| Sources:
1. Liahona Research (Orem, UT), compilers. 1996. Marriage
Index: Ohio, 1789-1850. (Broderbund CD-400):
| Ely, James |
Corbin, Sarah Ellen |
Apr 27, 1842 |
Knox Co. |
2. Family Quest Archives: Wisconsin Federal Census 1850:
Green and Iowa Counties. Heritage Quest CD M432-999: Town
of Monroe Dist. No. 4, Greene (sic) Co., WI, p. 226B, 183/191, enumerated
15 Aug 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
| James Ely |
28 |
M |
|
Farmer |
100 |
Pennsylvania |
| Sarah E " |
24 |
F |
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Ohio |
| Erastus " |
6 |
M |
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Do |
| Wm M
" |
4 |
M |
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Do |
| Martha J " |
2 |
F |
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Wis |
3. 1860 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com,
Image #72 of 82): Monroe P.O., Town of Monroe, Green Co., WI, Roll
M653_1411, p. 378, PN 72, 575/88, enumerated 18 "Juny" 1860, official enumeration
date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
| James Ely |
38 |
M |
|
farmer |
2000 |
500 |
Penn |
| Sarah E |
34 |
F |
|
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|
|
Ohio |
| Erastus |
16 |
M |
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|
" |
| William K |
16 |
M |
|
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|
" |
| Martha J |
12 |
F |
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|
Wis |
| Sophia |
9 |
F |
|
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|
" |
| Jerome |
7 |
M |
|
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|
|
" |
| Minerva |
5 |
F |
|
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|
" |
| James |
3 |
M |
|
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" |
| Thomas |
1 |
M |
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" |
4. 1870 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com,
Image #20 of 117): Monroe P.O., Town of Monroe, Green Co., WI, Roll
M593_1715, p. 172A, PN 19, 127/128, enumerated 23 Jun 1870, official enumeration
date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
| Ealy James |
48 |
M |
W |
Farmer |
4800 |
1200 |
Pennsylvania |
| " Sarah |
44 |
F |
W |
Keeping House |
|
|
Ohio |
| " Marthy |
22 |
F |
W |
School Teacher |
|
|
Wisconsin |
| " Jerome |
17 |
M |
W |
|
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|
" |
| " James |
13 |
M |
W |
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|
" |
| " Thomas |
11 |
M |
W |
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|
" |
| " Minerva |
15 |
F |
W |
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|
" |
| " Edward |
6 |
M |
W |
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" |
| " Francis |
4 |
M |
W |
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" |
Listed next to married son, Wm. EALY (æ 25, b. OH).
5. 1880 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com,
Image #
6
7. 1900 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com,
Image #
8. Anon. 1884. History of Green County, Wisconsin.
Union Publ. Co., Springfield, IL (PDF online at the South Central Library
System, Madison, WI, web site). The sketch was one long, continuous
paragraph on p. 973; I've broken it into smaller paragraphs for improved
readability.
| James Ely, one of the pioneers of this county, was born
in Green Co., Penn., on the 22d day of February, 1822. His parents
were John and Catharine Ely, natives of the same State. About
1829, John Ely emigrated with his family to Knox Co., Ohio, which was then
an unbroken wilderness, infested with Indians. Here he cleared a
farm, which he afterwards sold, and removed to another. He came to
Monroe in October, 1846, traveling overland with teams. They were
twenty-two days on the road, crossing the Black Swamp on corduroy bridges,
and fording streams. Mr. Ely died in 1850. Mrs. Ely died in the fall
of 1846. They were both members of the Christian Church for many
years.
James Ely, subject of this sketch, was reared and educated
in the wilds of Ohio. The first school that he attended was in a
log cabin with a puncheon floor, slab benches and desks, with windows of
greased paper. He was married in Ohio, to Sarah E. Corbin,
daughter of William K. Corbin, a native of Washington Co., Penn.,
who settled in Ohio in 1823. Mr. and Mrs. Ely had twelve children,
nine sons and three daughters, eight of whom are living--William K.,
Sophia,
Jerome
C., Minerva, James M., Thomas B., Edwin E.
and Francis M.
Two of the sons, Erastus and William K., enlisted
in the 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. Erastus died in the service,
while on board the steamer, Julia, in 1864, from eating cakes containing
poison, which he had obtained from a rebel woman in Memphis. He was much
esteemed by his comrades and a favorite in his company.
Mr. Ely came to the town of Monroe in 1846, took land and made a
home, where he lived twenty-nine years. At that time, 1846, the country
was new. There were no mills in this section, and the settlers were
compelled to go to Beloit for their milling. At one time he hauled
wheat to Milwaukee and sold it for thirty-seven and a half cents per bushel.
Mr. and Mrs. Ely, on their arrival in this county, were in limited
circumstances, $8 and an old team and wagon comprising the whole of their
worldly goods. Coming through Indiana and Illinois, they contracted
the fever and ague, from which they did not recover for a year. Being
nearly out of money, he was obliged to find employment at once and went
to a man by the name of Rust, who, after some deliberation, concluded to
hire him, agreeing to pay him fifty cents per day. The following
winter, he tried hunting, but found that tramping through the snow and
roughing it were not particularly beneficial to the ague, and abandoned
it. He finally struck a new source of revenue in the manufacture
of splint baskets which he contracted to Isaac Moulton, he to receive fifty
cents each for bushel baskets and to take his pay in groceries. The
next spring he went to work for Mr. Rust, but in May he was taken sick
with the ague, and for one year was unable to do any work.
In a new country, sick, and with but little to subsist upon, his
experience was hard indeed, to endure. In the fall of 1850 he purchased
160 acres of land and built a log-cabin 18x20 feet. Their furniture
was of the rudest kind, all home made. This was their beginning in
this county. They are now in possession of a comfortable fortune,
which is due to their perseverence, industry and economy. Mr. and
Mrs. Ely are members of the Christian Church. |
9. The Raymond Martin Bell Anthology. "The
Families of George Ealy, East Finley Township, and Michael Ely, Buffalo
Township, Washington [County], Pennsylvania" (online at the Washington
Co., PA, GenWeb site). Says James is in the 1880 census of Green
Co., WI.
10. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service:
Ancestral
File. |