On 1 June 1850 Joseph, 7, lived with his parents and 3 siblings in Morris, Grundy County, Illinois. 1525In 1860 Joseph Demers, 17, lived in Louisville, Scott County, Minnesota with the Peter A. Freer family, working as a farm laborer. He was born in Canada East. 1528 In June 1862, Joseph, 20, a farmer born in Canada and brother Stephen, 18, a farmer born in Canada registered for the Civil war draft from St. Laurence, Scott County, Minnesota. 1527On 1 June 1870 Joseph, a single, 27 year old farm laborer lived with his parents and 10 siblings in Louisville, Scott County, Minnesota.1523 On 1 May 1875 Joseph, 31 and single, lived with his parents and 6 siblings in Louisville, Scott County, Minnesota.1526 On 1 June 1880 Joseph no longer lived with his parents in Shakopee, Minnesota. 1522