John Calvin Ellis (1913)

BISHOP, CRIFTON, ELLIS, HOWE, NEIDERG, PIERCE

Posted By: Kent Transier
Date: 1/25/2013 at 11:33:09

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 1, 1913
Page 10, Column 1

Neighborhood News - Truro

Calvin Ellis, who died at his home on Indianola Friday, was brought to Truro Saturday and the funeral was held in the M. E. church at ten o'clock. Burial in Ebenezer cemetery.
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The Indianola Herald
Indianola, Iowa
Thursday, October 9, 1913
Page 2, Column 3

John Calvin Ellis was born near New Martinsburg, Fayette county, Ohio, April 15, 1841, died at his home in Indianola, Iowa, Sept. 26, 1913, aged seventy-two years, five months and eleven days.

He was married to Emma C. Pierce October 18, 1864. This union was blessed with six children: Mrs. Iona A. Neiderg, of near Winterset, Mrs. Inas G. Howe, near Osceola, and Retson H., near Indianola. Leo P., Carey C., and Mrs. Vinnie R. Crifton preceded him to the better world.

He is survived by his wife, three children, fourteen grandchildren and one great grandchild. One brother, Cyrus Ellis, of Oakland, Calif., and a sister Mrs. Maggie Bishop, of Oberlin, Kansas, with a host of relatives and friends.

At the age of sixteen he gave his heart to God. He was a life-long member of the Friends church, an active worker in the Sabbath School and a regular attender at church.

He was a soldier of the Civil war, of Co. I, 168 Inf. Ohio. He came to Iowa in 1865, settling on a farm in Ohio Tp., Madison county, living in the same neighborhood forty-five years. Two years ago he moved to Indianola, Iowa. He was a loving husband and father and a kind neighbor.

Funeral services were held at the home on Friday evening, also at the M.E. church at Truro, Iowa, on Saturday morning, conducted by his pastor, Rev. Charles Moore. Interment in the Ebenezer cemetery, Madison county, Iowa.

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