Emma Ann, daughter of Matthew and Elizabeth Dunham Ellis, was born in Peoria County, Ill., February 24, 1858, and died in Mercy Hospital, Iowa City, April 23, 1942.
At about the age of twelve she joined the Seventh Day Baptist Church at Dodge Center, Minn., where the family had moved. She was united in marriage May 10, 1876, with Hector C. Severance, a deacon of the Dodge Center Church, deceased February 15, 1907. To this union were born seven children, all of whom are living: Louette C., Mrs. Edgar Burdick, Alton, Mrs. Charles Nelson, Mrs. Lloyd Van Horn, Mrs. Almond Haskins, and Harland C.
In 1931, she was married to Joe Griffis at Tipton, Iowa, who passed away November 11, 1941. The children named, with thirty-two grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Mrs. Mina Noyes and Mrs. Julia Orcutt survive.
Funeral and burial services were held in Tipton, conducted by Rev. Kenneth Gilbert. C. N.
