Genealogy, Part 4
Daniel Ellis Jr. ("Bud"), 1854-1934
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Daniel Ellis Jr.
Born: 9 February 1854, Washington County, TN
Died: 27 August 1934, Etowah, TN
Buried: Ellis Family Cemetery
Married: 3 September 1876 to
- Eliza C. Collins
Born: 1862 or April 1865
Died: of heart disease, 1919, buried in the Ellis Family Cemetery
Parents: Watson Collins, 1834-1870 and Evaline Williams, 1825-1880
Children:
- Arthur Milburn
- Amma B.Ellis
1878-1881
- Daniel M. Ellis
Born: April (?) 1886, Carter County, TN
Military Service: World War I, major: 59th Brigade, 117th Infantry, 3rd Battalion.
Married: Carrie B. Hicks on 28 March 1906
Lived in Columbia, SC, retired as Colonel about 1940 to Avon Park, Florida
Died in Tennessee
Children:
- Martine Ellis Lucas
- Mary Caroline Slayden
- Jerome Pershing Ellis
Born: 7 December 1917
Died 11 August 2000
(Jerome Pershing Ellis' Obituary, Northwest Florida Daily News, 19 November 2000, p. B2)
- Martha E. Ellis
Born: March, 1888
Married: David Maxwell ("Mack") Chambers on 17 February 1907
Children:
- Loretta
Born: 1908?
- Myrtle
Born: 1910?
- Dr. David. M. Chambers, Jr.
Born: 1925?
Died: 10 July 1993 (age 68)
- Vorita C. Isaacs
- Florence C. "Jack" Smith
- Katharyn C. Noble
- Jean C. Williams
- Loretta
- Rev. Nathaniel Watson Ellis ("Watt")
Nathaniel Ellis
Born: 14 June 1893, Carter County, TN (image from Soldiers of the Great War ... Haulsee & Doyle, comp., 1920)
Died: 19 January 1945, of angina pectoris, in Tellico Plains, Monroe County, TN. Nathaniel Watson Ellis' obituary is availible thanks to Glenn Teffeteller!
Military service: World War I, first lieutenant in 30th Division, 59th Brigade, 117th Infantry, 3rd Battalion, Company M. Earned Distinguished Service Cross
"For extraordinary heroism in action near Montbrehain, France, October 7, 1918. When his company was held up by sweeping machine gun fire, Lieut. Ellis rushed forward alone, in the face of direct machine gun fire, to an enemy machine gun nest 60 yards in advance of his platoon, and by the effective use of his pistol killed 5 of the enemy and captured 26 prisoners, together with the machine gun. Although he had been seriously wounded in two places while advancing, he held the position until his platoon came up" (Murphy, Elmer A., and Robert S. Thomas. The Thirtieth Division in the World War. Lepanto. Arkansas: Old Hickory Publishing Co., 1936. p. 248).
Married: Fannie Brunner Land, 6 Dec 1896 - June 1973
Parents: John R. Land, Margaret Irene Ghormley
Children:
- Irene Cameron Ellis
Born: 13 Aug 1916
Died: March 1995, Tellico Plains, Monroe County, TN
Married: James Johnson
- Irene Cameron Ellis
- Benjamin Ellis
Born: 1901?
(Listed in brother Arthur Milburn's 1929 obituary as a major at Fort Monroe, NC. He not listed as a survivor in Dan Ellis Jr.'s 1934 obituary. I believe the former is an erroneous listing of brother Daniel M. Ellis, and that there was no Benjamin Ellis. If I am wrong, please advise.)
- Eliza C. Collins
