EDMUND R. ELLIOTT

ELLIOTT, MEIMANN, HILL, PECK, BLAIR, STAKEHOUSE, ARRASMITH

Posted By: Tamara Jorstad (email)
Date: 9/15/2002 at 21:58:58

Published in the 1969 McCallsburg Centennial booklet:

Edmund R. Elliott

Edmund R. Elliott came with his mother and sister to Warren Township in the fall of 1878 from Henry County, Ill. When they arrived in Iowa by train, they could not get possession of their farm until spring so the first winter was spent at what is now the George Meimann home. The farm to which they moved is now the Walter Hill home in Sec. 27 of Warren Township. Elliott worked around as a hired man and he worked for four years for John Peck.

In 1886 he married Elizabeth Blair and they established their home on the same farm his mother had come to ten years earlier. They continued to live on this farm for almost fifty years.

Of their three children, two daughters survive, Mrs. Dessa Stakehouse, Ankeny and Mrs. Lois Arrasmith, Story City.

Mr. Elliott lived within two days of his 90th birthday.