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         JOB ELLIS, deceased, was born in Greene County, Tenn., Dec. 16, 1791, and when a young man went with his parents to Highland County, Ohio. In 1814 he wedded Miss Hannah Job, who was born in the Shenandoah Valley, near Martinsburg, Nov. 9, 1795, and went to Ohio in 1812. She was a daughter of Thomas Job. Mr. Ellis aided in the development of two farms in Highland County. In 1846 he came to Louisa County, Iowa, then a Territory, making the journey with teams across the country. They crossed the Wabash River on a ferry boat, pushing it with a pole, and all the streams, with one exception, had to be forded, as there were no bridges. They crossed the Mississippi at Burlington, and located in Jefferson County, where they remained one year, and then became residents of Louisa County, settling in Marshall Township, where Mr. Ellis purchased school land, and immediately began the development of a farm from the raw prairie.

Mr. and Mrs. Ellis were the parents of eleven children, nine sons and two daughters: Thomas R. J., living in Nebraska; Elijah, residing in Osborne County, Kan.; Isaac W., whose home is in Oregon; Albert; Harvey S., who enlisted in the fall of 1861 in the 8th Iowa Infantry, Company K, died of disease in the army in 1862; Alfred died when only three years of age; Elisha departed this life in . . .

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. . . Kansas, in 1859; Mordica died in Ohio in 1844; Samuel died in Kansas in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis were reared in the church of the Society of Friends, and his mother was a descendant of DeFoe, the author of “Robinson Crusoe.” The death of the former occurred in 1868, and of the latter in 1884. They were honest, industrious people, highly respected in the community where they resided. In politics Mr. Ellis was a Whig, and a great admirer of Henry Clay.