Carrington C. Ellis

ID Number: T01394

Biographical Data

Basic Identification

Gender: male Ethnicity: Immigration: Attributed Race: black Free or Enslaved:

Birth & Family

Birth Date: 1818/11/09 Birthplace: Mother: Father: 1st Spouse: Emmeline Norvell Ellis 2nd Spouse: none

Age Details

Age: 67 Age Group: elder adult (60+)

Life Details

Occupation(s): restaurant and saloon owner Last Church: Military Service: Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia Last Address: 815 Fourteenth Street

Death

Death Date: 1886/09/20 Death Note: none Place of Death: home Cause of Death: dropsy

Burial & Undertaking

Burial Date: 1886/09/21 Funeral Home: Diuguid Diuguid ID Number: D0906205 Indigent?: private interment

Gravesite and Grave Marker Data

Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: yes Section: 107.BB Confirmation Source for Location: gravemarker Grave Marker Erector(s): Confirmation Source for Interment: gravemarker

Others In Same Plot (T0183)

Full Name

Birth Date

Death Date

Emmeline (Emaline) Norvell Ellis

c.1830//

1906/11/05

Matilda Norvell Gilliam

1774.c/unknown/unknown

Matilda "Tiller" Norvell

c.1790/unknown/unknown

1875 circa/unknown/unknown

Lafayette "Fayette" Norvell

1823/09/03

1876/02/12

George W. "Hunt" Norvell

1834.ca/unknown/unknown

1900/12/26

Sarah Elizabeth Norvell

1846.ca/unknown/unknown

Obituary and Biographical Detials

Funeral services provided by John Shumaker & Co., which contracted with Diuguid for his casket

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From The Lynchburg Virginian, 22 September 1886:

Death of C. C. Ellis.
Carrington E. (sic) Ellis, one of our oldest and most respected colored citizens, died at his home on Daniel’s (sic) Hill, Monday night, after a long illness with dropsy; aged seventy years. He leaves a wife but no children.
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1885-1886 LCD:
residence: 815 Fourteenth Street
occupation: saloon, 102 Ninth Street

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His will (1884) mentions TWO NIECES:
1. Olivia Merchant, wife of Samuel Merchant
2. Elizabeth Hackley, widow of ___ Hackley (he died in Ohio)