Crenshaw County AlArchives Biographies.....Ellington, J. M. 1838 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   J. M. ELLINGTON, a prominent farmer of Beat No. 5, was born twelve miles
south of where he now lives, in 1838. That was then in Butler county. He is a
son of Joseph and Emily (Patterson) Ellington, the former born in Early county,
Ga., in 1806, the latter in Darlington district, S. C., in 1796. Mr. Ellington
was liberally educated, and when about eighteen years old came to Alabama, and
taught school near where Greenville now stands, afterward teaching for many
years in different places. Governor Watts was a pupil of his at one time. He
married in Butler, what is now Crenshaw, county, in 1827, near where Joseph M.
now lives, and settled in the woods, when the principal inhabitants were the red
man, the black bear, and the wolf. There were also plenty of deer and turkeys.
Mr. Ellington in trafficing with the Indians became familiar with their habits,
customs and manners. He improved at least six farms in different parts of what
is now Crenshaw county, and in which county he spent most of his life, dying
October 16, 1890, his wife dying September 24, 1891. His father was Enoch
Ellington, who died in Georgia, when Joseph was a boy, and his mother then came
to Alabama. She afterward returned to Georgia, and died there; but her children
remained in Alabama. Peter Patterson, maternal grandfather of Joseph M., came
from South Carolina to Montgomery, Ala., when Mrs. Ellington was a little girl,
and when Montgomery consisted of one pole business house. He afterward removed
to Butler county, where he died, in 1863. His wife died in this vicinity before
Joseph M. was born. Joseph M. is the youngest of a family of three sons and one
daughter, viz.: John A., died in 1857; William D., died fourteen days after John
A.; Roxie R., widow of Furman Holland, deceased, and Joseph M., who received in
his youth a fair education, mostly, however, by his own efforts. January, 1860,
he married Emalina, daughter of William and Mary Knight, natives of South
Carolina and Georgia respectively; they, however, coming to what is now Crenshaw
county when Mrs. Ellington was but twelve years old. After the war they removed
to Greenville, where Mrs. Knight died, in 1876, and her husband in 1887. Both
were members of the Christian church for many years. Mrs. Ellington had twelve
children, named as follows: Mary V., wife of Harvey Dukes; Charles H.; Mackey,
wife of Peter Mitchell; William Joseph; John A.; Emma, wife of Robert Horbin:
Eugenia; Lawrence S.; Leonidas; Edward; Fannie; Addie Belle, and Lucy, deceased,
at three years of age. In September, 1862, Mr. Ellington joined company K,
Seventeenth Alabama infantry, and spent two years at Mobile on garrison duty,
after which he was sent to the Tennessee army, and fought from Resaca down to
Atlanta, to Jonesboro, and then to Tennessee with Hood. He was with him on the
retreat to Corinth and Montgomery, and finally returned home. He was neither
captured nor wounded during the war. He has lived, with the exception of the
time spent in the war, within a few miles of where he was born, and for the past
twelve years on his present farm. He owns 384 acres of land, and has 200 acres
of it clear. All his property he has accumulated by his own efforts. He is a
member of the Christian church, and is one of the best citizens of the county.
He takes no part in politics further than to exerise the right of suffrage.

  



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 777-778
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI



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