Bill’s Family - Person Sheet
Bill’s Family - Person Sheet
Birth25 Sep 1761, Sussex Co, Virginia Colony3
Birthabt 1761, Sussex, Virginia Colony
Death16 Jan 1841, Christian Co, KY, US3 Age: 79
Death16 Jan 1841, Hopkinsville, Christian Co, KY, US Age: 79
OccupationItinerant Preacher3
ReligionMethodist3
FlagsLived in US, Look in KY, Look in VA
Census 18201820, Pittsylvania Co, Va, US20 Age: 58
MemoPage 52, Line 2
Census 18301830, Hopkinsville, Christian Co, KY, US40 Age: 68
MemoPage 2, Line 15
FatherCaleb Ellis Jr , 1704, M (<1745-~1799)
MotherConstance (Sharpe) , 3918, F (~1730-)
Misc. Notes
Thompson Book:
According to The History of Methodism in Kentucky, Ira became an itinerant preacher "when there were only fifty-four preachers and ten thousand five hundred and thirty-nine Methodists in America." He preached in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Kentucky.
Bishop Francis Asbury, one of the most significant figures in the early history of Methodism in the United States, wrote the following tribute to Ira Ellis:
I desire to render all their due. Ira Ellis is a man of quick and solid parts. I have often thought that had fortune given him the same advantages of education, he would have displayed abilities not inferior to a Jefferson or a Madison. But he has, in an eminent degree, something better than learning-- he has undissembled sincerity, great modesty, deep fidelity, great ingenuity, and uncommon power of reasoning. His English schooling has been good: he is a good arithmetician, and expeditious and ready with his pen: when asked for an account of his travels, he took his pen
immediately, and without a recurrence to books or papers, gave it at once; in the Conferences and elsewhere, as my secretary, he has been of signal service to me. He is a good man, of most even temper, whom I never saw angry, but often in heaviness through manifold temptations: he is a good preacher, too. O may he finish his life as he hath continued it-- faithful, and acceptable, and successful in the traveling and local line!
THE HISTORY of PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA
CHAPTER IX EARLY CHURCHES IN PITTSYLVANIA THE CHURCH of ENGLAND
page 129
Though Methodism found many followers in the County, it was not until 1823 that deeds were recorded for the erection of churches. In 1827 Rawley Williamson Carter and his wife Anne gave a lot for the erection of a church, making the deed to the following trustees: Augustine H. Carter, Jeduthan Carter, Ira Ellis, Reuben Hopkins, William A. Lilly, Nicholas Ellis and John Pinnell.
1830 Census Ky Christian co Hopkinsville
Ira Ellis 0000000010000-0001000100000-000000-002010
1820 Census Va Pittsylvania
Ira Ellis 1102110120103081200310122101000
According to The History of Methodism in Kentucky, Ira became an itinerant preacher "when there were only fifty-four preachers and ten thousand five hundred and thirty-nine Methodists in America." He preached in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Kentucky.
Bishop Francis Asbury, one of the most significant figures in the early history of Methodism in the United States, wrote the following tribute to Ira Ellis:
I desire to render all their due. Ira Ellis is a man of quick and solid parts. I have often thought that had fortune given him the same advantages of education, he would have displayed abilities not inferior to a Jefferson or a Madison. But he has, in an eminent degree, something better than learning-- he has undissembled sincerity, great modesty, deep fidelity, great ingenuity, and uncommon power of reasoning. His English schooling has been good: he is a good arithmetician, and expeditious and ready with his pen: when asked for an account of his travels, he took his pen
immediately, and without a recurrence to books or papers, gave it at once; in the Conferences and elsewhere, as my secretary, he has been of signal service to me. He is a good man, of most even temper, whom I never saw angry, but often in heaviness through manifold temptations: he is a good preacher, too. O may he finish his life as he hath continued it-- faithful, and acceptable, and successful in the traveling and local line!
THE HISTORY of PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA
CHAPTER IX EARLY CHURCHES IN PITTSYLVANIA THE CHURCH of ENGLAND
page 129
Though Methodism found many followers in the County, it was not until 1823 that deeds were recorded for the erection of churches. In 1827 Rawley Williamson Carter and his wife Anne gave a lot for the erection of a church, making the deed to the following trustees: Augustine H. Carter, Jeduthan Carter, Ira Ellis, Reuben Hopkins, William A. Lilly, Nicholas Ellis and John Pinnell.
1830 Census Ky Christian co Hopkinsville
Ira Ellis 0000000010000-0001000100000-000000-002010
1820 Census Va Pittsylvania
Ira Ellis 1102110120103081200310122101000
Misc. Notes
Itinerant Methodist Preacher; source: Cindy Bray.
Spouses
1Mary (Martin) Mason 
3, GGGG Grandmother, M250, 1232, F
3, GGGG Grandmother, M250, 1232, FFatherMartin , 1705, M (<1753-)
Marriage3 Nov 1795, Greensville Co, VA, US48
Marr MemoSecured by Peter Pelham
ChildrenNicholas Mason , 1225, M (1796-1849)
Ira Irwin , 1782, M (1798-1894)