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Note: Ella is the daughter of Elmer J. Morse, Sr. and Nancy (Shroy) Morse. Her brother is Elmer J. Morse, Jr. born 1889 who married Anona in 1915 in Montana. -- Joel Scott. ---------- http://archive.org/details/montanaitsstoryb03stou Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout, by Tom Stout, pgs. 717-718 Elmer J. Morse Mr. Morse was born at Gering, Nebraska, June 3, 1889. His paternal ancestors were Scotch and colonial settlers in Massachusetts. His grandfather, Oliver Guernsey Morse, was born in Massachusetts in 1790, and spent his active life as a farmer at Binghampton. New York, where he died. Elmer J. Morse, Sr., father of the Laurin merchant, was born in Massachusetts in 1843 and was reared at Binghampton, New York. Before he reached his majority he enlisted in 1861 in the One Hundred and Third New Jersey Regiment of Infantry, and went through the period of hostilities of the Civil war as a Union soldier. After some years as a farmer in the East he located at Gering. Neliraska, in 1886, and continued farming in that state until 1895, when he retired and moved to Overbrook. Kansas, where he died June 5. 1897. He had served as county commissioner of Scotts Bluff County. Nebraska; was a very active member of the Baptist church and a republican and a Mason. He married at Grarid Island, Nebraska, Nancy Shroy, who was born in Michigan in 1859 and died at Overbrook, Kansas, June 8, 1896. Ella, the oldest of their children, is the widow of James Tregemba. who was a farmer in Kansas, and she now lives at Topeka ; Effie J. is the wife of Walter Nead. a teacher in the public schools of Council Bluffs, Iowa; Oliver S. is the business partner of his brother. Elmer, as noted below; Elizabeth is the wife of J. A. Garber, a farmer at Lone Star, Kansas; Elmer J. is the fifth (m age??); Myrtle is the wife of A. A. Chapman, a carpenter who makes a specialty of elevator construction and lives at Kenesaw, Nebraska, and Marshall, who died at Laurin, Montana, February 23, 1919. ------------------------- Ellaminah Lawry Tregemba (ID 26532419) http://archive.org/details/montanaitsstoryb03stou Oldest child of Nancy (Shroy) Morse (b 1859, d Jun 8, 1896) and Elmer J. Morse Sr. (b 1843, d June 5, 1897). Mr. Morse His paternal ancestors were Scotch and colonial settlers in Massachusetts. His grandfather, Oliver Guernsey Morse, was born in Massachusetts in 1790, and spent his active life as a farmer at Binghampton. New York, where he died. Elmer J. Morse, Sr., father of the Laurin merchant (Elmer J. Morse Jr), was born in Massachusetts in 1843 and was reared at Binghampton, New York. Before he reached his majority he enlisted in 1861 in the One Hundred and Third New Jersey Regiment of Infantry, and went through the period of hostilities of the Civil war as a Union soldier. After some years as a farmer in the East he located at Gering. Neliraska, in 1886, and continued farming in that state until 1895, when he retired and moved to Overbrook. Kansas, where he died June 5. 1897. He had served as county commissioner of Scotts Bluff County. Nebraska; was a very active member of the Baptist church and a republican and a Mason.
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