I found the following article in an old Alabama newspaper at Newspaper.com. Was it published in there because the Elzeys had a connection to that area of Alabama? I wish I knew. May have been carried in many newspapers over the country as they liked to run news from all over the US. My 3rd Great Grandmother Adeline Eliza Elzey Hale was said to have been born in Alabama but I have never been able to find anything on her family. The only insight I have is info given by her granddaughter, Phoebe Hale McCormick. In evaluating the information in the statement I need to remind myself that Phoebe was only 5 years old when her Dad's mother, Adeline passed away in April of 1905. Too, it should be noted that Phoebe's Dad, John Nathaniel Hale was the youngest child. John N. Hale never knew his Daddy as William Taylor Hale drowned in the Collins River shortly before his birth. The account of Wm Taylor Hale's unfortunate death is mentioned in Phoebe's recollection of her Grandparents. Much of the information detail events which happened up to 80 years before Phoebe was even born.
Of course these events in this newspaper article are happening in 1895 which is about 10 years before Adeline Hale dies. These could be nephews, or brothers cousins or even great nephews. Her surname has been spelled a variety of ways. The details of the buggy wreck are pretty gruesome.
01 Aug 1895 Thu
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www.newspapers.com
So I went looking for any record of a William Elzey in the 1880 census and found one in the Adams Co Indiana area. From that information I was able to find details of who he married and also his Death Certificate(from Ancestry.com) which lists him as a widower.
Indiana Death Certificates, 1899-2011 Searched on William Elsey (Decatur area)
Year: 1904 Roll : 01
The Ancestry Database
Ancestry.com. Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Based on records from:
Indiana State Board of Health. Death Certificates, 1900–2011. Microfilm. Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Year: 1904 Roll : 01
The Ancestry Database
Ancestry.com. Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Based on records from:
Indiana State Board of Health. Death Certificates, 1900–2011. Microfilm. Indiana Archives and Records Administration, Indianapolis, Indiana.
I did a search for the cemetery where he is buried, having gotten that information from the Death Certificate and found a listing for Reynolds Cemetery at the Adams County page of the INGenWeb. Addition info was listed at the website in an obituary and while it didn't say exactly when his wife died it gave the impression that it had been more than several years. The obituary also told of Wm. Elzey coming to the Decatur area in 1836 with his father from Clinton Co Ohio. His father is also buried at the Reynolds Cemetery. LOTS of information. Also in the Reynolds Cemetery there is a Mary E Elzey Mann who dies in Oct of 1895. This particular Elzey family doesn't appear to be connected to my Adeline Elzey Hale within the 1800s. There may be some connection back in Deleware and Maryland. There are several families from Maryland and Connecticut which settled in Van Buren Co TN. I am also intrigued by the Martin Family connection to this Elzey. There are many many Martin family connections in my autosomal DNA results but no patterns yet. I'm putting this aside for now but this information could come in handy if I ever make a connection to Elzeys in Maryland.
