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1 CONC Known as Elmor, he was raised and educated in Grand Valley.  In 1906, at a
1 CONC ge 18, he went with his father and a group of people from the communi
1 CONC ty to Innisfree, Alberta.  That was the year after the railway was built t
1 CONC hrough that village so it was accessible by rail.  His father and anoth
1 CONC er man, Jim Park, had gone to Alberta in 1903 to select suitable land f
1 CONC or homesteading and on returning to Grand Valley, interested a number of p
1 CONC eople to go west.  Elmor's parents did not move there because his mother d
1 CONC eclined to leave her home to re-settle.
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1 CONT Elmor took up his homestead, four miles or so north of the hamlet beginni
1 CONC ng to form, and immediately built a spacious log house with a sod roof.  T
1 CONC wo years after he arrived he married Maude Puckette, both aged 20.  The
1 CONC ir first of five children, George Hiram, was born about a year later.  Elm
1 CONC or quickly added log sheds to his propert to provide shelter for his anima
1 CONC ls.  He also built an excellent granary, equipped with sets of scales, th
1 CONC at was highly regarded.  Both Elmor and Maude had musical educations and l
1 CONC oved music.  Soon after their marriage they had a piano-case organ, a conc
1 CONC ertina, an accordian, a violin and a victrola with many fine records e.
1 CONC g. operatic tenor Enrico Caruso and John Philip Sousa's famous band.  Bo
1 CONC th Elmor and Maude belong to the Christian Church (Disciple) and helped st
1 CONC art the Union Christion Baptist Church at Innisfree.
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1 CONT In 1913 they went to Grand Valley with their two sons at that time and vis
1 CONC ited Elmor's parents.  From 1917 to 1922 he was Secretary of United Gra
1 CONC in Growers Local Board at Innisfree.  In 1925, a year after their fifth a
1 CONC nd last child was born they moved to Kansas City, MO, and seventeen yea
1 CONC rs later Elmor died at age 55.
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1 CONT Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950 Record info about Samuel Elm Nodwell
1 CONT Name: Samuel Elm Nodwell Estimated Birth Year: 1887 Age: 55 Death Da
1 CONC y: 26 Death Month: Feb Death Year: 1942 County: Sebastian Volume Numbe
1 CONC r: 13 Roll Number: 1942 Certificate Number: 1068