I am starting off another work week by transcribing a document that is important to my family research. My choice for today is the Declaration of Citizenship that was completed for Toline "Lena" Ostrom, my 2x great grandmother. I found this document within a homestead land record file that Lena had completed in Roberts County, South Dakota.
I am a related to Lena Ostrom as follows:
- Toline "Lena" G. Paulson, who married Olaus O. Ostrom,
- their daughter Anna Ostrom, who married Warren Warner Haner,
- their daughter Olena Marie Haner, who married Alfred Johnson,
- their son, William Richard Johnson, who married Marilyn Eileen Brown,
- their daughter, me
- Toline "Lena" G. Paulson, who married Olaus O. Ostrom,
- their son Oscar Ostrom, who married Anna Tomine Brekke
- their son Edwin "Tom" Ostrom, who married Alice Viola Emerson
- their son, Ed
I hope that working through transcribing documents that are important to my family's history will help to to recall the fine details they contain. I have a tendency to gloss over important bits of information in my excitement of the find.
This is a form filled out primarily by typed-in information. Any fields that are left blank on the original will also be left blank on the transcription. If I make any comments these will show with square brackets [ ].
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| IMAGE: Declaration of Citizenship - final naturalization paper for Lena Ostrom, Roberts County, South Dakota; digitized microfilm copy. [1] |
REPRODUCED AT NATIONAL ARCHIVES
ST. DECLARATION OF CITIZENSHIP.
REPUBLICAN PRINT: WILMOT, S.D.
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA } SS.
County of Roberts. }
IN CIRCUIT COURT.
Feby Term, Feby 25th 1902
In the matter of the application of Lena Oslrom to become a Citizen of the United States, Ole. Oslrom and Oline Oslrom, being severally sworn; do depose and say, each for himself, that he is well acquainted with the above named Lena Oslrom, that he has resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for five years last past, and for one year last past within the State of South Dakota; and that during the same period he has behaved himself as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.
Ole. Oslrom.
Oline Oslrom.
Subscribed and sworn to in open Court this 25th day of Feby 1902
John C Perkins Clerk.
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STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA } SS.
County of Roberts. }
IN CIRCUIT COURT.
I, Lena, Oslrom, do swear, that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America, and that I do absolutely and entirely Renounce and Abjure forever, all Allegiance and Fidelity to every Foreign Power, Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever; and particularly to the King of Sweden & Norway whose subject I was. And further, that I have never borne any hereditary title, or been of any of the degrees of Nobility of the country whereof I have been a subject, and that I have resided within the United States for five years last past, and in the State for one year last past.
Witness mark }
C B Jackson. }
Elias, Monson, }
her
Lena X Oslrom.
mark
25th day of Feby 1902
John C. Perkins Clerk
By C B Jackson Deputy
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STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA } SS.
County of Roberts. }
IN CIRCUIT COURT.
And now, to-wit: At a term of said Court now being held at Sisseton in and for the County of Roberts in said State, upon the foregoing oath and affidavits, and upon further proof, having been made by the production of a Certificate that the said Lena Ostrom did before the Clerk of Circuit Court Roberts County South Dak the same being a Court of Record, having a common law jurisdiction, make the requisite declaration of his intention to become a Citizen of the United States, and to renounce all other allegiance as required by the laws of the United States.
It is ordered by the Court, that the said Lena Ostrom, be, and he is hereby admitted to be, A Citizen of the United States.
By the Court,
Ja H. McCoy, Judge.
A true Record. Attest:
John C. Perkins Clerk.
By CB Jackson, Deputy.
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Source:
1.) Lena Ostrom (Roberts County) homestead file, final certificate no. 21290, Watertown, South Dakota, Land Office; Land Entry Papers, 1800-1908; Record Group 49: Records of the Bureau of Land Management; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Declaration of Citizenship issued by Roberts County, South Dakota in 1902 to Lena Ostrom.
I notice that the form that was completed for Lena's admission as a citizen was printed assuming the applicant would be a male. Lena must have been an independent person to pursue becoming a U.S. citizen when most applicants were male.
The court's clerk wrote Lena's surname as O S L R O M until the third and final portion of this declaration; at that point her name was written correctly O S T R O M. I am glad at the important portion her name was correct. It appears to me that the clerk either didn't cross his "Ts" or was copying from a document that contained what he thought were "Ls."
I hope you enjoyed today's post and that your week has had a good start. Thank you for joining me here.
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