Walmer, Joseph

WALMER, PATTISON, BRUEY, FARRELL, COLLAIS, MCELWAIN

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 7/30/2003 at 22:09:06

JOSEPH WALMER

“Joseph Walmer was of Pennsylvania – Dutch extraction, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, whence he removed in 1848 to Jefferson county, Iowa. Here he was married in 1869 to Miss Elizabeth Pattison, who was born and reared in Cedar township, where her father, who was a native of Ireland, engaged in farming for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Walmer began their domestic life on a farm he had subsequently acquired two and a half miles south of Fairfield, and there she passed away during the childhood of Mrs. Marie (Pattison) Bruey. Farming always engaged the attention of the father, who at the time of his death owned one hundred and eighty-five acres of well improved land in Cedar township. He was a veteran of the Civil war, having enlisted in Fairfield in 1863 in Company I, Forty-fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry and gone to the front, where he remained for three months. Upon receiving his discharge he returned to his farm and there he passed away on the 15th of May, 1911. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Walmer numbered five, as follows: Etta, the wife of Joseph Farrell, a clerk in a department store in Birmingham, by whom she has had two children, Paul Dennis and Robert; Kate, who married David Collais, a farmer of Van Buren county by whom she has had one child, Mildred Louise; Marie, the wife of Louie Bruey, by whom she has had two children, Beulah Bernice and Edna Marie; Anna, the wife of Clarence McElwain a ranchman of Montana, and the mother of two children, Alice Louise and Harry; and Lee, who is living on the old homestead near Fairfield.”

From the “History of Jefferson County, Iowa” – 1912, Volume II, excerpt from “Louie Bruey” Biography, P. 245-247.

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