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Note: Information on this direct Ellison line is from Shari Ellison, 2002. Served from 31 Jan 1850 to 16 Dec 1859 in prison for killing a McVey in a fight in Tazewell, TN. Pardoned under the Act of 1835. Judy Ellison Bennett, 975 Water St, Speedwell, TN reports that Thomas was an indentured servant in 1818 to one W.W. Pagitt in Maysville, KY His forge was located 1 mile from the Forge Ridge Baptist Church. Thomas Ellison. From Claiborne County. Crime: murder. Sentence: 10 years. Received Jan. 31, 1850. He is 51 years old, 5' 8" hi~l, weighs 160 lbs. Was born and bro't up in Mason Co., Kentucky, near Mays Lick. Has a wife and 10 children living northwest of Tazewell near Cumberland Gap about eight miles distant. One of his father's sisters married a man by the name of Alex Lewis and lives on the road leading from Cinthiana [sic.] to Paris, Kentucky. Has an uncle living somewhere in Ten[nessee] by the name of Joseph Ellison but does not know where. Said T. Ellison has black hair, black eyes and fair skin. He is a blacksmith by trade. Pardoned under the act of 1836, June 16th, 1859. [Ledger 87, p. 4] US Census, 1860, Claiborne Co, Tazewell Twp., Tennessee HH 963/963 Thomas Ellison, 60(?) M W Black Smith 300 302 KY Elizabeth S 45 F W TN William 17 M W TN Sarah 15 F W TN Seward 13 M W TN James 11 M W TN Wiley 10 M W TN *************** Claiborne County Tennessee, Deed Book R2, Page 23 The Will of Thomas Ellison - July 1888 Being very old and feeble and considering the Certanty of Death I Make this My Last Will and To Dispose of My property as I wish I First want A Good and Neat and Substancial Berral for my wife & Self & Second that all of My Just Debts Shal Be Seteld if Eny all the Remainder of My property at the Death of My Self & wife I will To Sebard Bussell He is to Asist me in Keeping my property to Geather And To Help me To Cantrale the Same And I Am To Have full power To Transfur Eny of My proprty During my natural Life and I am Old But I consider my Self in my Right Mind And in Good Health as usual Signed and Seald in the presant of Lewis Jones & J. W. Rice this 27 Day of July 1888. Attest } his Lewis Jones } Thomas x Ellison J W. Rice } mark proved by Lewis Jones 7 1888 Claiborne County Tennessee, Deed Book R2, Page 24 proved & entered for probate April 7 - 1890 State of Tennessee } Claiborne County } this instrument was field in my office for Registration April the 8th 1890 At 1.Oclock pm and registered the Same day Jeff Lambert ***************** Below are a couple of comments about an Ellison that killed James McVey: "Old Time Tazewell" by Mary A. Hansard (published by Mary Lorene Hansard Wilson) Page 51-52 "A REIGN OF TERROR OR HISTORY OF THE BUCHANANS ... It was soon apparent that our town was going to ruin very fast. Not only the town, but the country at large would gather there at night to drink, swear, and fight. I lived in sight of the grocery door, and saw James McVey killed with a knife by a man named Ellison. I could see them fighting and stabbing each other. It was an awful sight indeed. I often prayed Almighty God to send lightening and burn the grocery down. It has been in ashes, lo, these many years. Later on two more saloons were set up in town. The wildest young men and boys of the place would meet at the groceries to carouse, shoot, and keep up such a noise at night that the citizens could not sleep. The ladies of the town finally concluded to visit each grocery in town and try to get them to quit selling liquor. ..." Page 226-228 A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF OLD MR. KILLIAN AND FAMILY ... Nancy Killian, second daughter of the old Mr. William Killian, was a pretty young lady. She was married to James McVey some time in the forties, a very nice gentlemanly looking young man but was inclined to be dissipated at times. He was killed some time in the fifties, in the saloon of Walter Buchanan in Tazewell by a man named Ellison, leaving his wife nearly heartbroken, in care of several children. This is all that I remember of her history. Old Mr. Killian and wife, father and mother of the above-name families, have passed away, perhaps half a century ago. ********** Indenture This indenture made the nineth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen between Marshall Key, Clerk of the County of Mason, and William W Pagitt, of the same county, of the other part. Witnesseth, that the said Marshall Key for and in consideration of the covenants herein expressed, and by virtue of an order of the worshipfull court of said County made in pursuance of an act of the general assembly of Kentucky, entitled "An act concerning the poor." Doth put Thomas Ellison in apprentice to the said W W Pagitt, him faithfully to serve and obey in all lawful commands, from the date of the present, for the full term of five years from the tenth day of May last and the said W W Pagitt fee himself his heirs, etc dothe convenant, promise and agree, to and with the said Marshall Key, that he will well and truly teach the said Thomas Ellison the trade and mystery of a Farmer and during the term of for said shall find and provide the said apprentice with good wholesome meat, lodging, and clothing fit for an apprentice to have. In testimony whereof the parties to these presence have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year above written. Marshall Key (seal) Wm. W Pagitt (seal) Mason County Act, March Court 1818 This indenture binding Thomas Ellison an apprentice to William W Pagitt, was acknowledged in Court, by the parties thereto and ordered to be recorded. Attest Marshall Key, Clerk Mason County, Ky Deed Book Book S, Page 46
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