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| * **Died:** 13 July 1841 [[ellisville_jones_ms|Ellisville Jones Co, MS]] | * **Died:** 13 July 1841 [[ellisville_jones_ms|Ellisville Jones Co, MS]] |
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| Samuel Burton Ellis Jr born in Jasper County, GA was married to Jane Tresa Sims in Twiggs, GA. He was in [[perryms|Perry County]] in 1823 where a son was born and in [[jonesms|Jones County]] in 1825 when a daughter was born. He is also on the 1830 census for [[jonesms|Jones County]]. Ellis had an obituary in The Weekly Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) 13 August 1841 | Samuel Burton Ellis Jr born in Jasper County, GA was married to Jane Tresa Sims in Twiggs, GA. He was in [[perryms|Perry County]] in 1823 where a son was born and in [[jonesms|Jones County]] in 1825 when a daughter was born. He is also on the 1830 census for [[jonesms|Jones County]]. Ellis had an obituary in //The Weekly Mississippian// (Jackson, Mississippi) 13 August 1841 |
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| “Samuel Ellis died at his residence in [[jonesms|Jones County]] on Tuesday evening the 13th . Colonel Samuel Ellis age about 45 years, after an illness of eight days. Mr. Ellis was one of the early pioneers of Mississippi and represented the county of Jones in the Legislature for nearly 14 years; and owing to his upright and honest deportment, few exercised a greater influence. Ostentatious in his manners, rigidly honest in his intercourse with his fellow-man, warm-hearted and generous among his friends and neighbors, he was emphatically the idol of the section of country in which he lived. During a long public life, he never once lost the favor of his constituents, but was always triumphantly elected to every office to which he aspired. He was followed to his grave by a large concourse of neighbors and friends, who deeply and sincerely deplore his loss | **Samuel Ellis died at his residence in [[jonesms|Jones County]] on Tuesday evening the 13th . Colonel Samuel Ellis age about 45 years, after an illness of eight days. Mr. Ellis was one of the early pioneers of Mississippi and represented the county of Jones in the Legislature for nearly 14 years; and owing to his upright and honest deportment, few exercised a greater influence. Ostentatious in his manners, rigidly honest in his intercourse with his fellow-man, warm-hearted and generous among his friends and neighbors, he was emphatically the idol of the section of country in which he lived. During a long public life, he never once lost the favor of his constituents, but was always triumphantly elected to every office to which he aspired. He was followed to his grave by a large concourse of neighbors and friends, who deeply and sincerely deplore his loss** |
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| //Source: Trip Through The Piney Woods, PDF p. 41.// | //Source: Trip Through The Piney Woods, PDF p. 41.// |
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