I've finally got a good part of my Ellis line on the Web - still incomplete - but it's there with privacy issues taken care of, a disclaimer, and general acknowledgements of where my info came from. You can find it at: http://members.tripod.com/~CJEllis/Gen/Ellis.html I've tried to present the info in a way that doesn't violate privacy or copyright laws, and not to offend anyone that I've been sharing info with. Please note that this is just the Ellis line. I haven't gotten to the affiliated surnames yes, although they are clearly listed when I have the info. Check it out. Cindy ><> mailto:[email protected] http://members.tripod.com/~CJEllis/index.html "Life is short, you're gonna be dead a long time... make time to PLAY!!" - Mark Lowry

Hello fellow Ellis listers, I just ran across a note, scribbled many years ago, in which my father mentioned that he was related to the composer Victor Herbert! Although I have found nothing about this in any of my research, it just seemed interesting enough to post to the list. Don't lose sleep over it, but if anybody else . . . Darrell, Minnesota _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

I am searching for the parents of William Henry ELLIS, born roughly 1824 in TN (census), married 14 Sep 1848 in Nodaway Co, MO to Emily MUSTIN, born roughly 1827 in TN (census). Children were William Henry ELLIS, born 22 Aug 1849 in Buchanan Co, MO and Ferdinand ELLIS, born roughly 1853 in Buchannan Co, MO. I would also like information on the parents of Emily MUSTIN. Mother may be named Sarah. Do not know anything about father.

Hi - I am looking for any information about the following Ellises. Thanks a million! Debi 1 George Ellis born about 1870 - New Jersey? . +Rachel Lamb ........ 2 Howard Ellis ........ 2 June Ellis

There have been stories of my g-Grandparents, Joseph Samuel ELLIS and Louisa Anna (nee SCHLEYER) that they had 21 CHILDREN! Well, I'm one that takes the story and looks for proof. I wanted to believe all the family tales, but it wasn't until yesterday that I came across a Health Dept. document that stated she had 17 Children! (8 of which are not accounted for in my records). So, with a bit more seaching from that point onward I will hopefully find the remaining 4 children (or births), and the 8 unaccounted children from that time backward. I think this was odd that she would have so many children since they lived in the city and not on a farm, but many were still born and there were also multiple births (twins and triplets); but most survived. All of which made me a bit uncomfortable during my pregnancies! <<smile>> Happy Hunting! Janet Nielson Jilote Chas, SC PS: I would just like to think they were madly in love ~

I am looking for information on the family of Runion Ellis (born 1803 in KY). He married Margaret Fox in 1827 in Floyd Co, IN, and they had 2 children Jane and John W. Runion was a farmer and resided in Floyd Co, IN, through 1850. I am particularly interested in Margaret Fox's line. Thanks -- Donna Regen <[email protected]>

Hi, I am looking for any information on William Alexander Ellis. I believe he is my great great grandfather. He was born about 1841 in Shelby County Tennessee. His parents were William Ellis & Elizabeth (Allin) (from 1850 census). He had 2 children (?) James Alexander born 1859, Robert C. born about 1860. They were born in Shelby County Tennesse or, Cross County (St. Francis) Arkansas. If anything looks familiar please get in touch. I have a lot of info to share. thanks, Dallas Ellis

I am still looking for any information about Robert ELLIS. His last know residence was Libertyville, Lake County, NY. Robert Ellis was born 1861 in Dubuque County, Iowa, the son of Edward Ellis and Mary Loomis. For some reason, Edward took Robert to Libertyville and Mary went to her parents, where she gave birth to another son, Thomas. She remarried, to a Stephen McKee in Iowa, and moved to Nebraska in 1865. In a newspaper article of 1912 (in Nebraska) I saw an article where Phedelia Ellis-BURT and her sister, Lilabelle Ellis traveled by train to Nebraska to visit their uncle, Thomas Ellis. They were in the company of Phedelia's daughter, Myrtle ELVIN. These are the daughters and granddaughter of Robert. Would love to find any information on them. I hope to find descendents of Robert who may have information about Edward, or his family. Thanks, Kaylynn [email protected]

I am looking for information on my ancestor James ELLIS b. Ireland 1807, wife's name was Martha, came to America 1847, settled in Indiana but near Ohio border. Children Reuben (or Robert), John, Anne, Thomas, Margaret (my ancestor), and James. Sound familiar to anyone? Diane

A couple of days ago Ellis ([email protected]) posted a very nice message concerning Bill and Carol Ellis' quarterly newsletter called the 'Ellis Cousins Newsletter.' For those of you who are interested, here is an update I learned from Carol Ellis only this afternoon. They now have Internet access and e-mail service. You may e-mail them at: [email protected] Also, I had another idea. To make it easy for new Ellis researchers to connect with both the Ellis Cousins Newsletter and to this Ellis e-mail discussion group, why don't those of us with our own genealogy Web sites post a page regarding these two avenues of Ellis research. The easier we make it for new people to be made aware of these, the more participants we might have researching with us. If you would like to view the two pages I created for this purpose: (1) double-click on this hyperlink to bring up my database page in your browser, then (2) click on the 'Ellis e-mail discussion group' or 'Ellis Cousins Newsletter' hyperlink under the Ellis heading. <http://www.dnutt.com/database.htm> Peggy Nutt Adrian, MI.

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_909405633_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I thought I might pass this on I found it quite interesting. Hope you do too. Nick --part0_909405633_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: [email protected] Return-path: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Fwd: [MOPIKE-L] Traveling Church, VA to KY to Pike co MO Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:10:56 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part1_909405633_boundary" --part1_909405633_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.aol.com.3> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part1_909405633_boundary Content-ID: <[email protected]_out.mail.home.com.4> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zd03.mx.aol.com (rly-zd03.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.227]) by air-zd03.mail.aol.com (v50.21) with SMTP; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:25:36 2000 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (bl-14.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.30]) by rly-zd03.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id XAA13776; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:25:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA19738; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 20:23:26 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 20:23:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <[email protected]> From: "Stan Cornelius" <[email protected]> Old-To: "Pike co MO" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 22:22:39 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3115.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Subject: [MOPIKE-L] Traveling Church, VA to KY to Pike co MO Resent-Message-ID: <"XHRMyC.A.I0E.tCrK2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/212 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hi Found this on the internet. I know that some of these families ended up in Pike co MO so hope it is of some interest to someone. Can be found at http://pw1.netcom.com/~jog1/churchlist.html Stan "The Travelling Church" by George W. Ranck Press of Baptist Book Concern, 1891 The following list of church members appears on page 31 of Professor George W. Ranck's book known as "The Travelling Church: An Account of the Baptist Exodus from Virginia to Kentucky in 1781 under the Leadership of Rev. Lewis Craig and Capt. William Ellis." ALLEN ELLY PRICE ASHER EASTIN ROBINSON & WIFE BLEDSOE GARRARD RAMSEY BOWMAN GOODLOE RUCKER BARROW HUNT SHACKELFORD BURBRIDGE HART SHIPP BUCKNER HICKMAN SHOTWELL CRAIG, Toliver & wife HICKERSON SINGLETON CRAIG, Lewis MARTIN SMITH CRAIG, Joseph MOORE SANDERS CAVE, William MORTON STUART CURD MARSHALL TODD CARR MORRIS THOMPSON CREATH MITCHUM WALTON DUDLEY NOEL WOOLFOLK DUPUY PAYNE WATKINS DARNABY PARRISH, Timothy WALLER DEDMAN PARRISH, James WARE ELLIS, William & PITMAN WOOLRIDGE ELLIS' family of 5 PRESTON YOUNG other members Excerpts from the book pages 4 and 5: It was plain that something very unusual was transpiring at an isolated building in Spottsylvania County, Virginia, one Sunday morning in Sep- tember, 1781. The house, which stood on the old Catharpin road leading to the then little village of Fredericksburg, and which was located about four miles south of the spot since known as Parker's Station, was surrounded by such a gathering of men, women and children, slaves, pack horses, cattle, dogs, and loaded wagons as had never been seen in the county before, but there was no unseemly disorder and but little noise except such as came from fretful ilnfants and from the bells of the grazing stock. The crowd was too great for the house and most of the people were assembled under the trees in fron of it where the women had been provided with seats. it could not be a camp-meeting - there were no signs of eilther cheerfulness or enjoyment. It was not a funeral though all were sad and many were deeply dejected. It was "farewell Sunday" at Upper Spottsylvania (Baptist) Church - the next morning the congregation was to start in a body for Kentucky. .............. All kinds of property were disposed of, all kinds of arrangements were made and the Farewell Sunday found them heavy-hearted but ready for the start with packing completed, homes abandoned and surrounded by friends who had gathered from far and near to bid them a last and long good bye. Of those not a few were Baptist preachers of Spottsylvania and the neighboring counties. Among them, according to tradition, was Elijah Craig, the bold exhorter of the Blue Run church who had lunched in jail more than once on rye bread and water for conscience sake; Ambrose Dudley who had often labored with him; William E. Waller, pastor of County Line and William Ellis the aged shepherd of the Nottaway flock who had realized what "buffetings" meant long before the Revolution brought its blessed heritage of religious freedom. They had many relatives among the departing throng and all of them but the venerable Ellis soon followed them to the land of Boone. John Waller, pastor of Lower Spottsylvania Church, and the most picturesque of the early Baptist ministers of Virginia was also there. He was the "Devil's Adjutant" no longer. The former persecutor, whole-souled in everything he undertook, had for years been one of the staunchest defenders of the people he had once so energetically reviled. One familiar figure was misssing from the crowd. John Clay, the struggling preacher for the struggling church in the flat and desolate "slashes" of Hanover was not there. Only a few weeks before the father of the eloquent "Harry of the West" had ceased from his labors forever. Preachers were not lacking in the expedition itself. Joseph Bledsoe of the Wilderness Church and father of the afterwards noted Senator Jesse Bledsoe of Kentucky; Joseph Craig, "the man who laid down in the road"; William Cave, a connection of the Craigs, and Simeon Walton, pastor for a season of Nottaway Church, were four of probably a dozen preachers who accompanied it. Many more came after them, so many in fact that an early chronicler of the church in Virginia calls Kentucky "the vortex of Baptist preachers." Page created by: [email protected] --part1_909405633_boundary-- --part0_909405633_boundary--

>Return-Path: <[email protected]> >X-Comment: CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU: Mail was sent by bl-14.rootsweb.com >Resent-Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 07:08:12 -0800 (PST) >From: [email protected] >Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:08:42 EST >Old-To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [ELLIS-L] Ellis Cousins Newsletter >Resent-Message-ID: <"3pMXv.A.sNF.b7zM2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/952 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > >Ellis, you omitted one fact about the Ellis Cousins Newsletter that would be >of interest to senior citizens--and I believe a good proportion of us are >senior citizens--the yearly rate for subscription is $13.00 for seniors. > >Jayne >[email protected] > Hello Jayne, Thank you for this addition. You are absolutely correct. Ellis ([email protected])

Ellis, you omitted one fact about the Ellis Cousins Newsletter that would be of interest to senior citizens--and I believe a good proportion of us are senior citizens--the yearly rate for subscription is $13.00 for seniors. Jayne [email protected]

I have had several requests for information concerning the Ellis Cousins Newsletter from subscribers of Ellis-L so I thought I would just post this general information about ECN to the list. First, I do not have any vested interest in this newsletter other than I have submitted material for a couple of articles, have submitted queries and have been a subscriber for the past 18 years. Now, the Ellis Cousins Newsletter is a quarterly publication published by a very dedicated couple, Bill and Carol Ellis of 1201 Maple Street, Friona, TX 79035. Their telephone number, printed on the newsletter, is 806-247-3053. Bill and Carol do not have e-mail capability; they still do all of their correspondence by snail-mail. The newsletter runs to 80-90 pages a year...published quarterly. The cost of a subscription is $16.00 a year and also includes membership in Ellis Cousins Nationwide. All queries are free. Back issues from 1980 are available at $4.00 each or $16.00 per year; a surname index for each year from 1980 to the present is also available at a cost of $4.00 each. I hope that this information will answer all of the questions you might have about this newsletter. Ellis ([email protected])

I think there should be a date at the top of the page as to when the census was taken. Good luck, Darrell! Gayle [email protected]

In the early years e.g. the 1790 Census, much of the data shows it was based on 1782 information. Other U.S. Census discussions I have read on the internet advise that much of the early 1800 Census data was collected at least 6 months to 1 year before the actual year it represented.

Several weeks ago someone on this list was asking for help about their Thomas Ellis, born 1792, married Margaret Hanna, born November 15, 1797. Well, I believe that I might be able to help you locate others interested in this same family by looking through the indices of the Ellis Cousins Newsletter. If you are not an ECN subscriber please feel free to contact me at: [email protected] Ellis

Anyone know of a Joy Lee Walker doing research on the Ellis family? Would dearly love to get in contact with her. Joy put a message, about 6 months ago, on the Pulaski County board about Washington, Wesley & Marshall Ellis--these were brothers who left Virginia in the 1840s and settled in Grant County, Wisconsin. Marshall is her ancestor & ... Washington is mine. I've tried the email address she left on the board, but so far, no reply. Thanks. Susan Cummins Los Angeles

This is a challenge to all of my Ellis cousins, to make my day. As I got 3 of my four small children out the door this morning, almost late for the bus again, and lose the great debate with my 2 year old over Barney vs Good Morning America, and during an email to my long distance mother complaining of my horrible but common morning, it hit me, What would make my day?my week? my entire 1998 ? To find my missing Gr Gr Grandfather John Davis Ellis. So I'll give it another try. John Davis Ellis was married in 1876 to Emma Jane Wommack in Wayne Co. IL shortly after they moved to Crawford Co IN they had a son Charles Edmond who married Anna Maude Cook. John's wife died in 1901 and I believe he remarried and possibly had other children with her. I have no info on his life before 1876 and none past the time of her death in 1901... Come on Ellis Cousins, does this ring a bell? Can anyone make my day ? Thanks Tricia Ellis Harms in IL

I seem to have remember reading somewhere they took the census in June of the year, but don't remember, I thought they were supposed to have taken them at the time of year when the farmers were not as busy in the fields. And I know times are changing, but I do know that now in our area they are hiring people for the year 2000 census, to begin taking it in Nov. and Dec. of this year... Sorry I wasn't much help...Tricia Ellis Harms ELLIS COOK WOMMACK