CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - SIEVERSON, ANNA LEE
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CEDAR COUNTY NEWS   Jan. 14, 1924

Mrs. Sieverson Dies after her 99th Birthday

Aged Resident of Maskell Community passes away Wednesday

	Mrs. Anna Sieverson, one of the oldest residents of northeast 
Nebraska, passed away at her home near Maskell early Wednesday morning 
being past 99 years of age at the time of her death. 	

	Mrs. Sieverson, who was the mother of Mrs. C.A. Lukken of 
Hartington, celebrated her 99th birthday last Dec. 26th, and she 
expressed the hope that she would live to observe her 100th birthday. 
She has been in failing health for some time, however, and her candle of 
life slowly flickered out, the end coming at four 0’clock Wednesday 
morning.

	The date of Mrs. Sieverson’s birth was Dec. 26, 1824 and she was 
born at Bergan, Norway, her parents being named Lee. About 1840 she came 
to America, settling first in Wisconsin, where she marred Andrew Sieverson, 
in 1872 she moved to South Dakota, her husband having died several years 
previous of that time.  She has been a resident of Cedar county for the 
past 20 years.

	Mrs. Sieverson has lived on many of the American frontiers, and 
was well acquainted with the hardships of the pioneer. Her life in 
addition to being of unusual health, was also one of unusual service. 
She was a member of the Lutheran church during her lifetime. 

	She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Lukken of Hartington; 
Mrs. C.D. Taylor of Grand Rapids Minnesota, Mrs. O.N. Junker, of 
Meckling, SD., and Mrs. Andrew Dahlin of Stockton, California. Two 
sisters, Mrs. Burgess of Vermillion, SD., and Mrs. Sieverson, of Mapleton, 
Minn., and a brother Andrew Lee, of Vermillion, former governor of South 
Dakota also survive her. 

	Funeral services are to be held from the home Friday afternoon at 
two O’clock and will be conducted by Rev. Harang, pastor of the Maskell 
Lutheran Church. Interment will be in the Obert cemetery.