Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Dexter W. ELY

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From the Friendship Reporter [Friendship-Adams Co-WI], February 11, 1926 P5

FORMER PIONEER PASSES AWAY

Dexter W. ELY, an old settler of the town of Monroe, Adams county, passed
away at his home in Chicago, on Jan 28, 1926, aged 78 years, 3 months and
10 days, after an illness of only a few days of heart trouble and
pneumonia.

He came to what is now the town of Monroe, with his father's family, J. D.
ELY, in the spring of 1855, when 7 years old, where he passed his early
manhood on a farm. In 1890 he with his family moved to Chicago Illinois.
His wife (nee Mary T. HYDE), formerly of Friendship, preceded him in death
15 years ago.

He leaves to mourn his departure, two sons of Clarke of Denver, Colorado,
and Raymond, of Coloma, Wisconsin, three daughters, Mrs. Julis DARE, Mrs.
Ruth BERQQUEST, and Mrs. Florence LITTLE, all of Chicago, also two
brothers, Oscar of Kellner, Wisc., Homer of Missouri and one sister Mrs.
Harriet E. BARKER of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Funeral services were held in Chicago, after which the remains were taken
to Denver, Colorado, for interment beside his wife in Crown Hill cemetery.