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Marriage: Children:
  1. Silas Ellis: Birth: 1 SEP 1811 in NC. Death: 3 JAN 1873 in Blount CO, AL

  2. Walter Washington Ellis: Birth: 1812 in Haywood CO, NC. Death: SEP 1850 in Gilmer CO, GA.

  3. Thomas Jefferson Ellis: Birth: 1815 in NC. Death: APR 1891 in Fannin CO, GA

  4. James Madison Ellis: Birth: 28 OCT 1816 in Jackson CO, GA. Death: 26 JUN 1909 in Roundtop, Gilmer CO, GA

  5. John O Ellis: Birth: 1817 in Murray CO, GA. Death: BEF 1860 in Murray CO, GA

  6. Elizabeth "Betty " Ann Ellis: Birth: 1820 in NC.

  7. William Austin Ellis: Birth: 29 JAN 1822 in NC. Death: 16 MAR 1904 in Calhoun CO, Alabama

  8. Elijah Marion Ellis: Birth: 13 NOV 1825 in Buncombe County, NC. Death: 26 JUN 1863 in Springplace, Murray CO, GA

  9. Charles J Ellis: Birth: 1827 in NC.

  10. Mary Polly Ann Ellis: Birth: 1830 in NC.

  11. Pricilla Ellis: Birth: 1832 in Guatemala City GuatemalaTemple.

  12. Joseph L Ellis: Birth: 1834 in NC. Death: AFT 1870


Notes
a. Note:   James E. Ellis was born in Green County, 1791, the son of Walter and Mary Ellis. James Ellis married Nancy McClure (last name not verified), she was born in North Carolina, where they probably married, since their first three children Silas, Walter and Thomas were born there. They came back to Jackson County, Georgia, where his father Walter was living and there my great grandfather James Madison Ellis was born October 28, 1816. By 1822 they moved back to North Carolina, where James and Nancy are listed on 1830 Census of Macon County, North Carolina with 7 boys and 4 girls and Walter, Jr. and Sarah, his wife are next door. From the book "Whites Among the Indians" James Ellis is listed in Murray County Georgia in 1832 in the area of the Vann House. Two of his sons married there; James Madison Ellis married Rachel B. Harrison in 1838 and John W. Ellis married Margaret Black on January 23, 1840. On the 1840 Census of Murray County, the three families are living next door to each other. James Madison Ellis came to Gilmer County in 1841 and his parents came around 1845. James Ellis died unexpectedly in July 1850, at the age of 59, born in Georgia, leaving no will or estate papers. His son, Walter Washington Ellis, also died in Gilmer County September 1850, at age of 38, born in North Carolina. Nancy Ellis is listed on the Gilmer County 1850 Census, a widow with two children in the household, Mary and Joseph, next door is her daughter-in-law, Sarah, widow of Walter Washington Ellis. In the 1860 Census of Fannin County, Nancy Ellis is listed as a widow living in the household with her son, Joseph and his wife Mary and their two children. Nancy died March 11, 1871 in Fannin County and she is buried at Harmony Cemetery in Blue Ridge, Georgia. ("Whites Among the Cherokees; 1830 Census Records of Macon County, North Carolina, pg. 21; 1840 Census Records of Murray County, Georgia and 1850 Georgia Mortality Schedules and Census. ______________________________________________________ 1830 Macon CO, NC Census James Ellis 1m(0-5) 2m(5-10)3m(10-15)1m(15-20)1m (40-50) 2f (0-5) 1F (10-15) 1F(15-20) 1F(30-40) ___________________________________________ 1840 Murray County, GA J. E. Ellis 1M (5-10) 1M (10-15) 2M (15-20) 1M(20-30) 1M (50-60) 1F (10-15) 1F (15-20) 2F (20-30) 1M (50-60) __________________________________________ 1850 Georgia Mortality Schedule AGE SEX WHERE BORN BORN ELLIS, James 59 male Ga. July 1791 ELLIS, Walter W. 38 male Ga. Sept. 1812 ______________________________________ WHITES AMONG THE INDIANS, CHEROKEE NOTES P. 118 ELLIS, James - Lived in section #4- drew lot #101-Dist. 16- Sect. 4 P. 206 ELLIS, James E - Capt. 28 may 1838


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