EDGAR AND ADELIA ELLIS by Nora Ellis Bailey
Courage Enough Mon-Dak Family Histories Bi-Centennial Edition
My grandparents, Edgar and Adelia Ellis, moved from near Anamoose, North Dakota to a farm about three miles north of Sioux Pass in about 1908 or 1909. The family living with them at the time included two sons, Melvin and Harry, a granddaughter, Violet Baker, who had made her home with them for several years, and my great-grandmother Ellis.
Edgar Ellis passed away at the farm during the winter of 1912. His mother passed away the following spring. Both were buried in a little corner of the pasture which had been fenced off for a cemetery.

Uncle Harry enlisted in the army at the beginning of World War I and served in France. When he returned, he married a girl from Chicago and never came back to Sioux Pass to live.

Grandma Ellis and Uncle Melvin moved off the farm to Oregon in about 1916.
Violet Baker married a man from Oregon, Jim Richardson, in 1914. They went to Oregon to live and never returned to Sioux Pass.
Uncle Melvin moved to Whitefish, Montana with his mother in 1922. She passed away there in 1926. Uncle Melvin then moved to Southern Idaho and worked for the Carnation Milk Company there until his retirement in about 1967. He and his wife still live in their own home at Meridian, Idaho.
My parents, Fred and Sara Ellis, moved from California to Sioux Pass in 1912. Dad shipped a railraod car of furniture, machinery and horses and he went with the load. Mother and my two oldest brothers and I came on the passenger train to Mondak. Uncle Harry met us there with a team and cutter. It was terribly cold and we crossed the Missouri River on the ice.
We stayed at Grandma's a short time, then Dad farmed land joining Grandma's that year. The next spring we moved to another farm that belonged to Dad's cousin, Clarence Ellis. My youngest brother, Fred, was born while we lived there. That fall Dad ran a threshing separator for a man near Crane, and he moved the family over there. A year later Dad bought a farm from Hans Peterson near Sioux Pass and we moved again. Our buildings were one-half mile west of Sioux Pass. We had only a two-room house and there were six of us in the family. We lived there until 1921 when the family moved to Whitefish, Montana.
We four children went to school at Sioux Pass.
Although times were hard and there was always work, we really enjoyed our life there on the farm. We had good neighbors with children our own age. There were many Sunday get-togethers.
After we moved to Whitefish in 1921, all four of us children went to school there. Dad worked a while for the Great Northern Railroad and Mother worked in the laundry.
I married Harold Bailey in the spring of 1925. He worked for the railroad so we made our home in Whitefish and later in Havre. He had four children, now all grown.
My parents and my three brothers, Lawrence, Ralph and Fred, moved to Minnesota in June of 1925. My dad passed away there in 1956 and Mother passed away at Beach, North Dakota in 1969. Lawrence still lives with his wife in Minnesota. Ralph and his wife have lived at Havre, Montana since 1945.

BLM Glorecords Land Patents: Homestead Land Records for Edgar Ellis
MT Montana PM 025N - 057E W½SW¼ 1 Richland
MT Montana PM 025N - 057E Lot/Trct 4 2 Richland
MT Montana PM 025N - 057E Lot/Trct 5 2 Richland
MT Montana PM 025N - 057E E½SE¼ 2 Richland

EDGAR AND ADELIA ELLIS by Nora Ellis Bailey
Courage Enough Mon-Dak Family Histories Bi-Centennial Edition
My grandparents, Edgar and Adelia Ellis, moved from near Anamoose, North Dakota to a farm about three miles north of Sioux Pass in about 1908 or 1909. The family living with them at the time included two sons, Melvin and Harry, a granddaughter, Violet Baker, who had made her home with them for several years, and my great-grandmother Ellis.
Edgar Ellis passed away at the farm during the winter of 1912. His mother passed away the following spring. Both were buried in a little corner of the pasture which had been fenced off for a cemetery.

Uncle Harry enlisted in the army at the beginning of World War I and served in France. When he returned, he married a girl from Chicago and never came back to Sioux Pass to live.

Grandma Ellis and Uncle Melvin moved off the farm to Oregon in about 1916.
Violet Baker married a man from Oregon, Jim Richardson, in 1914. They went to Oregon to live and never returned to Sioux Pass.
Uncle Melvin moved to Whitefish, Montana with his mother in 1922. She passed away there in 1926. Uncle Melvin then moved to Southern Idaho and worked for the Carnation Milk Company there until his retirement in about 1967. He and his wife still live in their own home at Meridian, Idaho.
My parents, Fred and Sara Ellis, moved from California to Sioux Pass in 1912. Dad shipped a railraod car of furniture, machinery and horses and he went with the load. Mother and my two oldest brothers and I came on the passenger train to Mondak. Uncle Harry met us there with a team and cutter. It was terribly cold and we crossed the Missouri River on the ice.
We stayed at Grandma's a short time, then Dad farmed land joining Grandma's that year. The next spring we moved to another farm that belonged to Dad's cousin, Clarence Ellis. My youngest brother, Fred, was born while we lived there. That fall Dad ran a threshing separator for a man near Crane, and he moved the family over there. A year later Dad bought a farm from Hans Peterson near Sioux Pass and we moved again. Our buildings were one-half mile west of Sioux Pass. We had only a two-room house and there were six of us in the family. We lived there until 1921 when the family moved to Whitefish, Montana.
We four children went to school at Sioux Pass.
Although times were hard and there was always work, we really enjoyed our life there on the farm. We had good neighbors with children our own age. There were many Sunday get-togethers.
After we moved to Whitefish in 1921, all four of us children went to school there. Dad worked a while for the Great Northern Railroad and Mother worked in the laundry.
I married Harold Bailey in the spring of 1925. He worked for the railroad so we made our home in Whitefish and later in Havre. He had four children, now all grown.
My parents and my three brothers, Lawrence, Ralph and Fred, moved to Minnesota in June of 1925. My dad passed away there in 1956 and Mother passed away at Beach, North Dakota in 1969. Lawrence still lives with his wife in Minnesota. Ralph and his wife have lived at Havre, Montana since 1945.

BLM Glorecords Land Patents: Homestead Land Records for Edgar Ellis
MT Montana PM 025N - 057E W½SW¼ 1 Richland
MT Montana PM 025N - 057E Lot/Trct 4 2 Richland
MT Montana PM 025N - 057E Lot/Trct 5 2 Richland
MT Montana PM 025N - 057E E½SE¼ 2 Richland