Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1909 — OBITUARY NOTICE OF THE FATHER OF C. J. DEAN. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY NOTICE OF THE FATHER OF C. J. DEAN.

Former Jasper County Citizen Dies At Coats, Kans., At the Advanced Age of Eighty Years. Chas. J. Dean arrived home from Coats, Kans., Monday night. He did not reach Coats until the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 6th, and his father, Eli B. Dean, died on Monday night, the same day that Mr. Dean left here. The following biographical sketch of the deceased is taken from the Coats Courant: After a short illness known as congestion of the lungs, Ely B. Dean passed away last Monday at 11:45 a. m., at the ripe old age of 78 years, 9 months and 7 days. He was born in the state of Delaware, December 27, 1828, and resided there until he was seven years old, when his.father died. Shortly afterwards his mother with the- family moved to Muskingman county, Ohio. He lived here until a young man when he moved to Indiana where he was married July 5, 1855, to Miss Amanda J. Wallingford, of Louis county, Kentucky. To this union ten children were born, seven girls and three boys, all of which are living except one girl, Della, who died at the age of twelve years shortly after they came to Kansas. They continued to reside in Indiana until 1884 when they joined the throngs that came to Kansas and have lived in Pratt county, excepting a few years, ever since; and having homesteaded the farm where H. H. Luther now resides, cornering Coats on the "’northwest, he may well be called one of the pioneer settlers of this county. The relatives who attended the funeral of Grandpa Dean from a distance were: Charles Dean from Rensselaer, Indiana; Glover Dean and wife, Lambert, Oklahoma; Martin Dean, Quenemo, Kansas; J. C. Pierson, wife and daughter, Miss Elsie, Wichita; R. H. Hammond, Ness City; Jacob Coval, Kidderville; Josiah Bird, Wichita, and Ely Keller, Meade, Kansas. All the children of the deceased were present except one daughter, Mrs. Anna Coval, of Indianapolis, Ind., who arrived the day following the funeral.