Individual Details
Nile Clay WELLS
(12 Aug 1883 - 20 Mar 1941)
Events
| Birth | 12 Aug 1883 | Van Buren, Iowa, United States |  | ||
| Residence | 1 Jun 1885 | Chequest Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States | | ||
| Residence | 22 Jun 1900 | a 16 year old male born Iowa and was listed as Clay Wills - Chequest Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States | | ||
| Residence | 1905 | Chequest Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States | | ||
| Marriage | 23 Jan 1907 | Keosauqua, Van Buren, Iowa, United States - Sylvia BINGHAM | | ||
| Residence | 20 Apr 1910 | 1 26 year old male farmer born in Iowa who has been married 3 years and was listed as N. C. Wells - Chequest Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States | | ||
| Residence | 1915 | Woodson, Kansas, United States | | ||
| Residence | 3 Jan 1920 | a 36 year old male farmer born in Iowa and was listed as N. C. Wells - Chequest Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States | | ||
| Residence | 30 Jan 1920 | Lebanon, Van Buren, Iowa, United States | | ||
| Residence | 1925 | Union Township, Davis, Iowa, United States | | ||
| Residence | 2 Apr 1930 | a 46 year old male farmer born in Iowa and was listed as Klay N. C. Wells - Jackson Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States | | ||
| Residence | 3 Apr 1940 | Jackson Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States | | ||
| Death | 20 Mar 1941 | Ormanville, Wapello, Iowa, United States | | ||
| Burial | Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Van Buren, Iowa, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Sylvia BINGHAM (1886 - 1975) |
| Child | Harold Howard WELLS (1907 - 1974) |
| Child | Fern C. WELLS (1909 - 2007) |
| Child | Elizabeth Lucille WELLS (1910 - 1979) |
| Child | Vella M. WELLS (1914 - 1920) |
| Child | Clarence L. WELLS (1916 - 2002) |
| Child | Hollis W. WELLS (1919 - 1991) |
| Child | Mary I. WELLS (1923 - 2010) |
| Father | William Hall WELLS (1857 - 1939) |
| Mother | Mary Elizabeth BLACK (1861 - 1936) |
| Sibling | Frank James WELLS (1885 - 1950) |
| Sibling | Dolla May WELLS (1888 - 1967) |
| Sibling | Mary Elizabeth WELLS (1890 - 1920) |
| Sibling | Samuel Clark WELLS (1892 - 1915) |
| Sibling | Jesse Hall WELLS (1894 - 1967) |
Endnotes
1. Letter from (Iowa) to ; (), (Wells.IA.006).
2. Descendents of Ozias Wells and Mary Kennedy (, , unknown), (Wells.KS.010)
3. Find a Grave, database and images, Find a Grave (www.findagrave.com : viewed online April 2018), memorial for Nile Clay Wells (1883-1941), Find a Grave Memorial no. #52099270, created by Jerry Nelson, citing Lebanon Cemetery, Ormanville, Wapello County, Iowa; accompanying photograph by Jerry Nelson, Nile Clay Wells.
4. "World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database, Ancestry (Ancestry.com : viewed online April 2018), N C Wells.
5. Crawford Family Papers; privately held by Marcia Philbrick, Seneca, Kansas, 2016. Wells Family Bible. copy obtained from Doris Ryan, daughter of Cecile Mentzer Beine.
6. 1885 Iowa Census, Van Buren County, Iowa, Iowa State Census, Chequest Township, Van Buren County, Iowa, image 10 of 29, household 63, William Wells; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online June 2017); State Historical Society of Iowa.
7. 1900 U.S. Census, Van Buren County, Iowa, population schedule, Chequest Township, Van Buren County, Iowa, ED 93, Sheet 7A, household 152, William Wells; digital image, Ancestry.com(www.ancestry.com: viewed online June 2017); NARA T623.
8. 1905 Iowa State Census, Van Buren County, Iowa, Iowa State Census, Chequest, Van Buren County, Iowa, image 5, line 269, William Wells; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online April 2018).
9. Letter from (Iowa) to ; (), (Wells.IA.006).
10. 1910 U.S. Census, Van Buren County Iowa, population schedule, Chequest Township, Van Buren County, Iowa, ED 104, Sheet 2B, family 44, Wells N C; digital image, Ancestry.com(www.ancestry.com: viewed online April 2018).
11. 1915 Kansas Census, Woodson County, 1905 State Census, Center Township, page 11, household 78, Wells NC; digital image, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : viewed online April 2018).
12. 1920 U.S. Census, Van Buren County, Iowa, population schedule, Chequest Township, Van Buren County, Iowa, Ed 109, Sheet 1B, visited 22, Wells, N C; digital iamge, Ancestry.com(www.ancestry.com: viewed online April 2018).
13. "Newspaper clipping from unknown newspaper", (), to (), "Peake" probably from Yates Center News (Wells.Notebook); , . Hereinafter cited as "Newspaper clipping".
14. 1925 Iowa State Census, Davis County, Iowa, Iowa State Census, Union Township, Davis County, Iowa, image 47, 48 and 50 of 88, Wells, NC; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online April 2018).
15. 1930 U.S. Census, Van Buren County, Iowa, populatin schedule, Jackson Township, Van Buren County, Iowa, ED 89-14, sheet 1A, family 12, Wells, Clay; digital image, Ancestry(www.ancestry.com: viewed online April 2018).
16. 1940 U.S. Census, Van Buren County, Iowa, population schedule, Jackson Township, Van Buren County, Iowa, ED 89-14, Sheet 1B, visited 25, Wells NC; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : viewed online April 2018).
17. Find a Grave, database and images, Find a Grave (www.findagrave.com : viewed online April 2018), memorial for Nile Clay Wells (1883-1941), Find a Grave Memorial no. #52099270, created by Jerry Nelson, citing Lebanon Cemetery, Ormanville, Wapello County, Iowa; accompanying photograph by Jerry Nelson, Nile Clay Wells.
18. Find a Grave, database and images, Find a Grave (www.findagrave.com : viewed online April 2018), memorial for Nile Clay Wells (1883-1941), Find a Grave Memorial no. #52099270, created by Jerry Nelson, citing Lebanon Cemetery, Ormanville, Wapello County, Iowa; accompanying photograph by Jerry Nelson, Nile Clay Wells.