Marie Malm's Photographs: " ...She went over to Övermalax yesterday..."

In Övermalax lived a sister of Marie Rosenback.  Marie Malm visited Emelia, and her family.  I captioned their photo at the Malaxbygden Förr  Och Nu Facebook Group: 

Lågas farm

“Marie Malm took this picture of Lågas sisters Emelia and Alina in 1930. I wonder if this was the childhood home of Marie’s mother Johanna Lågas Malm.  Emelia and Alina were daughers of Matt Lågas. Matt Lågas and Johanna Lågas Malm were brother and sister, and Matt Lågas died in California in 1926. Lågas was an unusual name in the United States. Matt Lågas son called himself John Mattson in the United States. John Mattson and Emelia and Alina were brother and sisters, first cousins of Marie Malm. Marie and her sister Amanda left Malax with their mother Johanna in 1896 to live in Tacoma, Washington.”

Lågas sisters Amelia and Alina
and families 1930

Another letter, one written July 7, 1930, from Linnea Gord to her mother in Tacoma, Washington, identifies the day other photos were taken, later labeled on the back, Mother’s cousins in Finland.  These photos were also among photos kept in the red Fraser’s box. 

Yttermalax, Finland / July 7, 1930 

Lågas sisters, other snapshot

Lågas farm

 It has been awfully hot here
for the past weeks, but today it rained pitchforks.  The boys were working like the dickens to get the hay in before it rained.  I think they got most of it.

Auntie just came home. She went over to Övermalax yesterday and she stayed overnight.  Last night when we came home we tiptoed into the bedroom so we wouldn’t wake her, and then she wasn't even there.  All that trouble for nothing.