Martin PETERSON was born February 28, 1902 in Savannah, Georgia. It is not certain when he arrived in Alaska but he is listed in the 1930 US Census in Seldovia as single. He married Lottie HOWARD Rapin Nyman in 1935. Lottie was born in Alaska in 1892. Legend has it that she was kidnapped and brought to Kodiak as a child, where she married 1st Nicholai Rapin and had a son Frederick Rapin. After Nicholai died Lottie married Nicholas Nyman and they had several more children. Lottie’s son Frederick Rapin became known as Fred Nyman.
Martin and Lottie had six more children. Lottie was a midwife and delivered many of the babies in Seldovia. Martin died September 21, 1950 in Seldovia. He is buried in the Seldovia City Cemetery in Plot #29. Lottie moved back to Kodiak after the 1964 earthquake and died there in 1968.
Freda PETERSON Robinson (1934, Seldovia – 2015, Anchorage)
Teddy PETERSON was born in 1938 in Seldovia and died in Seldovia in 1941. He is buried in the Seldovia City Cemetery, Plot #49, next to his brother, Martin Peterson. Originally their plots were fenced with thick wooden markers, the name as their father’s at Plot #29, but over time the fences and markers have disappeared.