Known as Elmor, he was raised and educated in Grand Valley.  In 1906, at age 18, he went with his father and a group of people from the community to Innisfree, Alberta.  That was the year after the railway was built through that village so it was accessible by rail.  His father and another man, Jim Park, had gone to Alberta in 1903 to select suitable land for homesteading and on returning to Grand Valley, interested a number of people to go west.  Elmor's parents did not move there because his mother declined to leave her home to re-settle.

Elmor took up his homestead, four miles or so north of the hamlet beginning to form, and immediately built a spacious log house with a sod roof.  Two years after he arrived he married Maude Puckette, both aged 20.  Their first of five children, George Hiram, was born about a year later.  Elmor quickly added log sheds to his propert to provide shelter for his animals.  He also built an excellent granary, equipped with sets of scales, that was highly regarded.  Both Elmor and Maude had musical educations and loved music.  Soon after their marriage they had a piano-case organ, a concertina, an accordian, a violin and a victrola with many fine records e.g. operatic tenor Enrico Caruso and John Philip Sousa's famous band.  Both Elmor and Maude belong to the Christian Church (Disciple) and helped start the Union Christion Baptist Church at Innisfree.

In 1913 they went to Grand Valley with their two sons at that time and visited Elmor's parents.  From 1917 to 1922 he was Secretary of United Grain Growers Local Board at Innisfree.  In 1925, a year after their fifth and last child was born they moved to Kansas City, MO, and seventeen years later Elmor died at age 55.

Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950 Record info about Samuel Elm Nodwell
Name: Samuel Elm Nodwell Estimated Birth Year: 1887 Age: 55 Death Day: 26 Death Month: Feb Death Year: 1942 County: Sebastian Volume Number: 13 Roll Number: 1942 Certificate Number: 1068