DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM ELLIS
Contributed by Pamella West
August 18, 2005
Generation No. 1
1. WILLIAM1 ELLIS was born c1740?.
Child of WILLIAM ELLIS is:
2. i. GEARMON2 ELLIS, b. 1765, Surry County, Virginia; d. Abt. August 1837.
Generation No. 2
2. GEARMON2 ELLIS (WILLIAM1) was born 1765 in Surry County, Virginia, and died Abt. August 1837.
He married EDITH HARPER April 13, 1792 in Southhampton County, Virginia. She was born Abt. 1765
in Virginia, and died Abt. 1837.
Children of GEARMON ELLIS and EDITH HARPER are:
i. NANCY3 ELLIS, b. Abt. 1778, Fauquier County, Virginia.
ii. EDNY ELLIS, b. Abt. 1794; d. Abt. 1820.
iii. MARTHA ELLIS, b. Abt. 1795, Virginia.
iv. MARY ANN ELLIS, b. 1800, Virginia.
v. WILLIAM N. ELLIS, b. 1802, Johnston County, NC.
3. vi. SAMUEL NEWTON ELLIS, b. 1805, either Johnston or Cumberland County, NC.
vii. JOHN GORMAN ELLIS, b. Abt. 1807, Johnston County, NC.
viii. JANE A. ELLIS, b. 1812, Johnston County, NC.
Generation No. 3
3. SAMUEL NEWTON3 ELLIS (GEARMON2, WILLIAM1) was born 1805 in either Johnston or Cumberland County, NC.
He married NANCY WEAVER 1828 in Cumberland County, NC. She was born Abt. 1802 in Cumberland County, NC.
Children of SAMUEL ELLIS and NANCY WEAVER are:
i. JARMAN4 ELLIS, b. 1829; d. 1907; m. ESTHER.
ii. JAMES ELLIS, b. March 18, 1831; d. 1865; m. MARY.
iii. SUSAN ELLIS, b. 1832; m. BATT LEE, November 05, 1852, Cumberland County, NC.
iv. DELITHA ELLIS, b. 1834.
v. BYRUM GEORGE BURTON ELLIS, b. October 1838, Cumberland County, NC; d. 1913.
vi. SARAH JANE ELLIS, b. August 08, 1841; d. 1881, Grant County, Arkansas; m.
JOHN WATSON LYBRAND, December 28, 1865.
vii. EDITH NEGILESIA ELLIS, b. November 06, 1844; d. May 23, 1887, Texas; m.
MOSES MONROE WOLFE, May 20, 1865, Jefferson County, Arkansas.
More About EDITH NEGILESIA ELLIS:
Burial: Etter Lake Cemetery, Hunt, Texas
viii. SAMUEL N. ELLIS, b. 1845.
ix. WILLIAM E. ELLIS, b. 1848.
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