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Obituary- Wells, David

DAVID M. WELLS
David M. Wells, aged 62, died at his home two miles north of Williamstown Tuesday night following an illness that began about one year ago.

The body was brought to Rossville this afternoon for interment in Rossville cemetery where his parents are buried. The services at the cemetery were in charge of Rev. G. C. Albin of the Rossville Methodist church. The service at Williamstown was held this morning at 10 o’clock in the Baptist church conducted by the Rev. M. M. Thorne, pastor of the Perry Methodist church Mr. Wells, while a Christian at heart had never united with the church. He was raised in a Methodist home and expressed a preference for that faith.

The Wells family were early day settlers in Kansas coming first to the Troy neighborhood from Kentucky where the deceased was born April 4th, 1863. In young man¬hood he moved to Jackson county, settling near Delia. January 18; 1897, he was united in marriage to Ella Stone at Adrian. One child, Clyde Clarence Wells was born to this union. In 1903 Mr. Wells gave up farming and for a time conducted a store in Rossville with his father. Giving this up he moved with his family to Lansing, Kansas, where he served as a guard in the state prison. In 1910 resigning this position, he bought a farm north of Williamstown where he and his family have resided since. About two years ago Mr. Wells began to fail in health, dropsy being the immediate cause. The disease never yielded to treatment and caused his death.

Mr. Wells is survived by his widow and son, by two brothers, John of Delia and Clarence of Mayetta and a host of friends.

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