Here some pictures from a visit in Slätthult August 2012. Click on a pickture and you will get a enlargement in which you can browse by your self.

Slätthult …

.. was a small farm, a croft , in the forests between Krogsered and Drängsered.
Maybe nobody had known anything about it, or wath’s still remains of it, if not August Bondesson had written the story ”Jon in Slätthult”. A book, rich and very worth reading, telling about the life on a small  croft in the forest, the first half of 1800’s.
Today only ruins remains. It was demolished on 30’s by the owner at that time but the place very worth a visit. Only the bases of the houses and the well remains. Krogsered’s society for local history takes today care of the place. Krogsered’s society for local history
A beatiful day in August 2012 I visited Slätthult.
Below you also find also the book ”Jon in Slätthult” published, and also the fore worth that you can read in the Bondesson society’s facsimile publication of the book. (Published with their permission.)
Please visit their website, Bondessonsällskapet .

Another man doing family research, Lars Larsson, with roots in this area, has read the book and done rearch over the persons in the book. Very nice reading! His article is published on Halland’s Genealogists website, Hallands Släktforskarförening ,
under “Publicerad forskning – Artiklar”, page 2. (Here below published with Lars permission.)

”Jon in Slätthult”
August Bondesson
Second edition, printed 1894

The marriage between Jon and Anna, 1871, in Drängsered’s book of marriage.

The Bondesson societies foreword to their facsimile copy of
“Jon in Slätthult”.

Click on the book if you want to read it (in Swedish).

Click on the picture above and read Lars Larssons, fantastic!, exposé over the persons in the book.

Click on the picture above and read some more about August Bondesson and Jon in Slätthult.