Son of Ira Mansfield
and Mahala C. Gates.
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NOTE: Joseph M. Mansfield is actually
buried in the Oakland Cemetery,
in Manchester, Delaware County Iowa,
next to his second wife Ellen, and
their daughter Emma.
(Lot was purchased by their
daughter Nora Mansfield).
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Joseph's name, and date of birth,
are engraved, along with his siblings,
on the Mansfield monument here
in the Oak Ridge Cemetery
(in Section 2, Lot 46).
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Joseph's parents, Ira Mansfield, and
his wife Mahala, are buried here in
the "More Mausoleum", with their
daughter Clara, and her second
husband William H. More.
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m. # 1. Joseph was married to
Anna (or Amy) Jane Fitch, on
March 9, 1854, in Buchanan,
Berrien County Michigan.
(She died in 1856, age 23, and
is buried as "Amy" Jane Mansfield,
in the Hutson Cemetery,
in Thorpe, Delaware County Iowa).
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m. # 2. Joseph married
Ellen Augusta Wilder (1838-1895),
on Sept. 8, 1858, in Coldwater
(Honey Creek township),
Delaware County Iowa.
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Joseph and Ellen's children are:
(all born in Delaware County Iowa)
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1. Effie E. Mansfield.
b. Sept. 18, 1860.
m. John Wylie Tabor, on
Oct. 27, 1877, in Manchester,
Delaware County Iowa.
Child: Arther Earl, b. 1880.
d. Feb. 15, 1937, in Phoenix,
Maricopa County Arizona.
Buried: Oakland Cemetery,
Delaware County Iowa.
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2. Emma J. Mansfield.
b. 1862.
m. Allen B. Waters, Sept. 28, 1890,
in Greeley, Delaware County Iowa.
d. 1905.
Buried: Oakland Cemetery,
Delaware County Iowa,
next to her parents.
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3. Elnora M. ("Nora") Mansfield.
b. Aug. 5, 1864, in Straw Point, Iowa.
m. Dick A. Molter, on
Aug. 28, 1902, in Blackhawk, Iowa.
(Child: Emma A., b. abt. 1907).
d. Aug. 6, 1936, in Rockford,
Winnebago County Illinois.
Buried: Freeport, Stephenson Co. ILLinois.
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In the 1880 census, Joseph's occupation
is listed as a Stone Mason.
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Joseph "possibly" served in the Civil War
(from the state of Iowa, as did his
brother John Gates Mansfield),
per: Chapter 126, of
"Tales of an Old Town",
by Walter C. Hawes.
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On the right is a photo of the
Memorial for Joseph and his siblings.
(Not all of them are buried in this
Oak Ridge Cemetery).
Photo courtesy of
Robert D. Brown, President,
and newsletter editor, of
"Friends of Oak Ridge Cemetery".
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Click on photo, for enlargement
and caption.
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