Ellis, Hiram

ELLIS, MOON

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Date: 12/3/2008 at 10:59:55

ELLIS, Hiram
Farmer, Sec. 35, P.O. Kellogg; born in Jefferson Co., Tenn.. in 1802; moved to Clinton Co., Ohio, when a child, thence to Tippecanoe Co., Ind.. in 1825, thence to Montgomery Co., and located in this county in 1857. Married Mary A. MOON; she was born in the same county and State; they have six children-- Sarah, Joseph, Mary, Phoebe, Liddie and John. They are members of the Friends' Society; Republican. He owns 100 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre; he was at the first election held in Tippecanoe Co., Ind., and his father had the first grist mill in that county. ~ "Kellogg Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)