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- Paris M. Ellison served in the Mexican War, 1846-1848, after which time he
returned home to Muray, KY to enter politics. He served as Calloway
County Court Clerk from November of 1849 to 1851, Calloway County Judge,
and twice Calloway County Circuit Court Clerk. In the early part of 1863,
he was driven out of the county clerk's office at the point of a bayonet
by a squad of Yankees that had traveled from Paducah to Murray. At the
same time they also drove his brother Robert Lewis Ellison out of his
position as Circuit Court Clerk and took both of them back to Paducah
where they were imprisoned because they would not take an oath of
alligiance to the Union. Later on in 1863 these same Yankees returned to
Murray to burn the east and north side of the court square. In 1864 they
robbed Paris M. Ellison of his "money, horses, and bacon." Paris M.
Ellison, his wife, Mildred Rebecca Churchill, madetheir home in Murray
until their death in 1904. When he passed away in January of 1904, she
wrote her will on March 12, 1904, knowing well that her time was not long
on this earth. She died just four months later in 1904 and her will was
probated in Calloway Coiunty Court on July 25, 1904.
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1825 - 1904 (~ 78 years)
