Husband of Theresa Margaret Trask
Joseph Loran Ellis was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, November 23, 1826, and March 24, at the time of his release was 92 years, four months and one day old. He was the eldest of twelve children who grew to maturity, and survived them all but three. The Ellis family, since 1630 had their home in Sandwich county, Massachusetts, the grandparents of Joseph Loran removing to Nova Scotia in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
In early manhood he worked a number of years as a farm laborer in Massachusetts, saving his earnings to start a home in the far West. In 1856 he went with a colony of New Englanders to Adams county, in southwestern Iowa, 200 miles west of the farthest reach of the railway, and there he and his bride, Margaret Theresa Trask made their thrifty, well-ordered home for 33 years. Mr. Ellis' great love for horticulture made this farm place with its edges, groves, and orchards the most attractive for miles around. Here were born and reared under old-fashioned discipline and Christian ideals, three sons and two daughters who are still living, and three babes were laid in the near-by Wild Rose cemetary. These living children are Walter M., of Endeavor, Wisconsin, George Relan of Eugene, Oregon, Mrs. J. M. Williamson, of Des Moines, Iowa, Mrs. T. W. Wiginton of Edmond, Oklahoma, and Robert W. of University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. Mrs. Ellis was laid to rest a little over six years ago. Thirteen grandchildren are now living.
Mr. Ellis made his home in Endeavor since 1902, and since the passing of his wife has lived with his son Walter. Until about three years ago his unusual vigor of body and mind seemed to defy time and its usual debilitating power. His quick, elastic, strong step, his erect pose, his keen interest in present day affairs, his pleasure in artistic touches with the hoe, or in penning letters bright and enlivening to children of old time friends, all spoke of a continuing youth.
Mr. Ellis' intellectual vigor was one of his most characteristic qualities. With the most elemental opportunities for schooling in his youth, by reading, observation and clear thinking, he came to the possession of as wide a fund of information and as open-minded and progressive an attitude as most men of college opportunities. He was a man of positive and clear convictions in many realms of thought and life, and could give his reasons therefor. He was a man of positive principal, as honest and inflexible as a granite ledge. Through all his years equal strangers to his lips were the narcotics which confuse and the profane or unchaste word. He was habitually reverent and prayerful, but one could not fail to notice in his advancing years a growing unconventionality and a wider liberality in his religious attitude.
Particularly during the last few weeks of his increasing feebleness he was anxious for his release. With his work for this life done, with his testimony to the great values plainly given, he was in every sense ready for the second great adventure, and his children are not ashamed of their inheritance.
W.M.E. (Walter March Ellis)
Joseph Loran Ellis was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, November 23, 1826, and March 24, at the time of his release was 92 years, four months and one day old. He was the eldest of twelve children who grew to maturity, and survived them all but three. The Ellis family, since 1630 had their home in Sandwich county, Massachusetts, the grandparents of Joseph Loran removing to Nova Scotia in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
In early manhood he worked a number of years as a farm laborer in Massachusetts, saving his earnings to start a home in the far West. In 1856 he went with a colony of New Englanders to Adams county, in southwestern Iowa, 200 miles west of the farthest reach of the railway, and there he and his bride, Margaret Theresa Trask made their thrifty, well-ordered home for 33 years. Mr. Ellis' great love for horticulture made this farm place with its edges, groves, and orchards the most attractive for miles around. Here were born and reared under old-fashioned discipline and Christian ideals, three sons and two daughters who are still living, and three babes were laid in the near-by Wild Rose cemetary. These living children are Walter M., of Endeavor, Wisconsin, George Relan of Eugene, Oregon, Mrs. J. M. Williamson, of Des Moines, Iowa, Mrs. T. W. Wiginton of Edmond, Oklahoma, and Robert W. of University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. Mrs. Ellis was laid to rest a little over six years ago. Thirteen grandchildren are now living.
Mr. Ellis made his home in Endeavor since 1902, and since the passing of his wife has lived with his son Walter. Until about three years ago his unusual vigor of body and mind seemed to defy time and its usual debilitating power. His quick, elastic, strong step, his erect pose, his keen interest in present day affairs, his pleasure in artistic touches with the hoe, or in penning letters bright and enlivening to children of old time friends, all spoke of a continuing youth.
Mr. Ellis' intellectual vigor was one of his most characteristic qualities. With the most elemental opportunities for schooling in his youth, by reading, observation and clear thinking, he came to the possession of as wide a fund of information and as open-minded and progressive an attitude as most men of college opportunities. He was a man of positive and clear convictions in many realms of thought and life, and could give his reasons therefor. He was a man of positive principal, as honest and inflexible as a granite ledge. Through all his years equal strangers to his lips were the narcotics which confuse and the profane or unchaste word. He was habitually reverent and prayerful, but one could not fail to notice in his advancing years a growing unconventionality and a wider liberality in his religious attitude.
Particularly during the last few weeks of his increasing feebleness he was anxious for his release. With his work for this life done, with his testimony to the great values plainly given, he was in every sense ready for the second great adventure, and his children are not ashamed of their inheritance.
W.M.E. (Walter March Ellis)
Husband of Theresa Margaret Trask
Joseph Loran Ellis was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, November 23, 1826, and March 24, at the time of his release was 92 years, four months and one day old. He was the eldest of twelve children who grew to maturity, and survived them all but three. The Ellis family, since 1630 had their home in Sandwich county, Massachusetts, the grandparents of Joseph Loran removing to Nova Scotia in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
In early manhood he worked a number of years as a farm laborer in Massachusetts, saving his earnings to start a home in the far West. In 1856 he went with a colony of New Englanders to Adams county, in southwestern Iowa, 200 miles west of the farthest reach of the railway, and there he and his bride, Margaret Theresa Trask made their thrifty, well-ordered home for 33 years. Mr. Ellis' great love for horticulture made this farm place with its edges, groves, and orchards the most attractive for miles around. Here were born and reared under old-fashioned discipline and Christian ideals, three sons and two daughters who are still living, and three babes were laid in the near-by Wild Rose cemetary. These living children are Walter M., of Endeavor, Wisconsin, George Relan of Eugene, Oregon, Mrs. J. M. Williamson, of Des Moines, Iowa, Mrs. T. W. Wiginton of Edmond, Oklahoma, and Robert W. of University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. Mrs. Ellis was laid to rest a little over six years ago. Thirteen grandchildren are now living.
Mr. Ellis made his home in Endeavor since 1902, and since the passing of his wife has lived with his son Walter. Until about three years ago his unusual vigor of body and mind seemed to defy time and its usual debilitating power. His quick, elastic, strong step, his erect pose, his keen interest in present day affairs, his pleasure in artistic touches with the hoe, or in penning letters bright and enlivening to children of old time friends, all spoke of a continuing youth.
Mr. Ellis' intellectual vigor was one of his most characteristic qualities. With the most elemental opportunities for schooling in his youth, by reading, observation and clear thinking, he came to the possession of as wide a fund of information and as open-minded and progressive an attitude as most men of college opportunities. He was a man of positive and clear convictions in many realms of thought and life, and could give his reasons therefor. He was a man of positive principal, as honest and inflexible as a granite ledge. Through all his years equal strangers to his lips were the narcotics which confuse and the profane or unchaste word. He was habitually reverent and prayerful, but one could not fail to notice in his advancing years a growing unconventionality and a wider liberality in his religious attitude.
Particularly during the last few weeks of his increasing feebleness he was anxious for his release. With his work for this life done, with his testimony to the great values plainly given, he was in every sense ready for the second great adventure, and his children are not ashamed of their inheritance.
W.M.E. (Walter March Ellis)
Joseph Loran Ellis was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, November 23, 1826, and March 24, at the time of his release was 92 years, four months and one day old. He was the eldest of twelve children who grew to maturity, and survived them all but three. The Ellis family, since 1630 had their home in Sandwich county, Massachusetts, the grandparents of Joseph Loran removing to Nova Scotia in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
In early manhood he worked a number of years as a farm laborer in Massachusetts, saving his earnings to start a home in the far West. In 1856 he went with a colony of New Englanders to Adams county, in southwestern Iowa, 200 miles west of the farthest reach of the railway, and there he and his bride, Margaret Theresa Trask made their thrifty, well-ordered home for 33 years. Mr. Ellis' great love for horticulture made this farm place with its edges, groves, and orchards the most attractive for miles around. Here were born and reared under old-fashioned discipline and Christian ideals, three sons and two daughters who are still living, and three babes were laid in the near-by Wild Rose cemetary. These living children are Walter M., of Endeavor, Wisconsin, George Relan of Eugene, Oregon, Mrs. J. M. Williamson, of Des Moines, Iowa, Mrs. T. W. Wiginton of Edmond, Oklahoma, and Robert W. of University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. Mrs. Ellis was laid to rest a little over six years ago. Thirteen grandchildren are now living.
Mr. Ellis made his home in Endeavor since 1902, and since the passing of his wife has lived with his son Walter. Until about three years ago his unusual vigor of body and mind seemed to defy time and its usual debilitating power. His quick, elastic, strong step, his erect pose, his keen interest in present day affairs, his pleasure in artistic touches with the hoe, or in penning letters bright and enlivening to children of old time friends, all spoke of a continuing youth.
Mr. Ellis' intellectual vigor was one of his most characteristic qualities. With the most elemental opportunities for schooling in his youth, by reading, observation and clear thinking, he came to the possession of as wide a fund of information and as open-minded and progressive an attitude as most men of college opportunities. He was a man of positive and clear convictions in many realms of thought and life, and could give his reasons therefor. He was a man of positive principal, as honest and inflexible as a granite ledge. Through all his years equal strangers to his lips were the narcotics which confuse and the profane or unchaste word. He was habitually reverent and prayerful, but one could not fail to notice in his advancing years a growing unconventionality and a wider liberality in his religious attitude.
Particularly during the last few weeks of his increasing feebleness he was anxious for his release. With his work for this life done, with his testimony to the great values plainly given, he was in every sense ready for the second great adventure, and his children are not ashamed of their inheritance.
W.M.E. (Walter March Ellis)
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