Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Ely, Reuben Pownall
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   REUBEN POWNALL ELY was born in Solebury township, June 7, 
1815.  Like all others of the name in Bucks county, he is a 
descendant of the first Joshua Ely.  The second son of the 
first Joshua was the father of seven children, the eldest of 
whom was the Joshua who in 1738 removed to Solebury.  Among 
the seven children of the last-mentioned Joshua Ely, was a 
son John, who was married twice.  By his first wife, Sarah 
Simcock, he had five children, the second child and only son 
being Asher, who was born July 11, 1768.  He married Eleanor 
Holcomb in 1791, and she bore him nine children, the eldest 
of whom was John H., born March 6, 1792.  He was married 
twice; the first time to Elizabeth Pownall, daughter of 
Reuben and Mary Lee Pownall.  She was born June 30, 1786, 
was married November 11, 1812, and died October 3, 1817. 
Reuben P. was the second one of three children; the eldest, 
William Lee, having died in infancy; and the youngest, 
Elizabeth, born August 17, 1817. She married Howard H. 
Paxson, and had three children:  Alfred, Rose Ellen (died in 
infancy), and Martha Elizabeth.  Elizabeth (Ely) Paxson died 
February 12, 1847.  Reuben P. Ely followed farming for a 
number of years, but removed to Lambertville, N. J., in 
1860, where he has ever since resided, with the exception of 
six years at New Hope, Pa. He married Violetta Duer, 
daughter of Joseph and Sarah Duer, and has two children, 
Elizabeth F. and Sarah W.   For a number of years he has 
been engaged in collecting the genealogy of many families of 
Bucks and Hunterdon counties.