Emma Jane Patterson was born March 18, 1854, in Eaton Co. Mich., and was married to John Sheely Nov. 5, 1871. To this union were born ten children. Four are left to mourn their loss; the father and other children having gone on to the better world. She was a faithful member of the Baptist church for many years, a good mother and kind neighbor.

Mrs. Sheely’s daughters, Mrs. Robert Fredrick and Mrs. M. L. Heft, her son Orville and her youngest brother were at her bedside when the end came.