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| Spouse: |
Myrtle Melvina Baker
Lela Jane Norman
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| Children: |
Ethel Axsom
Lawrence Earl Axsom
Ulysses Grant Axsom Jr.
Edith Louise Axsom
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| Grandchildren: |
Larry Earl Axsom
Karen Louise Borgman
Michael P. Borgman
Patty Jo Borgman Trostle
Great-Grandchildren
Matthew Earl Axsom
Erik Stuart Axsom
Cassandra Borgman Bartolivich
Haley Borgman Escue
Christopher Borgman
Brandon Trostle
Great Great Grandchildren
Douglas
Hannah
Andrew
Philip
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| Parents: |
William David Axsom and Susan Louisa Martin Axsom
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| Siblings: |
Mary Ices Axsom
Samuel O. Axsom
James Roscoe Axsom
William Andrew Axsom
Landy Hobson Axsom
Ida Alice Axsom
Moses Leonard Axsom
Catherine Axsom
Harrison L. Axsom
Theodore Estus Axsom
Garrett Hobart Axsom
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None listed
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Birth Date: 01/12/1876
Death Date: 2/5/1961
Floral Park Cemetery
Section E, Lot 192 SW 1/2, Grave 2
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| Grant Axsom was the second child in a farm family of 12 children - 10 of whom lived to maturity. The family farm of his father, William David Axsom, was on Axsom Branch in northwestern Brown County, Indiana. That farm is under Monroe Reservoir today. As a young man, he started a portrait photography business and traveled by horse and buggy to schools, reunions and churches in and around Brown County to ply his trade. He married Myrtle Melvina Baker in 1902; she and their first child died in childbirth in 1904. In 1907 Grant married Lela Jane Norman of Norman Station, Brown County. They moved to Indianapolis and started their family. Grant worked in the Marmon automobile factory where he made the car interiors from wood. Grant and Lela had three children: Lawrence Earl (1907), Grant, Jr. (1917) and Louise (1920). Grant left Marmon and worked until he retired for automobile repair shops specializing in the collision repair of autos with wooden interiors and frames. Grant and Lela lived on West Market Street west of White River until they bought property on south Taft Street in the Fleming Garden area - 4200 West on the National Road (called Washington Street, today). Their first house was adjacent to the property that was used for Wayne Township School #14 - today that school property is Cathleen Oaks Park. In 1926 he built his final home on south Roena Street. He was a carpenter and did most of the building himself - along with his sons. He sold an adjacent lot to his son Earl and his wife - where they built their home at 614 south Roena. He gave his first home at 611 S. Taft to his daughter Louise and her husband Don Borgman. His son Grant, Jr. was killed in World War II in Holland.Grant Axsom attended the Fleming Garden Christian Church in his later years. He and his siblings returned frequently to their homestead in Brown County and continued to hold an annual family reunion of for the descendants of William David Axsom - the first of these being celebrated in 1923.He doted on his grandchildren who lived adjacent to him. He died of a weak heart in 1961 at the age of 85. |
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