Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: James Henry ELWOOD

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Obituary

James Henry Ellwood

Last Saturday afternoon James Henry Ellwood died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Lyman Johnson, in this city of heart failure at the ripe old
age of 78 years.

Mr. Ellwood was born in New York state, coming to Wisconsin in 1851,
settling in Reedsburg. In 1852 he was married to Miss Sarah Johnson, and
soon moved to Mitchell, Ia., where they resided six years. At the end of
that time returned here and purchased a farm in the town of Union, having
resided there and in Evansville ever since, except the years spent in the
south in the service of his country, having served from 1861 to 1864, and
passed through the scathing fire of the battles of Bull Run and the
Wilderness.

He was a man of strong integrity, public spirited and always interested in
educational affairs, or any enterprise having for its object the public
good. He is survived by his wife, three daughters, Mrs. August Freuchen,
Mrs. Lyman Johnson and Mrs. Freedus Johnson of Evansville; one son, D. Ray
Ellwood of Fairchild, Wis., two brothers, Samuel of Iowa, and Thomas of
Michigan; and one sister who resides in Neillsville, Wis.

Funeral services were held from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Johnson on
Garfield Avenue, Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock, Rev. J. L. Webster
officiating. The pall bearers were all comrades of the local G. A. R. of
which he was a member and the interment was at Maple Hill Cemetery.

February 24, 1909, The Enterprise and The Tribune, p. 1, col. 7,
Evansville, Wisconsin 

[Note this surname is also spelled Elwood]