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Maria Eugenia Hulda Serafia PETERSON

Female 1894 - 1982  (87 years)


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  • Name Maria Eugenia Hulda Serafia PETERSON 
    Birth 14 Nov 1894  Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Baptism 16 Sep 1898  Little Falls, Morrison County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • probably Bethel Lutheran
    Death Sep 1982  Arizona Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • SSDI as Marie Peterson
    Notes 
    • Called Eugenia, age 5 months, in the 1895 state census. Called Eyen in the 1900 census. Called Mary V., age 10, in the 1905 state census. Not listed at home with her mother and brother in the 1910 census.

      An article in the 22 Jan 1904 edition of the Little Falls Herald:

      A little daughter of Mrs. Sophia Peterson of the West side was knocked down by a horse Thursday last week but escaped with a scalp wound.

      An article in the 25 Jun 1909 edition of the Little Falls Herald:

      Mary Peterson, the fifteen year-old daughter of Mrs. Sophia Peterson of the West side was brought before Justice Gerritz’s court yesterday afternoon on the complaint of her mother who asked that she be committed to the Red Wing school for the incorrigibles as she was unable to do anything with the girl. The justice recommended that the girl be sent and, if Judge Taylor approves, committment papers will probably be received here today.

      In the 1910 census, she is probably the Mary Peterson, 15, an inmate at the Minnesota State Training School in Red Wing. Her nativity is shown as born in Minnesota to a father born in Norway and a mother born in Sweden.

      An article in the 3 May 1912 edition of the Little Falls Herald:

      Mary Peterson, a daughter of Mrs. Sophia Peterson of the West side, who only eight months ago had been paroled from the Girls’ Home at Sauk Centre, was caught masquerading as a boy in Minneapolis the latter part of the week and detained. She had purchased some boys’ clothing at the Val. E. Kasparek Clothing store, ostensibly for her husband whom she said was in Canada but in reality to masquerade as a young man and travel.

      The girl had gone to Minneapolis and there purchased her ticket for Chicago and sent her trunk ahead of her when her peculiar actions in men’s clothing and imperfect disguise was noticed by a detective who placed her under arrest. Upon being taken to the matron at the police station she owned up to her sex and stated that never more would she go masquerading in boys’ clothes as the trousers were too hard to keep up. They were slipping down on her and she was smoking a cigarette when taken into custody.

      She has been returned to the Girls’ Home at Sauk Cente.

      A family history of Hugo Peterson claims that she, as Marie Peterson, died in Tombstone, Arizona. That woman, according to the SSDI, was born 14 Nov 1894 and died September 1982 in Douglas in Cochise County, Arizona. Her Social Security number had been issued in Minnesota.
    Person ID I7746  Don Carlson's Tree
    Last Modified 29 May 2022 

    Father Erich (Aleck) LARSON PETERSON,   b. 1845, Sweden Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Oct 1900, Little Falls, Morrison County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years) 
    Mother Maria Sophia (Sophie) LIND,   b. 26 Apr 1848, Hägghult, Hova, Skaraborgs län, Sweden Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1880  Stockholm, Sweden Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F5880  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart