The Mattson Line. Newly Discovered Items: Last Will and Testament. 1947 Taxes on the Family Ranch. Grandpa Mattson's Baptismal Recommend Etc.

From the Fortress of Solitude
Pleasant Grove

Happy Easter!

Kirk Mattson called last week. He'd found several things in Uncle John's old office desk he thought would be of interest to the Mattson line of our family.  Porter dropped them off at Jilane's and she made the harrowing journey one block to my home, risking corona virus and all, to safely deliver the papers to me.   I'll be posting them in the next few blog posts.

Item 1:  Grandpa Walter Mattson's Last Will and Testament

Walter Mattson 1942

  

Item 2:  Grandpa Mattson's baptism and Confirmation                         Recommend into the LDS Church. November 1966

Violet and Walter Mattson (1960's)

Item 3:  A letter to Grandma Violet Mattson from a Pierce cousin living  in Alabama seeking help in tracing the Pierce family line. 

Item 4:  The 1947 Tax Statement for the Mattson Ranch at Hammond Montana.  Of interest in the exact land survey of the land and the amount Grandpa Mattson owed in back taxes.  Ranching wasn't profitable for the Mattsons.  

The Mattsons of Hammond Montana.  1944

Item 5:  Grandma Violet Mattson's Certificate of Recognition for 7 years an employee of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City. She worked as a cook in the school's cafeteria.

Grandma Violet Mattson working in the cafeteria at the South Dakota School of Mines Cafeteria.

A Few Recent Finds for both the Williamson and Mattson Line.

From the Fortress of Solitude

Pleasant Grove

Hello All,

     Just a few recent finds to publish today.  These are also in my Ancestry.com tree.  

1.  This is the death certificate of Walter Ernest Williamson, a brother to our Great Grandfather William Jonathan Williamson.  So if there are Williamson's in Billings Montana, we may very well be related.

Walter Ernest Williamson was the undersheriff of Treasure County Montana.  He was a cowboy in his younger years riding the range for many of the larger brands of South Dakota and Montana.

2.  Item number two in today's discoveries is the World War II draft card for our grandfather Charles Williamson.  Notice how his signature resembles dad's.  

3.  Item three. a picture from the 1955 Spearfish High School Yearbook.  Luella was in the Glee Club.  "I didn't like the director, Mr. Theland. He had a beautiful wife but like to flirt with the senior girls. Not me, I was a junior".  

4.  Item 4  The baptismal record of our grandfather Walter Mattson (Luella's dad) into the Swedish Lutheran Church in Lead.  His parents were not members, so the baptism was sponsored by his Aunt Sand.  

5.  The death certificate of Samuel Pettit Williamson, another of our great great Uncles, brother to  our Great Grandfather William Jonathan Williamson.  That means we have Williamson cousins in 

Coeur d' Alene Idaho.