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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

G. C. ELLIS.
    The high educational standards to which Arkansas is rapidly approaching are
fully maintained in the efforts of G. C. Ellis, county superintendent of schools
in Scott county. Actuated by a laudable ambition, he is doing everything in his
power to promote the interests of the schools and during his incumbency in this
position has introduced various improvements. A native of Tennessee, he was born
in Rockwood, December 7, 1S84, his parents being John and Mary Elizabeth (Bacon)
Ellis, who are also natives of Tennessee, in which state they were reared and
married. The father was a son of Monroe Ellis, a native of Tennessee, who owned
a large plantation there, together with about one hundred negroes. The
grandfather in the maternal line was John Bacon, who was likewise born in
Tennessee and was a direct descendant of Nathaniel Bacon. John Bacon served as a
Confederate soldier in the Civil war and was badly wounded. In 1S99 John and
Mary Elizabeth (Bacon) Ellis left Tennessee and came to Arkansas, settling upon
a farm in Scott county, where they still make their home. They are stanch
supporters of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in which they hold
membership, and in politics Mr. Ellis is a democrat. He served in the
Confederate army under General Joseph Wheeler for four years and on one occasion
was slightly wounded and also was captured, but soon afterward was exchanged. To
Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis there were born the following children: G. C, whose name
introduces this review; Claude, a farmer living at Mansfield, Arkansas; Jarvis,
who married Henry Presson and is located at Dayton, Arkansas; Mae, the wife of
Leota Waters, a farmer of Huntington, Arkansas; Cole Y., who is a school teacher
at Mansfield, and Jane, who married Earl McDonald and lives at Shawnee, Oklahoma.

    G. C. Ellis pursued his education in the Arkansas State Normal School at
Conway and in the State Normal at Tyler, Texas. He took up the profession of
teaching in 1905 and continued to engage therein until elected county
superintendent of schools in Scott county in 1918. Throughout the intervening
period to the present he has made a most excellent record in office, and the
county is to be congratulated upon having at the head of its school system one
who is so thoroughly informed concerning modern methods and who is so thoroughly
interested in bringing about the best possible conditions in the schools over
which he has supervision.

     In 1907 Mr. Ellis was married to Miss Willie Simpson, who was born in Scott
county. Arkansas, a daughter of S. W. Simpson, a native of this state and now
living at Mansfield, where he owns considerable land. To Mr. and Mrs. Ellis have
been born three sons, Byron, Weston and Merrill, all in school.

    Mr. Ellis is a democrat in his political views. He has membership with the
Masons, with the Odd Fellows and the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and he
is likewise a consistent and faithful follower of the teachings of the Methodist
Episcopal church, South. His labors have been a potent force in bringing about
intellectual and moral progress in his community and he has accomplished a work
the results of which are immeasurable.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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