# ID: I33570
# Name: Elmer M. ELEY
# Sex: M
# Birth: 12 OCT 1876
# Death: 26 FEB 1943 in Adams Co, IN
# Reference Number: 33570

Decatur Public Library (Adams Co, IN) online obit index
Title: Eley, Elmer M.
Publication: Decatur Daily Democrat; Date: 26 FEB 1943
Abstract: Age 66; Burial: Springhill Cemetery; Married: Leota Martz; Parents: Jacob & Hannah Eley


From: Valerie Manzo [mailto:[email protected]] February 16, 2009
All I have about them is: Elmer Eley, born 12 Oct 1876; died 26 Feb 1943. He married Leotis Victoria Martz; born 13 Jul 1880; died 12 Aug 1927 in Blue Creek Twp., Adams Co., IN. Someone on the internet sent me this information

Father: Jacob ELEY b: 12 FEB 1839 in IN
Mother: Hannah WHITE b: ABT 1844

Marriage #1 Leotis Victoria MARTZ b: 13 JUL 1880 in Adams Co, IN

* Married: 8 MAY 1898 in Adams Co, IN
* Note: Adams Co, IN WPA Marriage Index: Eley Elmer M to Leotis V Martz W on May 8 1898, Bk. G, p. 392

ELMER M. ELEY DIES EARLY THIS MORNING
Blue Creek Township Resident Dies Today
Elmer M. Eley, 66, a lifelong resident of Blue Creek
Township, died at 1 o'clock this morning at the Adams County
Memorial Hospital of a stroke suffered a few weeks ago. He
was brought to the hospital last week from the home of a
daughter, Mrs. Claude Buchanan at Willshire, Ohio.
He was born in Blue Creek Township October 12, 1876, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Eley. His wife died in 1927.
Surviving are the step-mother, Mrs. Hannah Eley of Berne;
three sons, Alger of Celina, Ohio, George of Halstead, Minn.,
and Harold of Willshire, Ohio; three daughters, Mrs. Buchanan
of Willshire, Mrs. Robert Pettigrew and Mrs. Herbert Minnear,
both of Anderson; three half-brothers, Guy Eley of Berne,
Howard Eley of Decatur and Dale Eley of Fort Wayne; and
three half-sisters, Mrs. Paul Felber and Mrs. Ed Davison, both
of Decatur and Mrs. Earl Mason of Oklahoma. One daughter
and one son are deceased.
Funeral services will be held (cut off)
Decatur Daily Democrat; Adams County, Indiana
Friday, February 26, 1943
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