Fayette County KyArchives Cemeteries.....Ellis Family Cemetery - Complete Survey
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Margaret H. Kannensohn En4cer48@aol.com January 31, 2005, 8:53 pm

Abstracted By: Margaret H. Kannensohn

"Cleveland Pike nr. Chilesburg Rd...
"...lying on the east side of the Chilesburg and 
Clintonville Pikes...near the David's Fork Church..."
Lexington KY

Last Name     First Name    Middle Name   Birth       Death       Comment
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Ellis II      Hezekiah                    9/15/1769   10/11/1857  
Ellis         James         M.            1/12/1821   10/11/1847  s/ Hezekiah Ellis III
Ellis         Nancy         Duvall        3/1/1781    11/23/1834  w/o Hezekiah Ellis II
Ellis         William                     2/2/1803    8/1/1840    s/o H. & N. Ellis
McCann        Elizabeth     Ellis         11/19/1804  10/3/1836   d/o H. & N. Ellis w/o Wm. McCann
Smith         Willie                      2/26/1853   10/12/1854  s/o W. H. & Mary Ellis g/s H. & N. Ellis



Additional Comments:
Family research reports that Hezekiah Ellis II accompanied his brother, Capt. 
Wm. Ellis, and The Traveling Church from VA to KY.  Captain Ellis was m. 18 
June 1786 in Fayette County to Elizabeth Shipp (See also Ellis-Shipp Family 
Cemetery).

In 1838-9, the city directory reported that Ellis owned 255 acres of property 
on Cleaveland [sic] Rd.

The infant "Willie" [William Marshall] Smith, was the son of Mary Elizabeth 
Ellis Smith, w/o Wm. H. Smith.  Mrs. Smith, a d/o Hezekiah II, had died 12 May 
1853, a few months after the b/o of her son, leading to the possibility she, 
too, was buried here.

There is no reported marker for Hezekiah Ellis I at this site, but some family 
researchers are reported to believe he too was buried here.  It should be noted 
that his will is reported to have been admitted for probate in Spotsylvania 
County VA, but that does not rule out the time when KY was part of VA.  His 
wife, Mildred Burbridge Ellis, may also have been buried here.  She is reported 
to have died 1 April 1811 in Fayette County KY.

In 1942, Anna Steele Cook, a single person, conveyed (DB 315-506) to J. H. 
Graves for $1 and assumption of a mortgage, the property where this cemetery is 
located.  Its legal description is that listed above.  The "graveyard" was 
reserved from the 148.7 acre transfer.  In 1952, this property was conveyed in 
trust to Jacob H. Graves, Jr.

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