
After John's death, Emma and her seven
children moved to an adjoining farm on Neils
Creek. Milton, youngest son of Emma and
John Bergman, bought the family homeplace
in 1916. Milton's son, David, bought the farm
in 1962. The original three-room house built
by Emma still stands but three more rooms
have been added and it has been remodeled
into a comfortable farm home.
The children of John and Emma Petterson
Bergman were as follows: 1. Alma Bergman
married Anton C. Pederson. Their children
were Carolyn Peterson Sanden and Alton
Curtis Pederson. 2. Hilma Bergman married
Oscar John Rea. Their children: Lois Rea
Perkins, Bernia Rea, Oscar John Rea Jr.,
Dorothy Rea Curtis, and Ann Rea Williams.
3. Oscar Bergman married Launa Lane. 4.
Agnes Bergman married Walter A. Golden.
Their children: Anna Golden Appleby, Wal-
ter A. Jr., Mary Nell Golden Curton, and Jack
Bergman Golden. 5. Estelle May Bergman
married Ovie K. Bronstad. Their children:
Emma Estelle Bronstad Normand, Betty Sue
Bronstad McKenzie. 6. Edgar Clinton
Bergman married Blanche Anderson. Their
children: Leta Faye Bergman Helton, Eben
C. Bergman, and Martha Ann Bergman Anz.
7. Milton Leon Bergman married Clarice
Constance Pederson. Their children: Edna
Catholine Bergman Eastus, Clinton Odell
Bergman, Mary Christine Bergman Conrad,
James David Bergman, and Norris Vern
Bergman.
Emma Petterson Bergman made her home
with her youngest son, Milton, for many
years. She did beautiful crochet and pieced
quilts. She loved to sing and tell stories to her
grandchildren. She died June 25, 1942, and
is buried in the Norse Cemetery.
by Mary Bergman
BERGMAN, MILTON L. FAMILY
F88
Milton Leon Bergman, youngest child of
John and Emma Petterson Bergman, was
born Aug. 13, 1894, on the Bergman home-
place west of Clifton. He attended the
Bergman and Norse schools, and Howard
Payne College at Brownwood, Texas. In 1900,
his parents bought an adjoining farm andMilton L. Bergman
Wedding Day, 1915.and Clarice C. Pederson,
moved there. Milton bought this farm from
his mother around 1916 and remained on this
farm the rest of his life. His health began to
fail in the middle fifties but he never lost his
good sense of humor. He loved to tell stories
and often sang to his children and grand-
children. Fishing was a favorite hobby and he
delighted in taking his older grandchildren
on coon hunts. He died in 1959.
Milton married Clarice Constance Peder-
son, daughter of Ole C. and Caroline Dahl
Pederson, in 1916, in Trinity Lutheran
Church, Clifton. Clarice attended Turkey
Creek School and Clifton Academy-Junior
College where among other subjects, she took
a special interest in the study of music. She
loved homemaking, especially beautiful
handwork and pieced many quilts. Her
health remained fairly good, except for
arthritis, until a short time before her death
on Aug. 5, 1977. Both she and her husband
were active members of Trinity Lutheran
Church for many years and are buried in
Clifton Lutheran Cemetery.
The five children of Milton and Clarice
Bergman are as follows: Edna Catholine
Bergman Eastus born June 17, 1918. She lives
in Dallas and has four children. They are:
Carole Lorraine Walker, Ted Odell, Larry
Lee, and Eugene Gale Eastus. Clinton Odell
Bergman of McKinney, Tx., was born Sept.
16, 1920, married Mary Marguerite Rea.
They have four children: Milton Rea, Gary
Clinton, Chris Edward Bergman and Barbara
Ann Robertson. Mary Christine Bergman,
married Victor Conrad of Clifton, and their
children are: Mikel Lewis Conrad, Vickie
Christine Martinez, and Melissa Ann Parks.
James David Bergman, married Mina Faye
Sorenson of Clifton, and their children are:
Melvin Clyde, Danny Ray, James Oscar
Bergman and Marian Illene Boatman. Norris
Vern Bergman married Joyce Gayle Stam-
ford of Clifton.
The David Bergmans bought the Bergman
farm in 1962 and continue to live there. The
original house has been restored into a
modern farm home. The old farm remains a
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Bosque County History Book Committee. Bosque County: Land and People (A History of Bosque County, Texas), book, 1985; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91038/m1/166/?q=campbell: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.