This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ames Goodemote Brennan Churchill Fleckenstein Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RRB.2ACE/6153 Message Board Post: Elmer Elsworth Ames was born September 13, 1891 at West Valley, N. Y. and died at his home in that village, Oct. 8, 1916, after 25 years. His parents were Sheridan U. Ames and Flora Goodemote Ames; he being the youngest of a family of four children, two sisters, Inez, Mrs. John Brennan of Ashford, and Nellie, Mrs. Frank Churchill of West Valley, and one brother, Arthur Ames of New Haven, Conn., all of whom with his parents survive him. On July 27, 1910, he was united in marriage with Miss Cleo Fleckenstein and to this union was born two children, one daughter, Eleanor Irene, aged 5 years and one son, Elsworth Arnold Ames, aged 8 months, who are left to mourn the loss of a kind and loving husband and father. Beside the above mentioned immediate members of the family he is also survived by an aged grand-father, Nelson J. Ames of West Valley, uncles, aunts, cousins and many more distant relatives, beside a large circle of friends who mourn his untimely death. The funeral, one of the largest ever held in this vicinity, was held from his late home on Wednesday afternoon, October 11, Rev. E. H. Hill of the M. E. church officiating, and speaking words of comfort and cheer, from St. Johns 14:2- a text chosen by the family; after which a long procession of more than forty automobiles followed the remains to Mt. Hope cemetery, where amid a profusion of flowers, all that was earthly of Elmer, peacefully reposing in a beautiful mahogany casket, was laid to rest, the better part having taken wings and gone to God who gave it, and 'there, sometime we'll understand.'"