This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Elliot Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BhB.2ACI/174 Message Board Post: >From The Sioux Falls Daily Press, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota Dated October 8, 1905 Pioneer Dakotan, William Elliott, Passes Away at His Home in Parker A telegram was received at the United States attorney’s office yesterday from J. D. Elliot, telling of the death of his father, William Elliott, which occurred Friday evening at the family home in Parker. Mr. Elliot had been ill for many weeks, but it was thought that the slight improvement in his condition which came with the cooler weather would lead to his recovery. A sudden relapse came last week and he passed away within a few days. William Elliot was one of the earliest settlers of Dakota Territory. He was prominent in the political affairs of the territory for many years and at the time of his death was the county judge of Turner county. Thirty-three years ago he located on a claim which is the present site of Meckling, Clay count. There he lived until the flood of 1881, which swept away all his property. He then resumed the practice of law at Hurley. He was a member of the constitutional convention which met in this city in 1885, and was also one of the seven members of the joint commission which met at Bismarck, North Dakota to divide the assets and liabilities when the territory was divided. Mr. Elliot was born in England in 1833. He came to America when he was a boy and settled first in Illinois. He later moved into Iowa and when the civil was broke out enlisted in a federal regiment from Missouri. During his service in the army he was promoted to a captaincy and provost marshal. He is survived by a wife and five children, United States Attorney J.D. Elliot being the only son. The funeral services will take place today at Parker.