ELLIS, LEVI D., born about 1791, in South Carolina. His father died before Levi D. was born. When the latter was thirteen years of age he accompanied some neighboring families to Tennessee, and stopped near Nashville, in that State. He hired out, bought some land with the proceeds, improved it and sent for his mother and the rest of the family. He learned the cabinet and carpenter's trades, in Nashville, and was married there, about 1811, to Cynthia Bradford, who was born in Fauquier county, Va., and was the only daughter of Captain William Bradford of that county. L. D. Ellis was drafted in the war of 1812, but hired a substitute, and was employed by the Government to stock guns. After the war they moved to the mouth of the Cumberland river, in Kentucky, and from there with two children to the vicinity of Belleville, Ill., thence, in 1817, to where Springfield now stands. Of their children--

WILLIAM, born Aug. 13, 1812, in Tennessee.

JAMES, born Aug. 13, 1814, in Kentucky.

DANIEL, born Aug. 25, 1816, in Illinois.

JACOB W., born July 20, 1818, in Sangamon county, Ill. (Until my attention was called to Jacob W. Ellis, it was thought Joseph E. McCoy was the first child born of white parents in the present limits of Sangamon county, but the date of Mr. Ellis' birth comes to me as a quotation from a record in the family Bible, and appears to be as much entitled to credence as any of the others.) He was married in Fulton county, Ill., June 21, 1838, to Sarah Kreider. Of their children--WILLIAM, born March 23, 1839, in Ellisville, Fulton county, Ill., enlisted in the 17th Reg. Ill. Vol. Inf., under Col. L. F. Ross, and died the next August at Ironton, Mo. MILLIE, born July 2, 1841, in Illinois, married Caleb Sullivan. He enlisted during the rebellion, and was with Sherman in his march to the sea. They have six children, WILLIAM, HARRY, WALTER, FREDERICK, BERTIE, and a babe. SARAH, married Abram Childers, in Fulton county, Ill. He served in the army. They have four children, MARY, ENORA, CORA and NELLIE. Mr. Childers resides in Lena Valley, Greenwood county, Kans. FLORENCE, married Thomas I. Tullis. They have one child, and live at Fairview, Fulton county, Ill. BIRD, born in 1853, is a farmer, and lives in Illinois. Mrs. Sarah Ellis died Aug. 20, 1857, in Prairie City, Ill., and Jacob W. Ellis was married Aug., 1858, in Fulton county, to Adelia Sanford. They have one child, FRANK, born March 4, 1861. J. W. Ellis is a carpenter. He moved to Kansas in the fall of 1870, and resides in Lena Valley, Greenwood county, Kansas.

FIELDING, born June 24, 1820, in Sangamon county, Ill.

JOSEPH, born Aug. 22, 1822, in Sangamon county.

JESSE, born Feb. 7, 1824, in Fulton county, Ill.

MARY, born March 12, 1826, in Fulton county, Ill.

Levi D. Ellis built a mill, with a brush dam, on Spring creek. He surveyed the first lots in Springfield, and moved to Fulton county, Ill., in 1823, where ??ilt a mill on Spoon river, and laid out the town of Ellisville. Mrs. Cynthia Ellis died in the summer of 1846, and Levi D. Ellis died Aug. 7, 1857, both in Fulton county, Ill.