Carl and Kajsa and Backen
To me the center, the hub, of the story is the Carl/Kajsa family. Carl was born 1832 and Kajsa 1825. They married in 1855 and got four children. Three of the kids went to USA, one of them remained there. Here is the chronology:
1825 Kajsa Svensdotter is born, I don't know where but not in Timmele parish.
1832 Carl is born in Timmele on Backen by Lars Andersson and Cajsa Pettersdotter, the second youngest children of seven.
1849 Carl gets his first job outside the home, on a farm in the neighbourhood where his older brother Anders already works. The brothers moves two years later to another farm that Anders buys and where Carl works.
1852 Carl and Kajsa have met, and three years later they marry and move to Backen.
1856 first child is born, Gustaf Emil. 1860 Albin, 1863 Märta Cecilia and 1867 Franz Adolf.
1880 Gustaf E emigrates to Brockton via Boston. He marries and gets four children, Carl G E, George A, John Victor and Evelyn, married Swanson.
1884 Franz Adolf emigrates but returns and dies in Sweden 1887, only 20 years old, leaving no children.
1886 Albin moves to the parish next door, Dalum, where he meets Hanna Lovisa Lindström. In 1891 they marry and 1893 Ivar is born, my grandfather. The year after they buy and move to Korsgården in Timmele. In 1902 their second boy is born, Adolf. In 1910 they move to a small farm called Frännarps kvarn, still in Timmele. Only a few months after the move Albin dies.
1896 Albin emigrates, leaving his family behind, but returns in 1900. Shortly after that Carl dies at the age of 68. From now on Kajsa and Märta Cecilia lives alone on Backen. In 1916 Kajsa dies and in 1933 Märta Cecilia dies leaving no children.
Carl and Albin are crofters and shoemakers. Gustaf too obviously, he emigrates to a "shoemaking district" and works in shoefactories and puts up a small shop. I don't know anything about Franz Adolf, but I know that Märta Cecilia was a dressmaker. And that Kajsa was a maid before her marriage, probably at the schoolhouse in Timmele.