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WILLIAM W. ELLIS

WILLIAM W. ELLIS was born about 1813 Boones Creek, Washington Co., Tennessee and died 1890 Leon, Decatur, Iowa. He married LUCINDA HUNT born about 1819 and died before 1870 in Leon, Decatur, Iowa. Lucinda may have been the daughter or granddaughter of a SAMUEL HUNT. She named her first son Samuel H. Ellis


Can anyone identify this Civil War Pension Record? I have been told a civil war soldier is buried under the railroad trestle where the Ellis, Clark and Crouch once lived


  • Name: Lucinda Hunt
  • Spouse: Wm W Ellis
  • Marriage Date: 18 Jan 1838
  • Marriage County: Washington
  • Marriage State: Tennessee
  • license January 17, 1838
  • James Miller solemnized the rites of matrimony the 18th day of January 1838


  • Iowa Cemetery Records about W. W. Ellis
  • Name: W. W. Ellis
  • Death Date: 1890
  • Page #: 41
  • Birth Date: 1813
  • Cemetery: Leon
  • Town: Leon
  • Comment: 1st wif: Lucinda; wif: Jennie
  • Level Info: Grave Stone Records of Decatur County, Iowa

  • 1. Mary Ellis b. 1839 –
  • 2. Martha Ellis b. 1843 –
  • 3. Letitia Ellis b. 1845 –
  • 4. Samuel H. Ellis b. 1847 – d.1916 ; married Irene born March 1854 Ohio and died in Wapello Co., Iowa ; one known daughter Dorothy Ellis b March 1888 in Iowa
  • 5. O. Butler Ellis b. 1850 –
  • 6. Elsa A. Ellis b. 1853
  • 7. William Ellis b. 1858 – d. 1914 ; not sure if he is the William Francis Ellis who moved to Washington?
  • 8. Jessie Ellis (daughter) b. 1861

  • 1. Lenna/Linnie Ellis b December 1869 in Decatur, Iowa and married Robert C. Chaney and lived in Iowa
  • 1. Jenny Chaney b.1897
  • 2. Neal Chaney b. 1900
  • 3. Hallie E. Chaney b. 1905
  • 4. Loyal Chaney b. 1908
  • 5. Rita E. Chaney b. 1912

    • Letitia deed to son William W Ellis which is just after the death of Jacob and before William marries Lucinda Hunt