The former soldier Jons Alm, Almarod, celebrates his 80th birthday today. At the age of only nineteen years, Alm took a post in the Southern Scanian Infantry Regiment, which then had its training camp at Tvedora Moor. Thus, that was during the days of Karl XV and shortly after the Danish-German war in 1864, when Sweden's king and people followed with great interest the struggle of our neighboring country to the south against a more powerful enemy, and only political prudence prevented our country from taking part. Alm belongs to an old family of soldiers, in which a soldier's reputation descended from father to son through many generations, and of whose members more than one has sacrificed his life for the fatherland. For many years, Alm served as a tenement soldier in his regiment, first at Tvedora and later at Revinge, until he retired in the year 1896 following a long and irreproachable career. Possessing a good memory and a keen gift for storytelling, he likes to tell the younger generation about his old regiment and the life of a soldier in former days. Alm, who is still in good physical condition with unimpaired mental powers, follows what is happening in the world with great interest. On his 80th birthday, many will most certainly pay homage to the old man of honor.
Note: Jons Alm's name was originally was Jons Olsson. He was the son of Ohla Larsson Nyman and was a brother of Hannah Olsson Aveldson, who emigrated to Minnesota, and Lars Olsson Ekberg, the father of Olof Ekberg.