Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Wells, Melvin A. August 6, 1848 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jan Cortez http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00020.html#0004939 March 28, 2009, 12:56 am Author: Chapman Brothers MELVIN A. WELLS, farmer, sec. 26, Deerfield Tp., is a son of Nelson and Jane (Austin) Wells. The parents were natives of New York and settled in Washtenaw Co., Mich., about the year 1838, afterward going to St. Joseph Co., Mich. There the senior Wells died at Centerville, May 11, 1881. The mother died May 7, 1863. Mr. Wells was born in Freedom, Washtenaw Co., Aug. 6, 1848. He remained in the parental home until 22 years of age, occupied in farming and acquiring his education. He was married in Ellenburgh, Clinton Co., N. Y., Dec. 5, 1863, to Mrs. Ellen Jerome Wells, widow of Henry Wells and oldest child of Lewis and Lucy (Dragoon) Jerome. It falls to the duty of the compiler of personal records to transcribe much that bears the impress of a deathless sorrow, but it is rarely incumbent to record the loss of nine children in one household, as in this instance devolves.