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- [AM STAFFORDdescendents.FTW]
OCCUPATION: Received her education and taught in Illinois.
BIOGRAPHY: The following was written by Ellis Milton Stafford aboout his mother.
BIOGRAPHY: Sarah Lola (Ellis) Stafford was born in Putnam Co., TN near Cookeville, in March 1885. Many times I have heard my grandfather, James Ellis, tell of coming to Hamilton Co. in the fall of 1885 with his young wife, baby daughter, and two other families.
BIOGRAPHY: They drove three teams of horses and three canvas covered farm wagons from Cookeville, over dirt roads to the Shawneetown ferry, where they crossed the river and continued to the homes of their relatives near Griswold Station, which later became Walpole. They camped and cooked out the entire way.
BIOGRAPHY: My Grandfather's brother, Morgan F. Ellis, who lived southeast of Walpole, had just finished building a new chicken house. My Grandfather, wife, and baby (my mother), lived in it the first winter. They said it had a nice clay floor.
BIOGRAPHY: My Grandfather worked with his older brother, Morgan F. Ellis, and learned to be a carpenter, and constructed many new homes in the area.
BIOGRAPHY: One of the other two families who came to Hamilton Co. with my grandparents was: Abraham Alexander Ellis, my grandfather's older brother, and his wife Nancy (Phy) Ellis, older sister of my grandmother.
BIOGRAPHY: Years later they returned to TN. Their youngest child, Bryan, never married, became a successful businessman in Cookeville, and died there a few years ago. My wife and I visited Cookeville in the 1950's and Bryan showed us many interesting landmarks there.
BIOGRAPHY: My mother, Lola, was the oldest of thirteen children.
CHURCH: Webbs Chapel, Hamilton Co., IL.
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1885 - 1937 (52 years)
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