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CELLAN, James Alexander & Elizabeth Ann (PEARSON)
Alva, Oklahoma's history book, First 100 Years of Alva, Oklahoma, pages 309-310, gives this history of James Alexander Cellan:
James Alexander was born November 14, 1808, 1:30 p.m., Saturday in County Denogal, Ireland. He was a short and stubby man, and was a Cumberland Presbyterian.
James came to America at the age of 14 years with his widowed mother. They landed at Philadelpia, Pennsylvania. The next year they went back to Ireland. He left his mother there and worked his way across as a cabin boy to New York City.
At the age of 19 he was married to Jane Russell and to this union three children were born:
James Alexander & Jane moved from Philadlphia to Washington County, Illinois in the year 1937 and lived there until 1841 when they moved to Louisa County, Iowa. James lost his first wife June 7, 1844.
Fourteen months later he married Elizabeth Ann Pearson on August 25, 1845 in Glen County, Iowa. Elizabeth Ann Pearson was of English descent and she was very religious. At the age of 85 she died at the home of her daughter Anna Devlin in 1905 or 1906. Her funeral was held on a Friday April 26, in the Presbyterian Church and was laid to rest in the AOUW Cemetery at Alva, Oklahoma.
James Alexander Cellan and his family moved from Louisa county, Iowa to Schuyler county, Missiouri in the year of 1865 and resided there until 1900, when they moved to Oklahoma.
Ten Children were born to the union of James Alexander and Elizabeth, 3 girls and 7 boys.
James Alexander Cellan died the year following his arrival to Alva on July 13, 1901 and is buried in the Alva AOUW Cemetery. He and his family were members of the First presbyterian Church of Alva. (history written by Bessie Cellan.)
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