Thoughts and stories, by Pal

    Tonight I'll tell interesting things about my husband Wayne D Eckman's father, and his ancestors from Sweden.   Wayne wrote, in the book about his ancestors:  (Pages 39, and on to 48)    I want to acknowledge my gratitude to our wonderful missionary system and to the missionaries who visited Sweden in the year 1880, C.P. Larsson and Elder Gillan, both of Murray, Utah, who preached the gospel to our forebears and converted them. Those were my father Roy Waldamer Eckman's parents, John Emanuel Wengreen Eckman and Margaret Christine Turnquist, and Roy's grandparents, Johan and Anna Gretha Wengreen, and Erik and Carolina Soderbom Turnquist.    Roy's father’s 3 sisters and 2 brothers and his mother’s only sister were all baptized and emigrated to Utah, some in 1881 and others in 1883. Grandfather Johan Emanuel Wengreen Eckman was born in Tierp, Sweden, August 15, 1836. He was Roy's grandfather, and left Sweden in 1881 with his 2 sons, William 12 and Charle