Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Ely, Samuel November 29, 1807 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ny/nyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 October 18, 2008, 4:21 pm Author: Hardin & Willard Ely, Samuel, Warren, was born where he now lives, near the south line of Warren, November 29, 1807, and is a son of Samuel and Fannie (Cooley) Ely. His grandfather was Simeon Ely, of English descent, and was born near West Springfield, Mass. In 1805 he settled on the farm where the subject now lives, and died there in 1815, aged eighty-five. The subject's father was bron in Massachusetts in 1774, and came with his parents to the present homestead in 1805. He died in 1851 in his seventy-seventh year, and his wife died about 1862 in her ninetieth year. They had five children. Our subject has always lived on the homestead, has never been sued and has never sued, has not tasted liquor in fifty-three years, and has been a member of the M.E. Church fifty-four years. He married in 1831, Mary A., daughter of George and Betsy (Cooke) Snyder, and they have had seven children: Lorana, wife of James Pollard, dead, left one son; Ann, wife of Ira Dunckel; Helen, wife of Rosell Warren; Wesley, Elizabeth, died unmarried; Fannie A., and Darwin, who served three years in the 121st N.Y. Volunteers. Mrs. Ely died in 1880 in her seventy-second year. Additional Comments: source: History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of its citizens edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893 550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ny/herkimer/bios/ely466gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nyfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb