Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameIra Oliver Wells 
Birth16 Sep 1892, McLean Co, IL
Census2 Apr 1930, Dixon, Lee Co, IL
Memoroll#523, pg 2
Census27 Apr 1940, Dixon, Lee Co, IL
Memoroll#836, pg 61
Death1 Dec 1964, Hines, Cook Co, IL
MemoHines Veterans Administration Hospital
Burial4 Dec 1964, Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Dixon, Lee Co, IL
OccupationWire Mill foreman
FatherJohn Franklin Wells (1866-1934)
MotherJeanette Alice ”Nettie" Hauger (1872-1957)
Misc. Notes
Listed with his parents thru the 1920 census, after serving as a Corporal with Company A, 132nd Infantry Regiment, 33rd Division overseas during World War I.
Married Cathryn Augusta Milan abt 1930.
They are listed as just married in 1930, with Ira O. (39, IL) working as a foreman in a wire mill and Catherine (32, IA) as his wife.
They are listed the same, as ten years older, in 1940.
They apparently had no children.
[Obituary] Dixon Evening Telegraph - Thursday, 3 December 1964, pg 11
Ira O. Wells
Funeral services for Ira O. Wells, 72, 609 N. Ottawa, who died Tuesday in Hines Veterans Hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in Chapel Hill Funeral Home with Rev. Albert Graff, pastor of the First Christian Church and the Rev. Joseph McMahon (Ira’s brother-in-law) officiating. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Cemetery. Friends may call in the funeral home tonight.
Married Cathryn Augusta Milan abt 1930.
They are listed as just married in 1930, with Ira O. (39, IL) working as a foreman in a wire mill and Catherine (32, IA) as his wife.
They are listed the same, as ten years older, in 1940.
They apparently had no children.
[Obituary] Dixon Evening Telegraph - Thursday, 3 December 1964, pg 11
Ira O. Wells
Funeral services for Ira O. Wells, 72, 609 N. Ottawa, who died Tuesday in Hines Veterans Hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in Chapel Hill Funeral Home with Rev. Albert Graff, pastor of the First Christian Church and the Rev. Joseph McMahon (Ira’s brother-in-law) officiating. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Cemetery. Friends may call in the funeral home tonight.
Spouses
Birth6 Nov 1897, Lyons, Clinton Co, IA
Death23 Oct 1985, Sterling, Whiteside Co, IL
BurialChapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Dixon, Lee Co, IL
Misc. Notes
She was the daughter James Monroe Milan and Amanda E. Grusendorf.
Listed as Katherine in several city directories after their marriage.
Listed as Katherine in several city directories after their marriage.
Marriage1930, Illinois
No Children