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Wilfrid Arthur Eley,
son of Albert and
Cathe-rine Eley, was: born in Church Gresley, South
Derbyshire, England, July 13th, 1884.
After leaving school, he worked in the Albert
Eley's Grocery and Provision Stares, later becoming
a member, with other brothers, of the concern.
Wilfrid was brought up from childhood in a
Christian home and when he was thirteen years of age
he publicly acknowledged Jesus Christ as his personal
Saviour.
In 1910, he was received as a full
accredited local preacher in the Wesleyan Methodist
Church.
Later he spent a year in residence at
Cliff College preparatory for the full time ministry.
In September 1911, Wilfrid Arthur Eley sailed
for America arriving in October, too late for the
session of the Michigan Annual Conference of The
Methodist Episcopal Church held in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but was given an appointment on his credentials
to the Fourteenth Street Church in Traverse City.
In 1913, he was married to
of Woodville, England.
iss M. Edith Illsley
To this union was born one
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daughter, Winifrid H. Eley.
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the result of an accident in 1926, Mrs. Eley
passed away in Mercy Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan.
Mr. Eley was united in marriage June
26~
1932 , to
Miss Avis E. Lyon of Albion, Michigan.
Mr. Eley's ministerial record is as follows:
Received on trial in the Michigan Annual Confer&nce
a t its eight ·' eth session in Hastings, Se ptember 8-13,
191 5; Bishop Willi am R. Burt, presid ing ; rec ei ved
into full membership, elect ed and ordaine d Deacon at
the eighty-fifth session of the Michigan Annual
Conference, at Battle Creek , Michigan, September
14 -20,Bi&hop Theodore
s.
Henderson,
pre~iding;
elected and orda ined Elder at the eighty-seventh
session of the Michigan Annual Conference at Albion,
Bishop Henderson, presiding; a ppointed pastor
Fourteenth Street, Traverse City, 1911; Frankfort,
1915; Pells-ton, 1917; Rockford, 1920; Stevensville ,
1922; Montague and Whitehall, 1926; Ovid, 1929;
Boyne City and Boyne Falls, 1933; Lansing, Seymour
Avenue, December, 1937.
To increase his usefulness in the ministry he
has attended Garrett Biblical Institute a.t Evanston,
Illinois, and summer schools at East Lansing.
This was written in 1943.
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Wilfrid Arthur Eley died August 13, 1945.
His last pastorate was the Seymour Avenue Methodist
Church in Lansing, Michigan. where a memorial
service was conducted in his honor with about
thirty of his brother ministers present.
Prayers
were offered by Major B. A. Sharp of the Salvation
Army, and by the Reverend E. K. Lewis.
Scriptures were read by the Reverend H.
The
v.
Wade.
Dr. stanley Coors gave an excellent resume
of his life and record.
pall bearers.
Six ministers acted as
Interment was at Montague.
He was "a good minister of Jesus Christ."
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Eley, Wilfrid A.