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MARTHA PATSEY ELLIS BACON

Martha Patsey Ellis was born about 1829 supposedly the daughter of Jacob M and Letitia Cowan Ellis. She married Jesse Bacon born abt 1822. Matrimony vows April 1, 1841 by James Miller M.G. and the license obtained March 27, 1841


  • 1. Joseph C. Bacon born January 18, 1851 and died April 26, 1914 married Elizabeth Duncan daughter of Robert Allison Duncan & Esther Barkley Duncan. Elizabeth Duncan was born November 13, 1854 and died September 10, 1929. They are buried at Sulphur Springs Cemetery

  • 2. Letitia Ellen Bacon born May 1853 died October 1, 1919 married James Winton Archer born October 29, 1848 died November 15, 1930 and buried at Sulphur Springs Cemetery
  • 3. Mary Bacon born 1856
  • 4. Nancy Bacon born about 1859

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    On the death certificate has been written birth date April 26, 1914 and the 1914 was marked out with 1851 written over the 1914 ; the informant Robert Nelson Bacon may have been thinking of the death date and wrote that in without thinking. Cause of death acute indigestion ; J E Shipley attending physician


     

     

     

    Front row left to right; Jess Hunt, Dr. McCollum, Robert A. N. Walker, William S Squibb, J. C. Osborne. Back row left to right William Bayless, ROBERT N. BACON, William H. Sylvester and William H. Hunt. Shortly after the picture was taken William H Sylvester resigned and Willie Walker took his place. Robert Bacon died and A. A. Deakins took his place. (Robert Bacon married Lulu J. Deakins sister to A. A. Deakins. This group of men provided the political and financial support in the community that brought a highly respected high school to the community that continued for many years


    Source for children is from Neil Ferguson