When Townsend Armenius Ely was born on 27 August 1843, in Wabash, Wabash, Indiana, United States, his father, Ralph Ely, was 23 and his mother, Mary Eliza Halstead, was 20. He married Margaret C Chapin on 25 September 1866, in Alma, Gratiot, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Arcada Township, Gratiot, Michigan, United States for about 10 years and Pine River Township, Gratiot, Michigan, United States in 1880. He died on 14 August 1924, in Alma, Gratiot, Michigan, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Alma, Gratiot, Michigan, United States.
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English: habitational name from Ely, a cathedral city on an island in the fens north of Cambridge, so named from Old English ǣl ‘eel’ + gē ‘district’.
English, French, and Breton (Finistère): from the Middle English, Old French personal name Elie, Hely (Elijah in the King James Bible); see Ellis and Elias .
English: variant of Healey .
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