"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND
 BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY 
& CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MADISON TOWNSHIP
PAGE 353

THOMAS ELY is the tenth of twelve children born to David and Sarah (Claypool)
Ely, natives of Virginia, and of German and English descent.  Thomas Ely was born in
Lee County, Va., January 2, 1826;  in 1837, he came with his parents to Hendricks
County, this State, where his father died in 1845;  he came with his mother to this
county, in 1847, and located in Brown Township, but a short time afterward came
to this township, and here his mother departed this life, in 1857.  Mr. Ely has cleared
from the forest a fine farm of 135 acres, which is well tilled and equipped, and stock-
ed with horses, cattle, hogs and sheep.  December 28, 1848, he married Martha J., 
daughter of Calton and Nancy (Jones) Grisham, and a native of Morgan County.
The children born to this union are Reuben, Elizabeth, Benjamin F. and Drusilla.
Mr. Ely is a Democrat, and was once elected Justice of the Peace of Madison
Township, but delicned the office;  he is an advocate of temperance and an Odd
Fellow, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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