Private, Company K, 1st DC Infantry, US Army; Spanish-American War.
Elmer was the oldest of 8 children born to Levi Basim and Ellen Martin. His name is written on family documents as Elmer E E Basim, or Elmer Ellsworth E Basim. No one knows what the second E stands for. [However, just nine months before his birth, the Union suffered their first conspicuous casualty - an officer named Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth. It seems likely that Elmer Basim was named for him.]
He moved with his parents and siblings to Jackson Twp, Macon County, Missouri about 1868. He married his first wife, Orlenah Halliburton, in 1889, in Cherry Box, Missouri. They had three daughters, Lucy, Irene, and Orlena (our direct line). They moved to Sewanee, Tennessee, about 1893. Orlenah (wife) died there in 1894.
He married a second time to Malisee Ellen Wilder Ross, a widow. Together, they had two children, Hobert who died as a toddler, and Fannie. Elmer moved to Washington, DC / Bowie, MD area during this time. There is a photo taken of Malisee and Hobart in Washington, DC, so they apparently were there as well. Perhaps they went back to TN when Malisee's second baby was due, or when Elmer enlisted. Malisee died in 1898, in TN, a few months after her daughter's birth. Her son Hobart died a few days later. Elmer was serving in the Spanish American War at the time. His daughter Fannie was just an infant, and stayed in Tennessee to be raised by her maternal grandparents.
After the war, Elmer returned to the Washington, DC area where his family lived.
Elmer later married a third time to a woman named Florence (Rowe) Shearick. Together they adopted a son, Ellsworth.
Elmer worked for the Naval Yard in Washington, DC, and lived just a few blocks away.
On the 1930 census, he was living in Arlington, VA. He died in a hospital in DC.
Elmer was the oldest of 8 children born to Levi Basim and Ellen Martin. His name is written on family documents as Elmer E E Basim, or Elmer Ellsworth E Basim. No one knows what the second E stands for. [However, just nine months before his birth, the Union suffered their first conspicuous casualty - an officer named Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth. It seems likely that Elmer Basim was named for him.]
He moved with his parents and siblings to Jackson Twp, Macon County, Missouri about 1868. He married his first wife, Orlenah Halliburton, in 1889, in Cherry Box, Missouri. They had three daughters, Lucy, Irene, and Orlena (our direct line). They moved to Sewanee, Tennessee, about 1893. Orlenah (wife) died there in 1894.
He married a second time to Malisee Ellen Wilder Ross, a widow. Together, they had two children, Hobert who died as a toddler, and Fannie. Elmer moved to Washington, DC / Bowie, MD area during this time. There is a photo taken of Malisee and Hobart in Washington, DC, so they apparently were there as well. Perhaps they went back to TN when Malisee's second baby was due, or when Elmer enlisted. Malisee died in 1898, in TN, a few months after her daughter's birth. Her son Hobart died a few days later. Elmer was serving in the Spanish American War at the time. His daughter Fannie was just an infant, and stayed in Tennessee to be raised by her maternal grandparents.
After the war, Elmer returned to the Washington, DC area where his family lived.
Elmer later married a third time to a woman named Florence (Rowe) Shearick. Together they adopted a son, Ellsworth.
Elmer worked for the Naval Yard in Washington, DC, and lived just a few blocks away.
On the 1930 census, he was living in Arlington, VA. He died in a hospital in DC.
Private, Company K, 1st DC Infantry, US Army; Spanish-American War.
Elmer was the oldest of 8 children born to Levi Basim and Ellen Martin. His name is written on family documents as Elmer E E Basim, or Elmer Ellsworth E Basim. No one knows what the second E stands for. [However, just nine months before his birth, the Union suffered their first conspicuous casualty - an officer named Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth. It seems likely that Elmer Basim was named for him.]
He moved with his parents and siblings to Jackson Twp, Macon County, Missouri about 1868. He married his first wife, Orlenah Halliburton, in 1889, in Cherry Box, Missouri. They had three daughters, Lucy, Irene, and Orlena (our direct line). They moved to Sewanee, Tennessee, about 1893. Orlenah (wife) died there in 1894.
He married a second time to Malisee Ellen Wilder Ross, a widow. Together, they had two children, Hobert who died as a toddler, and Fannie. Elmer moved to Washington, DC / Bowie, MD area during this time. There is a photo taken of Malisee and Hobart in Washington, DC, so they apparently were there as well. Perhaps they went back to TN when Malisee's second baby was due, or when Elmer enlisted. Malisee died in 1898, in TN, a few months after her daughter's birth. Her son Hobart died a few days later. Elmer was serving in the Spanish American War at the time. His daughter Fannie was just an infant, and stayed in Tennessee to be raised by her maternal grandparents.
After the war, Elmer returned to the Washington, DC area where his family lived.
Elmer later married a third time to a woman named Florence (Rowe) Shearick. Together they adopted a son, Ellsworth.
Elmer worked for the Naval Yard in Washington, DC, and lived just a few blocks away.
On the 1930 census, he was living in Arlington, VA. He died in a hospital in DC.
Elmer was the oldest of 8 children born to Levi Basim and Ellen Martin. His name is written on family documents as Elmer E E Basim, or Elmer Ellsworth E Basim. No one knows what the second E stands for. [However, just nine months before his birth, the Union suffered their first conspicuous casualty - an officer named Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth. It seems likely that Elmer Basim was named for him.]
He moved with his parents and siblings to Jackson Twp, Macon County, Missouri about 1868. He married his first wife, Orlenah Halliburton, in 1889, in Cherry Box, Missouri. They had three daughters, Lucy, Irene, and Orlena (our direct line). They moved to Sewanee, Tennessee, about 1893. Orlenah (wife) died there in 1894.
He married a second time to Malisee Ellen Wilder Ross, a widow. Together, they had two children, Hobert who died as a toddler, and Fannie. Elmer moved to Washington, DC / Bowie, MD area during this time. There is a photo taken of Malisee and Hobart in Washington, DC, so they apparently were there as well. Perhaps they went back to TN when Malisee's second baby was due, or when Elmer enlisted. Malisee died in 1898, in TN, a few months after her daughter's birth. Her son Hobart died a few days later. Elmer was serving in the Spanish American War at the time. His daughter Fannie was just an infant, and stayed in Tennessee to be raised by her maternal grandparents.
After the war, Elmer returned to the Washington, DC area where his family lived.
Elmer later married a third time to a woman named Florence (Rowe) Shearick. Together they adopted a son, Ellsworth.
Elmer worked for the Naval Yard in Washington, DC, and lived just a few blocks away.
On the 1930 census, he was living in Arlington, VA. He died in a hospital in DC.
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