This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: NELLIS, GRIFFIN, JENNEY, QUINTUS, STALKER Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IGB.2ACI/195 Message Board Post: Please note: I am not related to this family and do not have any personal research on this line. I am posting this information for the benefit of other researchers. NELLIS -- John Eakins Nellis, dean of the Macomb county newspaper fraternity and senior proprietor of the Mt. Clemens Monitor, died suddenly January 26, 1904, in Mt. Clemens. Mr. Nellis was born near Brantford, Ont., August 31, 1828. There, fifty years ago, he married Eleanor Griffin, and in 1865 they came to Michigan. For some time he was one of the owners of the Wyandotte Enterprise, and was well known in Wayne county, but in 1879 he came to Mt. Clemens and with his son Frank bought the Monitor. He has been for years one of the most influential men of the city, as well as one of the most respected; was a member of the M.E. church and also of the Masonic fraternity. He leaves five children -- Frank E. and Miss Jessie Nellis and Mrs. Grace Jenney of Mt. Clemens; Mrs. Nellie Quintus, Buffalo; Mrs. George Stalker, Detroit. Cannon, George H. "Memorial Report - Macomb County," in Michigan Historical Collections, v.34 (1904), pp.769-770.