Burleson TX Family Group Sheet for the Avery Ellis Family *********************************************** Copyright Carol Costley Rabun. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Carol Costley Rabun Email address: Husband: Avery ELLIS Birthdate: 1811 Birthplace: madison County, Alabama Death date: aft 1880 Place of death: Burial: Father: John E. Ellis Mother: Elizabeth Gregg Marriage date: 1831/Apr. 1, 1852 Marriage place: Blount County, Tenn. /Caldwell County, Texas Wife: Elizabeth Devine/ Mary Harvey Birthdate: /1812 Birthplace: / Alabama Death date: 1846/ Place of death: Monroe, Mississippi / Burial: Father: Mother: CHILDREN Child No. 1: Edward McMillian Ellis Sex: m Birthdate: Mar 1832 Birthplace: Mississippi Death date: 1908 Place of death: Brown County, Texas Burial: Marriage date: 1866 Marriage place: Burleson County, Texas Spouse's name: Sarah Ann McDowell Child No. 2: Mary Virginia Ellis Sex: f Birthdate: Oct. 2, 1836 Birthplace: Mississippi Death date: Feb. 11, 1917 Place of death: Joshua, Johnson county, Texas Burial: Crawford Cemetery, Crawford, Texas Marriage date: Jan 26, 1854 Marriage place: Burleson County, Texas Spouse's name: William Edward Costley Child No. 3: E.J. Bettie Ellis Sex: f Birthdate: 1843 Birthplace: Mississippi Death date: aft. 1915 Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Jan. 5, 1860 Marriage place: Burleson County, Texas Spouse's name: C.C. Harvey Child No. 4: James Ellis Sex: m Birthdate: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 5: John Ellis Sex: m Birthdate: 1854 Birthplace: Burleson County, Texas Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Burial: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Documentation: Endnotes 1. World Family Trees, The Ancestors of Casey and Angela Witmer Stafford by Casey Stafford http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi- bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3153460&id=I04109. 2. Keith A. Reid spec9102K2@yahoo.com Ancestry.com , http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=47904824 Keith has Avery's first wife as Elizabeth Devine. 3. W.E. Costley's journal, 1913 entry Mary wrote a letter to her sister Mrs Bettie Harvey Burleson County, Texas . 4. Burleson county Texas Marriages book 2, 46, C. C. HARVEY to E. J. ELLIS [f] on Jan. 05, 1860 ~ pg. 46. 5. Casey Stafford, Avery Ellis' brother James was killed at Goliad, a massacre perpetrated by General Santa Anna during the Texas Revolution whose name was used in conjunction with the Alamo as a war cry of Texas Independence. . 6. W.E. Costley's journal, Oct. 2, 1900, my wife is Sixty Six years old to day She moved from missippi in 1849 and her people located in Burleson County a bout Eleven miles south East of Caldwell in the Above county and was reared up to woman hood in Said county and was married to one WECostley on the 26th day of January AD 1854 then moved to Austin in travis county Texas and from that county moved to Bastrop county in the fall of 59 and in fifty nine move to Coryelll County and lived in the County five years. Then in the Spring of 1865 moved to Pecon Bayou in coleman County Texas ten miles north east of New Camp Colorado post. and there lived untill the fall of 1868 from which She moved to McLennan County Texas Some 25 miles west of the city of Waco on the breaks of Middle Bosque Creek from which She has lived ever Since 1868 and had borned her Seven children five boys and too girls names as follows first Michael Second Edward Third William Avry 4 Jackson 5 Christopher Columbus Costley girls as follows Elizabeth Sophronia Costley and Virginia Costley Name sake of her mother. 7. Costley journal 1900, file 394, December 25th being Christmas day AD1900 hundred being the day that our Lord and Saviour was borned and also being my birthday also making me Sixty Eight years old which makes me Sixty Eight Christmas I have Seen in the State of Texas.