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Below is a family biography included in The History of Jasper County, Missouri published by Mills & Company in 1883. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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WILLIAM ELLIS was born Oct. 24, 1854, in the village of Lima, Ill., and moved with his parents to Knox county, Mo., in 1862. His father and mother are both natives of Kentucky, and came to Carthage, Jasper county, in 1869. William ran away from home when thirteen years of age, and has since had to look out for himself. He worked on a farm one season, and then returned home for a short time. Next went to the Indian Territory and kept a toll-bridge; also traded horses some. Went from there to Texas, traveling through all of the principal places trading horses. At last he fell in with a Doctor Hildreth, who was traveling for his health. They traveled together for some time in Texas, and through the Indian Territory into Kansas, where the Doctor shot a man and was arrested. Then Mr. Ellis went back to Caddo Hills in the Nation, and then back to Jasper county, Mo., where he has remained ever since, working at his trade of plastering, with the exception of one summer, when he worked in Kansas City. He was married to Miss Clara Morlan Nov. 30, 1879, who was born Jan. 5, 1859, in Beaver county, Pa. She came to Barton county in 1879 to see her uncle, Mr. E. C. Morton, and there met Mr. Ellis. They have one child, a bright little girl, named Bertha May. Mr. Ellis joined the Odd Fellows in 1877, and is a man in good standing.
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