Their entire lifetime,  brothers Charlie and August lived close together in Colorado, but their half-brother John continued on to California to become a farmer.  The  Ekburg brothers and Anderson sisters all shared the same father, but John had a different mother.   John’s mother passed in 1859, just a year after John’s birth.  John dad remarried and married a girl named Anna Anders Dotter who birthed John’s step-brothers and sisters.  Records show that John immigrated to the States in 1882.

 John began life with the moniker of  Johan Andersson, he was the oldest of his six step-siblings and was born in Malma, Sweden, in 1858, a parish usurped by another and no longer exists.  He took the new surname  of “Ekberg” sometime before leaving Sweden, after he left home to work. His other half-brothers took the same surname when they arrived in the United States, but all three brothers spelled their surname “Ekburg” when in the U.S.  His half-sisters Mary and Johanna (Hannah) retained retained the family surname, “Anderson”.

Recent discovery of records indicate that John followed approximately the same path at different times from Sweden as his brothers, with records ultimately placing them all three together in Pueblo, Colorado in 1893.  After leaving Pueblo John surfaces in the state of California while his brothers remained in a different party of Colorado, La Plata, County.  After John left Colorado, he spent a couple years as a carnival barker before settling down in the agricultural area south of Sacramento, California.

The 1920 U.S. census puts John in San Joaquin county, California, probably in the city of Escalon, California.

 John was born December 22 1858 and died on January 6, 1932 at age 74 and was interred at the Burwood Cementary in Escalon.  John married a lady named Hulda Brodd in Pueblo, Colorado 1888. John and Hulda born one girl child, Helen Amelia Ekburg born August 1893 in Pueblo, Colorado, who died of Scarlett fever just four years later.  They remained childless.