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Submitted: 4/1/12 • Approved: 4/1/12 • Last Updated: 8/22/12 • R670166-G670166-S3
Born January 23, 1865, Tennessee.
Died June 11, 1946, Oxford, Izard County, Arkansas.
Married Francis K. "Frank" Ellis, September 28, 1879, Meigs County, Tennessee.
The Melbourne Times, Melbourne, Arkansas, June 20, 1946:
Mrs. Ida Josephine Ellis
Funeral services for Mrs. Ida Josephine Ellis age 81 were conducted at the Oxford Methodist Church Thursday by Rev. Wm. Keylon of Union and burial was at the Oxford Cemetery in charge of Higginbotham Funeral Service.
Mrs. Ellis died at her home at Oxford Tuesday night. She was a Methodist. Survivors include her husband, F. K. Ellis; four sons, Jim Ellis of Huntsville, B. H. Ellis of DePew, Okla., Ted Ellis of Gypsy, Okla., and Frank Ellis of Bakersfield, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Mollie Gibson of Beverly, Kansas, Mrs. Allie Turner of Wheeling and Mrs. Bertha Ferguson of Oxford; four brothers and one sister.
(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)
Contributed on 4/1/12 by maxparnell
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