There were more Ellis' coming to California in the early part of the 20th century. Several descendants of Capt Albert Gallatin Ellis of Iowa (1835 OH - 1918 KS, son of Job Ellis & Hannah Job) made it to California, even including his wife after his death. Capt. Ellis' daughter, Ona Mary Ellis Smith (Jul 13 1870 - Jul 11 1934) and five of her six children, Frances Maude, Kathryn Louise, Harold Edwin, Howard Albert, and James Ellison arrived in San Jose on Thanksgiving day, 1913, to be near Ona's younger brother Roscoe Albert Ellis. Her husband had died on their Montana ranch so she had put the ranch management in the hands of a foreman and moved west. Already living nearby was her nephew Frederick Maxwell Jarvis (son of Elmer Parker Jarvis & Della Sarah Ellis, another daughter of Capt. Ellis.) Roscoe Albert Ellis (Feb 4 1873 - ?) was a published author and poet. He married Annie Crook. (I would very much like to learn more about Roscoe Albert Ellis, who is thought to have used the pen name Ross Ellis. If anyone out there knows about him, please help.) By 1919, Frances Maude Smith (Mar 25 1891 - 1964) had returned to Montana where she married Peter Frances LaValle, and Ona and the rest of her children had moved to the Los Angeles area. After Capt. Ellis' death in 1918, his wife, Alice Eleanor Nichols, moved to California, where she died, in Long Beach, in 1928. Her body was transported to Kansas to be laid to rest beside Capt. Ellis, at Lost Spring. Ona Mary Ellis (Smith), in addition to having raised six children, had been a successful writer with at least one book, and numerous magazine articles and poems published. She died at Glendale, CA, in 1934. James Ellison Smith (May 4 1910 - Dec 23 1993) legally changed his name to James Ellison in 1937, by which time he was a noted stage and film actor. He married Gertrude Florence Durkin. Howard Albert Smith (Jan 23 1900 - Jul 1976) was a Hollywood screen writer. He married Jane Gates. Harold Edwin Smith (Jan 23 1900 - Jun 15 1976) became the owner of a successful import-export firm in Seattle, Washington. He married Elizabeth Englehart. Kathryn Louise Smith (Apr 6 1896 - Nov 17 1988) was a nurse at the time of the infamous flue epidemic. She married Wilson Lee Rothrock Stone, a motion picture executive. During WWII she was instrumental in the formation of the American Women's Volunteer Services. Bill Stone