Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1914 — Obituary. [ARTICLE]

Obituary.

John W. S. Ulrey was born Oct. 24, 1846, in Clermont county, Ohio, and died Feb. 26, 1914, aged 67 years, 4 months and 2 days. He was the son of John and Mary Ulrey, who came to Indiana in 1847 and located in Jennings county and moved to Newton county in 1866. He received his education in the common schools of the state and supplemented this with a year of academy training. When the war broke out he showed his indomitable will by enlisting in the 118th Indiana Volunteers, but was mustered out on account of his age, being at that time only 16 years old. Not discouraged, he re-enlisted in a few months in the 120th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and served with this regiment until the close of the war. In 1866 he came to Newton county and began farming and soon acquired the 160 acre farm that he owned at the time of his death. • He held several township offices and in 1880 was elected sheriff of Newton county and was re-elected in 1882, serving two full terms. He was a man of exceptional clerical ability and his public records were among the best ever produced in the county. This qualification led to his acceptance of a position in the census department at Washington which he filled with credit for more than twelve years, and until ill health forced him to resign. He was married laftlß69 to Miss Nancy E. Smoot, oPJulian, Ind., and to this union two sons were born, Morton, who resides in Brook, and Clyde, in Big Rapids, Mich. These two sons and a devoted wife survive him. Of his father’s family there were ten children, Of whom there are four dead; Wm. H. Ulrpy, Louisa Lynch, America E. Shepard and James Albert Ulrey. Two sisters, Mary E. Kinnear, of Colorado, and Hannah J. Harvey, of Newport News, Va., are living; and three brothers, Geo. T. Ulrey, of Lucas, Kans., and B. F. Ulrey, of Reed City, Michigan. He was at his death a member of Brook Post G. A. R. and the Kof P. lodge, both of these organizations having charge of his funeral.