Shobal A. Ellis

ELLIS, GETCHELL

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/28/2004 at 16:34:25

S. A. Ellis, Douglas twp., farmer, Sec. 24; P.O. Winterset; born in Vermillion county, Illinois in 1834, and came to Henry county, Iowa, in 1839; he came to this county in 1868; owns 200 acres of land; has held office of township clerk; he was a resident of Kansas during the early border troubles; he has always been a staunch and uncompromising republican; he enlisted in the Eighth Iowa Infantry, and served three years and three months, and was with the regiment all the time and in all the engagements in which it participated; he married Miss Margaret A. Getchell, in 1868; she was born in Ohio, and died December 1878; has four children: John G., Martha E., Jessie M. and Franklin M.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 601