Full name : William Wesley Ellis
Alternate spellings, aliases : W. W. Ellis
Parents :
Father : unknown
Mother : unknown
Notes :
Date of Birth : 5 June 1842
Place of Birth : Tennessee
Notes :
Vital stats :
Gender : Male
Spouse :
Name : Florence Woodard
Born : April 1850, Tennessee
Date of Marriage : late 1860’s
Place of Marriage : Tennessee or Missouri
Died :
Date of Death : 6:00AM, 14 June 1889
Place of Death : Morrisville, Looney Township, Polk County, Missouri
Cause
of Death : apoplexy
Burial
Information : prepared by undertaker Jas Mitchell, and interred in
Morrisville Cemetery, 15 June 1889. Morrisville Cemetery is in Looney Township, about one-half
mile northeast of Morrisville.
[click here to see an image of his death certificate (…from
Missouri State Archives transcription of Polk County Record of Deaths, C5519)]
Education : college graduate, possibly Vanderbilt
University
Occupation : Teaxher in a Common
School in Springfield, Missouri; physician; he had lived in Polk County s early
as 1883, when it is recorded in the county records that he was delivering
babies, as attending physician
[click here to see birth records of Polk county
(txt file)]
Residence, property : according to information on his death certificate, he
moved to Missouri approximately 1868/69.
1870 Federal Census. Springfield,
Campbell Township, Springfield PO, Greene County, Missouri
Page, Dwelling/Family, Name, Age, Sex, Color, Occupation, Value
(Real/Pers), Born
96, 658/666, William Ellis, 28, Male, White, Teacher Common School, 0/230,
Tennessee, citizen >21
96, 658/666, Florence Ellis, 21, Female, White, na, na, Tennessee
96, 658/666, Lillie Ellis, 2, Female, White, na, na, Missouri
1880 Federal Census. Village of
Morrisville, Looney Township, Polk County, Missouri
Page, Dwelling/Family, Name, Color, Sex, Age, Relation, Marital Stat,
Occupation, School, Born, Father born, Mother born
289/289, W. W. Ellis, White, Male, 38, Head, Married, Physician, Tennessee,
Tennessee, Tennessee
289/289, Florence Ellis, White, Female, 31, Wife, Married, Keeping House,
Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee
289/289, Lillie Ellis, White, Female, 12, Daughter, Single, At School, In
School, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee
289/289, Willie A. Ellis, White, Male, 6, Son, Single, At School, In School,
Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee
Family :
Daughter : Lillie Ellis
Date of Birth : 1868
Place of Birth : Missouri
Married :
Died :
Son : Willie A. (W.) Ellis
Date of Birth : 1 May 1874
Place of Birth : Missouri
Married :
Died : 28 November 1949
Daughter : Mabel Ellis
Date of Birth : 5 January 1884
Place of Birth : Morrisville, Polk County, Missouri
Married : Harvey Hayes Webb,
24 December 1902
Died : 2 July 1950
Sources, bibliography :
Cemetery Directory of Polk
County, Missouri.
Compiled and Published by the Historical Society of Polk County,
Missouri, Inc. Bolivar,
Missouri. August, 1979. page 57.
Missouri State Archives
transcription of Polk County Record of Deaths, C5519
Compiled by Jonathan Webb Deiss, 2003
