NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11464 SIMPSON CO – THOMAS M. ELLIS – Ellis, Anthony, Jackson, Wright 11464 Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. Simpson Co. THOMAS M. ELLIS was born in Allen County, Ky., September 26, 1957, and is the eldest of nine children born to Fountain E. and Martha E. (Anthony) Ellis, the former of whom was a native of Sumner County, Tenn., and the latter a native of Allen County, Ky. Both were of English descent. When only a small boy Fountain E. Ellis removed with his parents from Tennessee to Allen County Ky., where he was educated and married. Soon after the war, in 1865, he removed to the eastern part of Simpson County, Ky., where he has since been successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits. He and wife have been from their childhood members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity. His father, Samuel E. Ellis, removed with his parents from Virginia, where he was born, to Sumner County, Tenn., when he was only sixteen years old. The family was among the early pioneers of that county. Samuel E. was a veteran of the war of 1812, served under Gen. Jackson for two years, and participated in the battle of New Orleans. Thomas M. Ellis received a good common school and academic education in youth, and was employed on the home farm until he was nineteen years old. He was then employed as a salesman, first in a general store and afterward in the dry goods business at Middleton, Franklin, and Bowling Green, for some eight years. In February, 1885, he engaged in general merchandising on his own account at Middleton, in company with H. Wright, under the firm of Ellis & Wright. They carry a well selected stock in their line, and are doing a flourishing business. Mr. Ellis is yet unmarried. He is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, an earnest advocate of the temperance cause, and was formerly a member of the I. O. G. T. In politics he is a Democrat. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx