Name: Ellis Family

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Benjamin Ford Ellis: Birth: 4 OCT 1825 in Mayfield, Somerset, Maine, United States. Death: 2 JAN 1914 in Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States

  2. Keziah Hilcolm Ellis: Birth: 7 JUL 1827 in Mayfield, Somerset, Maine, United States. Death: 12 JUL 1894 in Hartstown, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States

  3. Silence Ford Ellis: Birth: 16 NOV 1828 in Mayfield, Somerset, Maine, United States. Death: 4 DEC 1899 in Hartstown, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States

  4. Abner Ford Ellis: Birth: 30 MAR 1830 in Mayfield, Somerset, Maine, United States. Death: 16 SEP 1907 in Hartstown, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States

  5. Alfreda Hilton Ellis: Birth: 22 SEP 1831 in Mayfield, Somerset, Maine, United States. Death: 10 MAR 1905 in Corning, Adams, Iowa, United States

  6. Philander Coburn Ellis: Birth: 28 JAN 1833 in Mayfield, Somerset, Maine, United States. Death: 2 JUL 1863 in near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States

  7. Enoch Ford Ellis: Birth: 2 MAR 1834 in Mayfield, Somerset, Maine, United States. Death: 13 FEB 1890 in Hartstown, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States

  8. Nathan Ford Ellis: Birth: 5 APR 1835 in Mayfield, Somerset, Maine, United States. Death: 23 APR 1903

  9. Cyrus Stilton Ellis: Birth: 26 APR 1836 in Mayfield, Somerset, Maine, United States. Death: 11 SEP 1915 in Pittsburg, Crawford, Kansas, United States

  10. Lorenzo Dow Ellis: Birth: 28 NOV 1838 in Mayfield, Somerset, Maine, United States. Death: 23 MAR 1922 in Hartstown, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States


Notes
a. Note:   John Ellis, son of Samuel Ellis and Barbara (Blanchard) Ellis, was born 6 May 1798
 in Petersburg, Rensselaer County, New York. John's father Samuel lived in
 Brighton, Somerset County, Maine in 1824 but by 1840 had moved to the Selden
 and Haynesville area in Aroostook County. Apparently John stayed in
 Somerset County and established a 176 acre farm on the edge of the
 wilderness near Mayfield.
 John married Susan Ann Ford 21 Nov 1824. Susan was born 3 Feb 1797. She was the daughter of Abner and Susan Fowls Ford of Brighton,
 ME. Susan Fowls Ford was the widow of Samuel Fowls and we do not know
 her maiden name. John and Susan Ann used Ford as a middle name for five
 of their ten children. They used Hilcolm as a middle name for their
 second child, Kezia, and possibly as a middle name for Alfreda. Only the
 middle initial "H" is shown in Milo Miller's "A History and Genealogy of
 the John Ellis Family 1797-1935." They also used Coburn and Stilton as
 middle names of their children. One can only speculate that possibly
 Hilcolm was Susan Fowls maiden name. All of John and Susan Ann's ten
 children were born in Mayfield. Milo Miller writes the following about
 the young family's life in Maine in the early 1800's:
  "No doubt the farm that John Ellis carved out of the virgin forest was rocky and hilly like New England farms in general. Those who are
 accustomed to the broad and fertile fields of the Great West are puzzled
 to understand how even a moderate subsistence could be obtained from most
 of the New England farms. We must attribute it to the great economy as
 well as thrift of the pioneers. All were required to labor early and
 late to make a living. The principal wealth that was acquired consisted
 mainly in the vigorous physical and mental constitutions which nearly a
 acquired in a high degree."
 "John Ellis and his wife Susan Ann were Free Will Baptists in religious belief and always took an active interest in the councils of
 the denomination. They founded the first Free Will Baptist church in
 Mayfield, and were among the founders of the Freewill Baptist church in
 Adamsville, Pennsylvania and remained faithful adherents until their
 death."
 In the summer of 1841 John and Susan, with their ten children aged two to fifteen, left Maine in a covered wagon drawn by four horses and
 traveled to western Pennsylvania. After living one year in Sugar Grove,
 PA, another in Lottsville, eight more near Turnersville in Crawford
 County, PA, they finally in 1851 established their own home near
 Hartstown where they spent the remaining years of their life.
 In 1862 John and Susan returned to Maine to visit family and friends from their former home area. After being there only a few days John
 became ill and died 13 October 1862. He was buried at the Greenville
 cemetery at the foot of Moosehead Lake.
 On 2 July 1863 Philander Coburn Ellis, the sixth son of John and Susan was killed in the Civil War battle at Gettysburg. He died in a
 courageous and decisive charge on the advancing Confederate lines on the
 second day of the battle. Of the 260 men of the First Minnesota Regiment
 who made this charge only 47 survived.
 Susan Ann died 16 May 1869 and is buried in Hartstown, PA. Before her death she returned to Maine and placed a stone on her husband John's
 grave.

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