Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1887. JUNE. 857 ELLIS FAMILY Graduates at the Orphan School: Montee Burney Bettie Orr Franes Ritchie Grace Zimmermann Graduates at Park College: Anna F. Hubbard Robert Irwin Chas. A. Leonard Dora B. Martin John B. McCuish Jas. T. McLean F. D. McRae Alex N. Obrien Maggie Stoner Leigh R. Smith W. P. Thomas Chas F. Winchell Emory W. Justus issues a small pamphlet of poems. Seven inmates of Lunatic Asylum No. 2, at St. Joseph, sent from Platte County, are, by order of our county court, brought to our poor-house. The act is generally condemned, and the patients are returned. June 5 - Weather - A fine rain after a drought JOSEPHINE ELLIS, wife of Dr. Ellis, died near Waldron. Her maiden name was Broadus. She was born in Madison County, Ky., in 1815. The family came west, and settled in Montgomery County, Mo., where, August 20, 1834, she married Dr. Ellis. THE ELLIS FAMILY Benjamin Ellis married in North Carolina, Sarah Copeland, and removed to Smith County, Tenn., where their son, Dr. Ellis, was born, May 4, 1810. November 28, 1893, he married Lavinia Trazelle, from whom he parted. Children of his first wife: I. SUSANNA ELLIS, married S. C. Morrow (See) II. SALLIE ANN ELLIS, married Perry C. Cavener III. SOPHIA ELLIS, married Dec. 26, 1861, Jackson Brink IV. JOSEPHINE ELLIS, married D. A. McKinzie V. ROBERT ELLIS, went to De Kalb County VI. BENJ. F. ELLIS, married Jan. 8, 1861, Susan E. Moore, daugter of William Moore. Children: 1. John Ellis 2. Mary Ellis 3. George Ellis VII. WILLIAM, lives in Wyandotte VIII. JOHN W. ELLIS IX. MARY J. ELLIS, married Jas. M. Waldron. (See) June 8 - E. E. Pumphrey is appointed principle of the Platte City Public School.