Ionia-Gratiot County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ely, Medora January 27, 1930
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The Ionia Sentinel-Standard, Monday, January 27, 1930
Headline:   Mrs. Ely, 74, A Pioneer of Lyons Dead
            Was Widow of Former Muir Postmaster; Born on Farm Near Muir, 
            the Child of Early Settlers.

Death claimed in Lansing Monday morning, Mrs. Madora Ely, 74, a pioneer of 
Lyons township and the daughter of Jay and Julia Ross, who were among the 
early settlers in the vicinity north of Muir.

Funeral services will probably be held from a Lansing funeral home Wednesday 
morning at 10 o’clock and short service and interment will follow the same day 
at North Plains cemetery.

Mrs. Ely, widow of the late William C. Ely, who died in Muir while postmaster 
there, was reared on a farm three and one-half miles northeast of Muir, now 
belonging to the George West estate.  Early in her girlhood she affiliated 
with the Presbyterian church at Muir and as long as she lived in that vicinity 
was counted among the energetic workers for every branch of the denomination.  
While there she was a member of the Muir Library club and retained this 
membership until she moved to Alma a few years ago.  Later she became a 
resident of Ludington and the past few months had lived in Lansing. 

B. R. Ely, of Ionia, Sherman J. Ely, of Lansing, and Roscoe Ely, of Ludington, 
three sons, survive.  She also leaves one brother, J. E. Ross of Muir, the 
last surviving member of that family.



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