Click picture for larger view of St. John Swede Cemetery's location in Pulaski County, Missouri 
Photo by Pulaski County Obits, October 2, 2009 St. John Swede Cemetery is located in Pulaski County, MO., near the village of Swedeborg. Highway 133 to Highway BB.
Tombstone Inscriptions of Pulaski County reports that St. John Swede Cemetery is located on land donated by John Strom and that the first burial was Matthew Anderson who died in 1878. John Strom was buried here after his death in 1904. Touring Swedish America writes that this cemetery “holds many gravestones with Swedish names.”. There are many stones that indicate that the one buried beneath was born in Sweden. Some of those names are: Hans Ekstrom, Kjarste Ekstrom, Unknown Erickson, Carl J. Lundstrom, Alfred Peterson, Fred Nordberg, and Albertina Fischer. Albertina’s husband, Joseph Fischer was born in France. Records of burials in St. John Swede Cemetery have been kept.
St. John Swede Cemetery, near the village of Swedeborg, MO. Photo by Pulaski County Obits, October 2009 
Gravestone of Alfred Peterson, born in Sweden, died near Swedeborg, Missouri. Photo by Pulaski County Obits, October 2009Latitude: 37.9180945
Longitude: -92.3623955
Township 37-Range 13-Section 21
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