Individual Notes
Note for: Grace Chapman, -
Index
Event: I2658
Type: REFI
Individual Notes
Note for: Wither Chapman, - Infant
Index
Event: I2659
Type: REFI
Individual Notes
Note for: Cornelius White, 27 MAR 1831 - 18 MAR 1916
Index
Census: Date: 1880
Place: New Haven, Olmsted, Minnesota
Event: Type: Military
Date: BET 10 APR 1861 AND 22 MAY 1862
Place: 2nd Reg Minnesota Volunteer Infantry
Note: Cornelius White was Honorably Discharged after receiving a mini-ball in the left thigh at Mill Springs, Kentucky on January18, 1862. He was discharged on account of disability.
Event: I2664
Type: REFI
Individual Notes
Note for: Louisa Simmons, 29 APR 1842 - 22 NOV 1917
Index
Census: Date: 1880
Place: New Haven, Olmsted, Minnesota
Event: I2665
Type: REFI
Individual Notes
Note for: Selom Fox, 29 JAN 1850 - 5 MAR 1940
Index
Census: Date: 1880
Place: Graham Lake, Nobles, Minnesota
Event: I2666
Type: REFI
Event: Land Patent #MN2510_.113, BLM Serial#: MN NO S/N
Type: LandPat
Date: 5 NOV 1878
Place: Worthington, Nobles , Minnesota
Note:
Land description as follows: Aliquot Parts: W 1/2 NW; Sec/Blk: 20/; Twnshp: 104-N; Range: 39-W; Fract. Sect.: No; Meridian: 5th PM; State: MN; Counties: Nobles; Survey No: --
Purchased land on Nov 5, 1878. It has not been canceled.
Event: Land Patent: MN2530_.260, BLM Serial # MN No S/N
Type: LandPat
Date: 20 DEC 1881
Place: Worthington, Nobles , Minnesota
Note:
Land description as follows: Aliquot Parts:E 1/2NW; Sec/Blk: 30/; Twnshp: 104-N; Range: 39-W; Fract. Sect.: No; Meridian: 5th PM; State: MN; Counties: Nobles; Survey No: --
Event: Homestead Certificate 47537, application 10631
Type: LandPat
Date: 5 NOV 1878
Place: Worthington, Nobles , Minnesota
Event: Homestead Certificate No 6064, Application 11813
Type: LandPat
Date: 20 DEC 1881
Place: Worthington, Nobles , Minnesota
Event: Type: LandPat
Date: 20 MAY 1862
Place: Worthington, Nobles , Minnesota
Event: Type: LandPat
Date: 20 MAY 1862
Place: Worthington, Nobles , Minnesota
Probate: Place: Rochester, Olmsted , Minnesota
Note: Results from Probate record search.
Physical records exist at the Olmsted County Historical Society. For more information contact OCHS.
Last Name First Name File Number
Fox Selom 6318
Burial: Date: 12 MAR 1940
Place: - Orion Center Cemetery, Cumminsville, (Chatfield) , Minnesota
Note:
Township Orion
County: Olmsted
Name: SELOM Fox
Birth Date: 29/JAN/1850
Death Date: 05/MAR/1940
Cemetery: Orion Center
Comments: SP. IDA M. CHAPMAN. PAR. SETH & EMELINE. THEY LOST 3 CHILDREN
Section: 5 8
Individual Note: Corrected given name. (3 Oct 1998).
As a youth, Selom attended the local public schools in Belvidere, Illinois and entered Beloit College. He left before graduation owing to the death of his parents and in 1870 he came to Minnesota and settled in Nobles county, where in due time, he became well and favorably known and was elected register of deeds and held the position for one term. He then established a stock range and raised cattle for market for 13 years, but quit in 1883. He then came to Olmsted county and settled on his present farm, but remained at that time only one year and then moved to the adjoining farm of 20 acres and continued there until 1891. He then returned to his present farm and here he has since resided. The farm is now owned by his father-in-law. Mr. Fox is the owner of eighty acres in Anoka county, same state. He is now heavily engaged in farming and stock raising. He is a Republican and has served as clerk of the board of education. He is an elder of the Presbyterian Church (in Cummingsville Minn, near Chatfield) and has been superintendent of the Sunday-school for twenty-five years. On March 18, 1874, he married in Nobles county, Miss Ida Chapman, daughter of Orange H. and Eliza Chapman. Her parents were farmers and are now living retired from life's duties in the town of Chatfield. They settled in this county in 1855 and were pioneers and prominent citizens. Her father served in the Union army during the Rebellion and has an excellent war record. Selom and his wife had ten children, of whom three are dead.
(From the History of Olmsted County, pg 316)
Results from the biographical index of the History of Olmsted County Minnesota, by Joseph Leonard, 1910.
Physical records exist at the Olmsted County Historical Society. For more information contact OCHS.
Last Name First Name Page Book
Fox S Mr 313 1910 Olmsted Hs
Fox Selom 316 1910 Olmsted Hs
Fox Selom 508 1910 Olmsted Hs
Results from the OCHS Biographical Index
Physical records exist at the Olmsted County Historical Society. For more information contact OCHS.
Last Name First Name Year Source Comments
Fox Selom 1940 Vine Scrapbook # 5 page 148 // wife- Ida M. Chapman//10 ch.//Cummingsville
Fox Selom (Male) 1940 Vine Scrapbook # 5 page 163// 1 ch.// Cummingsville
Death Note: Obituary, Rochester Post Bulletin, 1/22(?), 1940
Selom Fox Rites Conducted at Church
Funeral services for Selom Fox, 90 years old, were conducted Friday at the Cummingsville Presbyterian church, of which he had been an elder since it was organized.
Mr. Fox died in Rochester at the home of his daughter, Mrs. L.M. Crawley. He was born January 29, 1850 at Belvidere, Ill, and was educated at Beloit college. When 21 years old, he took a homestead near Graham Lakes in Nobels county, and later was elected register of deeds of the county. He also established a stock range and raised cattle for 13 years.
In 1885, he came to Olmsted county and farmed in Orion township until the death of his wife in 1929. His wife was the former Ida M. Chapman whom he married April 17, 1873. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O.H. Chapman, pioneers.
Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Charles McKeeby of Faribault; Mrs. Ella Cravath, Mrs F.L(?) Teska, Mrs. Floyd Burke and Mrs. Crawley of Rochester and Mrs. Ray Best of Chatfield.
Four children preceded him in death.
Twenty-one grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren also survive.
Of a family of 10 children, Mr. Fox was the last survivor.
Minnesota Death Certificates
Fox, MR SELOM
CertID# 1940-MN-010299
Date of Birth:n/a
Place of Birth:n/a
Mother Maiden Name: n/a
Date of Death:03/05/1940
County of Death:OLMSTED
Death Note: Olmsted County Historical Society
Death Note: Olmsted County Historical Society
Individual Note: Photo taken in Chatfield MN by I.H. Barnes, Photo Artist
Individual Note: Front Row, Ronald, Grandpa Chapman, Grandma Chapman
Back Row, Pearl, Aunt Min, Grandma Fox
Individual Note: Cummingsville, Minnesota
Individual Note: Frank is in the back row, far right.
Individual Note: Showing the 10 children
Individual Note: Showing the 10 children
Individual Note: Probably in the Rochester Post Bulletin.
Individual Note: Paper is unknown.