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Oneida Song for the Ages

In the early 1920s Oneida Elsie Elm sang a funeral dirge for famed inventor Thomas A. Edison. Hear a Sample of the Song

Not much was known of this Oneida woman who lived in Manlius. Even the Edison Museum wasn’t familiar with how the recording came to be. But the line between Elsie and the recording can be easily drawn.

Elsie, who was born on Jan. 6, 1883 to Oneidas Abraham and Margaret (Cornelius) Elm, appears on the rolls in 1886, 1901, and 1922. She never married, had five siblings: Hattie, Elias, Charlie, Horton and Lydia, and a half-brother Simeon Elm.

In November 1920 Elsie, along with Horton, fellow Oneida Bill Rockwell, and other Haudenosaunee representatives, traveled to Rochester for the New York State ...
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