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Joseph Elsom

Birth	:	13 Dec 1841 England
Death	:	26 May 1926 Spink County, South Dakota, USA
Burial	:	Fairview Cemetery, Northville, Spink County, USA
Coordinate	:	45.1599998, -98.5841980
Description	:	JOSEPH ELSOM was born in Louth, England, December 13, 1841. His father was by trade a shoemaker and followed this until 1853, when he emigrated to St. Andrews, New Brunswick, where he remained for one winter, and he and our subject worked on the railroad. In the spring following they came to Orleans county, New York, and rented a farm on shares, the father remaining there until his death in 1856. Our subject worked near his old home until 1858 when he went to the lumber region of Canada. He returned to Orleans county, in 1860, and the following... Read More	JOSEPH ELSOM was born in Louth, England, December 13, 1841. His father was by trade a shoemaker and followed this until 1853, when he emigrated to St. Andrews, New Brunswick, where he remained for one winter, and he and our subject worked on the railroad. In the spring following they came to Orleans county, New York, and rented a farm on shares, the father remaining there until his death in 1856. Our subject worked near his old home until 1858 when he went to the lumber region of Canada. He returned to Orleans county, in 1860, and the following year, October 15, 1861, enlisted in Company F, Eighth New York Volunteer Cavalry. He was ordered immediately to the front and from Washington to Shenandoah. He saw the battle flag unfurled on fifty hard fought fields, including Winchester, Harper's Ferry Antietam, Barbour's Cross 'Roads, Chancellorsville, Beverly Ford, Gettysburg, Brandy Station, Culpeper Court House, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. He stayed until December 8, 1864, and was then discharged at Rochester, New York. Returning to his home in Orleans county, New York, he purchased a small farm, which he worked until the spring of 1881, when he went to Dakota and filed a soldier's declaratory for himself and his mother, comprising the north half of the north half of section 17, in Northville township, Spink county. His family joined in the new home in October of that year. The first year he broke about twenty acres and sowed it to sod corn and oats. He in partnership with his two youngest sons has a farm of one thousand acres under control and has about sixhundred acres of crop annually, and about four hundred acres of pasture. He winters from forty to forty-five head of cattle and fifteen horses, and keeps about eighteen hogs. He is an extensive grain buyer, engaging in this business from his residence in Dakota to the present time. He was snow bound in his office near town in the blizzard of 1 888, and his lunch consisted of cracked and boiled wheat. Our subject was married August 26, 1860, to Miss Jane Harmer, of Orleans county, New York, who had emigrated from England several years previous. Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Elsom, as follows: Nancy Ann, died in 1864; Emma Jane, died in 1865; Thomas Henry, superintendent of Inland Telephone and Telegraph Company of Spokane Falls, Washington; Annie Laurie, now Mrs. Kingsley, living nine miles north of the old homestead; Charles W., proprietor of a fruit store in Northville; Everett John, on the home farm; Wilson J., also at home; Mary Elizabeth; and Eliza Jane, who died when an infant. The last two named were twins. Mr. Elsom is a prominent resident of Spink county, and in the county seat war was a strong advocate of Redfield. Since the Fremont campaign he has been a Republican, and during that time was one of the "black abolitionists" and still believes in "old glory" "floating forever where necessity of war has sent it." He favors high license on the liquor question, and opposes equal suffrage. He is an attendant at all county conventions and many of the state conventions and is an ardent worker for the principles of his party. A portrait of Mr. Elsom is presented on another page.

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Joseph Elsom's memorial is located at: Fairview Cemetery, Northville, Spink County, USA.
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Joseph Elsom death on 26 May 1926 in Spink County, South Dakota, USA
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Latitude: 45.1599998
Longitude: -98.5841980

Family Members:

Parent

Rebecca Forman Elsom

(1817 - 1906)

Spouse

Jane Harmer Elsom

(1841 - 1932)

Siblings

Children

Anna Laurie “Annie” Elsom Kingsley

(1867 - 1959)

Charles William Elsom

(1870 - 1947)

Wilson Joseph Elsom

(1875 - 1957)

Elizabeth J “Eliza” Elsom

(1884 - 1884)

Mary Elizabeth Elsom LeMay

(1884 - 1949)

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