59:, Bengta Nilsdotter was the daughter of the farmer Nils Persson and his wife Elna née Larsdotter. Together with her younger sister Hanna, she was brought up on the FrostagÄrd farm where her mother and grandmother taught her to weave. In 1857, she married John Fredrik Eskilsson, a
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