Delia Alice Jesmer- The twelfth child of Joseph and Mary Ann Jesmer

by Kevin Jesmer on Monday, January 26th, 2015 | No Comments

Delia Alice Jesmer was born on 2-27-1877. She was the twelfth child (the fifth daughter and the sixth child born in Greenbush Minnesota), born to Joseph A. Jesmer and Mary Ann Robideaux. She was born in Greenbush township, Milles Lacs MN. At the age of twelve her sister Ida died and her mother died of cancer. At the age of fourteen her father remarried a woman named Rose Mallote. In 1900 she is recorded as living in the home of her father, Joseph. At the age of 23, on 1-20-1901, she married George Dupont in the Catholic Church (St Edward) in Princeton MN. After their marriage they moved to Milaca Minnesota, fifteen miles from Princeton MN. On 9-28-1901 her father, Joseph A. Jesmer would die of a stroke. Delia herself was in poor health for some time. Her condition was getting worse for six months prior to her death. Eventually she passed away at a young age of twenty-five. She was taken to Raphael Hospital in St Cloud Minnesota. She stayed there for one week with a “dying condition”. Her funeral was held at the Greenbush Catholic Church, adjacent to the farm she grew up on. She is buried in the Greenbush Catholic Church.

Link to the Jesmer family history page

Link to Joseph A. Jesmer page (Delia’s parents) How the Jesmers came to Minnesota

Link to pictures of Princeton MN in Delia’s day Hx of Greenbush township where Delia grew up

Link to Greenbush Cemetery

The children of Joseph A. Jesmer: Nelson Adulphus Jesmer, Sidney Joseph Jesmer, Mary Jane (Jesmer) Robideau, Louis E. Jesmer, William E. Jesmer, Joseph lll Jesmer, Moses Edward Jesmer, Eunice Rose (Jesmer) Waldhoff, Eugenia (Jesmer) Kaliher, Adulphus “Albert” Jesmer, Ida Jesmer, Delia Alice Jesmer, Louella (Jesmer) Bowen, Hubert Francis Jesmer; Baby 1, Baby 2