Evening Capital And Maryland Gazette

NEWPORT BOASTS OF LAST GRANDCHILD OF DECLARATION SIGNERS
(By The Associated Press.)
NEWPORT, R. I., Aug. 11.—Henrietta Channing Ellery, of this city, has the distinction of being the last surviving grandchild of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. She is the granddaughter of William Ellery.

Miss Ellery was born April 8, 1838, and has lived her entire life in Newport. Neither she nor her sister, Mary, long since deceased, ever married. For a great many years they made their home in the Ellery homestead on Thames street, the home of their grandfather, but this house is no longer standing.

The Newport chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is named after this signer of the Declaration of Independence. It was at the invitation of Miss Ellery that the chapter was formed in this house in 1896. She has always been deeply interested in the chapter and kept up her active membership in it, attending all meetings as long as her health permitted.

The trunk that William Ellery took with him from Newport to Philadelphia when he went there to sign the Declaration is in possession of the D. A. R. chapter, a gift from the Misses Ellery.

Opposite the old homestead the family owned a three-cornered piece of land at the apex of which stood the Liberty Tree. A few years ago Miss Ellery presented this land to the city for park purposes. It has been improved, beautified and the city has honored the donor by christening it "Ellery Park."