History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America : genealogical and biographical, embracing twelve generations of the first-named family from to 1908, with their marriages and descendants in the female lines as far as ascertained . Joseph Slocum (Caleb W.,s Joseph,1 Eleazer,6 John,5 Elea-zer,* Eleazer,5 Giles,2 Anthony,1). Died on Sunday, November 18,1883, at 11 A. M., at his late residence half way between El Pasoand Kappa, Illinois, Joseph W* Slocum, in the 52nd year of hisage. He was born in Fulton County, New York, and in 1857 movedto the vicinity of Brimfield, Illinois
History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America : genealogical and biographical, embracing twelve generations of the first-named family from to 1908, with their marriages and descendants in the female lines as far as ascertained . Joseph Slocum (Caleb W.,s Joseph,1 Eleazer,6 John,5 Elea-zer,* Eleazer,5 Giles,2 Anthony,1). Died on Sunday, November 18,1883, at 11 A. M., at his late residence half way between El Pasoand Kappa, Illinois, Joseph W* Slocum, in the 52nd year of hisage. He was born in Fulton County, New York, and in 1857 movedto the vicinity of Brimfield, Illinois, where he lived a quiet, unassum-ing life as a farmer, respected and liked by all his neghbors andfriends, until the breaking out of the Southern Rebellion, when, loyal,brave and obedient to his countrys call, he enlisted and for threeyears served as a common soldier in the 77th Regiment of IllinoisVolunteers. In 1876 he moved to his late residence, two and a halfmiles south of El Paso. ....... *This W was used in later life to distinguish him from his uncle JosephSlocum. It not being the initial of a name, a period should not be used. Hedied of pleurisy, empyema, with secondary pneumonia, with sickness of threeand a half months AND THEIR ALLIANCES 423 In his everyday relations with his neighbors, Air. Slocum wassingularly quiet and unobstrusive, yet his whole life was an exampleof well-directed energy, force and decision, and by his mildness andquietness, his morality and good works, he accomplished more of goodfor the world, for mankind generally, and for his family, than theman of great professions could ever do. His life was like a deepriver which flows strongly yet quietly along. Although far from three score and ten years his life was fairlyrounded out, and having done his duty as he saw it, he was readywhen the summons came to join the innumerable El Paso Journal. See also Volume I of this work. His widow, Elma (Hoogeboom) Slocum moved to Peoria,
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