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From: "Adina Watkins Dyer" <>
Subject: [MDTALBOT] Joseph W. Elliott Bio-Tippecanoe Co., IN
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 01:59:27 -0500


I'm not related to this family, but I hope someone on the list finds it
helpful. Sometimes it's hard to find those who "went west."

Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana, pp.
401-402
Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1888

JOSEPH W. ELLIOTT, farmer and stock-raiser, section 9, Lauramie Township,
was born in Talbot County, Maryland, October 6, 1831, a son of DANIEL O.
ELLIOTT, deceased, who was a native of the same county. The subject of this
sketch accompanied his mother and step-father, JOHN R. JEFFERSON, to White
County, Indiana, in the spring of 1843, where he lived until 1862, when he
enlisted in the late war, in Company D, Twelfth Indiana Infantry for three
years. He participated in a number of engagements the principal of which
were the battles of Jackson, Mississippi, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Pumpkin
Vine Creek, Atlanta, July 25 and 28, Vicksburg, Griswoldville and
Bentonville, and was with Sherman on his march to the sea. At the close of
the war he marched through the Carolinas to Washington, D.C., where he took
part in the grand review of Sherman's army, his regiment (the Twelfth
Indiana) leading the column (which was composed of the Army of Tennessee) on
that memorable occasion. After the war he came direct to Tippecanoe
County, his family having moved here while he was in the army, settling on
the land now occupied by him, and here he has since made his home.

He was married January 28, 1868, to MISS FANNIE M. SMITH, of White County,
Indiana, a daughter of ABEL T. SMITH, deceased. His wife's parents are
natives of West Virginia, and settled in White County, Indiana, in 1846.
They (MR. and MRS. ELLIOTT) are the parents of three children-WILLIAM S.,
MARY D. and ANNA, all yet under the home roof.

MR. ELLIOTT takes an active interest in the cause of education, and is
giving his children good educational advantages. When a young man he taught
school some five or six terms, and with this exception has always followed
farming, and is now the owner of upward of 200 acres of choice land. In
politics he is a Republican. He never seeks official honors, preferring to
devote his entire attention to the cultivation and improvement of his lands.
He and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and among
the respected citizens of Lauramie Township.


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