Benjamin Franklin ELLIS Sr. (1797 –1877) wife UNK (Abt 1802 – Bef 1847)

Rebecca ELLIS (1835 –1906)

 

Family Links Spouses & Children 1. Eli Riley Birk HUFFMAN Martha HUFFMAN Mary Ann HUFFMAN+ Rebecca ELLIS 2 Born: 1835, Tunnel Hill, Murray County, Georgia, USA Marriage (1): Eli Riley Birk HUFFMAN on 12 October 1854 in Bell County, Texas, USA 1 Died: 9 April 1906, Maxdale, Bell County, Texas, USA at age 71 3 Buried: 1906, Salado, Bell County, Texas, USA   Burial Notes Cedar Knob Cemetery.  Rebecca was buried originally in the Ellis family plot in Wilkinson Valley near Nolanville, Texas.  When the government took over that land to build Stillhouse Hollow Dam, those graves, including that of her father, Benjamin Franklin Ellis, were moved to Cedar Knob Cemetey.  The person who oversaw the removal of the Ellis graves was named Doris Schmidt.   Recorded Events in Her Life She has conflicting birth information of 1833 and Tunnel Hill, Murray County, Georgia, USA. She appeared on the 1870 US Federal Census on 10 August 1870 in Beat No. 5, Bell County, Texas, USA. She has conflicting death information of 9 April 1909 and Bell County, Texas, USA.

Rebecca married Eli Riley Birk HUFFMAN, son of Charles Birk HUFFMAN and Martha CHAFFIN, on 12 October 1854 in Bell County, Texas, USA.¹ The marriage ended in divorce before 1868. (Eli Riley Birk HUFFMAN was born on 4 October 1833 in Clinton County, Illinois, USA ⁴ and died on 2 January 1911 in Sidney, Comanche County, Texas, USA.)

  Recorded Events about their Marriage

• Eli Riley Birk Huffman and Rebecca Ellis applied for a Marriage License on 3 June 1854 in Bell County, Texas, USA.

• Gallery: Marriage Record, on 12 October 1854, in Bell County, Texas, USA. ¹
  
  32. State of Texas, County of Bell. To any legally authorized offiser of the law, or to any regularly Ordained Minister of the Gospel, Greeting. You are hereby authorised to unite in the Bonds of Matrimony, Mr. E. R. B. Huffman and Miss Rebecca Ellis, both of said County & State, and due return make License of according to Law. Witness D. T. Chamberlin, Clerk of the County Court of Said County, and the seal of the said Court affixed at Belton This 3rd day of June AD 1854. D. T. Chamber Clerk, Co of Bell. Recorded Oct 12th 1854 by L. L. Price, Dept Clk, D. T. Chamberlin, Clk.