WILLIAM B. ELLIS

From the 1887 History of Vernon County, Missouri, p. 465

William B. Ellis

(Farmer and Stock-raiser, Section 1, Post-office, Eldorado Springs).

     It was in 1869 that Mr. Ellis settled on the place where he now resides, though for three years previous he had been a citizen of Vernon county, having moved from Henry county to a farm northwest of Schell City, where he lived three years.  His present homestead embraces 113 acres situated in section 1, the improvements and surroundings of which fully indicate the character of the agriculturalist that Mr. Ellis is conceded to be.  Besides this tract he also has 76 acres in St. Clair county.  William B. Ellis is a native Missourian, born in Cooper county January 21, 1846, his father, James M. Ellis also having been born in that county in 1825.  In 1845 the latter married Miss Jane Scott, whose birth occurred in Pettis county, Mo., in 1830, and to them the following children were given, the dates of whose births are as given:  Almarinda, 1847; Angeline, 1851; H. L., 1853; George R., 1857; Amanda, 1861; J. O., 1863; Elizabeth, 1867; and Isaac S., 1870, and William, who was the eldest.  On leaving Cooper county, James M. Ellis located in Henry county, then in Vernon, going thence to Kansas and Texas, and from there he returned to Newton county, Mo., and finally to Dade county, where he now resides, well known and respected.  William B. Ellis has devoted the principal part of his life to farming and kindred pursuits.  December 19, 1869, he married Miss Elizabeth M. Bacon, who was born in St. Clair county, Mo., January 27, 1852, the daughter of James L. Bacon, from whom Bacon township, this county, took its name.  He was born in this State, while his wife, formerly Lydia J. Birch, was a Virginian by birth.  Mrs. E., grandparents were John Park and Elizabeth C. Bacon, nee Brackenridge.  Mr. and Mrs. Ellis have seven children:  Lydia J., born October 15, 1870; J. O., born February 10, 1872; William P., born January 19, 1874; Isaac S., born March 21, 1876; Lucy, born January 17, 1878; Leslie, born August 14, 1880; and George, born March 18, 1883.  In his political preferences, Mr. Ellis is a Republican, though he always sustains men and measures rather than party.  His grandfather, Isaac Ellis, became settled in Missouri from Kentucky in 1818.

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