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Smoky Valley Historical Association Oral Histories: Irene Train (Dec. 8, 1985)

Today, our oral history series is going to go on a short "Train train" set as we share various oral histories of individuals in the Train family in the Smoky Valley. This week we go back more than 40 years to December 8, 1985, to hear from Irene Train. Irene goes deep into her family history, starting with John Train (b. 1838), who came to the United States from Sweden in 1869 and was an early Lindsborg immigrant and a founder of Bethany Lutheran Church. He married the grandmother of Irene's husband - named Anna Christina Magnusson. Among her ancestors on all sides of her family there's a remarkable diversity of professions - undertaker, tinner, electrician, car and furniture seller, minister, ice plant owner, and musicians... just to name a few. Also notable that one of her ancestors was Mary Linderholm, who was owner of the Tea Cup Inn (1913-1922) at 118 S. Main - where Smoky Valley Bakery was located until its recent closure and where Indigo Moo'd Ice Cream is moving in! This is just one part of an ambitious set of oral history recordings under the direction of Elston Flohr, who was a member of the association's Board of Directors and part of the faculty of the Department of English, Theater and Speech at Bethany College. Those interviews are part of the museum archive collection, and there are about 30 Beta and VHS cassette recordings in the series, plus audio cassette tapes. They were created out of a project by the Smoky Valley Historical Association - Kansas and are presented here with permission of the association. Digitization of these videos was made possible with a small Nutt grant from the McPherson County Community Foundation. #ToTheStarsKS #Lindsborg #lindsborgks #lbk #visitlindsborg #SmokyValley #KansasHistory #oralhistory #oralhistorymatters #oralhistoryproject #Sweden #SwedishImmigration #immigrationhistory