John Calvin Ellis

ELLIS, PIERCE

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/28/2004 at 16:31:07

J. C. Ellis, Winterset, farmer, Sec. 29; P.O. Ohio; born in Fayette county, Ohio, April 15, 1841, and was raised there; he married Miss Emma C. Pierce, of Clark county, Ohio, October 18, 1864; in the fall of 1865, they came to Iowa and stopped in Clarke county; he taught school that winter and moved on the farm on which he now lives the following spring; owns 140 acres of land; was in company I, Sixty-eighth Ohio; was out four months and was taken prisoner, and was paroled shortly afterward; has a family of three sons and three daughters: Iona A., Leo P., Imo G., Retson H., Vinnie R. and Carrie C.; Mr. E. served two terms as justice of the peace, four terms as clerk and four terms as assessor; in the summer of 1866, on his way from the timber to the house, he came across a den of rattlesnakes; after killing four, and while in the act of killing the fifth, it jumped up and bit him on the hand, from which he has since been a cripple.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 567, 568