Ellmaker, Rueben

ELLMAKER, MOSIER, STANSBURY, GILMAN, PUNPHREY

Posted By: Bill Rathbun (email)
Date: 5/29/2004 at 14:19:15

“Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa,” Pub. 1890, Chicago, Page 547.

REUBEN ELLMAKER, farmer and stock raiser of Des Moines Township, residing on Sec. 3, located in Jefferson County on the 5th of June, 1838. He was born in Perry County, PA., June 3, 1819, and is a son of Adam and Elizabeth (Ramer) Ellmaker, both of whom were also natives of the Keystone State and were of Holland descent. The father was born in Lancaster County….died on the 1st of September, 1836, and his wife died June 23, 1816, when our subject was but twenty days old. They were parents of three children. Enos accompanied our subject to this county in 1838, but in 1853 removed to Oregon, where he spent his last days, dying on the 6th of May, 1890. The only daughter, Eliza A., also went to Oregon, where she married and died.

The 21st of February 1843 Mr. Ellmaker was united in marriage with Miss Clarinda C. Mosier, daughter of Jacob and Nancy (Rigny) Mosier, pioneer settlers of this county of 1842. Her father was born in Penn., her mother in Virginia, and the birth of Mrs. Ellmaker occurred in Orange County, Indiana. Mr. Mosier died in 1844; his wife survived him until 1860. Mr. and Mrs. Ellmaker are parents of six children, but two died in infancy; Cyrus is living in Eugene City, Ore.; Solon married Miss Harriet Punphrey and is living on the old homestead; Maria L. is the deceased wife of Charles Stansbury; and Clarinda the wife of John L. Gilman of Des Moines…..

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