Wayne County

Robert D. Ellis

1884 Biographical Sketches of Lamard Twp

ROBERT D. ELLIS, ROBERT D. farmer, P. O. Pin Oak, was born November 12, 1834, in Wilson County, Tenn. He is a son of Robert H. Ellis, of Tennessee.

Our subject was educated in Wayne County IL. He came to Wayne County, Ill., in the fall of 1841.

He is a member and also a local minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been for twenty-two years.

He was married, January 1, 1857, in Wayne County, IL, to Ollie E. Martain, of Wayne County, Ill., by whom he had nine children, seven living,viz.,

  1. Melville C.
  2. Laura A.
  3. Thomas M.
  4. John L. C
  5. Robert N.
  6. Etta J
  7. Effie L

Our subject owns sixty-five acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising. Politics, Republican.



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