Shawnee County KS Archives Obituaries.....ELLIS, Bennie J. July 26, 1918
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The Topeka Daily Capital, Tuesday, October 29, 1918
Dies At Camp Lewis.
On July 26, just three months ago, Bennie J. ELLIS joined the Thirteenth
ammunition train at Fort Riley. On August 5 he entrained to Camp Lewis, Wash.,
and on October 21, died in the Washington army camp. He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jonathan L. Ellis, 224 West Laurent street, Topeka. He was 26 years old,
having been born in Hall county, Neb., on January 10, 1892. When a small boy,
Ellis and his brother attended the Methodist Sunday school at Clifton, Kan., and
later he was a devoted church worker. He is survived by his parents and four
brothers, Silas, Watson and Boyd of Topeka, and George Ellis, a member of the
Tenth division, now stationed at Camp Funston. Mr. Ellis will be buried with
full military honors. The funeral will be held this morning at 10 o'clock from
Penwell's chapel and will be in charge of Dr. Edmund J. Kulp. The burial will be
in Mt. Hope cemetery.


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