This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ellis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/73.1 Message Board Post: I was also looking for the Ellis family in Grundy Co. and found a few of them there. When I was visiting last time I found out that Mom had an old album in which Grandma McCammond kept a lot of newspaper clippings. In there was an obituary for Lora May Salmans, born Lora May Ellis , April 19, 1879, in Grandy Co., Ill. Her parents Mr. and Mrs. Philander Ellis, brought the family to Kansas in 1881, and settled in Bourbon Co., in 1892 the family moved to Hodgeman County. The obituary lists surviving brothers, Henry Ellis of Iola, Lee Ellis of Greensburg, Ray Ellis of Coldwater and Herbert Ellis of Wichita, and sisters Mrs. Ira Burditt of Coldwater and Mrs. Elizabeth Hanchett of Rogers, Ark. The Salmans married March 2, 1900, at Jetmore, and had 7 sons and 5 daughters. They were also listed. This gave me the idea to look for Philander Ellis. I found a 1880 census on the LDS website, and it looked promising. It was for Grundy (not Grandy) County, Goodfarm twsp, Illinois. The parents were listed as being born in NY. On the 1880 census Lola was listed as 1 year old. I then looked for Philander Ellis some more and found his parents family in Eagle, Wyoming Co., NY in 1830-1850, according to what someone had put on the LDS site. There was a father Ward Ellis, and mother Phebe Ellis, with children, Palmer Ellis, Sophrona Ellis, Rhonda Ellis, Maranda Ellis, Aramintha Ellis, George Ellis, George W. Ellis, Albert Ellis, Philander Ellis, Leander Ellis, and Dwight Ellis. There are Ward, Palmer and Philander Ellises listed in the 1880 census Grundy Co., Ill.