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- Elams official date of death as appearing in the Nicollet CountyCourthouse, St. Peter, MN, record number E-95-174, is 21 October 1921.The courthouse record also states that his father was 'Amos Gallup', hisoccupation was 'Male Nurse', his birth was in '1856', that he died of'Senile Dementia', that the attending physician was Dr.' W.A. Watson' andthe undertaker was 'Buenger Co.'. The following obituary notice was foundand copied from the archives of the Brown County Journal, the newspaperof New Ulm which later changed its name to 'The Journal', as it ispresently called. It appeared in the issue of Saturday, 29 October 1921.It was a weekly paper so the day 'Friday' which appears in the obituarywould be the Friday of week before the issue date,i.e., 21 October 1921.His date of burial given as 'Monday' would be 24 October 1921. ELAM GALLUP Elam Gallup, father of Mrs. H.O. Eidsvold [Elam's daughter Blanche] of this city, passed away at St. Peter early Friday morning. The remains were brought to New Ulm and the funeral was held from Buenger's Chapel Monday afternoon. Dr. C.G. Hohn had charge of the ceremony. Following this the remains were laid to rest in the City cemetery. Mr. Gallup was a native of Jefferson, N.Y. and was sixrty-five years of age. Mrs. Gallup preceeded him in death sixteen years ago. The following children survive: Ward Gallup, Binghamton, N.Y.; Winfield B.[D.] Gallup and Mrs Elizabeth BowlbyMinneapolis, and Mrs. H.O. Eidsvold of this city. Mrs. Eidsvold has the sympathy of New Ulm residents in this hour of her bereavement. Little more is known of Elam except that he was skilled in massagetherapy, managed and worked in bath houses in Binghamton, NY, and thencame to New Ulm, MN, to work as an assistant to Dr. Hugh C. Edmiston, anosteopath. He suffered from alcoholism, was generally short of money andfinished out his days in the mental hospital at St. Peter, Minnesota.
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1856 - 1921 (65 years)