Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameRoss Josiah Wells
Birth16 Dec 1893, Williamsburg, Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada
Census24 Apr 1930, Madrid, St Lawrence Co, NY
Memoroll#1642, pg 7
Census3 May 1940, Stockholm, St Lawrence Co, NY
Memoroll#2771, pg 7
Census1 May 1950, Stockholm, St Lawrence Co, NY
Memoroll#4107, pg 31
Death4 Mar 1970, Massena, St Lawrence Co, NY
MemoMassena Memorial Hospital
BurialHale Cem, Norfolk, St Lawrence Co, NY
OccupationFarmer
FatherCharles Edsell Edward Wells (1857-1926)
Misc. Notes
He is listed as a farmer with his family of 5 sons and a daughter in Madrid, NY in 1930. They are all listed as being born in Canada, and show as aliens who immigrated in 1929.
Listed as a farm operator in 1940. And have only son Glenn (21) and daughter Maureen (16) living at home in 1950.
(Massena, NY Observer Thursday, March 18, 1965, pg 3)
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Wells, with their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Basil Wells, Potsdam - Winthrop road, attended funeral services Monday, Mar. 15, for Mr. R. J. Wells' nephew, the late Arnold Wells, Cornwall, Ont. Mr. Wells died very suddenly.
[Obituary]
ROSS J. WELLS
MASSENA - Ross J. Wells, 76, of Knapps Station Road, died Wednesday at Messena Memorial Hospital. The body was taken to the Buck Funeral Home in Norwood. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Spring burial will be in the Hale Cometery.
Wells operated a farm in the Madrid area on and later in the Potsdam-Winthrop Road sector.
He later moved to North Stockholm.
Surviving are his wife, five sons, two daughters. 10 grand-children, five great-grandchildren, two brothers, one sister.
Spouses
Birth8 Jun 1894, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Death13 Nov 1979, Massena, St Lawrence Co, NY
BurialHale Cem, Norfolk, St Lawrence Co, NY
Misc. Notes
father - Michael Dourley, mother - Margaret Monaghan
she became a teacher, and had 8 children.
Marriage9 May 1916, Cornwall, Stormont Co, Ontario, Canada
Marr MemoSt. Paul's United
ChildrenBasil Charles (1917-1990)
 Leon (Died as Infant) (1918-1919)
 Preston Edward (1921-2006)
 Graham Winston (1924-2007)
 Emmett Allen (1925-1990)
 Wyona M. (1927-2010)
 Glenn Donald (1929-1978)
 Maureen E. (1933-2017)
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