Name of father: Peter Anderson Hoven

Maiden name of Mother: Katrina Nelson

Mother Caterina Hoven is buried in Salem Pioneer Cemetery

1900 MN CENSUS – Hulda Ch. Hoven (b Oct 1887, Sweden) enumerated with parents Peter A. (b Sept 1834, Sweden, naturalized, occupation farmer) and Cathena (b Oct 1843, Sweden, mother of 9 children, 8 living at time of census) and 3 brothers, all born in Sweden, Gustaf A. (b Oct 1880), Martin B. (b May 1883) and Otto A.F. (b July 1885); family immigrated to US in 1892

1910 MN CENSUS – Hulda C. Hoven (22y,b Sweden, occupation dressmaker) enumerated with mother Katherina (66y, b Sweden, widowed, mother of 9 children, 8 living at time of census) and 3 brothers, all born in Sweden, Oscar W. (32y, occupation engineer), Martin B. (26y, occupation farm laborer) and Otto (25y, occupation farmer); family immigrated to US in 1892

1920 OR CENSUS – Hulda Smith (32y, b Sweden) enumerated with husband Frank A. (33y, b New York, occupation farmer) and 3 children, Eula (4y, b Oregon), Edgar (2y, b Oregon) and Ila (1m, b Oregon)

1930 OR CENSUS – Hulda C. Smith (42y, b Sweden, immigrated 1891, naturalized, married at age 27y) enumerated with husband Frank A. (43y, b New York, married at age 28y, occupation farmer) and 4 children, all born in Oregon, Eula C. (13y), Edgar A. (12y), Ila K. (10y) and James E. (5y)

1940 OR CENSUS – Hulda C. Smith (52y, b Sweden, widowed) enumerated with son James E. (15y, b Oregon); family was living in same place in 1935

OSBH DC (Polk County 1988) #88-21773

Hulda Hoven Smith
Hulda Hoven Smith, 101, of Salem, died Nov. 21 in Dallas.
She was born is (sic) Smaland, Sweden, and came to the United States in 1892. She became a naturalized citizen in 1898. In 1910, she moved to Oregon from Minnesota, and in 1963 moved to Salem from Dallas. She was librarian at the Dallas Public Library from 1947 to 1963 and was a member of the Court Street Christian Church in Salem. Her husband, Frank A. Smith, died in 1931.
Survivors include her daughters, Eula Minnich of Dallas and Ila Sams of Skamania, Wash.; and sons, Edgar A. of Modesto, Calif. and James E. of Salem.
Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Nov. 23 at the church. Private interment will follow at Zena Cemetery. Visiting hours will be from 8 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the Rigdon-Ransom Mortuary in Salem. Contributions may be made to the church memorial fund.
Itemizer Observer, Wednesday, November 23, 1988, 9A

Mother
Hulda C. Smith
1887 - 1988

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1900 MN CENSUS (Lac Qui Parle co, Freeland, ED 126, sheet 10A)

1910 MN CENSUS (Lac Qui Parle co, Freeland, ED 65, sheet 7B)

1920 OR CENSUS (Marion co, Fairgrounds, ED 321, sheet 6B)

1930 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Spring Valley, ED 4, sheet 2B)

1940 OR CENSUS (Polk co, Dallas, ED 27-6, sheet 3A)

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