Ellis & Parton family tree
Updated January 17, 2003The first Ellis to mack his home in Sevier County was Christopher Columbus Ellis. He did so by purchasing a one hundred acre land grant in Green County, North Carolina (soon to become Sevier County, Tennessee.) in 1791. The land bordered the French Broad River and is presently split down the middle by Hwy.66. The present Smoky Mountin Knife Works sits approximatly in the middleof the land grant.(a copy of the land grant exist today). The property includied the landing on the river presently known as Kyker's Ferry, but was originally established and operated by Christopher's family and known as" The Ellis Ferry". Going toward the I40 from Sevierville, just before crossing the river on the right of Hwy.66 the Ellis Cemetery remains today on top of a small hill overlooking the intersection of Pigeon and French Broad River. The Cemetery was first used in the late 1790's and as late as the 1930's. The Will of William Ellis, second son of Christopher probated on Dec. 2, 1878.which sets aside" one acre of ground" for the Ellis Cemetery. Christopher was born in 1760 and came to this country as a young British soldier and joined the Revolutionary War, and was with Cornwalis when he surrendered at Yorktown Christopher married Nancy Elizabeth Callahan in Cumberland, Maryland in 1786. They had ten children, but records could only substantiate five. it is believed that several of the children died at birth or in early infancy as did many children of that time. This would also account for some of the small burial plots with mere rocks as markers in our family cemetery. All of Christopher's children were raised just west of the present day Douglas Dam and south of the French Broad River on the Ellis estate, appropriatly called "River Fork". William Ellis was the second son of Christopher and one of very few slave owners in Sevier County, at one time having as many as 27. The foundations of four of the slave quaters are still discernible today around the perimeter of the rubble of the estate dwelling. William, naturally a confederate sympathizer, had two sons and one grand-son who fought on the side of the Confederacy, yet like so many families of East Tennessee, he also had three grand-son's who remained loyal to the north, one of which died in battle wearing blue somewhere near Nashville in 1863. |
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Donald L Ellis 225 Fieldcrest Dr. Jefferson, TN 37760 A-United States 865-475-6212 lellis316@aol.com |
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