John Ely (1797 - 1879)

Born 10 Jun 1797 in Bethel, Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Descendants

John and Sarah are first cousins; they were both descendants of Abner Lord.

Biography

John Ely, b. 10 June, 1797, at Bethel, Conn., son of Rev. John Ely and Mary Lord, of Madison, Conn. He was a merchant and afterwards a lawyer; and m. Sarah Colt, b. 25 Aug., 1809, at Marietta, Ohio. They were living at New York in 1859. They had five children, who died in infancy, and had four other children then living:

1. Mary Lord, b. 31 May, 1834; m- Richard Payson.

2. John Andrews, b. 24 Oct., 1836; grad. at the New York Free Academy, now the College of the City of N. Y., and was living in Chicago in 1859.

3. Julia Augusta, b. 19 Feb., 1839, and was unm. 1859.

4. Anne Eliza, b. 3 Aug., 1843

Sources

• The Ely ancestry : lineage of Richard Ely of Plymouth, England, who came to Boston, Mass., about 1655, & settled at Lyme, Conn. in 1660" by Beach, Moses Sperry, 1822-1892; Ely, William; Vanderpoel, George Burritt; Ely, Sumner Adriel Published 1902 The Calumet Press https://archive.org/details/elyancestrylinea00beac
• Jessup, Harlan R., Bethel, CT Baptisms 1760-1830 & Deaths 1843-1844, from Congregational Church Records, Connecticut Ancestry (Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Stamford, Conn., Feb 1997) Vol. 39, No. 3, Page 118. Baptism record.