Carl August
(August)
Zetting
aka Zitting, Sitting
Born in Tumba, Stockholm, Sweden
Ancestors 
Son of Johan Fredrick Zitting
and Anna Christina Stenmark
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Sophia Wilhelmina (Ervolder) Zetting
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at age 75
in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 29 Nov 2020
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Biography
Carl August, the son of Johan Fredrik Sitting in Tumba and his wife Anna Christina Stenmark, was born 4 June 1818.[1]
Carl August Sitting was a worker in Tumba. He moved to Stockholm in 1837.[2] In 1843 August Sitting lived in the quarter Stuten in Jakob parish, where he was a journeyman, working for the carpenter PG Axner.[3]
An LDS adherent, he emigrated from Sweden in 1859.[4] He was naturalized as a United States citizen in the Utah Territory on 2 February 1866.[5]
At the time of the US census 1880 carpenter Carl A Zitting lived in Weber, Utah Territory with his wife Wilhelmine and seven children.[6]
He passed away in 1894. [7]
Sources
- ↑ Botkyrka kyrkoarkiv, Födelse- och dopböcker, SE/SSA/1490/C I/4a (1801-1851), bildid: C0030227_00088, sida 63 Riksarkivet SVAR
- ↑ Botkyrka (AB) AI:13 (1836-1840) Bild 740 / Sida 69
- Arkiv Digital page info v83666a.b740.s69 | To page (paywall) | Riksarkivet
- ↑ Jakob och Johannes (A, AB) AIa:63 (1843) Bild 199 / Sida 389
- Arkiv Digital page info v86165.b199.s389 | To page (paywall) | Riksarkivet
- ↑ "Scandinavia, Mission Emigration Records, 1852-1920," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WWNQ-HQ6Z : 11 July 2019), Carl August Zitting, 1859; citing Emigration, Gothenburg, Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden, {record.getField('SOURCE_DOCUMENT_NBR')}, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family History Department, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 25,696.
- ↑ "Utah, State Archives Records, 1848-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9MT-WQL2?cc=2001084&wc=M6CM-H3D%3A284658101%2C284694701 : 2 August 2020), Salt Lake > Declarations of intention and certificates of citizenship 1858-1872 > image 56 of 511; State Archives, Salt Lake City.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNSG-N2T : 14 November 2020), Curl A. Zitting, Weber, Utah Territory, United States; citing enumeration district ED 101, sheet 487C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,339.
- ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Alyssa Bistline.
- Residence 1847: Klara (A, AB) AI:100 (1847) Bild 18 / sid 33 (AID: v87203.b18.s33, NAD: SE/SSA/0010)
- Residence 1848-1849: Norrköpings S:t Olai (E) AI:46 (1848-1853) Bild 157 / sid 153 (AID: v28196.b157.s153, NAD: SE/VALA/00273)
- Residence 1856: Katarina (A, AB) AI:108 (1856) Bild 109 / sid 209 (AID: v86854.b109.s209, NAD: SE/SSA/0009)
- Moving record Katarina parish, Stockholm to Kalmar: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0055736_00161
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