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Birth: Jan. 20, 1877
Cassville
Barry County
Missouri, USA
Death: Mar. 20, 1944
Clay Center
Clay County
Kansas, USA
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.
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Parents:
John Franklin Thornton (1860 - 1906)
Frances Jane Stroud Yeager (1856 - 1940)
Spouse:
John Henry Ellis (1875 - 1962)
Children:
Alfred Clarence Ellis (1899 - 1989)*
Ida Clarice Ellis Drantman (1900 - 1947)*
Homer Vivian Ellis (1902 - 1989)*
LeVerne V. Ellis Cook (1912 - 2005)*
Siblings:
Minnie Belle Thornton Ellis (1877 - 1944)
Lillian Mae Thornton Downey (1878 - 1960)*
Maude T. Truhitt McBride (1882 - 1968)**
Guy Yeager (1886 - 1886)**
Cora Ann Thornton (1893 - 1894)**
John Thomas Thornton (1895 - 1987)**
*Calculated relationship
**Half-sibling
Burial:
Greenwood Cemetery
Newton
Harvey County
Kansas, USA
Plot: 3rd. 6-27-5
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