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Curtis Silas Ellis Sr.

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Curtis Silas Ellis Sr.

Birth
New York, USA
Death
1882 (aged 65–66)
Nebraska, USA
Burial
Bartlett, Wheeler County, Nebraska, USA Add to Map
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Curtis is not buried with his legal, first wife Betsy in Wisconsin. About 1863-4 he ran off with his newly widowed daughter-in-law, Lucy Thompson Ellis, and they disappeared "out West". They first lived in Dickinson County, Iowa where their two daughters were born. They later moved to NW of Lincoln in Lancaster County, Nebraska, then to near Scotia, Greeley County, Nebraska where he likely died in 1882. His common-law wife/widow subsequently homesteaded in her own name in Wheeler County, Nebraska.

It is believed that at some point, Lucy went to considerable effort to have Curtis and their daughter Harriett (who also died in 1882) exhumed, and brought their bodies by wagon many miles to Bartlett to be reburied. Curtis, Harriett, Lucy, their daughter Augusta Cutler, and son-in-law Charles Cutler are all buried together in the Ellis-Cutler family plot in the Bartlett Cemetery. It is worth noting that due to Curtis' abandonment of his original family-- and being unable to have any further contact with them-- it seems more poignant that all members of his second, smaller family are united in this isolated cemetery.

Son Curtis Ellis Jr. is buried in the Nashville National Cemetery, Nashville, TN after dying of disease during the Civil War. He died April 17, 1862
Curtis is not buried with his legal, first wife Betsy in Wisconsin. About 1863-4 he ran off with his newly widowed daughter-in-law, Lucy Thompson Ellis, and they disappeared "out West". They first lived in Dickinson County, Iowa where their two daughters were born. They later moved to NW of Lincoln in Lancaster County, Nebraska, then to near Scotia, Greeley County, Nebraska where he likely died in 1882. His common-law wife/widow subsequently homesteaded in her own name in Wheeler County, Nebraska.

It is believed that at some point, Lucy went to considerable effort to have Curtis and their daughter Harriett (who also died in 1882) exhumed, and brought their bodies by wagon many miles to Bartlett to be reburied. Curtis, Harriett, Lucy, their daughter Augusta Cutler, and son-in-law Charles Cutler are all buried together in the Ellis-Cutler family plot in the Bartlett Cemetery. It is worth noting that due to Curtis' abandonment of his original family-- and being unable to have any further contact with them-- it seems more poignant that all members of his second, smaller family are united in this isolated cemetery.

Son Curtis Ellis Jr. is buried in the Nashville National Cemetery, Nashville, TN after dying of disease during the Civil War. He died April 17, 1862

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C.S. Ellis 1816-1882

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Burial is behind the large Cutler family stone.

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