Ira S. Ezzell married Sophia Jane Hasley September 30, 1855 at Ezzell, Lavaca County, Texas.

His parents were Samuel H. Ezzell and Christina Keithley. Both were born in St. Charles County, Missouri and died in Lavaca County, Texas. Burial is unknown but probably on the land they owned near Ezzell, Texas.

General information about Lavaca County and Ezzell is available in the writings of Judge Paul C. Boethel.

(Above information provided by John Fowler, FAG contributor no, 48499383.)

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Obituary, Firm Foundation (Austin, TX), June 26, 1890

EZZELL. - Ira Ezzell, of Floresville, Texas, - my own beloved brother – is gone!

By letters just received, on the 6th and 7th ins., from his son, Ora, and Mr. C. H. Blanton, editor of the Citizen, I am requested to prepare a suitable obituary.

With inexpressible sadness I comply in haste, as best I can. Ira was born in Lincoln county, Mo., Sept. 24, 1836. He was two years and ten days my junior, but, from early boyhood we were nearly the same size, and, so grew up the two "mate boys" of the four brothers; and hence, we formed a peculiar attachment for each other in youth that has increased with our advancing age; and, therefore my grief is extra. Yes, indeed, but not to be compared with that of the fond loving companion and ten children who are left to mourn their irreparable loss.

In 1853 the original family located in Lavaca county, Texas, where our parents died in the faith.
About the age of seventeen Ira became a christian, and to the day of his triumphant death he lived an exemplary christian life most of the time acting in the capacity of an elder of his congregation; occasionally laboring publicly in word and doctrine.
Not only was he ready for every good word and work as a christian, but as a citizen he was a man of business, a leader in his community, strictly honest in all his dealings, and had the confidence of all, and was beloved by all who knew him.

He was a good manager, and left his wife and children in comfortable circumstances.
At about nineteen years of age he married Miss S. J. Hasley, who was truly his amiable companion amid all their trials and conflicts; and, in his last illness of only fourteen hours of intense suffering, caused by constipation, she and the loving children did all they could for the dying husband and father till creature helps all failed, and the inevitable bade them give him up to the mighty grasp of the irresistible monster, which was at 7:25 a.m. of 4th inst.

When the spirit took its flight
To that land where is no night;
To that place where all is well,
The joys of which none can tell.

Could he speak from the bright shore
He would say: I've gone before,
Loved ones, fail not to prepare
For our meeting over here.

S. R. EZZELL, Jacksonville, Texas, March 9, '90
Contributor: Larry Jackson, FAG contributor no, 47096985, • [email protected]

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(Following information provided by Ronald C. Brewer, FAG contributor no, 48104028 [[email protected]].)
"About the age of seventeen he became a Christian, and to the day of his triumphant death he lived an exemplary Christian life most of the time acting in the capacity of an elder of his congregation; occasionally laboring publicly in word and doctrine."

(Ref. Jackson, Larry C. Asleep in Jesus: Obituaries in the Firm Foundation, 1885-1894. LaGrange, Texas: Larry C. Jackson. 2022. Page 44-45.)

Spouse: Sophia "Sophie" Jane Hasley (1837-1908), married September 30th, 1855, at Lavaca, Texas – two daughters (Elbe and Kiziak) and eight sons (Benjamin, Thomas, John, Ira, Ora Lee, James, George, Arthur)

Father: Samuel Hicks Ezzell (1809-1869)
Mother: Christina Keithley (1812-1860)

Occupation: elder/minister/preacher for churches of Christ.