Debi, I think you have the "other" Ellis line. There is an Ellis line in OK that I have not been able to connect to (yet). Try this site: http://cust.iamerica.net/jtmayes/ It belongs to J.T. Mayes. I've not been able to find a connection to his lines; but we keep thinking it's there somewhere if we go back far enough. >Cindy, > >In addition to the SHULL's, I have a bio on the ELLIS family. See if any >of this sounds familiar. I still haven't typed up the SHULL bio, but >will do so shortly. > >Debi > >From the PANHANDLE PIONEERS, Volume 1, 1969, Texhoma Genealogical and >Historical Society, Texhoma, Oklahoma: > >"Enos ELLIS, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac ELLIS and Dorothy Ann MCPHERSON, >daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John PILE MCPHERSON, were married September 25, >1885 in Indian Springs, Indiana. They had three daughters, Achsah, >Winifred and Mima. They left their birth place and moved to Eagle Grove, >Iowa in 1890, where Mr. ELLIS was engaged in farming. ... > >... The ELLIS family moved to Okarche, Oklahoma in December 1889. In the >early part of 1900, Mr. ELLIS purchased a quarter section of land five >miles from Garber, Oklahoma for $1300. This area was known as the >"Cherokee Strip", and was opened for settlement on Sept. 16th, 1893. > >The Oklahoma Panhandle had been opened for settlement so in 1906 they >bought a relinquishment 14 miles northwest of Texhoma. ... > >Achsah remained in Garber to teach her first term of school in Garfield >County. ... > >... Jim NEELEY and Ed ALBRIGHT started drilling their well. ... > >... In 1907 Mr. ELLIS bought a car load of cement and the SHELDON and >FLINT boys bought a cement block machine. They made the FLINTS, ELLIS >and MOORE homes. The ELLIS and MOORE homes still stand. > >... The first teachers at Union Center were: Mrs. Daisy KENNEDY, Mrs. >Hiram CRAIG, Mr. INGRAM and Miss Achsah ELLIS who taught five successive >years and during this time proved up her 160 acres of land. She also >taught two years at the Old Sunnyside School. ... > >... Winifred married George W. COX in 1914. Mima married G. O. WORLEY in >1917 and Achsah married James H. CINAMON in 1919. > >Mr. and Mrs. ELLIS lived on their farm until Mrs. ELLIS passed away in >1937. Mr. ELLIS made his home with his daughters until his passing in >1943. ..." > > > >Cindy Ellis wrote: >> >> Debi, >> >> I have family in Reno Co., KS; but the only ones I am aware of are in my >> Ellis line which is dad's side as opposed to mom's line which is where the >> Shull's & Welch's are. >> >> Cindy >> >> mailto:cjellis@mail.utexas.edu >> http://members.tripod.com/~CJEllis/index.html >>