Peter Heglin (spelled Hӧglund in birth record but spelling changed to Heglin on immigration) was born in 1855 in Overbyn, Ovansjӧ, Gävleborg, Sweden to Hans Hӧglund and Brita Eliasdotter aka Anderson. Peter left Sweden with his parents and brothers in 1869 to immigrate to the United States. He grew up on his father's farm at Dalesburg, Clay County, South Dakota. Peter was a homesteader in Lincoln County, South Dakota when he married Sophia Sundström in 1880. He sold his homestead land to his brother John and moved his family to Dalesburg in Clay County where he bought a farm in the 1880s. Peter and Sophia had 11 children together, two of whom died as infants. Sophia died in 1898, leaving Peter with a young family to care for. The two youngest of their children went to live with relatives.
In 1902 Peter remarried to Christine Lundquist who had also been born in Sweden. Peter and Christine moved to a homestead in Canada, near what was to become Trossachs, Saskatchewan, a village in the Weyburn district. Peter Heglin is said to have moved the first building into Trossachs and had a pioneer supply business there.[1] Peter Heglin owned NW 16-7-16-W2 in Saskatchewan according to the Western Land Grants database at Library and Archives Canada. He received patent on this land in Nov, 1906.[2] Peter and Christine had 5 children together before she, like his first wife, died at a young age in 1913. Their youngest daughter, only 3 weeks old when her mother died, was adopted by neighbours.
Peter remained on the farm at Trossachs but frequently visited family members in South Dakota. It was on such a visit to one of his adult sons that he died suddenly in 1917. [3] He left 14 surviving children behind. Peter is buried in Brokenshell Cemetery, Trossachs, Saskatchewan, Canada beside his second wife.
August Peterson, History of the Swedes who settled in Clay county, South Dakota, Swedish Pioneer and Historical Society of Clay County, South Dakota, 1947, p. 138-142 (Biographical entry for Heglin family)
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch [2] : 11 August 2016, Peter H Heigland, Brooklyn, Lincoln, Dakota Territory, United States; citing enumeration district ED 15, sheet 364C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0113; FHL microfilm 1,254,113.
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch [3] : accessed 13 January 2017, Peter Heglin, Pleasant Valle & Spirit Mound Townships, Clay, South Dakota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 98, sheet 12A, family 209, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,548.
Canada Census of the Northwest Provinces, Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan 1906, database with images at Library and Archives Canada [4] indexed under Heylin and [5] under Heglin
1911 Census of Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, Villages of Forward and Trossachs database and image at Library and Archives Canada, indexed under Haglin [6]
1916 Census of the Prairie Provinces (Canada), Weyburn, Saskatchewan. Database and image at Library and Archives Canada [7]
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