CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: ELEF ALBERTSON - Smith County, TX ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net 20 August 2001 ***************************************************************** TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson Elef Albertson is a native of Norway, born Dec. 16, 1845. Emmigrated to America and settled in Tyler, Texas, August 1, 1858. Enlisted in company C, 20th Texas cavalry in 1862, and was with his command until the surrender in 1865, being always ready for duty as a soldier during the campaigns in which his regiment participated. On Nov. 19, 1868, he was married to Miss Ellen Halverson, of Prairieville, Kaufman county, Texas. He is a leading merchant of Tyler at this writing, and enjoys the public confidence for his sterling qualities and good citizenship.