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Samuel Ellis
Manuscript heading: Colonel Samuel Ellis
- Born: 17 Dec 1792, Monticello.Jasper Co, GA
- Died: 13 July 1841 Ellisville Jones Co, MS
Samuel Burton Ellis Jr born in Jasper County, GA was married to Jane Tresa Sims in Twiggs, GA. He was in Perry County in 1823 where a son was born and in Jones County in 1825 when a daughter was born. He is also on the 1830 census for Jones County. Ellis had an obituary in The Weekly Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi) 13 August 1841
“Samuel Ellis died at his residence in 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. Unostentatious 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
Source: Trip Through The Piney Woods, PDF p. 41.