Husband of Margaret Ann Allen. Son of Robert Marshall Kells and Lovina Bay.
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THE CHARITON HERALD-PATRIOT
Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, March 15, 1917
Mr. E. C. Kells, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kells, was born in Defiance county, Ohio, on March 16th, 1847, and died at his home in Russell, Iowa, on March 3d, 1917, aged 69 years, 11 months and 15 days.
When he was only ten months old his mother died and when he was six years old his father was also carried to his last resting place. After the death of his father he went to live with an uncle near Eddyville, Iowa, where he was afforded common school privileges. After some years residence with his uncle he decided to make his home with his sister, Mrs. Trowbridge, in LaGrange, Ia., where he remained until after the breaking out of the Rebellion.
He had not yet attained his majority when, on the 10th of July, 1863, he enlisted in Company F, Eighth Iowa Cavalry, at Albia, which went to Davenport and thence to Louisville, Nashville and other points in the south. At Noonan, Georgia, on the 29th of July, 1864, he was captured and sent to Andersonville prison where he suffered many hardships and privations incident to prison life.
After an incarceration of four months he was paroled to Florence, for his health was so greatly impaired that he was thought to be helpless as an enemy. He was then sent to Annapolis, Maryland, and shortly afterward secured a sixty-day furlough. After the expiration of the furlough he again joined his regiment at Macon, Georgia, and served until the close of the war, when he was mustered out on August 7th, 1865.
He returned to LaGrange, Iowa, and on the 13th of September, 1866, was united in marriage to Miss Margaret A. Allen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Allen. To this union were born six children: Charles A., who died February 24, 1917; Ernest O., Mrs. A. C. Dixon, Mrs. Walter Blue, Clyde, who died June 13th, 1913, and one child who died in infancy.
Mr. Kells was converted and united with the Evangelical church at Trinity, about thirty-one years ago, and he has since remained a member of the same church.
He leaves to mourn his departure his wife, three children; Ernest O. and Mrs. A. C. Dixon, both of Russell, and Mrs. Walter Blue, of Grosse Tete, La., twenty-two grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Anna M. McCoy, and a half brother, Robert C. Kells, of Chico, Calif., who for a time made his home with the deceased; also many friends.
The funeral service was held in the Russell Methodist church March 5th, at 2 o'clock p.m., and was conducted by Rev. E. L. Stone, assisted by Rev. DeVaux. Interment was made in the Russell cemetery.
OBITUARY
THE CHARITON HERALD-PATRIOT
Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, March 15, 1917
Mr. E. C. Kells, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kells, was born in Defiance county, Ohio, on March 16th, 1847, and died at his home in Russell, Iowa, on March 3d, 1917, aged 69 years, 11 months and 15 days.
When he was only ten months old his mother died and when he was six years old his father was also carried to his last resting place. After the death of his father he went to live with an uncle near Eddyville, Iowa, where he was afforded common school privileges. After some years residence with his uncle he decided to make his home with his sister, Mrs. Trowbridge, in LaGrange, Ia., where he remained until after the breaking out of the Rebellion.
He had not yet attained his majority when, on the 10th of July, 1863, he enlisted in Company F, Eighth Iowa Cavalry, at Albia, which went to Davenport and thence to Louisville, Nashville and other points in the south. At Noonan, Georgia, on the 29th of July, 1864, he was captured and sent to Andersonville prison where he suffered many hardships and privations incident to prison life.
After an incarceration of four months he was paroled to Florence, for his health was so greatly impaired that he was thought to be helpless as an enemy. He was then sent to Annapolis, Maryland, and shortly afterward secured a sixty-day furlough. After the expiration of the furlough he again joined his regiment at Macon, Georgia, and served until the close of the war, when he was mustered out on August 7th, 1865.
He returned to LaGrange, Iowa, and on the 13th of September, 1866, was united in marriage to Miss Margaret A. Allen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Allen. To this union were born six children: Charles A., who died February 24, 1917; Ernest O., Mrs. A. C. Dixon, Mrs. Walter Blue, Clyde, who died June 13th, 1913, and one child who died in infancy.
Mr. Kells was converted and united with the Evangelical church at Trinity, about thirty-one years ago, and he has since remained a member of the same church.
He leaves to mourn his departure his wife, three children; Ernest O. and Mrs. A. C. Dixon, both of Russell, and Mrs. Walter Blue, of Grosse Tete, La., twenty-two grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Anna M. McCoy, and a half brother, Robert C. Kells, of Chico, Calif., who for a time made his home with the deceased; also many friends.
The funeral service was held in the Russell Methodist church March 5th, at 2 o'clock p.m., and was conducted by Rev. E. L. Stone, assisted by Rev. DeVaux. Interment was made in the Russell cemetery.
Husband of Margaret Ann Allen. Son of Robert Marshall Kells and Lovina Bay.
OBITUARY
THE CHARITON HERALD-PATRIOT
Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, March 15, 1917
Mr. E. C. Kells, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kells, was born in Defiance county, Ohio, on March 16th, 1847, and died at his home in Russell, Iowa, on March 3d, 1917, aged 69 years, 11 months and 15 days.
When he was only ten months old his mother died and when he was six years old his father was also carried to his last resting place. After the death of his father he went to live with an uncle near Eddyville, Iowa, where he was afforded common school privileges. After some years residence with his uncle he decided to make his home with his sister, Mrs. Trowbridge, in LaGrange, Ia., where he remained until after the breaking out of the Rebellion.
He had not yet attained his majority when, on the 10th of July, 1863, he enlisted in Company F, Eighth Iowa Cavalry, at Albia, which went to Davenport and thence to Louisville, Nashville and other points in the south. At Noonan, Georgia, on the 29th of July, 1864, he was captured and sent to Andersonville prison where he suffered many hardships and privations incident to prison life.
After an incarceration of four months he was paroled to Florence, for his health was so greatly impaired that he was thought to be helpless as an enemy. He was then sent to Annapolis, Maryland, and shortly afterward secured a sixty-day furlough. After the expiration of the furlough he again joined his regiment at Macon, Georgia, and served until the close of the war, when he was mustered out on August 7th, 1865.
He returned to LaGrange, Iowa, and on the 13th of September, 1866, was united in marriage to Miss Margaret A. Allen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Allen. To this union were born six children: Charles A., who died February 24, 1917; Ernest O., Mrs. A. C. Dixon, Mrs. Walter Blue, Clyde, who died June 13th, 1913, and one child who died in infancy.
Mr. Kells was converted and united with the Evangelical church at Trinity, about thirty-one years ago, and he has since remained a member of the same church.
He leaves to mourn his departure his wife, three children; Ernest O. and Mrs. A. C. Dixon, both of Russell, and Mrs. Walter Blue, of Grosse Tete, La., twenty-two grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Anna M. McCoy, and a half brother, Robert C. Kells, of Chico, Calif., who for a time made his home with the deceased; also many friends.
The funeral service was held in the Russell Methodist church March 5th, at 2 o'clock p.m., and was conducted by Rev. E. L. Stone, assisted by Rev. DeVaux. Interment was made in the Russell cemetery.
OBITUARY
THE CHARITON HERALD-PATRIOT
Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, March 15, 1917
Mr. E. C. Kells, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kells, was born in Defiance county, Ohio, on March 16th, 1847, and died at his home in Russell, Iowa, on March 3d, 1917, aged 69 years, 11 months and 15 days.
When he was only ten months old his mother died and when he was six years old his father was also carried to his last resting place. After the death of his father he went to live with an uncle near Eddyville, Iowa, where he was afforded common school privileges. After some years residence with his uncle he decided to make his home with his sister, Mrs. Trowbridge, in LaGrange, Ia., where he remained until after the breaking out of the Rebellion.
He had not yet attained his majority when, on the 10th of July, 1863, he enlisted in Company F, Eighth Iowa Cavalry, at Albia, which went to Davenport and thence to Louisville, Nashville and other points in the south. At Noonan, Georgia, on the 29th of July, 1864, he was captured and sent to Andersonville prison where he suffered many hardships and privations incident to prison life.
After an incarceration of four months he was paroled to Florence, for his health was so greatly impaired that he was thought to be helpless as an enemy. He was then sent to Annapolis, Maryland, and shortly afterward secured a sixty-day furlough. After the expiration of the furlough he again joined his regiment at Macon, Georgia, and served until the close of the war, when he was mustered out on August 7th, 1865.
He returned to LaGrange, Iowa, and on the 13th of September, 1866, was united in marriage to Miss Margaret A. Allen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Allen. To this union were born six children: Charles A., who died February 24, 1917; Ernest O., Mrs. A. C. Dixon, Mrs. Walter Blue, Clyde, who died June 13th, 1913, and one child who died in infancy.
Mr. Kells was converted and united with the Evangelical church at Trinity, about thirty-one years ago, and he has since remained a member of the same church.
He leaves to mourn his departure his wife, three children; Ernest O. and Mrs. A. C. Dixon, both of Russell, and Mrs. Walter Blue, of Grosse Tete, La., twenty-two grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Anna M. McCoy, and a half brother, Robert C. Kells, of Chico, Calif., who for a time made his home with the deceased; also many friends.
The funeral service was held in the Russell Methodist church March 5th, at 2 o'clock p.m., and was conducted by Rev. E. L. Stone, assisted by Rev. DeVaux. Interment was made in the Russell cemetery.
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