William H. Ellis
William H. Ellis, son of William W. and Catharine Ellis, was born in Dinsmore Township, this county, November 5,1834. On the 31st of May, 1857, he married Miss Harriet C. Munford, daughter of John and Jane Munford. Miss Munford was born in Adams County, Ky., July 4, 1837, and came to Dinsmore Township with her parents in 1848. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis settled on his father’s home farm in section 28, Dinsmore Township, on which they lived until in 1873, when they moved on a farm in Franklin Township, one mile south of Anna, remaining on this farm until April 1, 1879, when they returned to Dinsmore Township, and moved on the farm in section 21—on which they have since resided. They have three children, viz., Fletcher, Harry, and Hattie. Mr. Ellis has made farming his principal vocation. His father, William W. Ellis, came to Dinsmore Township with wife and two children in 1834, and settled on a part of the northeast quarter of section 28, on which he lived until in 1874, when he moved on a farm in section 21, same township, now occupied by his son, W. H. Ellis, remained until in the spring of 1879, when he moved out of the township and now resides in Port Jefferson, Shelby County.
History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883