Tibbets, Elias Alvin

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• Biography: 1911; History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 1157

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Biography:
ELIAS ALVIN TIBBETS, who has been cultivating his present farm of eighty acres in Grand Chute township for the past seven years, has been an agriculturist all of his life, and his operations have been confined to this state. He was born in Waupaca county, Wisconsin, May 28, 1861, and is a son of Jesse P. and Loretta (Sanders) Tibbetts, the former born in the state of Maine, June 5, 1824, and the latter in Ohio, May 6, 1831. When a young man Jesse P. Tibbetts left the Pine Tree State for Ohio, and later moved on to Wisconsin, locating near Oshkosh, where he found employment in a saw-mill for a short time. He later settled on a forty-acre farm near Medina, but after some years went to Waupaca county, where he was engaged in farming until his removal to Langlade county, near Antigo, and there his death occurred in 1905, after which his widow removed to Antigo, where she resides at this time. They had eight children, of whom Elias A. was the fourth in order of birth. He received his education in the schools of Clintonville and Antigo, and resided with his parents until he was twenty-two years of age, at which time he look up a homestead in Langlade county and continued to operate it until 1904. In that year he sold out and came to Outagamie county, buying the farm he now operates in Grand Chute township, a, finely improved property of eighty acres on which he is engaged in general farming. Mr. Tibbetts is a democrat in his political belief, and fraternally is connected with the Fraternal Reserve Association. On November 22, 1885, Mr. Tibbetts was married to Miss Eva Kruse, who was born in Mazomanie, Wisconsin, northwest of Madison, April 25, 1865, daughter of Conrad and Mary (Heller) Kruse, natives of Germany, where the former was born April 15, 1837, and the latter January 21, 1847. Mr. Kruse learned the miller's trade in Germany, and came to America at the age of twenty-four years, following his trade until after his marriage, when he took up the occupation of mason, alternating at the two trades during the summer and winter months. He lived in Neenah, Wisconsin, for seventeen years, and then went to Antigo, where he bought a farm, but in 1902 retired to Neenah, residing at that place until the time he located in Appleton, where his death occurred August 10, 1910, his widow still surviving him and making her home there. They had a family of eight children, of whom Mrs. Tibbetts is the oldest. Mr. and Mrs. Tibbetts have been the parents of the following children: May, born August 10, 1887, who died at the age of six years; Clarence, born June 27, 1890; Helen Ida, born October 25, 1896; and Cecil, born April 8, 1900.

Elias married Kruse, Eva 22 Nov 1885. Eva was born 25 Apr 1865, Mazomanie, Dane, Wisconsin, USA; died 9 Apr 1937. [Group Sheet]

Clarence married West, Wilhelmina "Minnie" 5 Nov 1919, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. Wilhelmina (daughter of West, Albert John and Meyer, Anna) was born 12 Jun 1889, Grand Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; died 1 Jun 1962, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; was buried Aft 1 Jun 1962, St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

Helen married Jochman, Alois C. 6 Jun 1917. Alois (son of Jochmann, John and Heckel, Anna) was born 10 Jun 1892; died 29 May 1955. [Group Sheet]

Cecil married Gosz, Mabel August 25 Oct 1927, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. Mabel was born 21 Jun 1904, Deerbrook, Langlade, Wisconsin, USA; died 17 Dec 1990, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

Cecil — Gosz, Mabel August. [Group Sheet]

Bonnie married Frank, Theodore [Group Sheet]

Darleen married Verhagen, James E. Abt 1962. James (son of Verhagen, John H. and Jennerjohn, Hendrika D.) was born 3 Feb 1935, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; died 6 Jul 2006, Grand Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; was buried Aft 6 Jul 2006, Highland Memorial Park Cemetery, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

Jill — Diana, Bryan. [Group Sheet]

Tina married Holewinski, Michael [Group Sheet]