Home | Loren | Mary Jo | Denise | Amber | Honor Roll | Resources Our Ekblad ancestors and their Ecklund cousins once lived at Ekemoen farm in Vislanda parish, Kronoberg County (part of old Småland Province), Sweden. It is located about three miles from the church. Many places in Sweden were what they called a byalag (farm village). The farmers all lived in the little hamlet with their house and barn. Their fields surrounded the village, and you had to walk over others to get to your own. Ekemoen seems to have been more of an independent farm. There was one Ekemoen farm in 1700. It was then divided into the north farm (Ekemoen Norregård) and the south farm (Ekemoen Södregård) in 1780.
Jöns Jönsson and wife Kerstin (my gr-gr-gr-gr-grandparents) owned the north farm in 1780. Their son Sebbe Jönsson and wife Märta Svensdotter took over the north farm when they married in 1800. Then Sebbe and Märta's son Jon Sebbesson and wife Elin Månsdotter took over the north farm. They sold it to their son, widower Petter Jonsson (Peter Ekblad), in 1854. Peter sold it to Johan Johansson and wife Kristina Magnusdotter (don't know if they were relatives or not) in 1860. Johan sold the north farm to the owner of the south farm, Peter Ekblad's first cousin Petter Magnusson, in 1873 after his wife died.
Magnus Sebbesson, brother of Jon Sebbesson of the north farm, owned the south farm as of 1854. I don't know who owned it from 1780 until then. Their son Petter Magnusson and wife Anna-Sara Karlsdotter took over the farm in 1866. In 1873 they bought the north farm to reunite Ekemoen once again after nearly 100 years. Sven Gustav Johannson (not our relative) married in 1910 and bought Ekemoen Norregård (and I suppose the south farm as well). I don't know for sure who owned it until 1910, but probably widow Anna-Sara after husband Petter Magnusson emigrated to America in 1889 and soon died. Sven's son Harald Johannson bought the farm in 1954. Harald's son Per Haraldsson took over the farm in 1985 and lives there still, while sister Ingrid Salomonsson (who provided this history and these photos) lives in nearby Bokhultet. Cousin Linda Knochenmus has visited here and noted that "JS" (for Jon Sebbesson?) was carved into the old root cellar.
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Ekemoen is said by our forebears to mean oak heath. Heath is apparently hed in standard Swedish, while mo is said to mean sandy field or sometimes heath. I've seen where moen is said to be Norwegian for things like heath, moor, sandy soil, and farm. What it might mean in Old Swedish or a Swedish dialect I cannot say. If anybody out there knows, please share your knowledge.
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