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Born 1821
From History of Boone County, Missouri (1882)
J. M. ELLIS.
James McAllister Ellis is the fifth son and eighth child of Peter and leader Ellis. He was born in Boone county, Missouri, May 27th, 21, and was educated at the common schools of the county. Grew manhood on his father's farm. At the age of eighteen commenced iding in mules. Took his first lot of IGO to Mississippi, in 1854, d has been South annually, with the exception of a few years when ide was dull, and during the war, when there was no trade at all. r. Ellis has a fine farm of 760 acres nine miles northeast of Ashland d ten miles southeast of Columbia. He was married in Callaway county, December 9th, 1852, to Martha J. Glasgow, daughter of Nam Glasgow, of Millersburg. By this marriage they had two sons J two daughters, of whom but one daughter is now living. Mr. lis is a member of the New Salem Baptist church, also of the land lodge of A. F. & A. M.
As printed in History of Boone County, Missouri (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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