Rachel Mildred Ketchersides (1825-1853)
Rachel Mildred Ketchersides was the daughter of parents unknown. She was born on 15 October 1825 in Tennessee and died on 15 April 1853 in Wright County, Missouri.
Rachel was married to Benjamin "Buck" Ellis on 5 July 1846. Rachel died in 1853 at the age of 28. Buck then married Mary Ann Boatman in 1854.
Children of Benjamin Ellis and Rachel Ketcherside are:
- Mary Ann Ellis (1847-1915)
- Benjamin Franklin Ellis (1848-)
- William Preston Ellis (1849-1914)
- Asa Ellis (1853-)
From Ancestory.com
| Birth: | Sep.
10, 1824 Montgomery County Missouri, USA |
| Death: | Feb.
13, 1911 Wright County Missouri, USA |
 Obituary printed on February 16, 1911 in either the Hartville Democrat or the Wright County Republican newspaper: Benjamin Ellis Dead. "Benjamin Ellis, better known as Uncle Buck Ellis, died at the home of his son Jasper C. Ellis, Monday February 13th (1911) at the age of 80 years. He had been in poor health for several years being totally blind for 12 or 15 years during which time he has lived with his son Jasper, and received the most careful attention that could be bestowed by loving friends. Uncle Buck came to this community in 1834 at an early age and has since lived in what is Texas and Wright county, then Pulaski. He is the last of his family, and the last of the settlers who immigrated to this county at that date. He was always cheerful and jovial and nothing pleased him more than to recall the days when the nearest neighbor was five miles distant and people went ten miles to a house raising of a neighbor. He is survived by twelve children eight of whom were with him at the time of his death." Family links: Spouses: Mary Ann Boatman Ellis (1825 - 1887) Rachel Mildred Ketchersides Ellis (1825 - 1853)* Children: Nancy Jane Ellis Cook (1847 - 1903)* Benjamin Franklin Ellis (1852 - 1941)* Sarah Elizabeth Ellis Dunsmore (1854 - 1929)* Robert Mitchell Ellis (1856 - 1926)* Margaret Demerius Ellis Griffiths (1858 - 1932)* Ludora Caroline Ellis Kelly (1859 - 1935)* Adaline Ruth Ellis Long (1860 - 1930)* Agnes Ann Ellis Wood (1861 - 1941)* Isabell Ellis Grimes (1863 - 1941)* Andrew Patrick Ellis (1866 - 1939)* Jasper Clayton Ellis (1868 - 1945)* *Calculated relationship |
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| Burial: Buck Ellis Wright County Missouri, USA |
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Obituary printed on February 16, 1911 in either
the Hartville Democrat or the Wright County
Republican newspaper:
Benjamin Ellis Dead.
"Benjamin Ellis, better known as Uncle Buck
Ellis, died at the home of his son Jasper C.
Ellis, Monday February 13th (1911) at the age of
80 years. He had been in poor health for several
years being totally blind for 12 or 15 years
during which time he has lived with his son
Jasper, and received the most careful attention
that could be bestowed by loving friends.
Uncle Buck came to this community in 1834 at an
early age and has since lived in what is Texas
and Wright county, then Pulaski. He is the last
of his family, and the last of the settlers who
immigrated to this county at that date. He was
always cheerful and jovial and nothing pleased
him more than to recall the days when the
nearest neighbor was five miles distant and
people went ten miles to a house raising of a
neighbor. He is survived by twelve children
eight of whom were with him at the time of his
death."
grandpa buck killed a bear while being blind
which not many know about it but my grandpa ross
speaks of it often
-
cody
ellis
Added:
May. 18, 2013
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