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Name: Minnie Belle Thornton Ellis
Birth Date: 20 Jan 1877
Birth Location:
Death Date: 20 Mar 1944 (aged 67)
Death Location:
Burial: Greenwood Cemetery
City: Newton
County: Harvey County
State: Kansas
Country: USA
Memorial ID: 43974782

Kansan, Monday, March 10, 1944

Mrs. Minnie Belle Ellis of 616 Central St., Newton, passed away at 2:55 a.m., Sunday at the home of her daughter in Clay Center, Kansas at the age of 67 years, having been born January 20, 1877 in Cassville, Mo.

Mrs. Ellis was an employee of Methodist Children's Home, before going to Clay Center, seventeen months ago to live with her daughter Mrs. Ida C. Drantman. Additional children include a son Alfred C. Ellis of this city: Homer V. Ellis of San Pedro, Calif., and Mrs. LaVerne E. Cook of Garden City, Kansas.

Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, at 4:00 o'clock at the Moody Funeral Chapel, with Rev. G. Luther Coppedge and Rev. J. E. Coe, officiating. Burial will take place in the family lot in Greenwood cemetery.



Married John Ellis in 1897, two sons and two daughters.

Alfred Clarence 1899-1989
Homer Vivian 1902-1990
Ida Clarice 1900-1947
LeVerne Violet 1912-2005

Her mother was Frances Jane Stroud 1856-1940. Married John Thornton in Missouri in 1878 one other daughter Lillie Mae.
She had two other marriages, Benjamin Truhitt in 1881, and John Yeager in 1884.

Family Members
Parents
John Franklin Thornton 1860–1906
Frances Jane "Fanny" Stroud Yeager 1856–1940
Spouse
John Henry Ellis 1875–1962
Siblings
Lillian Mae Thornton Downey 1878–1960
Maude T. Truhitt McBride 1882–1968
Half Siblings
Nora Belle Thornton Purdy 1885–1961
Guy Yeager 1886–1886
Sarah J. Gatewood 1887–1966
Harry Clyde Yeager 1888–1955
John Bert Yeager 1891–1963
Cora Ann Thornton 1893–1894
John Thomas Thornton 1895–1987
Children
Alfred Clarence Ellis 1899–1989
Ida Clarice Ellis Drantman 1900–1947
Homer Vivian Ellis 1902–1989
LeVerne V. Ellis Cook 1912–2005