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Isaac Chilberg

Birth

17 Dec 1842

Sweden

Death

23 Dec 1911 (aged 69)

La Conner, Skagit County, Washington, USA

Burial

Pleasant Ridge Cemetery

La Conner, Skagit County, Washington, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 48.3922428, Longitude: -122.4478583

Plot

10-4

Memorial ID

73851112

ISAAC CHILBERG has spent twenty-five years at farming in Skagit county, though he has been a resident of the sound country since 1871, a part of which time he passed in mercantile business. Mr. Chilberg enjoys the respect of his home community and is regarded as one of the staunch people of the county. Mr. Chilberg was born in Sweden in 1842, the son of Charles J. Chilberg who settled as a pioneer famier in Iowa in 1846 and remained there until 1863. The subsequent three years were spent in Colorado, Nevada and Oregon. The first five years on the sound were passed without his family and in 1871 he returned to Iowa and brought them to live on a preemption he had taken up near La Conner. Here he continued to reside until called to his last reward in 1905 in his ninety-second year. Mrs. Hannah (Johnson) Chilberg was also a native of Sweden. She passed away in 1902 in her ninetieth year the mother of ten children of whom Isaac was fourth. In Iowa Isaac Chilberg received his education and when twenty years of age went to Colorado.
In 1862 he enlisted in the First Colorado battery and served with that for nearly three years, being mustered out at Fort Leavenworth in 1865. Returning to Iowa, he remained there farming until shortly before coming to Washington in 1871. He first settled in Skagit county, then a part of Whatcom county, on land taken up near La Conner. Two years later he went to Seattle and engaged in the broom business, after six months removing his venture to Olympia, where he remained for two years. The year 1879 he passed in Walla Walla and in the following year rented his father's farm near La Conner and operated it for over twenty years.
In 1866, just after the close of the Civil War, Mr. Chilberg married Miss Melissa Emeline Ockerman. She was born on Sep 4,1849, a daughter of Joseph Ockerman and Emma Adine (Avery) Ockerman. Melissa died on Feb 3,1873. Two children were the result of the union, who later in life became Mrs. Hannah F. Dunlap and Mrs. Mary Callow, both of whom are now dead.

Mr. Chilberg is a member of the Methodist church in which he has held the office of steward for a number of years. In politics he is a Republican. His life has been an exceedingly busy one filled with its joys as well as its sorrows, and now in the evening of life he has the satisfaction of knowing that he is the recipient of the confidence of all who know him and is the subject of the well wishes of the entire community.

From An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties: Their People, Their Commerce and Their Resources, with an outline of the early history of the State of Washington, Endorsed as Authentic by Local Committees of Pioneer, Interstate Publishing Company, 1906

Buried at Pleasant Ridge Cemetery