Obituary: Adams County, Wisconsin: Dexter W. ELY ************************************************************************ Submitted by Joan Benner, May 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ From the Friendship Reporter [Friendship-Adams Co-WI], February 11, 1926 P5 FORMER PIONEER PASSES AWAY Dexter W. ELY, an old settler of the town of Monroe, Adams county, passed away at his home in Chicago, on Jan 28, 1926, aged 78 years, 3 months and 10 days, after an illness of only a few days of heart trouble and pneumonia. He came to what is now the town of Monroe, with his father's family, J. D. ELY, in the spring of 1855, when 7 years old, where he passed his early manhood on a farm. In 1890 he with his family moved to Chicago Illinois. His wife (nee Mary T. HYDE), formerly of Friendship, preceded him in death 15 years ago. He leaves to mourn his departure, two sons of Clarke of Denver, Colorado, and Raymond, of Coloma, Wisconsin, three daughters, Mrs. Julis DARE, Mrs. Ruth BERQQUEST, and Mrs. Florence LITTLE, all of Chicago, also two brothers, Oscar of Kellner, Wisc., Homer of Missouri and one sister Mrs. Harriet E. BARKER of Charlotte, North Carolina. Funeral services were held in Chicago, after which the remains were taken to Denver, Colorado, for interment beside his wife in Crown Hill cemetery.