This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wood and Ellis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GZB.2ACI/41.267.1 Message Board Post: My Ellis family are white, but I don't know what descent. Leurena Ellis married James Wood and she came from Vermont. They lived in Genesee County New York before coming to settle in Madison County Ohio (1835-1840 or so)