BIO: Ellis, Levi K., Unknown Co

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers; 1885
Dubois County, Hall Twp., page 760

LEVI K. ELLIS was born October 17, 1846, in Dubois County, Ind.  His parents
were Marvin and Parmelia (Roberts) Ellis, who were natives respectively of
Indiana and Kentucky.  The father, who was a well respected farmer, died in
1873, and the mother in June 22, of the same year.  Our subject passed his
boyhood hard at work on the farm.  At the age of twenty he started in life
for himself, farming on part of his father's land.  He remained here until
his father's death, when he fell heir to part of the farm.  He has made
farming his occupation and now owns eighty-five acres of good land--fifty
acres under cultivation and the rest in timber land.  When the war broke out
he enlisted in Company E, Forty-third Indiana Volunteers.  June, 1865, he
was discharged.  He is a Republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and has been three times married; first in 1866 to Ruth Russell--
result, one child, Charles W.  She died in 1868.  To his second marriage,
with Mary Brown, which was solemnized in 1868, three children were born,
two now living:  Permelia A. and Samuel M.  This wife died in 1873, when he
took for his third wife Nancy Riley, to whom were born four children, two
now living:  James T. and William C.,  His wife was born in Orange County,
Ind.


From: "Phyllis Hill" 
<phill@redrock.net>
Date: 19 Aug 1998