- First
Letter
- I ran across an old newspaper (illegible) from Durand.
In speaking of Bear Creek in very early times it says:
- "In this letter we come upon one of the early pioneers
in the person of Joseph E____ WARD,
- who was born in Hamburg, NY, Erie Co., in June 1780. His
father, Elanson was a Blacksmith by trade and worked at that
trade in Hamburg [until] about the year of '45 when the family
moved to Milwaukee, and later they moved to what was called McQuanigo
[Mukwonago], 19 miles west of Milwaukee, or just outside Waukesha,
however the family did not stay here long but moved to Brodhead
where the head of the family got some land and went to farming
and where he died at the age of 66..." [speaking of Bear
Creek in an old Durand, Pepin Co., WI, newspaper article; date
unknown]
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- Second
Letter
- From Aunt Emily WARD ALLISON:
- ELANSON WARD
- b. Nov. 15, 1797 (New York State?)
- d. March 1, 1852 Rock Co., Wisc.
- Elanson WARD came to _____, Wisc., (near Ex____) from New
York state. (Joseph E_____
- WARD (his son) remembers working on the Erie Canal as a boy
for 12 cents a day (riding a _____ horse) so it was fairly late
in life. Elanson WARD's father recalls coming over the mountains
to New York as a small boy (apparently from the east -- New England).
He recalls no parents or relatives so was possibly an orphan.
- "Grandpa John CLUMMER made Grandpa Elanson WARD's coffin
at Clarence, Wis. Mother
- (Esther A. G. CLUMMER) came out to meet them and it was here
that Joseph Erwin "Er" WARD met her."
-
- Later from Aunt Em:
- "Correction" - "It was Elanson WARD's father
who was possibly the orphan. Name (first)
- unknown. He had two sons, Elanson & ???. Elanson had
two sons, Jos. Er. and John."
-
- From Winifred PLUMMER WARD
- J. Erwin WARD
- b. 12 June 1830 in Erie Co., NY
- d. 12 April 1910 in Durand, [Pepin Co.,] Wis.
- Father - Elanson WARD
- b. Nov. 15, 1797 in NY State, Erie County
- d. March 1, 1852 in Rock Co., Wis.
- (Note: Elanson gravestone in Northrup Cemetery, names S.
E. of Brodhead [illegible] Aged 54
- yrs. 5 mos.)
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- Third
Letter
- ELANSON WARD is buried in the Northrup Cemetery (Avon
Twp., Rock Co., Wis.), about four (4) miles South East of Brodhead,
Green County, Wisconsin, near the junction of County Line Road
and Highway 81 (about one (1) mile east). His grave is on the
left (east) side of the cemetery and about half way back. His
stone and one on its right (broken) which seems to be of the
same design are well to east of rest of cemetery and face west
whereas most stones in the cemetery face north. [2 or 3 illegible
words]
| Stone is marked - |
ELANSON WARD |
other records say he was born 15 Nov. 1797 |
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died 1 Mar 1852 |
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aged 54 yrs 5 mo's |
| Next stone is marked - |
HANNAH (broken off) |
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Died Jan. 16, 1864 |
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Aged - (broken off) |
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- After Elanson's death (time elapse not known), Jerusha moved
to Durand, Wis., and spent her
- last days living with her youngest daughter Rachel and her
husband "Uncle Billie" HILL. [See obituary.]
She is buried in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Durand. Stone
is marked -
- Jerusha Ward
- Died
- Sept. 11, 1880
- Aged
- 74 yrs. 7 mos.
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- Jerusha was the daughter of Lucy LOBDELL {born in Brookfield,
Conn., on 15 Nov. 1775
- (dau. of Caleb LOBDELL and Patience BOUGHTON)} and Cornelius
VAN NESS (possibly lived in Northampton or Northville, both of
Fulton Co., New York). [illegible inserted sentence] They
had five children, Jerusha being the youngest. Lucy died in 1939
[1839?] in Hamburg, Erie Co., NY, where she and Cornelius lived
most of their life. Lucy was an aunt of Andrew P. LOBDELL who
married Jerusha's daughter, Angeline.
- The census of 1850 shows Elanson (name misspelled Elias)
and Jerusha and 8 children in Spring
- Valley, Rock Co., Wis. In 1830 and 1840 they are listed in
Hamburg, Erie Co., NY (name misspelled again in one case (1840)
this time Alanson). Holland Land Co. records show a contract
with Elanson WARD in 1835 in Hamburg, Erie Co., NY.
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- Document
- Land
Warrant
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- Courtesy of Sherrie Smith
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