John Peter Andersson Groberg

Groberg/Neeley/Cornwall
We go to the Groberg line of our family history and examine our Swedish roots. Dad's grandma Neeley's maiden name is Groberg.  It was John Groberg of the 70 (Grandma Cornwall's cousin) who married dad and I in the Salt Lake Temple in 1979.

This completes the great, great, grandparent arc.

John (or Jan) Peter Andersson Groberg, born in Sungnathors Ägor, Västerfårnebo, Västmanlands, Sweden on 13 Feb 1840 was the first to join the Church.  He became a member  in 1869 when he was 29 years old. He shared the gospel with his parents Anders Persson Groberg and Catharina Andersdotter and they were baptized in 1870. John and his family (he was not married yet) left for America and Zion in 1872 which we will document next week.

John was a seeker as you can tell from his history which was written in Swedish and translated by his daughter Ellen Groberg Crowther and his son Chester Groberg. "I was brought up in the Lutheran Church and confirmed in the same when I was 15 years old.  From then on I lived as a helper to different farmers and didn’t think much of life’s more serious side but fastened my attentions on the empty pleasures which are the habits of youngsters around the same age.  When I was 22 years old I began to think a little more seriously about religion and the possibility of whether it could be true or not but came to no conclusion that it was necessary to be so true to a religion, because I almost decided that the Priests used it to hold people under their will, so I began to take in the Free Thinkers principles, but I couldn’t however have peace with that, because my conscience told me there was a God, that commanded nature’s forces, which means that one is duty bound to worship.  I began thereafter to follow a sect called the Readers, which I thought to be the most upright of the Lutheran Church and I was happy in their congregation for a time of three years.  

Then came the missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and declared to me that the Lord God had again talked to the earth and sent his angels which revealed to Joseph Smith where the American Indian’s ancient history was - which on the plates were hidden in the earth since 400 years A.D. and was taken there by commandments of the Angel September 22, 1827 By Joseph Smith.  The contents of the plates can be read in the Book of Mormon.  I began to examine this book and came to a complete satisfaction that it was true.  I accepted this teaching and was baptized September 1, 1869 by Elder C. J. Oberg and confirmed by the laying on of hands by Erick Petterson.  I have since traveled this path and found it good."
IT IS GOOD!!!