James Madison Wellman Obit - 1908 - Rockingham Co., VA
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SOURCE: Harrisonburg Daily News, Harrisonburg, Virginia (Tuesday, February 
25, 1908)

HEADLINE: Jas. M. Wellman Dead. Former Harrisonburg Resident Expires in 
Emporia, Kansas

ARTICLE:

News has been received here of the death in Emporia, Kansas, on February 
14 of James Madison Wellman, who will be remembered by many in Harrisonburg 
as having conducted a barbershop here at one time. He was 72 years old and 
had been in failing health for about a year.
Mr. Wellman was born at Lyneborough, N. H., September 30, 1835. He 
enlisted in Company G., Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry and was 
discharged January 20, 1863, on account of disability. After the war he 
settled at Winchester, Va., where in 1868 he married Miss Laura Virginia 
Sloat. Later Mr. and Mrs. Wellman moved to Harrisonburg, where their two 
children Perley C. and Mrs. Jennis Darr, were born. In April, 1881, the 
family moved to Emporia, where they have since lived. Besides a wife and two 
children, Mr. Wellman leaves two brothers and two sisters in New Hampshire.