Check that... The age information for William is not in the obituary, it is from the
Reynolds Cemetery records at
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inadams2/reynold1.htm
Ted Smith
tcsmith(a)surewest.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Smith" <tcsmith(a)surewest.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 3:46 AM
Subject: [SACKETT-L] Re: William Elzey, Jr., obit
|I think the answer has been there all along. If the death date in the obituary is correct
about the death date and the number of years, months and days, then William was born about
October 8, 1819, not March 8, 1825!
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| Ted Smith
| tcsmith(a)surewest.net
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| From: "Thurmon King" <THURMONKING(a)peoplepc.com>
| To: <SACKETT-L(a)rootsweb.com>
| Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 11:05 PM
| Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] William Elzey, Jr., obit
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|| Ted,
||
|| I'm trying to catch up on some of the information you have posted. The
|| question you raised at the end of this post caused me to do a search of the
|| 1880 census and I found even more puzzling information:
|| 1880 Census; Root, Adams, Indiana
|| FHL Film: 1254263; NA Film No.: T9-0263
|| Page No.: 22C
|| William ELZEY, Self, M, Male, W, 60, OH, Farmer, MD, MD
|| Sarah ELZEY, Wife, M, Female, W, 59, OH, Keeps House, OH, OH
|| Thomas ELZEY, Son, S, Male, W, 31, IN, At Home, OH, OH
|| Joseph ELZEY, Son, S, Male, W, 20, IN, At Home, OH, OH
|| Lavina ELZEY, Dau, S, Female, W, 24, IN, At Home, OH, OH
||
|| From this the year of William's birth would be about 1819-1820
||
|| Thurmon
||
|| ----- Original Message -----
|| From: "Ted Smith" <tcsmith(a)surewest.net>
|| To: <SACKETT-L(a)rootsweb.com>
|| Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 7:15 AM
|| Subject: [SACKETT-L] William Elzey, Jr., obit
||
||
|| > >From
http://www.rootsweb.com/~inadams/reyobits.html :
|| >
|| > William Elzey
|| > Death has taken from our midst our father and friend William Elzey, born
|| March the 8th 1825. On June the 25, 1904 he sank into that solemn sleep
|| which in this world knows no awakening. We cannot grieve at our loss for we
|| feel assured it is his gain. Our father just fall in the great pathway of
|| existence will long live in the hearts of all who knew him. He was kind and
|| loving, good and gentle. Purity, sincereity and charity were the active
|| living principles that guided his life, frank, candid and sincere. He
|| believed in the power of kindness and gave freely to others the right hand
|| that he claimed for himself. He knew that no one can be forced into
|| kindness, that epithets cannot convince, that curses are not arguments and
|| that the finger of scorn never points towards heaven. One who leads such a
|| life as our father has led had no need to fear death nor what may possibly
|| follow after it. One who faithfully discharges his duty according to the
|| sphere in lefe he occupies has no n!
|| > eed to regret at leaving this state of existence. If his actions have been
|| governed by the principles of right and justice towards his fellow man he
|| neither fears to meet him in life nor to part with him at the hour of death.
|| He was perfectly willing to meet the consequences of a well spent life.
|| >
|| > In the year 1836 he came to Adams Co. with his father William, from
|| Clinton Co, Ohio. The same fall hepled lay off (sic), Decatur and ever since
|| has lived in and near the city. In 1840 he was united in marriage to Sarah
|| Andrews, to this union were given nine children, six boys and three girls;
|| 28 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren. His wife, two girls and one boy
|| passed over to the great beyond some years ago.
|| >
|| > Note: The birthdate reported in this item differs from that reported in
||
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Etsfa/sackett1/pafg177.htm#10057
|| (8 Oct 1819).
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